Our Nature Study

American Goldfinch

2008-06-06T20:24:00.005-02:30

I just had to post this photo that Jessica (11) took of a goldfinch out by our bird feeder. What an awesome shot!

And here's a bunny we saw next door. I tried to get a good shot but he turned away and scampered off. A crow was chasing him.

Fox Sparrow

2008-04-25T22:42:00.002-02:30

We just love this little bird -- the Fox Sparrow! It is so fun to watch as it scratches/hops along the ground. It also has a lovely song!

Mourning Dove

2008-04-25T22:35:00.003-02:30

This is a photo we took yesterday in our yard. We thought at first that it was the Willow Ptarmigan sporting its summer plumage. When we downloaded our pics and checked it out, we realized it was a Mourning Dove. According to the information we read, they aren't even supposed to be in Newfoundland, but we know there's at least ONE! :-)

Squirrel

2008-04-14T11:05:00.006-02:30

We got a few pics of a squirrel on a snow bank by our house.

We also caught a Squirrel munching on a berry from one of our trees. I love the way his nose looks.

~~by Jessica~~

Snowfort

2008-03-17T10:55:00.002-02:30

We had lots of fun in the last few days, why you ask? because we made a big snow fort it has two rooms and three tunnels, its lots of fun it's like a mini home.

Sorry no pic.

looking up

2008-03-12T10:26:00.002-02:30

More books from the library, I find so many facts from books. a couple weeks ago I got a Guinness world records book from the library and there was a picture of a red wood tree over twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it would be a sight to see.

Fooled ya

2008-03-04T11:20:00.002-03:30

We got a book from Scholastic about Rocks and Minerels and I was just reading it, and now I know what Fools gold is, it's actually called Pyrite, and I think it looks like a golden diamond up close.

Im a CAT

2008-02-27T12:01:00.003-03:30

Larry Heaney, of annapolis, maryland, owned a cat with the word "CAT'' spelled out in his fur!

lots of birds

2008-02-22T11:40:00.003-03:30

In the past couple of weeks a lot of birds have been coming to our bird feeders. The most common bird is probably the pine siskins, and sometimes our bird feeders fly away in the wind.

Where are the the turkeys

2008-02-21T12:50:00.002-03:30

I got a Ripleys belive it or not book from the library and a fact I found is that there are no turkeys in Turkey!☺

Spiders

2008-02-15T10:22:00.003-03:30

Yesterday we got a book from the library about spiders I read it all and I loved it here is somthing cool I learned was that spiders have different kinds of silk, a spiders silk can be sicky, fluffy, stretchy, and sronger than STEEL!!! I learned a lot about spiders in the book and it was fun.

2008-02-12T11:44:00.000-03:30

I found a ladybug on our bathroom wall, and i wanted to keep it. That night he got lost. The next morning my mom found him by a window. We gave him sugar water and he ate it.

I put the ladybug in a contaner since we couldn't put him outside, because of the snow.

After one day i decided to take him out of the contaner, and put him on one of our houseplants.

Redpolls are back

2008-02-08T12:53:00.000-03:30

The birds of the north just came in yesterday. They are very easy to tell apart because of their red cap. their favorite thing to eat around here is small sunflower seeds.

posted by luke

Help me

2008-02-05T10:17:00.000-03:30

When fire blazed through Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub Derbyshire, England, Henry the parrot squawked "Hello" until a firefighter rescued him.

So fun ^_^

2008-01-25T12:03:00.000-03:30

Me and my brother made an awesome ramp to fly jumps on last night. It took us about 2 hours to create it, but it was worth it :P

2008-01-15T11:19:00.000-03:30

Today we have a really big snow storm,

it's like a BIG fog.

☺Jessica☺

Sliding

2008-01-15T10:44:00.000-03:30

Sliding is always fun. there are lots of sliding places were we live, we all enjoy it. ☺

Cicadas

2008-01-14T13:32:00.000-03:30

Cicadas are bugs that are underground as larva for 17 years. when they come up there's about 1000,000,000 of them they'll swarm around you for about a week then they die .

ice

2007-11-30T10:20:00.000-03:30

We have lots of ice on the road so you better watch out for ice YIKE'S.☺

New Post

2007-11-27T15:34:00.000-03:30

We had a bunch of slop snow today, i don't know what else to write. Even though it seems i'm the only one writing on this blog. Hope we have a white christmas. ;O

Posted by me

Yesterday Was Cold-ish.

2007-11-19T13:05:00.000-03:30

On Sunday, me, Timothy, and my mom went for a walk late afternoon. It was pretty cold while we walked down by the bay, but once we got up on Main Street it started to snow and got really cold outside. So we walked all the way back on Bayview Road instead. It was more cold though i think :

This was posted by Luke =~)

Snow rolling

2007-11-19T11:22:00.000-03:30

A couple of days ago we made a snow wheel. someone would get on top and the other person would push. we would have to keep running to keep rolling.☺

posted by ♦Benjamin♦

finally a lot of snow

2007-11-16T13:20:00.000-03:30

On November 13th we had the most snow that we had this year; enough to build a big snow man as you see on the picture.We were all so happy that we had a lot of snow that we went out to play in it at 8:00 a.m.We also had a little snowball fight and when we went back inside we had hot chocolate.

posted by ├timothy≈

Fall must be over

2007-11-13T13:36:00.000-03:30

We've been having some very windy days lately; and almost all of the leaves on the tress are gone. I hope we get lots of snow soon because I love winter!

-Posted by Luke-

2007-11-06T13:20:00.000-03:30

A Beautiful Autumn Morning

Photo by Luke

{P0sted] By luke

2007-11-06T12:14:00.000-03:30

This is a spider web with dust all over it.

☺Jessica☺

Rainbow

2007-11-05T11:50:00.000-03:30

A beautiful Sunday noon rainbow.

By ♦Benjamin♦

snow!!!

2007-11-01T14:19:00.000-02:30

we had snow Yesterday woohoo!!!But it melted away boohoo!!! Well it should come back soon.

by ♦Benjamin♦

Woohoo! I'm anticipating the snow : D

2007-10-29T12:45:00.000-02:30

Haha I can't wait 'till it snows outside, because in my recent post i told you about how awsome winter was : D. Hopfully we'll get some snow within a few more weeks, so then we can make snowmen! YES SNOWMEN! : D

Postedby none other than LuKe

Have yourself a merry fall! untill it lasts anyways ^__^

Sunrise

2007-10-25T14:00:00.000-02:30

A beautiful sunrise I woke up one morning and BOOM!!!!!!!!! there it was. after we went down to the bay and took pics.

posted by ♦Benjamin♦

Why winter is better than fall.

2007-10-22T11:45:00.000-02:30

I think winter is better than fall because there is always something to do outdoors in winter. For instance; Snowboarding, sliding, fortbuilding, snowball fights, skating, hockey, and more that i can't think of. Fall is just looking and jumping in leaves. UGH. Well, and hiking in the fall is pretty awsome. But overall winter is the best. Oh did i mention SNOWMOBILING! Haha I love going out on ski-doo, it's so much fun. Anyways this post was pretty much randomness, i have to do it as part of my school. Hope you kinda enjoyed it? :P

¤ Posted by none other than Luke ¤

A few of my poems

2007-10-16T10:57:00.000-02:30

pig
dirty pig
rolls around in mud
cute little curly tail
that's my pig

tree
leafy, green
in the glorious forest
reaching out to give a big hug
tree

--By Jessica

Autumn poem

2007-10-15T13:13:00.000-02:30

AY, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath!

When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief

And the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay

In the gay woods and in the golden air,

Like to a good old age released from care,

Journeying, in long serenity, away.

In such a bright, late quiet, would that I

Might wear out life like thee, 'mid bowers and brooks

And dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,

And music of kind voices ever nigh;

And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,

Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass.

Posted by Luke

It's fall here, summer there!

2007-10-10T10:40:00.000-02:30

We are having pretty cold weather here in Springdale, but where my aunt lives in Ontario they are still having 30+ degrees weather!! The highest temperature our whole summer might have been 34 degrees? It has been like 10 degrees or below since September.

~Posted by Luke~

fossil

2007-10-10T08:00:00.000-02:30

I found this fossil in Mount Pearl behind my uncle's house.

There were lots of fossils there, but I didn't get any more

My cousin found a lot too.

§ Jessica §

Frost

2007-10-01T13:18:00.000-02:30

Today there was frost on our lawn, which definitely means that there is snow coming soon!
I hope that we lots of snow very soon!

♦Benjamin♦

Goodbye summer

2007-09-25T13:11:00.000-02:30

Boo hoo summer is over, don't you miss the sunny days. Oh well soon there will be snow yah!!!! No reason to miss the sun because here comes snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by ♦ Benjamin ♦

On account of the weather.

2007-09-25T12:54:00.000-02:30

This week has been mostly overcast, with sun showers yesterday it is still kind of wet outside. In Labrador City it is snowing right now hahahaha. So, we can't complain down here, I guess!

¤Posted by Luke~

Jellyfish

2007-09-19T11:16:00.000-02:30

Yesterday we went to Goodyear's Cove to the beach. We saw a jellyfish swimming in the water. It would fold it's body in and then push out and swim forward. It looked like a cloth in a bathtub. It was the first time I saw a real live jellyfish. It was a about the size of a dinner plate. It was really cool! ☺

We also ate ice cream after and had a lot of fun.

«Posted by Benjamin«

spider web

2007-09-17T13:40:00.000-02:30

We saw a funneled spider net on our walk today.

(I didn't take this picture it's from Wikipedia)

by Jessica

A Sweet Saturday.

2007-09-15T10:53:00.000-02:30

Saturday is awsome. I got to sleep in this morning, and as soon as I woke up it was so bright out. It seems like it'll be a good day. But the weatherman says it's only supposed to be 16 degrees. Still it's better than 8 degrees on Thursday.

¤~Posted by Luke~¤

very windy days

2007-09-14T10:48:00.000-02:30

On Wednesday and Thursday /September 12-13 morning it was very windy. It was too windy for the birds to even come to our bird feeder. My dad thought that our little trees were going to snap off, so he tied them on to some metal poles.

by ¥Timothy¥

Blue Jays

2007-09-11T11:03:00.000-02:30

We saw 7 Blue Jays at our feeder one day. When we took

pictures most of them flew away.

by Jessica

We have an injured bird...

2007-08-14T20:39:00.000-02:30

Poor little guy (or girl) was sleeping on a tree branch by our bird feeder. Benjamin called me to take a picture but I couldn't find my camera. We were so close to the bird and I was able to reach out and hold it. It didn't move but sat still in my hands. I laid it on the ground and it hopped a bit and tried to fly.

Found my camera and snapped a few pics.

I picked it up again when I realized that its wing was hurt. It nipped at my hand a bit and chirped a bit.

When I put it down again, it hopped/flew to the road and stopped in the middle of the road and tucked its head under its wing again. Well, we couldn't let it sleep in the road, so I picked it up and put it on the grass under our tree - near the bird feeder. It promptly tucked its head under its wing again and went to sleep.

After about an hour, it was still sleeping under the tree. I realized that if it stayed there all night, it would probably be cold and would not survive. Jessica and I fashioned a "cage" out of a milk crate. We put some grass/weeds in there and also put in a twig. Jessica shelled a few sunflower seeds and put them in a dish for the bird. I picked the bird up and put it in the cage, and moved it into the laundry room. It's sleeping now. Hopefully the little thing will survive until morning. We are hoping its wing is merely sprained and not broken. A night of rest should do the trick!

Flowers

2007-08-01T20:21:00.000-02:30

Devin has been trying out the macro feature on our camera. Here are some flower shots he has taken. Some are in our garden and the others are wildflowers.

Daisies are one of my favorite flowers!

Orange Hawkweed -- also know as "Devil's Paintbrush".

Not sure of the name of this one.

Red Clover

2007-06-08T10:37:00.000-02:30

I've always loved climbing trees, and when we went to Bowring park that day there were trees everywhere! I was so happy and I probably climbed 20 trees that day. Whenever I try to climb a tree I always say to myself, Get creative, If you can't do it one way there has to be another way.

Posted by Luke.

Bowring Park

2007-06-06T19:03:00.000-02:30

We went to Bowring Park on Monday. We always love to visit it whenever we're in St. John's. Well, we're walking through to get to the duck pond, and we see two teenagers walking towards us -- one with a brightly colored parrot and one holding a skink. The teens let our kids pet and hold the skink. I even held it! Very cool :-)

I love seeing animals up-close and personal!

Yellow Rumped Warbler

2007-05-17T12:12:00.000-02:30

I was hiking through the woods near my house and I wanted to bring a camera with me. So i eventually met up with a couple yellow rumped warblers, unfortunatly i didn't get very many close up shots of them. I think this is the best photo I have.

Re-post of Luke's

Moose On The Loose!

2007-05-17T12:09:00.000-02:30

April 30, 2007, a day to remember. It was around 5:30 P.M. And I was busy watching television. I saw something walking down our street that looked very odd, so I opened up the blinds and saw that there were 3 big moose walking down our lane! I screamed to everybody in the house to look outside and see them. Unforntunatly I wasn't able to get a photo of them walking down our lane, but we did chase ater them and get a few pics of them roaming through the town. enjoy!

Re-post of Luke's

Ice Pans

2007-05-17T12:01:00.000-02:30

On Friday April 20 2007 we went to a beach and went out on the ice pans for about three hours.There was ice pans every where out in the bay.And we had lots of fun jumping across the ice pans.

Re-post of Timothy's