SUMMER BIRD FUN!

 

Hooray!  It's summer reading time!

It's the perfect time for reading to launch investigating, exploring, and having FUN!!!!

Here's a beginning for enjoying all of that with animals that can be found wherever you live...

BIRDS

Go Bird Watching

Go for a walk. Or sit quietly outdoors, look and listen.  If you have binoculars, take those along too. A book showing pictures of local birds is great to have handy. So is a notebook and pencil for taking notes and sketching.

• What are your local birds doing?
• How are the birds you see different?  
• Do you see a lot of one kind?  Only a few of another? List the names of any you know or can identify.
• What activity do you see birds doing most often.
• Pick a favorite. Sketch it. 
• Pretend you can understand birds. Write what you think two birds are saying to each other.
• Think of someone you want to tell about your birdwatching adventure. Send them an email or a letter and share the fun.

Some birds, such as cardinals, are colored so males and females easily spy each other. 

Male red. Female brown. Why might the female being this color help her stay safe when on the nest, incubating eggs?

Listen To The Birds

Outdoors, listen to all the different bird voices. Try mimicking them and listen for them to call back to you.  Once you're back indoors, play the BIRD SONG game. It's a great way to discover the sounds some familiar North American birds make.

Turn a mask into "birdy" Fun.

Eating Like A Bird

Then visit this PBS website to have fun, "Eating Like A Bird." You'll explore what it's like to have different kinds of bird beaks when it's time to eat.

Next, take this fun challenge.

Now for some fun books for summer reading about birds. Enjoy!

Of course, I had to include one of mine. 😃 Did you see it? It's in such good company here!