Category: Winter

We are technically a week behind with Exploring Nature With Children, our focus this week having been our local bird life.  Rose did find two rather lovely frogs in our pond this morning, so she spent time observing them, whilst I worked with the big girls on their IGCSE Biology prep.

We had a smashing nature walk earlier in the week; there is so much going on in the natural world. Unfortunately, whilst I had taken my camera along, the battery was dead, and I had managed to run over my own mobile phone with my car, so no camera there, either!

Rose & I set off bright and early; around 7am. On entering the park, we noticed lots of twigs all over the lawns, caused by the high winds in our locality earlier in the week.

Rose was soon greeted by her pigeon friends, hungry for their food, with the ducks and geese waddling along after.

The puddles of water left behind after the huge amounts of rainfall we have also experienced were frozen on this chilly, beautiful morning.

Some of the Mallards, and some of the Canada geese were busy pairing up with a mate. The pigeons were too hungry to bother with all that! Rose was covered in pigeons as usual, and she spotted one of the squirrels perched on a tree stump eating a nut. “He looks like he is doing yoga!”

We spotted both a Magpie & a Crow breaking twigs from trees to build their nests. They were so fascinating to watch!

We came home and worked in our respective journals.

Rose recorded the Magpie.

I sketched the gorgeous Mallard we saw the previous week.

Happy exploring!

Firstly, I apologise for the misleading nature of the title of the post! If you are following along with Exploring Nature With Children, you will know that this week is field trip week. We are quite limited at the moment with how far we can travel from home, as I need to be on hand for my dear Mother In Law, who is really quite poorly.

Our nature study this week has been varied, with no specific focus. We enjoyed a lovely nature walk to the park. Look at those beautiful, bright blue skies! The pigeons were extremely entertaining, the males all puffed up, doing their courting dances, looking for a mate.

We observed the beautiful patterns and textures that the frost made.

Rose thought that the frost made the grass appear like the needles of a fir tree.

We didn’t see many pigeons, but the various fowl were rather hungry!

Our sketchbooks were varied this week, too. Rose sketched a wee bone that she found in the pond, and recorded her thoughts and questions about it, whilst I painted one of the frogs that Rose found in our garden pond.

Please do share what you have been up to this week, either in the comments, or in the FaceBook group. Did you have an interesting field trip this week? Or did you choose to stay with your regular nature walk?

I also would like to give you a quick reminder of todays live Periscope event; Nature Study part 1 with Leah Boden.

Happy exploring!