“And squirrels,” Maaz adds.
“They better stay away!”
The boys patiently watch
from the window with their bird viewers in hand. A few minutes go by. A brown coloured bird lands in a nearby tree.
“Look Sabeeh! A brown
bird!”
“I wonder what kind of
bird it is.” Sabeeh says.
“Maybe it’s a female
cardinal?” Maaz suggests.
Sabeeh gets the book Feathers for Lunch. Flipping the pages they point out the
birds that resemble the one they saw.
They decide that the bird must have been a finch.
“I wonder what birds we
will see tomorrow!” Maaz says as they close the book.
Hi Heather
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to introduce students to birdwatching and using binoculars safely. There are lots of great bird identification books available and you may want to consider cutting a few apart and posting some of the commonly found birds in our area so children can learn names quickly. Chickadees, robins, cardinals, blue jays, house sparrow, purple finch and gold finch are but a few that should easily be found in Toronto at feeders. Spring migration will be starting very soon, and so you may get very lucky and see a typically northern bird on its return flight home.
I actually found some amazing photographs of birds we might see in a calendar! They are a great size too. They chose their favourites to post in the classroom and decided to title the area "birds we love".
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