Sisters on a Trek Above Camp
The girls went on a trek to the "homestead" area above camp last week. There's an old cabin up there and a smithy with real horseshoes, anvil, and coal for the fire! They had a blast, and on the way back, found stumps full of bugs and fir cones chewed up by squirrels. The birds are back now. . . and today Zoe found a Red-breasted Nuthatch (after a massive family fight over pronounciation, we googled and found out -- much to Daddy and Zoe's sadness -- that the PROPER way to say it is nut-hatch, not nuth-atch). Whatever we call them, the birds are back and making a massive ruckus all over camp as they pair up and find places to lay eggses.
A curious thing about the red-breasted nuthatch -- it can creep upside down the trunk of a tree looking for insects. That's how Zoe (budding naturalist) found it. She also found the hole where it was making a nest!
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