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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.

~Posted by Luke.

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.

Posted by Timothy

The Willow Ptarmigan was in our backyard by our neighbor's house. I was able to get pretty close to it this time -- actually was about 3 ft away from it! It wandered around for a bit and finally walked behind an old shed in someone's backyard.

Well, what a surprise we had this morning! I was sitting in the living room, looking out the window and waiting for the kids to come start their history reading. Something moving outside the window caught my eye. I got up to take a closer look and saw 2 ptarmigan walking by on the side of the road outside our home. Of course, I called for the kids to come see. We had never seen a live one before :-) I slowly opened the front door to try and get a picture of them. They were moving pretty quickly and I didn't want them flying off before I could get a picture. They were making low gobbling noises, kindof like turkeys and chickens would make. I managed to get one fairly good shot -- not real closeup, but it will do. This is the time you need a nice zoom lens!

Willow Ptarmigan at Wikipedia

I went gliding with the Air Cadets on saturday, it was really fun, seeing the bottom of a big lake and little cars. We were in Stephenville an old U.S Air Base.

~~Luke~~

There were at least 6 Northeren Junco's on our front yard feeder this morning. I hope they stay around for awhile because they are one of my favourite birds around here.

~~Luke~~

I cant wait to go on some hiking trails this summer! Especialy the alexander murray hiking trail. almost 8 kms long, and nearly 2200 steps!

~~Luke~~

May 31 we saw four three swallows. They were looking in our bird house. We were hoping the birds would nest. Then a starling came and scared the tree swallows away. Now were hoping they will at least come back.

         posted by Jessica

I have been seeing a lot of house sparrow nests around my town and almost all of them are in, or on a building of some sort. They must like buildings!

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~~Luke~~

We read a story about a fish hawk.The hawk was diving down to get a fish. He came up with a fish in his mouth. The eagle came and tried to get the fish. The hawk just let go. He went to get a different fish. I think the eagle should have gone and got his own fish and not be a robber!

~~ posted by Jessica~~

Today is a wet day, and tomorrow me and my brother have our paper route to do..

~~Luke~~

Did  you  know  that  the  bigest  Pterodactyloid  is the Quetzalcoatlus? Its  head  is  over  six  feet  long  and its neck is ten  feet long. Its body is ten feet and its wing 

span is  forty  feet long.

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(*timothy*)

It's going to be 24 degrees today WOOHOO

~~Luke~~

On may 10,06 i saw a robin on our lawn.When i told my brother. He thought it was a starling.He didn't see the red.

                 by Jessica

Yesterday me my brother and my friend nathan went on a bike ride, we had a lot of fun. We raced down a huge hill and went by the water to skip some rocks, i like riding bikes because you can go just about everywhere with them.

~~Luke~~

Last summer we found a bat next door. It was a little brown bat. It was cute! Our mom took some photos of it. Its wing was ripped and it had a cut on its belly. After a while it died. We drew pictures of it for our nature book.

See the ripped wing down by its tail??

I like this picture of it hanging in a tree.

                               By Jessica

Some people think bats are scary .They eat lots of bugs -- 6 000 every  night . 100 bats could eat 4 200 000 in one week!

by Benjamin

We recently had a lot of ice come into our bay, and in the bays in our area.

Here are a couple of pictures take in Beachside. This is normal for Beachside. In June, I'll try to get some pictures of icebergs that often come in to this bay.

Posted by ~~Luke~~