Monday, August 13, 2012

Bird Watching

Jacob has been working on the Bird Watching Merit Badge.  He went with his Boy Scout Patrol  to Potter's Marsh to look for birds. 

 Lots of birds congregate here during the summer. 
Even more birds stop at Potter's Marsh as they migrate in the Fall.
 The boys carefully recorded the birds they saw.
Jacob is learning all kinds of interesting things about the birds that live and migrate in Alaska.
 
 Jacob also refinished a bird feeder for our yard.
 It has been fun to identify the different birds that come to the feeder.
 Jacob is also learning to identify birds by their song.  Tonight as we lay on the hammock in the backyard, he identified several birds that we could hear singing in the nearby trees.
This has been a fun merit badge as all of us have learned about the birds in Alaska.