Zachary is taking biology this year at FLA, and one of their projects that they have to do is to find and identify 30 different birds. It is due in March, and like a true teenager he'd love to leave it until the last minute but with how busy we are, Amy was having none of that so we started to go out on Sabbath afternoons to do different nature drives nearby to find birds. So far we'd doing well and he is about halfway there - frankly likely we have already found 30 birds but we don't know how to identify them all so it is a bit tricky!
The first was a drive through Apopka wildlife drive, which was a cool cloudy day - and being novices we didn't have any bird books or apps with us, so we just took pictures and crossed our fingers that we'd figure out what the birds were later.
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| Taking pictures |
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| Got a good shot of a great blue heron! |
The next weekend we headed down to Lake Eola where they have 5 different varieties of swans! And other birds we couldn't identify - we need to have birding experts come with us!
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| A blank swan! |
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| A black necked swan - so cool! |
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| So majestic and beautiful |
In other random pictures, Addison got our Amy's old flute and was giving it a try - she got it to have a sound, but Amy unfortunately isn't much help as it has been too many years! She may decide to play flu when she can get into band in 5th grade.
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| Very intent on making this work! |
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