When I got there I took off my coat and said my name. Then, I looked at eighteen pictures and tried to tell if it was a woodpecker or some other kind of bird. Then, a computer was set up to make kinda like a movie. Me and the rest of the class watched it. It was about woodpeckers. There was the kind of woodpeckers, a map of where they lived, pictures of them and their food, and a little bit about them.
Then, we got our coats on, got binaculars around our necks, and went outside and walked around the woods seeing different nests and birds flying. We got to feel the inside of woodpecker nests. It was soft and kinda like tuna looking. We heard different birds. We saw deer tracks in the snow. We followed the tracks accross the snow until they stopped. Yesterday they saw seven or eight deer running accross the mud and grass.
We went inside, took off our coats, and sat down with a drink and animal crackers to snack on. Then, three kids were working together in one group. I was in a group with Elizabeth, and another girl. We made some "No Suet Suet Bird Food". I put tons of peanut butter...too much for one person to eat. There was bird seed in it, and raisons, etc. We each got one third of it to bring home and feed to birds some time.
There was a second time we went outside. I didn't remember my coat this time. I forgot. I was one of some kids who forgot. But it was nice outside. This time we got to see birds in trees and saw a chickadee. This time we heard woodpeckers tapping.
One thing I learned was that some woodpeckers have a long tongue that connects their beak to their skull and gets stuck in some gooey stuff connected to the skull. That is because they tap a lot on trees so they have their beak and skull seperated so their banging on trees won't hit their skull, which is a good adaptation for woodpeckers banging on trees.
One kind of wood pecker does not have long tongues to connect the beak and skull. It doesn't bang on trees much. It has most of their food on the ground instead of banging on trees to get ants and other bugs out of their holes.
We each got one page that shows seven woodpeckers:
- Downy Woodpecker
- Red Headed Woodpecker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker Woodpecker
- Red Belly Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Woodpecker
The Sapsucker woodpecker pecks tiny holes in rows on a maple tree. They keep making holes until sap starts coming out. It keeps snakes and other predators away from their nests so their babies will be safe. A bunch of their predators don't like sap to eat. Their predators don't like sap stuck on them either.
The Hairy woodpecker is different from the Downy woodpecker because it is hairy, has a smaller area of red feathers on its head (the crest), they live in thicker trees than the Downy woodpecker. The Hairy woodpecker is bigger.
The Northern Flicker woodpecker has gray on its head, no crest, with a black stripe on its neck, a white body that's spotted with black spots, legs that are orange, brown and gray on its tail. They eat different kinds of seeds that some people put in little cages that have big enough holes for their beak to fit in a little bit.
Pileated woodpecker has big holes that are close to the ground. The Hundred-Acre Woods, think how big it is, then just answer the question...do pileateds need that much space? (answer down further) The pileated woodpecker has a cartoon named Woody Woodpecker. Here's a picture of Woody Woodpecker below.
The answer: YES! Because they need a lot of room.
I liked the class. I would want to do it again. April's class is "Boxes for Birds." I'm going to do it so that the birds that come to eat the bird food will have a box to live in.
Georgia
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment