Nature School: Falling Leaves

The week after Fisher's birthday we took off over the pass to check out the leaves.  We took a picnic and made a nature school day of it.  James spent much of our little walk talking to Fisher about hunting.  They talked about the black marks on the aspen trunks and what made those marks.  (The elk did.)  They talked about several other ways to spot the signs the elk were close by.  We looked and looked for elk but didn't see any during the walk.  (though a certain enthusiastic 3 year old may have had something to do with that.)

Our picnic was filled with "camp robber" birds that kept trying to steal my sandwich.  One even succeeded in getting the top piece of bread.  The children (James included) thought that was hilariously fun and proceeded to "feed the birds" lots of peanuts.   Those birds would actually land in the kids hands and eat up the nuts then fly off.  James put some food on top of his head to see if they'd land on it.  They did.  I missed the picture.

We went to the nature center in Mueller State Park and they had this fantastic little children's trail.  We went around twice we liked it so much. 

It was a such beautiful fall day. 
JKFP