family day fun and everyone still has their fingers

what a great photo by Mark Milton

In Ontario we have a holiday called family day which has meant whenever the weather allows we brings families together at the Hilliardton marsh and band birds and get families outside to make those all important connections to nature .  Richard Louv author of Last child in the Woods  has started to use the term Vitamin N. So Saturday February 18th we  played the role of marsh doctors and tried to give kids a good shot in the arm of vitamin nature. We had approximately 60 visitors that had a chance to see some birds and get a chance to snowshoe and have a chance to eat some bannock.  As we have been reporting the birds are a bit scarce but we did manage to catch and band 5 more evening grosbeaks  bringing our record setting season to 157.  What follows is photographs of the day I would like to thanks everyone for bringing their kids out to enjoy the plus 7 Celsius  weather and to all the volunteers that made the day a great success.

feeling safe away from the commotion

Josh and his Mom made us some bird bags which we are always appreciative of thanks so much!!

Vitamin N and they did not feel a thing 

On the trial to bannock

Erin and Kim hard at work

Gee with some bannock

watch the birdie

Hard to find a jacket that a male evening grosbeak can blend in with

Thinking a bird was just released 

banders have more to do then just band birds 

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