Chickadeedeedee

It snowed on Monday. It was gorgeous. I was teaching Orienteering so I hung out at the start while the kids navigated courses with compasses through the woods. The snow actually hung out for a couple days...but it's been warm again this weekend.

Snow means it's winter time,and winter time means the chickadees are flocking, and that means we get to do chickadee landing now! So there are benches set up year round that have cutouts of people and are dressed up so birds get used to them. In the winter chickadees don't migrate but they form flocks which kind of work like wolf-packs - there is an alpha chickadee and the flocks will defend territories (usually around feeders). Anywho we get to bring kids here, they sit really still, and we put seed on their head and on their hand and chickadees land on them. Obviously you can tell from my expressions it's a really cool experience.

 Here's what we really do when we're waiting for kids to come to class after setting up. There are two buildings here with classrooms but classes don't have designated rooms so each time we teach we have to set up and tear down the classroom. And then we just run around from room to room talking to each other till someone sees kids out the windows and we yell 'The kids are COMING!'

Yesterday we had a geology field trip/seminar. All about the geology of the north shore. Lots of stuff about lava flows because pretty much all our rocks are igneous because of the mid-continental rift that formed Lake Superior. This picture shows two different lava flows....and yah that's about how far in depth I'll go haha.