Tubby!

                                                                    It's Tubby again!

Tubby likes to wander along the kitchen floor searching for food. Tubby's hobbies are eating, sleeping, and trying to get  out of his cage. In the picture below, Tubby is looking at the camera because he thinks it is food!

During the middle of the day, we give Tubby snacks. For example, we would feed him nuts or rice. Tubby vigorously devours food out of my hand, and it always tickles to feel his wet snout rub against me.

Tubby is getting so big that I feel like he has drunk a growing potion. When my family and I first got him in Maui, Hawaii, he was only five months old. Now he's eight months old!

                       How long did we have Tubby for?
                                Isn't Tubby adorable?


  

Wild Walnut Park

                         Over the weekend my family went to park called Wild Walnut Park.

Photo by Abbey

A sign there said that Wild Walnut Park provides food, shelter, nesting, and hiding places for birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and insects. These trees are oak trees, Native Americans used oak tree branches for utensils, cradle boards and fire wood. They played games with acorns, leached and ground as bait in traps. Spanish explorers cut oak trees to build houses, barns, and fences.

Photo by Abbey

 Wow! Look at the tree! Notice the bright sunlight coming through the green leaves. My brother, Jake, and I climbed on the branches, and we had a wonderful time. We even pretended that we were in the Olympics doing gymnastics on the balance beam. : )

Photo by Abbey


Have you ever been to Wild Walnut Park, if not, what outdoor parks have you gone to?

Penelopy

On a hot day, my brother, Jake, noticed a nest in our back yard! Soon we saw a bird in that nest. We named her Penelopy. My mom thought she was a dove. She had big beautiful eyes, black spots on her wings, and a strip of blue running down her back.

Photo by Abbey

A few weeks later, I spotted two other birds in the nest. How do you think they got there? Do you think they are her babies?

Photo by Sarah (my mom)

 

When I went outside to check on Penelopy, she wasn't there and neither were the two birds, but I saw somthing else that took my breath away.

 

Photo by Abbey

 

AN EGG!

 

Sadly, later in the week we couldn't find the egg, Penelopy, or the two birds. :(  Maybe a preditor ate the egg; maybe it hatched and flew away, or maybe Penelopy took it somewhere. I didn't know because there was no egg shell to be seen or found.

 

 

Have you ever experianced something like this?

Where did the two other birds come from?

What do you think happend to the egg?