Nature in the Backyard

    Being a stay at home mom means that I get to enjoy nature with my 3 year old son. When it's not too hot, you'll find us out in the backyard looking at the birds, butterflies, and bugs.  Lately I've been looking at adding a few more bird feeders to attract more birds for us to watch. Right now we have a regular covered feeder and two hummingbird feeders. I heard about    http://pets.become.com/bird-houses    and looked to see what kinds of feeders they offered.   I found all types of birder feeders and even butterfly feeders!  I'm  now thinking maybe I do need to add a butterfly feeder? I hit the research button on the site and it gave me lots of links to research butterfly feeders!
     My son asked me, mommy where will these new birds live? Good question!  This started a discussion on birdhouses.  What kind? How big? And what kind of birds are we wanting to attract?  So once again I looked over on   http://pets.become.com/bird-houses    to see what they had to offer in the way of houses and research. They offered a wide variety of houses for the birds in our area. And they also had butterfly houses, bat houses, and bee houses! My son wants one of them all!
     Well this is going to be an on going project in our backyard because it's not something I want to do overnight.  I will incorporate a lesson in with each addition.  I told my son that how about we draw out a map of the backyard and mark where we want to put everything and go from there.  He seems fine with that for now. I bookmarked   http://pets.become.com/bird-houses     so that I could come back over and over again for ideas,research, and shopping!   So what do you do to get you and your family outside and in nature???

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