Mom it's a...It's a...Oh just come look!

It's a Cardinal Michael and a very pretty male Cardinal. Good eye Michael, Good eye!

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Michael and I were going for a walk and he was outside in the yard waiting on me when he came in and told me to come look...

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We saw a lot of deer on our walk...the one thing you spot rather quickly is their white tails! and sometimes the only thing you see!
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He loves playing with the rattle bushes...
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Mom a seed...cool!

And we brought it home and we will plant it tomorrow to see if we can get it to grow. The plant is from the bean family and the seed looks like a little kidney bean.
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We looked for minnows, no live ones found.

We found dead minnows where the dry creek bed had dry spots and lots of Raccoon tracks!
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We found lots of tracks in the wet sand...Here Michael found a dog track!

We studied different tracks and discussed how mud effects tracks. I also showed him some deer poo and I told him it was called scat, yes kind of disgusting but part of being out in nature and knowing what your looking at. We found a couple of animal dens and tried to figure out what type of animal was living in them. Possibly a skunk but honestly not sure, no clear tracks. I think he really enjoyed our little adventure he sure found a lot of deer tracks :o)
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Posing on some Grape vine.
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Getting bored and losing interest!
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Oak tree!
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American Kestrel

I tried to sneak up on him but he was watching me, sigh!

We saw a lot of birds but hardly any of the photos I took were worth sharing.

I was so proud of Michael. If I said look a bird, Michael would stand next to me quietly while I took photos. He knows Momma likes to take photos of birds and that he has to be quiet if I'm going to get a photo!
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And when we arrived back at the house we found Marble and his ladies pilfering the yard! Watch out grasshoppers you are doomed!

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It was a beautiful evening and Michael and I had a great walk. We checked the game camera and there were 57 photos of the cows on the memory card, yikes! We left the camera where it was but scouted game trails to see where we should move it next. We'll give it a few more days and then try somewhere else.