Pine Siskin

We think this little bird has been hanging out around our house for several weeks now getting food out of the feeder.

Since I took the feeder in the other day, Isabel wanted to feed the birds and our little bird friend.

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The bird was in our Japanese maple and Isabel was able to get it to hop onto her bowl of bird food.
She’s so proud of herself.

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The bird ate for a long time at the bowl.
As the little bird is eating, Isabel is singing softly to it.

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Isabel walked the bowl and bird over to the patio table.

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A Pine Siskin is a member of the Finch family.
Isabel told us later that the bird flew away just after I went out to take photos of it. She tried again later to get the bird to come back to the bowl but it wouldn’t.

Kids Clinic: Kite Building

This morning we headed to the local hardware store for a kids clinic that was being offered for free.

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Getting her “bag/kite” colored.

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Daddy helping with directions and what needs to happen next.

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Trimming away the extra parts of the page.

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This gentlemen is from the Official Northwest Kite Club or Association (he does kite flying at Long Beach at the Kite festival that we went to several years ago – he’s been doing it for over 20 years!) and he was there to help with the string and making sure the kite was balanced.

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All finished.

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In the parking lot she got it up with some help from the breeze!