Springbrook

Tonight my bird class was scheduled to meet at Springbrook Nature Center if the weather was nice and in the classroom if it wasn't nice.  I went to Springbrook.  I think our class must have had divided opinions on the weather because only half of us showed up there.  Without a teacher, we walked around.  We saw robins, red winged blackbirds, snowy egrets, blue winged teal, Canadian geese, grackles, black capped chickadees, hairy woodpeckers, downy woodpeckers, and a yellow rumped warbler.  One of my fellow students works at the nature center and she took us behind the scenes, where regular visitors should not go, to show us a fox den.  From our vantage point 20 feet away, the fox den looked like a big hole in the ground; not much to see.  One of the naturalists has a hole cut into the side of a garage so he can film the fox.  Even without seeing a fox or kits, I enjoyed seeing the den.  The geese at Springbrook are tame and swim right up to you begging for food.  The three deer we saw weren't a bit afraid either.