St.Paul+Lutheran+Lakeland+Florida

What's in our neighborhood?
How would you describe your neighborhood to someone who has never visited? Brainstorm about 10 phrases to describe your habitat, such as lots of trees, some tall buildings, many trees, blacktop everywhere, etc. we see our habitat as a suburban/ small city 1.Wetland to north that was disturbed by bulldozers from a road building project 2.small urban forest on the schools 40 acres 3.3- small retention ponds 4.many live oaks, sweet gums, water oak, slash pine trees 5.some school and church buildings 6.blacktop basketball courts 7. open baseball and soccer fields 8. butterfly and bird gardens 9. 10 church and school buildings 10. houses and duplexes on 3 sides of our property

ponds near main roads with osprey nesting pole and duck box
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** What features make our neighborhood a suitable place for birds? **
We have a variety of young and old trees, three retention ponds, wetland on north side of the campus, small urban forest, and native plants with berries.

** What birds do you regularly see on your bird counts? **
You may want to record data from your "Count Birds for Science" lesson. ==**Feeders, Raptors , ****Winter visitors, ****Ponds **==
 * cardinal, osprey, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> phoebe, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">great blue heron, cattle egret,<span style="color: #7f00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">red-winged blackbird   **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">doves, <span style="color: #ff0057; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> red shoulder hawk, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> bluebirds, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ibis, <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">mourning dove   **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blue jay, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> killdeer, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">kingfisher, <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">turkey and black vulture, <span style="color: #8800ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">chipping sparrow    **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">tufted titmouse, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">tricolor heron, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">carolina wren, <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">boat tail grackle   **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">red belly woodpecker, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">anhinga, <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">palm warbler, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">sandhill crane   **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Studying how migrating birds are able to fly long distances when migrating with Sun in Fun Museum teachers. He explained wing formation and updrafts.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Students did the migration obstacle course and found out no one could be the cat! They agree they need to at least put a bell on their pet cats. They also felt it was a waste of time to go around so many buildings. They wanted to run past the buildings not through the buildings.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">March- students just watched the live cam at Cornell of the red-tailed hawk and watch her lay egg number 3!!! Boy are they excited. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We went to Circle B Bar with Audubon and identified 34 species.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">April we saw many baby birds born. We saw baby bluebirds-3, cardinal- male, osprey two nests had 2 chicks each hatch, mocking bird, and sandhill cranes had 1 chick. A house finch was new at our feeder.