We had a tremendous day. We had birds this afternoon and we saw pine grosbeaks on the bird feeders. We tracked a ruffed grouse and found its frozen scat. The chickadees flocked to our heads and hands at chickadee landing – it was amazing. I've never seen them so eager. Every kid had multiple chickadees land on them. We got to band a chickadee, too. From there, we saw a presentation on raptors, and split into our night groups where some of us rock climbed, others dissected owl pellets and some went on a night hike. (That was my group and I've never seen the stars like this – there's no moon and the milky way stretched all the way across the sky. We even saw some shooting stars.)
Here is our closing circle:
The Rookery 
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