August 10-11, 2013

Humbug Mountain State Park, OR

Saturday-We had another large turnout for our Dragonfly program.  There have been a few families staying at the park for a couple of weeks because the area they live in Oregon has had fires with such severe smoke that they had to leave home.

As a consequence we have had some of the same kids attend our program everyday and have gotten to know them. 

It was a cold and damp so we were couch potatoes the rest of the day.  After dinner we took a walk down to the lower loop.  When we were invited to sit down to share the campfire at the host site of Mahlon and Deralynn we only planned on staying for a few minutes, but ended up enjoying their company for over two hours. 

Sunday-Our program today was on Birds of the Park.  We got to the site earlier than usual because we had more of a setup than we normally have.  We hung a large banner that shows the wing span of several birds. 

 

 

Monte hung pictures of birds in the bushes around the site for the portion of the program when the kids would use the binoculars to bird watch.  We also handed out bird identification booklets. 

 

 

I wasn’t expecting a large turnout because traditionally on Sunday campers are packing up getting ready to leave or have already left.  But this morning we had 32 attendees and only 5 binoculars. 

 

After Monte gave a presentation on the birds of the park, he instructed the kids on the proper handling of binoculars.  Then we divided the kids and their parents into groups and distributed the binoculars.  Everyone had fun spotting the “birds” Monte had placed around the site.  We finished off the program by making hummingbird feeders.

 

I spent a couple of hours outside working on my laptop while enjoying the nice weather. 

Annie being a “chair” potato.  (Something she does quite often)