Eggs Eggs Eggs!!

This afternoon, I went to pull off a robin's nest on top of a light at the back of the house that I watched a mama and her babies nesting in last year - that's them in the first picture. I haven't noticed any activity this year, so I thought it was empty. To my surprise, look what I found!! Unfortunately, not expecting any eggs, one flew out of the nest as I pulled it off and broke on the ground. Then I saw a dead swallow nearby. Do you wonder what happened? I sure did! Thinking about it, I wonder if  the swallow must have been trying to get at the eggs and the mama robin got into a fight with it. I think the robin abandoned the nest because I didn't see it anywhere. So, I brought the nest to school tonight and Mrs. Deneka and I decided to put them in her incubator with her chicken eggs to see what happens. Accidently, one egg broke as Mrs. Deneka picked it up....they are so light and fragile. What a cool find!

On Friday, Mark brought in 2 goose eggs he found near his house. We showed Mrs. Deneka's class, and we decided to put them in with the Silkie hens in her classroom to see if they will hatch. This hen looks like she is wondering where this large egg came from...."When did I lay THAT huge egg?" Can you believe the difference in size between the chicken egg and the goose egg?

                         

Friday was a great day! We went out to the front garden to clean out all the quack grass, weeds, and old plants in an effort to get it ready to plant again this month. We pulled some perennials out that are already starting to grow (Lamb's Ear, strawberries, yarrow) and we have them in the classroom for now. We had so many weeds!! Mrs. Wielgosh's class and Mrs. Kobelka's class went out in the morning to work on one part of the garden. We will definitely have to spend another block out there next week to pull out some more weeds. Then we'll get it rototilled to make it healthier for our new plants. We have already started our seedlings in the classroom with the help of Mrs. Geverink, who willingly got dirty in an effort to help our students plant their seeds. We planted seeds that we harvested from the flowers in the Fall! We'll keep you posted on what comes up!