On July 8, 09 me, my mom and my sister went fishing. We went to a pond behind my grandma's house. I went off looking for frogs and tadpoles with my sister and my mom started fishing. My mom was bringing in small fish like crazy! So me and my sister started fishing to. My mom needed to get something so she handed me her Fishing pole. The fishing pole had a small fish on the end of the line. I let the fish swim around until the fish started to get scared. when it darted one way I would steer it the other direction. All the sudden the line went slack and then a huge bass started pulling. Now my mom was at my side watching to see just how big it was. My sister grabbed a net because we had caught many bass before but most of them broke the line. When we finally got it up onto the shore we realized this was the biggest bass we had ever caught in the pond behind our grandma's house. After all that excitement I went back to looking for frogs and tadpoles. In this one spot I noticed either fish or tadpoles were coming up for air. I swiped my net through the water but only caught babe sunfish and bluegills. I did it again and I found tadpoles!!!!!! We brought them home and put them in a container. Today I switched them to an aquarium.

Red Tailed Hawk

When you are listening for a Red tailed hawk you should listen for a keeee-arrrrr! It is more like a rough scream. They are about the length of an American Crow. An Eastern adult has a brown head, dark eyes, white throat, and brown back and wings. Light white marks on the wings form a V shape that can be seen from quite a distance. They often have black streaks on their belly forming a bally band. Red Tail Hawks have a short, red tail. Try not to focus on the Red tail for identification reasons. The Red tail can not be seen when flying. The Red tail hawk is one of the most reconized raptors.

Hummingbirds

Right now, I'm going to talk about hummingbirds. A cool thing about hummingbirds is that they use spider silk in their nests. The spider silk doesn't let the heat escape so it acts as a good incubator. When the nest is fully made it barely fits the female hummingbird. Hummingbirds lay no more than two eggs. How will this tiny little nest fit two hummingbirds? As the baby hummingbirds grow the spider silk expands. It's like going from a crib to a little boy bed to a big boy bed. Also if you leave your hummingbird feeder out a little bit later towards the winter, you might get some late migrators. If you do get late migrators they will most likely pig out. Down in Marshall Illinois a neighbor puts out four to five feeders and he gets over twenty hummingbirds at a time. The Ruby Throated Hummingbird travels about 600 miles across the Gulf of Mexico. Hummingbirds can flap their wings 60 to 200 times per seconed. They have very weak feat so they perfer to fly. They can barely walk on those weak feet. Also they do perch. Hummingbirds can fly up to 60 miles per hour and can live from 4 to 5 years in the wild. Hummingbirds eat 50% of their body weight every day! 30% of a Hummingbirds weight is flight muscles. There are 343 speicies of hummingbird.