Sci Fri: Fill the Bill

'Fill the Bill' is a popular science centre that is review for the older kids and new for the wee.
We lay out an assortment of mock bird food, alongside several tools that represent beak types.
The object is to determine which tools work best to access each type of food.
Instead of labeling the 'bird food', we took a minute to discuss what each of the foods might represent.

Byrd Baylor is one of our go-to nature authors.

Her themes are strongly tied to the relationship between humans and animals.
In this book, a young boy is convinced he is a bird and collects a chick from it's nest, believing they are brothers.