Yikes!  Sorry about Friday and Monday – family fun sort of got in the way.  I have been reading (I’ll put some recommendations on our sidebar bookshelf)  and canoeing. (Did you know you can get pretty close to a heron if you’re quiet? Cool!)  I hope your summer is great.  Enjoy!

There are seven perches on my birdfeeder. A purple finch sits on each perch. Each bird eats four seeds a minute. How many seeds will the finches in altogether in five minutes?

 There were three pairs of cardinals nesting around our yard. Each pair laid four eggs. The babies are fledged and have left the nest. How many cardinals (parents and fledglings together) are in our yard?

 A chickadee is 5 1/2 inches long. A turkey vulture is 26 inches long. About how many chickadees would you need to put in a line to equal the length of two turkey vultures? (The answer won’t be exact.)