As we continue on with our activities from our Summer Bucket List, I have to mention about our awesome library that we have. When we move, our library will be one thing that we will miss a lot. Our library, just celebrated its first anniversary at its new building. Along with the new building has come more books and also more programs being offered for the kids by the library. We missed the programs on the Wolves and Snakes, and it was by chance that we happened to stop by and noticed the Birds of Prey program about to begin. The kids were so excited when they found out that they didn’t miss this show! Even better that their grandparents could be there with them!
The local Nature Center had my kids’ attention from the start. They had several different owls, a Red Tail Hawk, a Harris Hawk and a Bald Eagle named Freedom. I love how they explained to the kids why these animals were called birds of prey and how they ended up in captivity and why they can never be out back out into the wild.
The bald eagle’s name is Freedom. He talked about how the bald eagles used to be considered endangered species many years ago. There are now over 10,000 pairs of bald eagles in the U.S. Freedom is a bald eagle that is visiting the Nature Center from Dollywood.
My oldest daughter has been to this Nature Center several times and has fallen in love with the birds that they take care of. I am very thankful that we were able to be at the program, so that I could get a picture of her holding the Harris Hawk.
We are blessed to have a library that is able to have programs that are so fun and educational. Does your library have any programs during the summertime?
Be sure to stop by the others who are participating in the Summer Bucket List series to see what fun they have been up to!
Honey @ Sunflower Schoolhouse
Tonya @ The Traveling Praters
Jeniffer & Melissa @ Sisters ‘N Cloth
Lisa @ Creativlei
Nancy @ Proverbs 31 Jewels
Jennifer @ Teaching Boys
Kelli @ Adventurez In Child’rearing
Don’t you love the summer library programs? Very cool to find something fun and educational to fill your summer days. 🙂
We do love the library programs and will miss that about this library when we move. I am hoping that the library we will be close to in Colorado will have similar programs! Thanks for stopping by Tonya!
Wow! That is very cool. Our local library really pays attention to homeschoolers. We love it. I have to admit, even though they have a jam-packed summer reading program we definitely don’t spend much time there during the public school’s break. Too crowded during the summer. 😉
Lisa, I know exactly what you are saying! We do try to stay away from the library during public school breaks, because there are just so many kids. However, we just couldn’t pass up this program! 🙂
Oh Joy, what a kick in the pants! Aren’t they gorgeous creatures? Having a good library is such a blessing!! Thank you for sharing your experience!
The birds were beautiful! My phone pictures just did not do these birds any justice. I kicked myself for not having my good camera on me! Yes, we are thankful to have such a wonderful library!
Joy,
Freedom is such a great name for an eagle! Our library (and nature center) has done several similar programs. My boys are infatuated! Libraries are so great!
Jennifer
Jennifer, your comment did come through! Thanks for stopping by!! 🙂
we totally love nature centers – thanks for sharing! great bucket list topic 😉
That’s awesome–I would have enjoyed it as much as the kids! Our library does do a few small programs like that (one they went to with snakes and lizards and stuff)–we even provided sheep for one once! Unfortunately for us, most of those programs are right in the middle of the day, so we can’t make it very often, and due to budget cuts they are cutting way back around here.
I have been surprised by the amount of programs our library has provided this summer. Hopefully they will be able to keep this up!