Appamada Bird Project eighth week

 Last week we didn't have a blog post due because we had a service day where we helped our community. These past few weeks we have been maintaining our existing feeders, as well as cleaning out an abandoned feeder that we had at our school. We hung up this feeder and immediately saw birds on it. We also saw a squirrel eating from one of our feeders, even though we put in cinnamon to repel squirrels. We will continue to maintain and observe our feeders and the nature around them!

The squirrel that ate out of our feeder:









Our trail camera:









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