This weekend we went to a cool event at a local nature center (not affiliated with either of the nature centers we've been to before, but sited like they are along the Missouri River.) The idea was that we could take advantage of the Monarch butterfly migration to catch and tag some butterflies for Important Scientific Study. Unfortunately, the weather was cool and rainy, so the butterflies were few and far between. We did catch one, but it had already been tagged, so that was a bit disappointing. But we got a net and some take-home tags (teeny stickers that you put on the outside/underside of the wings) and we'll try again when things warm up a bit. Still, we had a great time.
The great joy of the whole thing was that the same nature center has a Raptor Celebration or something where they hold a hawk/raptor event with live raptors and you get to climb up their really tall tower to try to spy raptors migrating south. Since Grace is currently obsessed with perigrine falcons, we're going to put it on our calendar.
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