Retta found a dead baby bird today. She came running hysterically..."Mom, Mom, there is a baby Black Capped Chickadee--come quick it's dead, Hurry!" Sure enough it was dead. We saw it had a small puncture wound on it's body. It was very small, may have fallen from a nest.
Retta insisited upon examining it. Musa sat back grossed out, wanting gloves, asking 400 questions about bird germs, and washed his hands three times before he touched the bird!!! That's my Musa.
Retta, the opposite. She had tweezers and scissors and went to work. She examined the feet, the beak, the feathers and wanted badly for me to cut it open to see the heart and I just couldn't go there. Musa's bird germ theory was starting to wiggle it's way into my brain and before I knew it I could hear my own Mother's voice, yelling at me to... PUT THE BIRD DOWN, IT IS DISEASED. I started wondering if perhaps Musa was right.
So...off to the internet to find out. All we could find was several warnings that is illegal for anyone to possess a wild bird in the US. If you find a feather and pick it up you are supposed to place it right back where you found it. It is illegal to posses any feathers or bird parts. OOPS. Here we were with bird part all over my kitchen table. I wonder if unschooling would be a adequate defense.
Well this piece of information just about threw Musa over the edge, FIRST GERMS, NOW ILLEGAL....he was outta there, he wanted no part of it.
Please if you are reading this journal....have a heart, don't turn in the unschoolers from Maryland...this is the only lab we have. Dont' send the Bird Police to our door. We put the bird back where we found it, really!
It was a good, illegal day.
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Oh No! I have a bird feather, passed from son to daughter to me, in my purse! And its in the side pocket, so visible! I hope no one turns us into the bird police either. But I kinda doubt this is a homeschooling thing. Surely kids that attend school pick up bird parts, right? Now, I know I'm safe on the fish thing. Dad fillets the fish he and son caught last night on their trip and son scoops all the guts so we can use them as bait later this week. Teach a boy to fish (and he can read too now! LOL). Anyway, I just found your journal in a search. Thanks for letting me peak into your lives.
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Pamela
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