Summer camps!

Summer is here and our camps are busy... very busy. We have 40 kids at camp this week. Most (if not all) of them are on scholarship from the CROP program. There isn't alot of time for blogging but we are having fun teaching kids these skills and getting them dirty and out in nature. So far we have done alot of bird language, tracking, shelter building, bow drill fires, hunting skills, edible plants and cordage making. They are good kids and super excited to be at Hawk Circle. I'll have more updates throughout the summer and hopefully some pictures too.

Thunderstorms and egg

We've had some beautiful thunderstorms lately. I also found this broken egg on the trail with a slug in it. I don't have an egg book but maybe someone reading this will know. Is it a song sparrow egg? I'm also not sure if it was broken by a beak, bird foot, or maybe a squirrel/chipmunk.

June happenings

Well June is here faster than I expected it to be and we have been very busy. We had a group of 45 fourth graders from New York City come for a few days. It was a fun time and a good warm up for the camps this summer. We have a break for a few days now and with that time I have been doing bird sits, working on kamana, finishing up my bow and working on an adz. The angle of the adz handle isn't quite right so I will probably make a new one but it was a decent first attempt. For it to work properly there must be a 90 degree angle from the bevel of the blade to the first finger of your grip. This one that I made is a little too steep.
I also added a picture of some points I made - the gray ones are out of Pedernales chert from Texas and the black one is Obsidian from California. This last picture is a Robin nest. Most of the birds here have already fledged once and they are on their second batch. They are ambitious little creatures.
The rabbits have been hard at work too. We have tiny baby bunnies everywhere! Yesterday I saw two hopping around on the trail so I stood really still and after a while they hopped right over to me. One of them even started chewing on my sandal and sniffing my feet. I could feel its little whiskers on my skin. It was super cute. I guess it tasted me or finally figured out what I was because all of the sudden they both took off. Another exciting spring day here at Hawk Circle!