Day 6

Foggy morning
Today we went out with Jason he is the expert here at the station with plants and birds. He showed us the different trees that grow in the garden and the certain plants that the birds really like. He has this really cool lens not sure if it's a camera or some sort of binocular camera if that's a thing? But you can look through and see the birds so clearly since it has a tripod it's much clearer than when using binoculars and my arms aren't as steady. He showed us this whole or nest in a palm tree, we didn't get to see any birds come or go from it because when we went back to check it out ourselves we couldn't find it!


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