Black Swallowtail, Wood Ducks and Spring Break ...

Friday was Selected Topics in Science Day ... we continued to work on organ systems of the human body ... info, drawings, discussions and ailments.  We also continued our bird identification project ... learning 100 birds from the Midwest.  Sixty learned, forty to go!

Computer programming classes are finishing their first set of programming problems in Visual BASIC ... animation of objects will be our next problem.

AP Biology has a spring break project ... ecology discussion questions and a sample AP Bio Exam.  We will have our transpiration lab the Thursday when we return.

Last weekend while on a walk with Hannah, we saw a black swallowtail fly by.  I thought they overwintered as a chyralis ???  We have not had much warm weather but there it was, a male flying along in a hurry.  A mystery!

This morning there was a mating pair of wood ducks in a backyard tree.  I see them flying occasionally while on walks but have never seen them in a tree.  A warm up is on the way, just in time for spring break.  Black Swallowtails below are from our yard last summer.