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Monty
Moose is one of many stuffed animals that travel the world
and report about their adventures to Mrs. Boekhout's class
at the Nestor Elementary School in British Columbia, Canada.
In fact Monty was the first "stuffie" to go on
a stuffie exchange with another classroom across the world.
One
of Monty's trips took him to visit Jean Armour Polly, author
of Net-mom's Internet Kids
& Family Yellow Pages. Jean, who lives in Syracuse,
New York—less than an hour from the Lab, found out
that Mrs. Boekhout's class participates in Project FeederWatch
through Bird Studies Canada.
She offered to drive Monty to the Lab of Ornithology for
a visit. Monty and his class were thrilled. The class routinely
visits the project's web site to submit data and to watch
birds at the Lab's feeders through FeederCam.
Monty volunteered to help fill the Lab's feeders while Mrs.
Boekhout's class watched from Canada through the FeederCam.
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Monty
Visits
Monty
came to the Lab on Thursday, February 19, 2004. Karen
Purcell (pictured at right with Monty), assistant
for the Lab's Urban
Bird Studies project, greeted Monty and showed
him the Lab's feeders. Soon they were in the Lab's
Treman Bird Feeder Garden filling feeders and enjoying
the view.
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| Monty
helps Karen fill the platform feeder. |
| Monty
rests on the platform, enjoying the view of the Lab
pond, and sending a greeting to his class back in Canada. |
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Monty and Karen enjoyed the feeder garden, Monty's tour
guide, Jean, called Nora Boekhout (pictured on phone
below) and her class at Nestor Elementary School in
Coquitlam, British Columbia. |
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class was assembled in the school's library where FeederCam
was being projected on a large screen (as shown at right). |
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Nora
and the class talked to David Bonter, Project FeederWatch
leader (shown here with Jean Armour Polly and with Monty
on the FeederCam displayed in the foreground). Nora
later reported, "You
can't imagine how excited the class and I were to see
our dear Monty Moose on the webcam!"
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More
about Monty
Monty
has been traveling to sites around the world and reporting
back to the Nestor Elementary School about all that
he sees. You can learn about his travels and read
his travel logs on his web
site.
More
about Mrs. Boekhout's class in British Columbia
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Mrs.
Boekhout's class has been studying birds with the
help of the Lab's web site. Not only does the class
participate in Project FeederWatch, but they have
a student "ornithologist of the week" who
uses information from the Lab's Bird of the Week
web site to teach the class about local birds. The
class also assembled a "bird wall," shown
at right. You can learn more about this class and
their birding activities through their web
site.
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Photos
by Mindy LaBranche, Jean Armour Polly, and Nora Boekhout.
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