Baby gerbils

Hayley

here are the baby gerbils at age 24 days old.
they look just like full grown gerbils just a little smaller.
all 5 baby's

Here is the only boy baby gerbil.

Baby gerbils

Hayley

Here are our baby gerbils at age 22 days i think but i did not
understand my mom very well but i believe they are 22 days in this picture.

Baby gerbils

Hayley

These are our baby gerbils.
we don't really have many pictures as last time we had baby gerbils
the baby's in this picture are 12 days old.

Our Turtles!

Hayley


Our painted turtles.

Hayley
This is Snippy the first turtle we found.
I found it.




























Hayley
This is Snappy.

Colin found this one. it is the second one we found




























Hayley
This is Clippy. I like to call it tiny turtle.
Colin found this turtle its the last one we found we hope to find more sometime.

Fetch the beanie baby dog

Hayley

This is fetch I won him in a beanie baby contest.
He is a very cute dog.
I take him everywhere I go if I remember to.

Snakes

We have 3 snakes. They are baby garter snakes. Their names are Snake 1, Snake 2, Snake 3. Snake 1 and Snake 2 are quiet. Snake 3 is feisty. A good website about baby garter snakes is here: Raising Baby Garter Snakes . There is a link to click on to view a garter snake birth too.


Baby garter snakes can eat worms. We set up 30 gallon tank with a grass area and a dirt area and we are keeping it slightly moist. We added some things like bark for the snakes to crawl under. We caught some worms for them. One snake was found in a bunch of bark, one in our vegetable garden and one by our front steps. Garter snakes are not venomous and it may hurt a little if one bites you but it is not dangerous.


Here is the feisty snake in the corner of the cage.





















Here is the grass area in the cage.

















Here Colin holds all three snakes.


















Here is one of the quiet snakes in a box.


















Colin holds two snakes. It is interesting how they wind themselves around your fingers.


















We measure the snakes. Snake 1 is 5 1/2 inches, snake 2 is 6 inches and snake 3 the feisty one is just over 6 1/2 inches. It was very very very hard to measure these snakes. They don't like to hold still at all!


















Hayley holds one of the snakes.


















We let the snake who was feisty go because he didn't seem happy in the cage. We'll keep the other two snakes for one more day to observe.


















Most snakes aren't as scary as people think. We don't live in a place with many dangerous snakes. The only venomous snake in New Hampshire is the Timber Rattlesnake. There aren't many of them left and we have never seen one.

Garter snake, we see these the most.


















Milk Snake, only Colin and a friend of ours who was visiting has seen one of these.










Timber Snake.

Hayley's club penguin pictures

Hayley

Hi I love to draw! this is a picture of a Club Penguin Penguin i made it with my hamster called Spider he helps me a lot. i put ink on his paws and then let him walk on it funny isn't it!.

Hayley's hamster Spider

Hayley

My Hamster is called Spider. Spider is a black bear Hamster.

He has a little white on his chin and all the rest of him is black
he is so cute! i love Spider.

Frogs

We have a lot of frogs around our house this summer. We live near a brook but we wanted a frog pond closer to the house. We used our old turtle sandbox because we don't reallty use it anymore. We let the rain and leaves gather and waited to see if frogs would use it for a pond. Last summer they did not. This summer lots of frogs have found our pond.


This is the biggest frog that lives in the turtle sandbox pond. Since this was taken now about 5 smaller frogs live in the pond.
















Frog eggs are usually in clumps. We didn't find any frog eggs in our pond so far. We got this from google images.

















Toad eggs are different, they are usually in threads. We had toad eggs last year which we foun at the lake near our house. The picture is not very big though so we chose this one from google images.
















Frogs and toads both love to eat bugs. Toads like worms and caterpillars. For that reason it's easier to keep frogs in an outdoor pond than in a tank in our home. If you want to catch bugs for your frogs you can keep them in your house. It's fun to raise tadpoles and we did again this year but we let them go when they turned into frogs.

For tadpoles we made a land area and a water area in a 30 gallon aquarium. It is easy to do this by tilting the tank a bit. put a book under one end to make the water deeper on one end. It's very important for frog or toad tadpoles to be able to get out of the water when they get their legs. If they can't get to some land they will die!

















baby tree frog on the couch.















baby tree frog in Colin's hand.

The Wild Backyard Kids, who we are

Here is me, Hayley, with my favorite pet Spider my hamster. I'm 12 years old. My favorite color is blue. My favorite wild animal is a tiger. I like to be homeschooled because it's quicker and I have more time to do what I want. I like to take pictures and movies and will probably put some on this blog.

















Here is me, Colin, with my favorite pet my hamster Giraffe. I'm 10 years old. My favorite color is orange. I like bugs a lot. My favorite creatures that I find in my yard are snakes and salamanders. When I grow up I want to own a pet shop, and be a chef. My favorite foods are tomatoes and noodles but not together.

Here is our little brother Tristan who is too little to write on this blog much, he's 8. This is at the lake, he's playing in sand, which is one of his favorite things. There is a mallard duck in the background, a female. Tristan likes sand, magnets and playdoh. Tristan also likes star wars and light sabers and chocolate. In fact he loves chocolate. Tristan says when he grows up he wants to be a scientist and an inventor attached. That means he wants to do both of those jobs. He will be good at that because he looks like a scientist sometimes and he likes to invent things.


















This is our big brother, Trevor. He has just turned 13 and he's very hard to figure out these days. He says his favorite thing is video games but we know he loves his cat Shadow, who is also in this picture. We don't really understand Trevor much lately, he seems kinda boring now that he doesn't like to play much but maybe we will understand when we become teenagers.

My Wild Backyard

This blog is about the flora and fauna which we encounter in our daily lives, our backyard and beyond.

Goals.

Writing skills.
Investigation, search for information skills.
Photography
Graphic and blog design skills.
Fun.