Travel Challenge Revealed February 2009
Wow, either everyone excepting Face (congrats!) was intimidated by this month’s Travel Challenge or you are all out doing what we’ve been doing lately—enjoying the beginning of Spring. For those of you in the more northern climes, I hate to tell you this: Spring has sprung down here in the Sonoran Desert. Our weather has been unseasonably warm and sunny—birds are fighting over mates and building nests, plants are budding and flowering, and we’re out hiking and biking.
I know you have all been anxiously awaiting this answer, so without further ado here are the matchups: army of caterpillars, charm of hummingbirds, convocation of eagles, romp of otters, sleuth of bears, gang of elk, wedge of swans, bouquet of pheasants, bale of turtles, brace of ducks.
Most of these appear to have originated in literature, I am sure that many of these group names would be scoffed at by biologists. We were drawn to these as they are so appropriately descriptive. Since we stuck to animals that we have seen on our travels here in the U.S. I couldn’t include my all time favorite: an implausibility of gnus!
Ahh!, Erin, did you have to mention your wonderful weather?! Isn’t it enough that us in the “Northern Climes” are anxiously awaiting the first buds of Spring?Today it reached the 50’s!, and I heard not one, but at least two woodpeckers in my neighborhood. Is that a flock?
Sorry, Leah! The weather has been amazing down here, almost a bit too warm according to your son…
Not sure if two constitutes a flock but if there are two then there are probably more. Don’t you just love woodpeckers and their antics?