Saturday Trip to the Botanic Gardens

Davidson women wander with swans.



We've had two beautiful (relatively for November in Chicago) weekends in a row. Last weekend we spent a sunny warm day inside painting Bo's room (we'll post photos soon). This weekend we wanted to take advantage of the weather and so we went to the Botanic Gardens with Grandma and Grandpa Davidson. Bo really enjoyed being the Bjorn - he especially loved all the tall grasses and trees with berries on them.

The highlight was seeing a peregrine falcon up close. The juvenile was perched on a low branch right by a walking path. I don't know much about falcon behavior but this one seemed to be acting strangely. At one point it swooped down onto the ground and some low plants in an area where it was almost completely surrounded by onlookers only 10 feet away. It then flew back up to the branch. It did not appear to be physically injured since it was flying, but seemed to me it might have had a screw loose! At any rate it was really cool to be able to see the falcon up close.