Hidden Byway

The Fairy Creek is a stream that is in the woods in the Santa Cruz mountains. It is a beautiful place! I love to go there with my family and my dog to explore and have fun there. It is a peaceful place because not many people go there.

My dog loves to run around there and take drinks out of the stream. There are many big rocks and you can see miles of beautiful woods when you are sitting on them.

There is a burnt-out redwood tree that we like to go inside. My dog likes to jump around in there too. The branches sometimes look like animals and different shapes.

There is a pile of rocks that the stream goes over. It makes a waterfall. One of my friends named it the Fairy Creek because it looked like a place that fairies might live. I think the same.

There is a stump that is hollowed out and you can get inside it. Right next to it is a steep drop off. Nearby there is as huge fallen tree that reaches from the top of the hill to the bottom.

There are many fallen trees that make a bridge across the stream. The Fairy Creek is one of my favorite places.

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I’ve been watching the Western Scrub Jays for a long time. Here are some of my experiences.

They are blue, with a white belly, a gray stripe across their wing, a black patch around their eye and a white eye stripe.

Scrub Jays like to eat acorns. I see them cracking open acorns. I saw a Scrub Jay resting above my door, snatching moths and eating them. I also feed them bread. Sometimes when I feed them they get very close to me. They swoop down and snatch the bread with their beaks.

They like to rest in my Oak trees and in my Quince bush.

I got really close to a Scrub Jay when I was in my Quince bush. I looked up and two of them were perching on my fence.

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Nature

Wild, giving

grows, lives, gives

free to all creatures

Forest

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We read My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George. I loved this book! Sam is the main character. Sam ran away from home, and went to live by the ruins of his grandfather’s farm. He burned out a tree to have somewhere to live. There was a stream that he could fish in to get food. He made lots of friends when he was in the mountains. Some of the friends were animals and some were human. In hunting season, he took the deer that the hunters lost. He also went up a mountain and stole a falcon chick from her nest. He named her “Frightful”. She caught food and they shared it. Frightful was one of his best friends. The Baron was another friend — a weasel — who lived near them. I think that you should read this book!

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