Friends, Food & Frolicking...

We all took the day off. San & her husband, Me and my husband and the Napster so we headed to the Hampton's.  It was a beautiful summer day, we left the heat and humidity and drove into the sun and fun of the Hamptons with a cool summer breeze.

Our first stop was the South Fork Natural History Museum, so after paying $7 apiece, we walked into what at best can be described as a kids touch and feel museum.  The only other people their was a couple with their two little children.  However the museum did have a balcony with telescopes so you could look out into the acreage. 

We were greeted with the swooping flights of the Barn and Tree Swallows.

They had Gourd bird houses for Purple Martins, but the only one's living there were the Swallows.  (This year I planted some Bird House Gourds, so next year we will see what will be able to attract to our gourds.)


The real treat that day turned out to be the nests we saw for the Swallows.  We saw one mother Barn Swallow sitting on her nest.  According to the very informative care taker, this was her fourth nest, the rest had been destroyed.

We also saw a Glossy Ibis, but we could not add him to our Long Island Native species list because they are migratory birds.


So as we leave the 'Museum' we have one last opportunity to see nesting Swallows, this time though we saw the baby Swallows, three of them.  They were the cutest things.

They were watching us with those cute little faces.

All in all it was a fabulous day, friends, good food and of course frolicking.   What more could one ask for.