That Was Cute, Till It Turned Creepy

While crossing this bridge on a walk-turned-death-march, if you ask the children,

We stopped to notice the turtles waiting for a hand-out below the bridge.

While we were discussing the pros/cons of these turned-tame sort of creatures, Nicholas wandered off to find a bird. He currently believes that he can catch them. Alida thinks that if she just holds out her finger, they will land and sing with her, but that's another story. So we kind of ignored Nicholas, because he's loud, and birds tend to flee as he approaches.

But then we noticed that he's just kind of sat down with this bird in the grass and started talking with it. And it was starting to turn into an episode of Little Bear.

And then this.

I'm not comfortable with this, but I was equally stunned.

And Ben was put out because it was about here that I started yelling that it was time to go and get away from the bird already.