Too cute not to share
One side effect of being open (and verbal) about my birding is that friends and family share their bird stories and pictures with me. I love it. An adorable example is from my friend and coworker, Mark Grassberger, who recently figured out which small, energetic, brown bird with a white eye-stripe had moved in right outside his back door.…
Backyard Birding
This little cutie made my day today. I’m incredibly pleased that a Townsend’s Warbler visits our backyard. I’ve only seen it a handful of times, it darts in, I run and grab my camera and the next instant it’s gone. I managed one picture the first day I saw it during the Great Backyard Bird…
Great Backyard Bird Count
The GBBC is a citizen science project created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society that gives a near real time snapshot of wild bird data. It also provides and opportunity for citizens to participate in a study and make the birds they see in their backyard “count.” Last year’s participants totaled over 144,000, providing…