No, that’s not my backyard.
The Audubon Society and The Cornell Lab of Ornithology are sponsoring The Great Backyard Bird Count running from today through Feb 18. Anyone can participate. All you have to do is count birds over a span of at least 15 minutes and record the number of individuals you see. This helps the Audubon Society “create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent.” You don’t even have to do it in your backyard.
I walked down to the pond by the house and watched birds from 4:05-4:35 pm. Overcast, breezy, mid-60′s. Here’s what I saw:
- 3 American crows
- 3 Northern shovelers
- 1 White-winged dove
- 2 Mourning doves
- 1 Lesser scaup
- 1 Great blue heron
- 4 Black vultures
- 1 Eastern phoebe
The phoebe and the scaup are ones I had not seen before, so I get to add a few to my life list.
2 Comments | Filed under: birds and nature and photography | Tagged: birding, great backyard bird count, pond
…and a partridge in a pear tree…beautiful shot.
Thanks. Some days really call for b/w.