Friday, February 12, 2010

Backyard Habitat Musings....

Did you know that February is National Bird Feeding Month? ... and today is day 1 of the 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count
 (GBBC).


We are participating this year and are excited to be part of this internationally growing number of citizen naturalists. The research is sponsored by Audubon and Cornell and it is amazing how much good information can be collected by "regular folk" :)
I have just completed my watch/count for today and will submit the report to  www.birdcount.org. Neil will join me in the timed watch/count over the weekend, and after Monday (day 4) we will be done. I will post our final observations next week.
Our picture (actually from this time last year) features the American Goldfinch who comes here for winter and LOVES the thistle seeds that are in those feeders. This year we added a bigger thistle feeder to our habitat and it is once again full of these beauties.


Not a hard way to pass some time -- watching in wonder and enjoying the music of bird song.





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