February 13, 2024
|Downy Woodpecker by Linda Cunico |
For the eighth season in a row, Challenge FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the prospect to win prizes. Celestron has joined the enjoyable by providing one pair of binoculars to every knowledge entry contest winner as effectively. After getting into counts into the FeederWatch web site, on the submission affirmation web page, members have the chance to share a narrative, reminiscence, or tip by clicking the “Enter to Win” button. We randomly choose two winners per immediate. Our third Knowledge Entry contest immediate this season was:
Who do you prefer to FeederWatch with? Do you recognize solitude, or do you watch with a pal?
Congratulations to our winners, Marc Behrendt and Ava Lyerly!
Marc shared:
I desire to FeederWatch alone. I just like the privateness, I prefer to take heed to all of the sounds When I’m within the subject, I desire being alone, though it’s good a couple of times a 12 months to chicken with different extremely educated birders.
Sitting in solitude and listening to the sounds of nature can definitely create a serene setting. Cornell’s Merlin Chicken ID app could be a useful identification software when birding by ear. With the app’s Sound ID function, Merlin listens to the birds round you and reveals real-time options for who’s singing. That is particularly useful if you’re listening to a chicken that you simply can’t place. Merlin also can provide help to kind out totally different songs if a number of birds are singing directly. Obtain the Merlin Chicken ID app right here.
Ava shared:
Ever since I started birding in 2020, I discovered it thrilling to study all of the birds that got here to my feeder and which are in my city! I needed to journey from [eBird] hotspot to hotspot on the lookout for birds, however wasn’t sufficiently old to drive, so my dad would take me. We ended up getting him a pair of binoculars too, and he was instantly hooked! At dwelling, we take turns filling the chicken feeders, and his chair is positioned the place he can watch the feeders with ease. This FeederWatch season, he desires to be taught the birds like I did in order that he is aware of what he’s on the feeder. Whereas birding in solitude is nice, I really like seeing how my dad lights up at any time when a nuthatch or Downy Woodpecker reveals up at our feeder and he identifies it accurately. The enjoyment of birding is in all places, and is for everybody!
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has many assets out there to help novice birdwatchers. Once you be part of Challenge FeederWatch, for instance, you may choose to obtain our double-sided jap and western Widespread Feeder Birds of North America poster – a useful software in figuring out the birds at your feeder. Cornell’s All About Birds web site is a web-based information to birds and birdwatching that provides ID assist and life historical past information for 600+ North American species. And, if you wish to additional advance your information, Cornell’s Chicken Academy provides a number of chicken ID and associated programs that may assist develop your expertise.
Due to everybody who participated and shared their tales for this immediate – we want we might share your entire submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. E-mail [email protected] with questions. Keep tuned for after we announce our subsequent knowledge entry contest winners on March twelfth, 2024.
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