It's day 3 of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society's Great Backyard Bird Count. For a few days every Feburary anyone and everyone in the U.S. and Canada can count the birds in their yards and report their counts. Check out http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc for all the info and to add your count.
We love bird watching at our house. We have several bird feeders and a bird bath in our from yard so we get a lot of birds. This is the first year we are taking part in the bird count and it's a lot of fun. We have a bird book so we can look up what kinds of birds we get. (If you'd like to know what birds are in your yard birdsource.org has localized lists complete with pictures.) It's so cool to hear the kids talking about red-winged blackbirds, finches, mourning doves, and hairy woodpeckers. Samantha even came home from school one day with a picture of a bird that she had colored like a red-winged blackbird (her favorite bird). How many Kindergateners even know what a red-winged blackbird is ?! So check out birdsource.org, and get counting. Monday is the last day!!
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What a fun thing for your kids to do! We'll have to check out those websites, thanks!
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