February 13, 2024
|Downy Woodpecker by Linda Cunico |
For the eighth season in a row, Venture FeederWatch and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with the possibility to win prizes. Celestron has joined the enjoyable by providing one pair of binoculars to every knowledge entry contest winner as effectively. After coming 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 Information Entry contest immediate this season was:
Who do you prefer to FeederWatch with? Do you respect solitude, or do you watch with a good friend?
Congratulations to our winners, Marc Behrendt and Ava Lyerly!
Marc shared:
I favor to FeederWatch alone. I just like the privateness, I prefer to take heed to all of the sounds When I’m within the area, I favor being alone, though it’s good a few times a 12 months to hen with different extremely educated birders.
Sitting in solitude and listening to the sounds of nature can actually create a serene setting. Cornell’s Merlin Hen ID app is usually a useful identification software when birding by ear. With the app’s Sound ID characteristic, Merlin listens to the birds round you and exhibits real-time options for who’s singing. That is particularly useful in case you are listening to a hen that you simply can not place. Merlin may also provide help to type out totally different songs if a number of birds are singing without delay. Obtain the Merlin Hen 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 might be in my city! I wished 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 residence, we take turns filling the hen feeders, and his chair is positioned the place he can watch the feeders with ease. This FeederWatch season, he needs to study 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 like seeing how my dad lights up every time a nuthatch or Downy Woodpecker exhibits up at our feeder and he identifies it accurately. The enjoyment of birding is all over the place, and is for everybody!
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has many sources accessible to help novice birdwatchers. Once you be a part of Venture FeederWatch, for instance, you possibly can choose to obtain our double-sided japanese 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 gives ID assist and life historical past information for 600+ North American species. And, if you wish to additional advance your information, Cornell’s Hen Academy provides a number of hen ID and associated programs that may assist develop your abilities.
Due to everybody who participated and shared their tales for this immediate – we want we might share your whole submissions! Learn the tales from previous winners on our weblog. E mail feederwatch@cornell.edu with questions. Keep tuned for after we announce our subsequent knowledge entry contest winners on March twelfth, 2024.
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