Birding and what it means for me
I’ve found myself as of late watching and listening to birds when I’m not doign anything else, or to relieve stress. I’ve done it now a handful of times when I’ve had to cross campus alone for reason or another, and I did it this weekend at my Mom’s house.
On BGSU’s campus, there’s not much exciting or different eight now, but it does help to learn common species; the American Robin, European Starling, American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, House Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, and Northern Cardinal are all species I’m getting better at noticing from afar as well as by their call.
This weekend we went to visit my Mom, and during the process of getting the grill ready, cooking, and eating, watching the skies was a great way to deal with the down time. I kept a number of different lists while I was there and will up submitting them to ebird.org here shortly. I manager to point out a Common Nighthawk to Meghan finally, which, like the Chimney Swifts over the neighborhood and the Killdeer we saw near the golf course/development, was a sighting I didn’t expect to see.