“I’m lucky. I don’t really need a field guide because I have a real live naturalist going with me when I’m exploring in the woods! But not all of us are that lucky, so I asked Naturalist Bridget Butler if she had some suggestions for guide books, for those who don’t have a naturalist in their back pocket!”
I’ve been tweeting Track Who’s Back! messages with a snapshot of who’ll be coming in for a landing in our region. Below is the full list. The list was compiled by the Mad Birders, a birding club in the Mad River Valley of Vermont, from the Vermont Daily Field Card.
Having a little fun with Sharon trying to refine our naturalist skills by doing a few contour drawing exercises.
This was the title of an email I received recently. I get asked this a lot and I love it. It becomes a fun game for me, a test for my skills as a birder. And sometimes I figure out the person’s mystery bird. And yeah, it’s just sometimes, ‘cuz sometimes I can’t get all the information I need to make a guess much less an id.
Gonna try some twtpolls for my blog, maybe a regular thing on Mondays. Let me know what you think.
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