Category Archives: Birds

Birdstack

Birds, Technology, , ,

I follow a couple of birding blogs and both mentioned Birdstack in recent posts. I’m trying it out. So far it seems pretty easy to use and entering data is pretty straight forward.

It’s a site where you keep track of your bird observations. It lets you set locations and trips. The widget at the bottom of the left hand sidebar is my recently sighted list. Recent as in since yesterday.

I used to keep a life-list of the birds I’d seen and identified on my own, but that fell to the wayside when the kids were born.

I’ve got a small feeder near the window where I spend much of my day, and want to document who visits the feeder. I might get more feeders for the area — depending on how safe they are and how crowded it ends up looking.

Not related to the feeder, but related to birds — yesterday a huge flock of robins were hanging around the back yard and a couple of cedar waxwings were there too. I’ve gotten where I know their call. I got a photo of two, but it is very blurry.

One Million Birder Project

Birds, Blogging

I ran across the Birdfreak blog a few days ago (they’re located in a town not too far from where I grew up). They’d like to compile a list of a million birders in the US. Here is what they say:

The One Million Birders Project is a lofty goal to get a list of names of 1,000,000 birders. This list is not to create a mailing list; it is just a way to quantify the number of birders there are in the U.S. It is the hopes that together, one million birders can create a big difference in conservation and habitat restoration efforts.

You can sign up on their website: http://birdfreak.com/million/