[Magdalen] birding for the homebound

[Jay Weigel]

No I don't. But the older brother of one of my brother's childhood friends
was a world-renowned ornithologist at Cornell....Stephen Emlen. His dad was
an ornithology professor at UW-Madison.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 1:54 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you do FeederWatch? It runs from November until early April, and it’s
> lots of fun. It’s out of Cornell and costs $15/ year.
>
> > On Sep 3, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I bird in my back yard, which, being about 75% wooded, has afforded me
> some
> > amazing experiences. We feed from shortly after first frost until the
> feed
> > runs out, usually sometime in April, so we catch a lot of migrating birds
> > also. Great fun.
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:22 AM Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I do wish we were still birding. We just don't make those kinds of trips
> >> anymore.  We spent some great time with carol and Andre Trevathan on the
> >> birding trail.
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 9:59 AM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Isles of Shoals (on the Maine/New Hampshire line) is full of
> >> migrating
> >>> birds just now.
> >>>
> >>> Use the scroll bar to go back to sunrise or sunset and try to count the
> >>> bank swallows stopping for a quick breather on their way to South
> >> America.
> >>> They're coming down from the Maritimes in huge flocks.
> >>> https://www.sondroyo.com/pages/sml/
> >>>
> >>> Ducks and sanderlings are also on the move.
> >>>
> >>> Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) offers birding weeks out there.
> >>> Accommodations are simple, the food is great and the company sublime.
> >>>
> >>> ObAng: God's creation !!!
> >>> -M
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> >> Western Michigan
> >>
>