[Magdalen] birding for the homebound

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, you might want to check it out. Google Project Feederwatch and it will tell you everything you want to know. I’ve been doing it for most of the last ten years now. The data you turn in helps them track bird populations, migration, etc. I make my observations from my kitchen window...

> On Sep 3, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>> 
>>