One of my great disappointments of last week is that we didn’t participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count. Steady Eddie and I went out of town overnight the weekend before, and coming off a busy weekend I just didn’t have my ducks in a row (ha!) enough to do it with the girls. Plus, every time we looked out at our birdfeeders, we never saw a single bird, which is unusual. It’s almost like they knew we wanted to count them. 
However, we are growing more and more aware of our feathered friends, and I love it. Steady Eddie even bought me a little pair of binoculars for Valentine’s Day. (Yes, he is the greatest husband ever!)
These are some of our frequent feeder visitors:
When we got home from a picnic at the park this afternoon, a little fellow serenaded us from high up in a neighbor’s budding tree:
I’m slowly learning the identities of our friends. I’d like to purchase a poster of common feeder birds to hang somewhere by one of our windows. Any suggestions?
Those are great pictures! All of our birds disappeared for the counting too – we tried several different times over the weekend, and then gave up. They’ve all come back now though – we’ve even spotted 4 robins – which is really unusual this early.
I can’t help but notice that lots of homeschoolers participate in the great backyard bird watch. I really need to focus some more (read any) time on doing some nature studies. I just haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks for this post though. You guilted me into realizing that my dd5 would LOVE to start bird watching.
Kristen,
Guilt–that’s what I’m here for!