Welcome to the “What’s That?” Birders blog!! Over the past 3 years birding has gradually evolved for us to the point that I think it is fair to say we are now "Bird Nerds"!
How we qualified ourselves as bird nerds is pretty easy to answer. It's simple ... we think about birds most of the day, look for birds as we go about our daily activities, record our sightings and have established a Lifer List (140 to date), use several birding apps including eBird, Merlin Bird ID and Audubon as well as others, are subscribed to Rare Bird email alerts, listen to birding podcasts like Out There With the Birds and Birdchick Podcast, have several bird books on our desks plus a Northern Saw-whet Owl coffee mug on mine, have and maintain several feeders in the yard for "our crew", participate in the Project FeederWatch program, Robyn wants a bird cam for the back yard so she can watch "the crew" on line while she's at work, we volunteer in the migration monitoring program with the Rocky Point Bird Observatory, have dedicated birding gear such as Vortex binoculars, really good rain gear and in my case use telephoto camera gear to capture images of our sightings, typically walk around 25 kilometers or 15 miles during the week birding, are planning trips to go birding/volunteer in other parts of Canada and other countries and now I'm writing a blog to journal our adventures! Ya ...... I think we are BIRD NERDS!!
Seriously though, we are just a couple of amateur birders who love this amazing pastime so if you have any "must do's" or "must see" suggestions please feel free to comment or send us an email at markbyrnephotography@gmail.com
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