Welcome Young Birders

Birds are all around us! Everywhere you look, you can find birds. Whether you are taking a car trip, at the beach or just out in a local park, there are birds in the sky in the water and in the trees. The cool thing is that wherever you go, you can see new birds that you saw in another area.

Birding! It is an excuse to get outside! When you are outside, you can find new places wherever you look. Therefore, there are practically infinite places to go. After you have been outside birding for a while, whether it is just for a walk or for a serious bird study, you will start to notice things you have never seen before.

Once you look at birds for a while, you start to see details in the birds you are looking at. Noticing detail is important in all aspects of life. In bird watching, this skill helps you see small field-marks are hard to see. You can also draw birds better if you can pay attention to detail. Learn more at birdwatchersdigest.com.

This FeederWatch cam is located in the Treman Bird Feeding Garden at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. Perched on the edge of both Sapsucker Woods and its 10-acre pond, these feeders attract both forest species like chickadees and woodpeckers as well as some species that prefer open environments near water like Red-winged Blackbirds. (from the Cornell Lab YouTube page)