Thank you for sharing my work! It means a lot to me. Also, I love this piece. My passion for nature actually began when I started noticing patterns in which types of birds visiting my backyard feeders. It helped me study local wildlife better and develop my knowledge of my community. Your writing reflects very well on my own journey as a nature lover!
I truely resonate with what you wrote; it's such an insightful perspective on how finding beauty and complex systems isn't about chasing the next big thing, but about truly observing the local data set around us, even in a city.
That's the position I came to after many years working on my life list. This topic has garnered more responses like yours than many of my posts and I will be returning to it in the new year.
I've found birding a patch to be so rewarding, and have a couple of local spots that I visit regularly throughout the year, often not realising how well I know them until I take a friend and start pointing out habitats and regular perches.
My mailbox walk has become my best-known patch. I've been walking the ~1km to the mailbox 2-5 times a week (weather dependent!) for 11 years now. There's mixed woodland, and a boggy area that the beavers take over periodically so varying habitat there.
When it get complicated is when you find a 'rare' bird on your patch. We found a red-headed woodpecker a few years back, and I didn't realise quite how many people would drive a long way to come to try and see it too. I may not be driving out to look for rarities, but still created traffic!
Beavers in a bog ... you are very favored there. I got quite a lot of response from my recent mention of patch birding and so I am thinking about going into this in more depth in the new year. Thanks for your comment.
Oh, and also love the titmouse photos. We very occasionally get one spotted in the county, and I dream of finding one one day. I've saw one once in the US, but never up here.
What an absolutely stunning photo of the titmouse! I'm jealous. It would be a lifer for me. We too are no longer driving around to catch sightings, unless they are close by. The only exception is to make a holiday, with a couple of birding friends, of visiting hot spots during spring migration: Long Point, Prince Edward County, and this spring we want to go to Réserve nationale de faune du Cap‑Tourmente.
We haven't been to Cap-Tourmente for a few years but it's really a splendid place. I think we were last there during the fall southbound migration of Snow Geese and they were spectacular.
Thank you for sharing my work! It means a lot to me. Also, I love this piece. My passion for nature actually began when I started noticing patterns in which types of birds visiting my backyard feeders. It helped me study local wildlife better and develop my knowledge of my community. Your writing reflects very well on my own journey as a nature lover!
I truely resonate with what you wrote; it's such an insightful perspective on how finding beauty and complex systems isn't about chasing the next big thing, but about truly observing the local data set around us, even in a city.
That's the position I came to after many years working on my life list. This topic has garnered more responses like yours than many of my posts and I will be returning to it in the new year.
I've found birding a patch to be so rewarding, and have a couple of local spots that I visit regularly throughout the year, often not realising how well I know them until I take a friend and start pointing out habitats and regular perches.
My mailbox walk has become my best-known patch. I've been walking the ~1km to the mailbox 2-5 times a week (weather dependent!) for 11 years now. There's mixed woodland, and a boggy area that the beavers take over periodically so varying habitat there.
When it get complicated is when you find a 'rare' bird on your patch. We found a red-headed woodpecker a few years back, and I didn't realise quite how many people would drive a long way to come to try and see it too. I may not be driving out to look for rarities, but still created traffic!
Beavers in a bog ... you are very favored there. I got quite a lot of response from my recent mention of patch birding and so I am thinking about going into this in more depth in the new year. Thanks for your comment.
Oh, and also love the titmouse photos. We very occasionally get one spotted in the county, and I dream of finding one one day. I've saw one once in the US, but never up here.
Oh and I just want to add, I enjoy watching the birds in our patch. I get to learn about their behaviors and personalities.
What an absolutely stunning photo of the titmouse! I'm jealous. It would be a lifer for me. We too are no longer driving around to catch sightings, unless they are close by. The only exception is to make a holiday, with a couple of birding friends, of visiting hot spots during spring migration: Long Point, Prince Edward County, and this spring we want to go to Réserve nationale de faune du Cap‑Tourmente.
We haven't been to Cap-Tourmente for a few years but it's really a splendid place. I think we were last there during the fall southbound migration of Snow Geese and they were spectacular.
Exactly. Thank you.