Now you can watch a TV show just for birding!This site is designed with the novice birder in mind and requires no advanced knowledge or experience. The content does reflect my own background which is that of an ecological biologist and therefore some science is present. Please enjoy your visit and come back often.
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“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
Victor Hugo
There are "birders" and there are "Bird Watchers" I doubt that anyone has actually come up with a distinction. So I will do so:
A "Birder" is a person who wants to see as many bird in his or her lifetime as is possible. These people become storehouses of local knowledge regarding the occurrence of bird species and are a great resource.
A "Birdwatcher" is a person who simply watches birds. Such a person spends hours walking slowly and stopping often as he or she becomes enchanted by the actions of a pair of birds in the Spring or a single bird foraging and defending its territory. I am a Birdwatcher.
Please click here to access the Bird Blog for this site. It is a place where readers can enter their own comments in typical blog fashion. I hope you visit and participate.The author of this website lived for a year in an ecologically lush strip of riparian habitat along the Verde River in Central Arizona. That year became a time of spiritual awakening. He kept a journal of the his discoveries both physical and spiritual and this journal - his "Francis Journal" - is reproduced here in installments. Please click on the image below to go there.
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