Great Backyard Bird Count
Winter Birds Forecast #6 is brought to you by Audubon Connecticut in partnership with the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. The Great Backyard Bird Count is here! The count is sponsored by Audubon, Bird Studies Canada and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and occurs annually over President’s Day Weekend. Anyone can participate and in this case the world is your “backyard”. You can submit sightings from anywhere, not just birds you see in your yard. Observers from more than 100 countries are expected to participate in the 18th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), February...
Read MoreSandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) by Twan Leenders
Early in the afternoon of November 21 Twan and I took a couple of minutes to go outside at RTPI and move our dumpster. Exciting, I know. As we finished I looked up, as I always do instinctively, for anything flying over and said “What is that..?” incredulously at the non-raptor drifting over us heading west. “That” was a Sandhill Crane. Naturally we did not have binoculars or cameras on us which is particularly rare for me because I hate ending up in these situations. The birds know when you’re unprepared. Here’s a shot of a Sandhill Crane that Twan took...
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