Kathleen

This is so much fun! Now I'm starting to learn who's talking to us in our neighborhood and all kinds of fun facts about birds with which to astonish my family and friends! My family's joining in by spotting them with me on walks, too! I heard a songbird on our green ash tree outside our front window one morning, looked up to see it perched high on the very top branch and, with the help of binoculars and the bird app, figured out that it's probably a house finch with its beautiful red coloring. We've also spotted other songbirds (love the song of the robin, the whistle of the black-capped chickadee, and the striking red dash and whistle-like call of the red-winged black bird!), waterfowl (mallard ducks on a creek bank probably looking for nesting locations), mourning doves calling to us in the morning, and raptors (hawks--not sure which kind--flying above us, plus a bald eagle's nest we're following on the nature center's bird cam by the lake next to our neighborhood)! We also hear the woodpeckers (maybe a downy woodpecker around here?), blue jays, and white-breasted nuthatches (though we have yet to see one climbing down the tree trunk over here!) Checking in on the birds each day makes us feel as if we're checking in on beloved pets in our little neighborhood! (P.S. My father got the Merlin app, too, and, when he played the robin's song time after time, the robin that he had seen aways off answered time after time and moved closer and closer to him!)