My backyard adjoins a wooded area of mature deciduous trees where I enjoy over a dozen backyard songbirds. About 1-1/2 mile away my friend lives near a lake. When we go walking on the nature trail around the lake, we've seen great blue heron, wood thrushes, egrets, ducks, swans, and Canada geese.
Activity 3:
Today I saw a Downy Woodpecker on one tree trunk going UP the tree looking for food, and a White-breasted Nuthatch on the tree trunk next to it going DOWN looking for food. They happened to both be in the field of view as I was looking through my binoculars. Before this lesson, I didn't realize they had different directions!