Greg

I am already an avid bird watcher although most of my watching is confined to my small back yard in NC. My favorite backyard birds are the Eastern Bluebird, the Red-Bellied Woodpecker, the Carolina Wren and the Brown-Headed Nuthatch.  My favorite birds at the beach are the Great Egret, the Snowy Plover and the Sanderling. I am in the process of teaching two of my grandchildren (ages 5 and 3) about the birds and they can already identify many of the species in the backyard.  They have not mastered binoculars yet - so I am using a telephoto camera on a tripod to give them close-up views.