We all piled into the car Friday night and camped in Greenfield State Park so we could start our quest for the First Annual Monadnock Area Birding Cup. Bruce got up at 4:00 am to get a fire started and woke the rest of us up at 4:55 so w'd be ready to listen for …
While we haven't been posting much the past few weeks, having been sidetracked with the flu, school plays, and shoveling snow, birds have still been on our minds. Jackson is applying to a summer program with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Fiona developed a Seabird Identification App for a Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary service …
The flu hit Jackson right as he was getting ready for 3 nights in New York with his classmates for Montessori Model United Nations. Jackson went last year and was as invigorated by the MMUN committee meetings as spending time with friends traveling to, from and around the city. As a cold and cough turned …
As I (Fiona) was heading upstairs to read before bed, I heard the distinctive “whoooooo” of an owl. Jackson and I went into the backyard to get a better listen. We wandered through the neighborhood with our headlamps and flashlights and were able to identify the Great Horned Owl by its call. As it flew …
I think this is going to be a VERY big year… January 1, 2019, kicks off our family Big Year. Last year, Jackson (age 13), Fiona (age 10), Trish (grandmother), Maura (mom), and Bruce (dad) embarked on a big year. While we did well through May, we did not track as many birds as we'd …
The Year of the Green Kingfisher 