Birdwatching?

[TavSparrow]

Anyone else a fan of birdwatching? Since I'm rural I get a lot of neat birds. To name a few of my favorites (aside from the obvious sparrows) spotted here:
- Family of Red-Tailed Hawks
- LOTS of our state bird, Brown Thrashers
- Barn, Eastern Screech, and Barred owls (though when I lived in Florida I was near a protected nest of burrowing owls, aww)
- Herons and egrets that I struggle to identify when they're flying overhead...

And recently I put up a nest box for purple martins so I'm crossing my fingers we see some in the next couple of years!

[sorensystem]

Yesss! We don't live in a rural area, and I'm not familiar with a lot of the New England birds anymore, but still love seeing what we can find around our neighborhood :) Lots of black-capped and chestnut-backed chickadees to watch, as well as nuthatches and Steller's jays. Some lucky sightings/hearing that we've had have been a golden-crowned kinglet along one of our streets on the way to work, and a green-winged teal pair hanging out at a pond in our apartment complex! We also recently went on a trip to a more rural area and heard a pair of great horned owls calling to each other after dark, which was awesome considering I've only ever heard barred owls and barn owls before.