So, now not only are we visiting the local sewage lagoons regularly for Audubon field trips (with adults) but now we are also taking kids there — in groups — to bird. Yesterday, we took a group of Boy Scouts working on their birding badges, along with their scout masters and their birding guru, Will Selman (see USM Biology Department GA list). It was cold and windy and birdy as heck, given the bad conditions. We didn’t see the large brownbirds we went for but we saw lots of raptors, lots of yellow-rumped warblers, and lots of coots. The kids added several birds to their list (Great Blue Heron; Eastern Bluebird; Red-tailed Hawk; Eastern Phoebe; Yellow-rumped Warblers; Coots; Ruddy Ducks; Purple Martins; and Mallards). Not a bad way to spend even a cold, blustery winter day in the ‘burg.
