a little birding news

Above is a poster of Greater-White Fronted Goose from National Geographic's website. This goose was first noted by the Lewis and Clark Expedition on March 15, 1806 at Fort Clatsop, Oregon and sighted as #208 life bird for Josh Wright (who is studying the Lewis and Clark Expedition) on December 4, 2005 at The Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Las Vegas, Nevada :)

I thought I'd also share the following post from our birding blog (which is linked on the side of this blog) as it is a MAJOR part of our homeschooling.

We have been heading up to the park almost every day for a bird walk in our neighborhood park and I always feel blessed by the "surprises" we are given each and every time. Within the last few weeks we have seen new birds in the park including northern flicker, lesser goldfinch, inca dove, abert's towhee, red-tailed hawk, raven, and prairie falcon.This morning was no exception as we saw two western meadowlarks on the ground under a group of bushes in the park. As we watched them and got great views of their beautiful vibrant yellow breasts with the black v two more flew in next to them.None of these birds are new to Josh as he has seen some of them many times before but to see them in our own environment is reason enough to get excited all over again about them.

In our other birding news, we are gearing up for TWO Christmas bird counts with our local Audubon group that we will be a part of in a couple of weeks. They are back to back on Dec. 17th and Dec. 18th and Josh is in heaven knowing he will be birding ALL day, BOTH days lol. His poor dad is doing both while I opted to just do one.

I had to laugh this morning as we were at Target looking for ornaments to give as gifts. I showed him a "cardinal" and he just looked at me and politely stated that it really looked like a scarlet tangager but had the tail length wrong etc. There was a lady behind us who commented that he must know his birds. That's putting it mildly lol.