Here at Bird Watcher's Digest we're intently watching two different—vastly different—birds' nests. One of them has growing nestlings approaching their fledging date. The other nest is still being built.
Our soon-to-fledge nest is a red-shouldered hawk effort, complete with three age-disparate nestlings. Here's a short video clip to show how this nest looks today (Thursday, June 21).
And here is a longer clip of the second nest, which a ruby-throated hummingbird female is busy building right outside my office window at BWD.
Both of these clips were taken with my iPhone 4s camera using a Macguyver'd iPhone camera adapter and my spotting scope.
It's really nice to be able to watch this all unfolding from my workplace. A distraction that makes working inside a tad more enjoyable.
About Bill
- Bill of the Birds
- Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest by day. He's also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the "This Birding Life" podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit, a gentleman farmer, and a fungi to be around. His North American life list is somewhere between 673 and 675. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His "spark bird" was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill "The Pied Piper of Birding" and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.
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6 comments:
Those are awesome nests and very appropriate that those birds chose to nest by your office!
you get PAID to do this!? (life's not fair).
...may have to change the name of your workplace to Bird Voyeur's Digest.
Very interesting, watching these birds' cribs. Your blog is educational but in a way that can easily be understood by newbies like me:)
So cool to watch these two nests! Life is good!
BTW I also watched the lense cleaning kit video....how well you know me....cleaning bread crumbs, mayo, and snickers bars......hehehe
Kathy in Delray Beach
The birds find your place safe for them because they build their little houses there. Good for you because looking at them can make you relax and remove stress from work.
You have the life to able to do this while you're at work
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