Since having kids, I haven’t explored many new hobbies. However, starting in the spring 2020 during the Covid lockdown I became interested in identifying birds. I haven’t yet bothered with binoculars, so I’m not terribly serious about it but I use an app on my phone called Merlin Bird ID. I enjoy learning the names of the birds.
As Christian Cooper, the now famous Black, birder wrote in New York Times, the other day, birding can be done anywhere. This is a beautifully written piece by him. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/
My "spark bird" is the California scrub jay. Here is a picture of one from the Merlin Bird app.
Today I saw another California scrub jay and a northern flicker on a walk and a pair of hummingbirds on our roof, which is quite gratifying to me, since I have been trying to attract pollinators.
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