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Weekly Challenge: Birding your yard and home
From Monday 30 March 2020
To Sunday 05 April 2020
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Bitterroot Audubon is issuing a series of “weekly challenges” to get people outside and birding within our local community. You don’t need to travel far to see amazing birds and behavior!!! BAS Board Member Micki Long is coordinating this effort.
From Micki:
Challenge One: Let’s start simply by sharing what we are all seeing as we spend more time in our homes and yards.
If you have never used eBird, now might be a good time to start, though you can participate in these challenges without using it. I found it easy to start eBirding when BAS’s own Kate Stone held a session at the Stevensville library a few years ago. We don’t have that option now, but you can use resources offered by Cornell Lab of Ornithology (eBird is managed by Cornell).
For instructions on using the mobile app to report sightings:
https://support.ebird.org/support/solutions/articles/48000957940-enter-sightings-with-ebird-mobile#anchorDownloadMobile
For instructions on using the website to report sightings:
https://support.ebird.org/support/solutions/articles/48000957911-enter-sightings-on-the-ebird-website
To be honest, I feel these instructions, like instructions for many things, are so detailed as to be just a little intimidating. But it really is a simple app to use—or I wouldn’t be using it! Feel free to contact me with questions. My email address is at the end of this message.
For this first challenge, use eBird to report what you see in your yard or neighborhood. And drop a few lines in the comment area of this event to share some of your highlight observations with others. You can even post your eBird checklist here!!
I will summarize, pick out highlights, and post what we’ve seen on the BAS Facebook page weekly. (https://www.facebook.com/BitterrootAudubon/)
In a sense, we’ll be birding together—virtually instead of physically. We have a large community of good birders—let’s learn from each other and have some fun!
Thanks,
Micki
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