Nature’s curve balls: Strategies for improving bird-ID skills in imperfect conditions
Improve your bird-ID abilities with these steps for dealing with weather, poor light, and other obstacles to clear views of birds.
Maeve Kim
Maeve Kim is a birder, teacher, musician, and writer. She leads bird walks for beginners and has taught birding classes for outdoors clubs and wildlife refuges. She is also the author of two novels: Ivy’s Optics and There’s Nothing 86 Tonight.
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271. Woodside Natural Area, Essex, Vermont
One of the birdiest places in Vermont. It’s great for spring and fall warblers, as well as vireos, grosbeaks, and other birds.
Born-again bird-watcher
A birder from Vermont contemplates the differences between watching birds and getting birds