(Last week I featured the Eastern Phoebe, so here's a photo of one in my backyard. He's been around since early spring, and I watch him hunt for insects every evening.)
If you're new to birding, I want you to appreciate how each bird species belongs to a larger family grouping, and that typically its easier to identify families more so than individual species. So let's take roll call (below) of the birds we've met and their families.
Warblers (Family Parulidae)
Common Yellowthroat
Ovenbird (a somewhat "uncommon" warbler to my mind)
Thrushes (Family Turdidae)
American Robin
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Flycatchers (Family Tyrannidae)
Eastern Phoebe
Owls (Family Strigidae ... In time, we'll meet a second family of owls.)
Barred Owl
Mimics (Family Mimidae)
Northern Mockingbird
Woodpeckers (Family Picidae)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Sparrows (Family Emberizidae)
Song Sparrow
Eastern Towhee ("a kind of large sparrow")
Cardinals (Family Cardinalidae)
Northern Cardinal
In three months, you've added 12 birds (distributed through 8 families) to your Online Life List. Congratulations! And if you've seen or heard these birds out in the real world, I hope you've added them to your regular Life List.
If you're new to this web site but would like to become an Online Birder, simply read my blog posts and watch the Youtube video of each featured bird. (Feathered Friday began on March 30, 2012.) Then add each bird to your Online Life List. Be sure to tell friends who might also be interested, and meet me--and the upcoming featured bird--next week, right here on Feathered Friday.
Till then . . . Keep birds in your heart!
Georgia Anne
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