Thursday morning, we have an opportunity to tour a post office and a fire department!
Thursday afternoon (weather permitting), you are invited on a birding expedition! As you watch the following video, start thinking of questions you have about birds.
Birding is such a fun hobby because no matter where you go, our feathered friends are there! Different climates and habitats house different species. I like to think of birding as the ultimate treasure hunt! Even in the dead of winter, Utah has a wide variety of birds waiting for you to discover them. Print following image to get a glimpse of some of the birds you can be on the look out for in our area right now.
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Of course, the most useful tool for spotting and identifying birds is a good pair of binoculars. But, if you don’t know how to use them, they won’t do much good, will they? Watch this video and practice using your binoculars. The more familiar you are with how they work, the better chance you have of being able to focus on a moving bird. (If you don’t have binoculars, still watch the video to learn how to use them. You could even practice finding objects using two empty toilet paper rolls taped together.) Half of the challenge is focusing but the other half is learning to find in your binoculars what you saw with just your eyes.
The following videos will give you some helpful tips to identifying birds. Take a look and see what you can learn!
Dress warmly, bring your binoculars, if you have any, and we’ll see you on Thursday.
