Until today, the new birds I saw were with the aide of another person. Someone who knew what they were doing would identify a bird and point it out to me. Sometimes the person would even let me look at it through their spotting scope.
This all changed today. Today, for the first time, I identified and located a new to me bird all by myself. I feel so proud!
I have the Merlin app on my phone. I learned about the sound identification feature when BB and I were in Homer for the Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival.
Since the Festival I've started carrying binoculars with me when I walk.
Today was a nice spring day. I heard birds singing as I walked around University Lake. One of the birds sounded closeby. Merlin told me it was a yellow-rumped warbler. I stopped to look for it. Searched using the binoculars. No luck. Continued on my walk. Told myself birding was hard and required more patience than I possess.
Kept hearing the same bird song. Merlin kept saying yellow-rumped warbler. After walking to the other side of the lake I decide to stop and try again. Success! I caught it flying between trees and saw where it landed. I studied it through the binoculars. It looked like the picture in Merlin! Yellow in all the right places!
Hi. My name is Sal and I'm a birder!
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