Birding in a PandemicĪbout 65 million Americans plan outings to observe wild birds annually, where they enjoy the peaceful respite from our fast-paced world. With the COVID-19 restrictions dragging on, interest in birdwatching has soared as bored Americans notice the amazing natural world outside their windows. They ring true to me as a newish birder (3 years now) for I along with others cannot lie in bed on an early May morning knowing that scarlet tanagers may have arrived in a nearby Wisconsin woodlot the night before or drive by a flooded farm field without stopping, or at least slowing down, knowing that shorebirds may be foraging along the muddy edges (I’m continually late for calls, meetings). In his foreword to A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold wrote these familiar words. “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” Aldo Leopold “A Sand County Almanac”
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