Green cycling birders part 2
Having been "inspired" by the biking frogs I thought to try to bring the idea up to date a bit and ended up with this bit of home-grown artwork ... the 'Paper' app on my iPad is terrific for sketching:
Green cycling birders
Being a “GreenBirder” I intend that most of the birding from September onwards after my years of wage-slavery are behind me, will be done au pied or on the bike and almost completely without the aid of an internal combustion engine. Blog entries will undoubtedly increase a dozen-fold but meanwhile I have just found the [...]
Patchworking
Patchworking is really local GreenBirding ... and I am working up ideas for the fall when I am free to do stuff properly ... I like to start my ideas visually:
My “Wildlife Circle”
Wish I could think of a better term for this concept - but it will do for now. Following my expedition at the weekend (see last post) to the Ile-Perrot windmill seeking birds I decided to expand my "Wildlife Circle" from 7 to 7.5km diameter to make sure it is included. This circle is the [...]
Planning some future birding
I have announced to the limited world that constitute my Facebook Friends that in 2014 I shall be doing a Bigby. I have said this early so that I cannot easily find an excuse to back out and in the probably vain hope that someone will decide to have a go too and make it [...]
Digital art
I was indirectly led to a very useful app for the iPad (imaginatively called 'paper') - thank you Marie-Anne - that is going to be a lot of fun. Sketching, writing, water colouring etc with your fingers. Here is the original Green Birder
Child rearing
On the way out to work this morning a last minute check of the garden birds found a "cute" Blue Jay being fed by a frazzled parent. Interestingly, although this bird was clearly not one of the group that were being fed a few weeks ago (see pictures elsewhere on this blog) and was still [...]
Bigby on the web
The new GreenBirding website is almost ready for launch - have a sneak preview at www.greenbirding.ca and add your name to the greenbirding community by registering as a member.
Birding challenge for 2010
A surfeit of roast duck and all the associated trucklements together with the realisation that 2009 has been a satisfying birding year but not an outstanding one turned my thoughts to 2010 and the question `what to do`. With the inevitably extensive time that I shall be spending in there next year I have decided [...]
Ruffed Grouse
Today was another glorious, bright cold day and so, of course, we went to the Arboretum again ... things were very quiet for much of our walk and I was beginning to wonder why I was carrying my heavy lenses when things suddenly got very interesting. To start with there was a small flock of [...]