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We love birds. A new spark in interest on this subject happened at the feed store in Aptos. I was picking up some chicken feed recently and found a great laminated pocket guide to the birds of Monterey Bay. We've been pouring over this guide for a week or so. There are a lot of different birds around here. So many opportunities for learning here; habitat, behavior, observation and the vocabulary list alone is spectacular. An added bonus is we spend time outside looking for birds, in the backyard, in the forest, at the beach, the park, and any number of slough around here.
When we're outside we try to identify the birds we see. This can be particularly challenging because they move pretty darn fast and we've got a lot of work to do being still enough ourselves. My Audio School has a great series of videos on bird identification. We've just watched the first two so far, they are about ten minutes each and very informative. We're just really getting our feet wet on this subject, I'll let you know where this takes us (if it's interesting).


Some other interesting links for this subject:

All About Birds site; loving their Words About Birds page. Vocab, baby!

Birds, Cetaceans, Odes, Herps and More: natural history information about Monterey County


SIMon Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary


Monterey Bay Birding Festival: Come see 200 species of birds in one of the world's most picturesque areas of California on the Monterey Bay.
Date: September 13, 2012 - September 16, 2012
Time: Thurs. - Sat. 6:30am - 9pm, Sun. 6:30am - 12pm