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The season of love for birds
Sheryl took this photo of the the Red-footed Booby at Kilauea Lighthouse in Kauai, Hawaii, in March 2009. Thousands of these seabirds were already on nests, raising young, and fishing for food from the ocean. On your travels, or at home, you can often find birds that are busy raising young, but especially in spring and summer in the Midwest.
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TRAVELS: SEE NATURE FOR FREE |
Outdoor Concerts
Enjoy your own personal concert by visiting grasslands, wetlands, and woods in early morning in June and July. Listen for the sweet "spring of the year" song of the Eastern Meadowlark in grasslands; the bugling call of Sandhill Cranes near wetlands, and the omnipresent song of
Red-eyed Vireos in the woods, singing "Here I am. Right over. Right here." You don't have to know which bird you are hearing; just listen and be amazed. Birds sing to attract mates, encourage females to build nests, and defend territories. Listen to the conversational style of the the Red-eyed Vireo pictured below, as well as the sound of the rare the Black-whiskered Vireo which lives farther south.
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