Last minute packing is underway as I prepare to join Gerhard Bruins once again for our foray into the northwoods of Ontario. I’ve joined Gerhard for a number of Breeding Bird Surveys, Christmas Bird Counts, and other birding activities. He carries the binoculars while I carry the camera (s). During any given outing, he might view 30 – 100 species while I am happy to get decent photos of 5 – 10% of total sightings.
While he is counting and recording numbers, I provide some of the location information, GPS info, descriptive prose and maybe work in time for a photo of a passing butterfly or moth or bear or moose or … and then off we go to our next scheduled stop.
Our normal BBS day starts at about 4AM with the expectation that we’ll be back near civilization around noon. Then, it’s back to the campground to pack tents and head to the next campground location (if available) or motel nearest to the start of the next day’s route. Rarely in tent or bed before 10PM or 11PM, it makes for a pretty long day!
To see the blog entries for some of our previous birding outings start here: Birding Surveys.
Most of our BBS routes are outside of normal telecommunications tower coverage and I can’t get WiFi in most tenting locations so blog entries for our 2014 Breeding Bird Survey blogs will be entered later in June or ….
