Blogs
How to create your own nature blog and links to some fun bird blogs...
Blogging...what a great way to let people know what you've been seeing
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and how you feel about birds, gardening, and anything else you might think of. You can share all kinds of information, post entries like a diary, with thoughts, pictures, dreams, trips, and more. Invite your friends and family to read your blog, or the parents of the kids in your classroom, or residents in your neighborhood.
It's easy to make a blog. The easiest way we know is to go to: https://www.blogger.com/start, create a free account, choose a template, and get started.
Don't forget to send us the link to your blog so we can share it with others.
Here are examples of some bird blogs. Some are written quickly...some are more polished, some are from other countries. Just use your favorite search engine to find lots more bird blog sites. Thanks to Pat Leonard, here at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for sharing her list with us.
- Kelly Brenner writes about the 'design' of urban wildlife habitat; material, advice and wonderful links to resources you can use to improve conditions for birds and other urban creatures. Check out the Serviceberry and Nighthawk articles.... The Metropolitan Field Guide.
- 3-D views inside nestboxes, wow! You have to supply your own glasses but Bob Alexander created this really cool blog called Bobsbirdblog that shows nesting progress in 3-D (or 2-D) if that's too much for you.
- author Georgia Anne Butler writes a bird blog in addition to writing her bird trilogy for young adult readers
- You may have seen the lovely illustrations on our Project PigeonWatch poster. Julie Zickefoose's blog is a real feast of beautiful observations of nature. She is a great writer, painter, photographer, and musician, and she writes, " I hope to show what happens when you make room in your life, every day, for the things that bring you joy."
- And Julie Zickefoose not only loves her dog Chet Baker, but her husband, Bill Thompson, and recommends his bird blog, Bill of the Birds, "he's always got something wonderful there--he's got a better camera than I do and he gets to go to more interesting places, and he writes beautifully, too."
- In our Education department, Charles Eldermire writes a gorgeous and clever blog entitled the Contemplative Nuthatch. It's a beauty.
- Interested in what an urban birder from England has to say? Open a few pages of The UrbanBirder web site from David Lindo. He has been watching birds in some interesting European cities! Read about European swifts, kestrels, bullfinch, lapwings, and more...He's got links on his site to 2 videos he just made with the BBC...a great little piece on House Sparrows and one on Peregrine Falcons in Manchester, England.
- Our science editor here at the Lab of O, Laura Erickson, writes a very popular blog, Laura's Birding Blog
- and she recommends a blog by Sharon Stiteler, in Minnesota, called BirdChick.
- If you want to read about a visit to a recent bird conference, with lots of talk about current scientific research on birds, read the entries by Cornell Lab of Ornithology's science writer Hugh Powell on Round Robin blog.
Other bird blogs...(remember, we don't control the content of any of the above or below-mentioned sites)
http://ivorybills.blogspot.com/
The Blue Marble (Mother Jones Mag)
World Bird Sanctuary
