The Wingnut, Jim Williams, shares a short, simple, and potentially transformative birding tip on his StarTribune bird blog. How many of you have done or would consider doing something like this?
Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds in 2003, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.
If I were birding by car in a trashy place, I might consider doing that. By foot, though, it could be kind of difficult.
Great idea — particularly for those of us who bird with kids. Teaching them to enjoy nature and be responsible for nature. Reminds me of our camping rule — when we are leaving a campsite. The kids each get a trash bag and have to get at least 10 pieces of trash out of the general area we camped in. Leave it cleaner than you found it is our rule. I’d love to find a place where they couldn’t find 10 pieces of trash each. Sigh.
Well – since Mike invited me to do so – I have a similar thing going on via my site – the “Pick it up!” campaign. More a call to just do your thing and pick up the bottle, can or whatever you see in nature and drop it in the next trashbin, then rambling on how irresponsible it is to throw these things away in nature. For I have never seen any trash having disappear magically, when you stand there and shake your head about it.
Cheers, Klaus
This is a good idea. My neighbors 5 year old does this and just bought a Nintendo DS with the money he saved up from recycling the trash.