I”ll be putting together an urban birding post sometime shortly. I’ve been dragging my feet a little secondary to other distractions. To encourage me and, for now, here are three photos from my favorite urban birding location. Well, four if you count my Hooded Merganser cover photo. All were taken last winter when we had very cold weather and ice covered our waterways making my favorite urban birding spot a favorite overwintering spot for waterfowl. I’m torn between hoping for a milder winter this year, but that is also likely to mean fewer waterfowl.
Cathy Carroll is a native Michigander, the Great Lakes state in the U.S., but became a birder in the Baltimore, Maryland, and Maryland’s Eastern Shore areas (the mid-Atlantic region) in the late 90’s. She was enticed by a birding friend to travel back to Michigan to see the Kirtland’s Warbler for her friend’s life list. She found the whole experience completely riveting and was hooked. Since that first experience, Cathy has seen Kirtland’s Warbler many times, each encounter as delightful as the first.. In 2006, Cathy took the opportunity to take her first birding trip abroad – to Cuba – and she has traveled widely since then. On her recent trip to Finland and Norway, she learned that she was the least well-traveled, by far, birder on the trip. That was a humbling awareness. Her style of birding now is to select a few special birds each year and try to see them. This fuels her ongoing interest in birds and the unrelenting issues that threaten them.
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