Video: Essential Bird Watching Gear

Learn what essential bird watching gear you need in order to start birding in this free bird watching video

Video Transcript

Hello, welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society Important Bird Areas Program and we’re here this afternoon at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshville, Massachusetts. Next we’re going to talk about backyard birding, a place where everybody has an opportunity to get involved and where many peoples interest in birding first begins. In this segment we’re going to be talking about birding in the backyard, needless to say for many people the backyard is the place where they first make a connection with wild birds and eventually they get hooked and really drawn into birding on a broader scale. Some of the things that are important as a start up situation for the backyard birding would be your binoculars obviously, a field guide, a notebook where you can record some of the things that you see at your feeder and ultimately you may want to make your yard more user friendly. That can involve putting up bird boxes or erecting feeders like this or in some cases making water baths and birdbaths available for birds to take advantage of and on a larger scale it’s possible to landscape for birds where trees and shrubs can be planted that will have appropriate fruits and berry at season that will attract them. So there’s lots of different ways that you can actually make your backyard bird friendly and also obviously birder friendly.

Essential Bird Watching Gear

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