Sunday, November 14

steppin' Out

  
Cornell University's Project Feederwatch 2010-2011 season started this week. I've been part of this citizen science project for several years, it is always fun to see trends and changes over time. 
The local wild turkey flock is a reliable crowd, showing up daily. Sometimes they are polite and well behaved, other times they act like a rugby scrum or peek in the window from the deck railing. They always have a great deal to talk about among themselves.

www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/

2 comments:

Aunty Belle said...

Ohmigoodness, Uncle would love to see that turkey! Without his shotgun.

The Cornell project is fascinating--but do you live far from Cornell?

Caroline said...

Auntie,
Uncle could have hand picked any one of 20+ turkeys in the yard yesterday.
They will peek in windows if they think chow should be there and isn't. I don't feed them deliberately, they check for spillage under the feeders.

Feederwatch can be done entirely online...I live about 1800 miles from the campus in NY.