| Re: Birding 'Fieldcraft'
I'd support anyone who suggests learning the calls of birds, even if it's only the most common ones. Not only will it put you onto birds quicker but you start to spend time on the ones you don't know, ie, you've not heard the call.
Get your favourite book and page through it again and again, get to know where the types of birds are in the book. Start to identify birds by characters of build - a finch or a warbler, stuff like that.
For fieldcraft my tips would be
My biggest tip would be to get out there on your own (if you don't) and work at your own pace.
My second tip would be to walk a bit and stop a bit longer, walk a bit and stop again. I've seen birders who - well you'd think they have a train to catch. |