Comments on: Birding Tips: On Cold Spring Mornings, Spend Some Time in the Sun

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:08:07 +0000

Hi Tim – it sort of depends how you look at it. The trees at the eastern edge of a patch of woods face the rising sun. Those same trees are at the western edge of the adjacent clearing or road, which may be the way you are thinking of it. Thanks for commenting – Hugh

By: Chet OGAN

Chet OGAN — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:34:25 +0000

In reply to Sara Sherff.

Sara,
The birds that stayed behind may be on a part of a bell-shaped on the fringes of the normal distribution curve. The ones who died and fed the Bald Eagles are the ones that will not contribute to the breeding population this year. Its part of evolution and “survival of the fittest.”

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:01:04 +0000

I gather basket materials in the spring and fall. I agree…… If you pause before entering the woods or beside a meadow stream you will be surprised at the variety of birds.

By: Tim Harding

Tim Harding — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:26:41 +0000

Wouldn’t it be western edges that face the east-rising sun?

By: Sara Sherff

Sara Sherff — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:19:55 +0000

MI HAD A TOUGH, TOUGH WINTER. LAKE MI WAS 90% ICED OVER AS WERE THE RIVERS, LAKES, ETC, DEEP SNOW. …. LOTS OF DUCK CARCASSES FROM STARVATION. MY Q IS WHY DID THE DUCKS NOT GO SOUTH WHERE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN FOOD? WHY DID THEY STAY IN SUCH AN INHOSPITABLE ENVIRONMENT?

By: Ashley Beolens

Ashley Beolens — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:27:41 +0000

Excellent advice that works the world over, it is usually the edges of woodlands in the UK that hold the most activity.