Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we promote other areas of conservation as well. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Article in: Birding

Henslow’s and Grasshopper Sparrows

The following videos were taken at Deer Run Forest Preserve in our home county, Winnebago, in northern Illinois. This preserve has many sparrow species – Henslow’s, Grasshopper, Savannah, Vesper, Field, Lark, Chipping, and Song, along with Dickcissels. The cicada invasion is finally winding down, so it is easier to hear the birds songs. The video quality isn’t that great but the sound picked up nicely. Enjoy!

Henslow’s Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Video taken by Veery

← Previous Next →

4 Comments or Trackbacks ↓ Jump to add comment ↓

John says:

Nice videos.

Posted on: June 23, 2007 @ 10:53 am
mon@rch says:

Congrats Veery on the videos! Isn’t it amazing what you can do with technology now days?

Posted on: June 23, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
The Birdfreak Team says:

Thanks John and Monarch! We are hoping to upgrade video-cams sometime soon. If only Sony or some other company would feel compelled to donate a new one to us

Posted on: June 25, 2007 @ 6:38 pm