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.

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Volunteering at TAILS (Animal Shelter)

I had been thinking of volunteering at an animal shelter for quite some time but didn’t want to commit until I was settled in to a more regular schedule. Now that I think I am, I decided to go for it and went to TAILS in DeKalb, Illinois to start volunteering.

For the first three visits I am at the “bottom” and will be mostly cleaning (cages, floors, dishes, blankets, etc.). But after that, I hope to become a dog walker and dog mentor and eventually work with the “troubled” dogs on training them and getting them to be adoptable!

That is my ultimate goal: to help as many dogs find their forever homes. My first visit I cleaned up puppy cages which, for three hours, was a lot of work. But, the reward was I got to play with puppies!!