Essential Bird Watching Gear

Part of the Video Series Birdwatching for Beginners

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.

Learn what essential bird watching gear you need in order to start birding in this free bird watching video

Contact: www.massaudubon.org

Rating:
Views: 945
Comments: 0 (comment now)

Favorited: 0 | Add to Favorites

Tags: bird watching, birding
Bookmark at:

All Videos in the Series, Birdwatching for Beginners

Member Comments

Video Transcript

Essential Bird Watching Gear
Hello, welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society Important Bird Areas Program and we’re here this afternoon at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshville, Massachusetts. Next we’re going to talk about backyard birding, a place where everybody has an opportunity to get involved and where many peoples interest in birding first begins. In this segment we’re going to be talking about birding in the backyard, needless to say for many people the backyard is the place where they first make a connection with wild birds and eventually they get hooked and really drawn into birding on a broader scale. Some of the things that are important as a start up situation for the backyard birding would be your binoculars obviously, a field guide, a notebook where you can record some of the things that you see at your feeder and ultimately you may want to make your yard more user friendly. That can involve putting up bird boxes or erecting feeders like this or in some cases making water baths and birdbaths available for birds to take advantage of and on a larger scale it’s possible to landscape for birds where trees and shrubs can be planted that will have appropriate fruits and berry at season that will attract them. So there’s lots of different ways that you can actually make your backyard bird friendly and also obviously birder friendly.

About the Expert

Expert: Wayne R. Petersen is Director of the Massachusetts Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program at the Massachusetts Audubon Society and recipient of the American Birding Association’s Ludlow Griscom Award. Read More