Thank you. I majored in zoology as an undergrad, and have been a lifelong student of science, including a lot of field work. Critters R Us, if you will.
My Black Friday purchases should arrive today and tomorrow, new & much improved birding gear. Can hardly wait to get over this bronchitis and get out there to try it out! However, I don't expect to see a hoatzin around here :).
What sort of gear? Sounds exciting.
I’m a backyard birder in MA. Spent one year standing at a window with a camera videotaping from a variety of feeders. The problem wasn’t the videotaping, it was the logging of a year’s worth of tapes. Bird 3 arrives; bird 2 leaves. Put a camera up on a series of upside down pots and stood on a ladder for an hour in a heatwave to get the first babies leaving a nest. The baby came out, flew to the top of the house and my battery died. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Two of the best scenes were one bird knocking another bird out of the air and a tiny bird making its way around a sleeping big bird in a clear plastic feeder in winter.