As winter sadly approaches, I keep wondering what I will keep myself busy with during the cold months (especially cold where I live, I think it reached -42 degrees last winter), besides schoolwork. Being a birdwatcher, there are some things I know I want to do and birds I know I would like to see. …

Right now - August in New England - I’m tired from the summer! SO much to do, so many places to explore, so much to learn, so many technological problems to overcome (my moth traps aren’t working, my printer decided to run out of black ink this morning when I needed to print something, my router/mo…

On the US Gulf Coast, we have insects and blooming plants every month of the year, and the bird fauna is richer in winter than summer, so there’s no “indoor” season. I spent many years in the northeast, though. If I were there again I’d want to learn more about winter buds, bark, and seed pods, mo…

Oh wow! I had no idea that Cardinals needed another bird to uncover the seeds for them. I don’t see them everyday but I see them every now and then, even though they are the state bird :)

Seriously. I was going to ask “what do you mean what do I do in the winter?” I live in California. I can find a lot of stuff any time of the year.

We also hit below -40C a few times up in central Alberta, but most of the winter is -10 to -20C so its perfect for cross country skiing and keeping refreshed for data basing, reporting, writing, curating and spreading specimens. A nice break from the field overall.

Here’s my summary of the past winter for me. September 2022 - There are still some warblers around, and I see 3 lifers (sora, stilt sandpiper, & black-crowned night-heron) October 2022 - At the start of the month the bugs are still around, and i see some cool fish. I try and fail to see a lesser b…

I watch too much TV and put on weight. No, I try to get out and focus more on bird and mammal photography (mostly birds).

My primary interest is micro-organisms and it’s fascinating to see different populations in a given location rise and fall through the seasons. I have a little sampling kit which I take on any walks and always come back with a few drops from a pond, or a little moss scraped from trees. Even in the…

I’m going to go out and do my best. I have an actual camera now so I’ll probably work on more landscape-style photography. That being said, where I live used to get cold winters but the last few years have been noticeably warmer. Last year we got 0.3 inches of snow. Just a few years ago we averaged …

Naturalists, what do you do all winter?

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williampaulwhite17 August 25, 2023, 10:53pm 41

ID stuff. Find cool birds. Rejoice that it’s not a heat index of 115 plus.

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