A Great New Birding App for iPhone

This week has been a slow week for bird watching.  Although we've had two or three decent snowfalls this winter of about a foot each, warm spells have followed each time completely melting what we had.  So was the case this past weekend.  Everything was green again until last night when we got back about an inch of the fluffy white stuff.  It looks like we're heading into a snowier and much colder weather pattern over the next week or so which will definitely increase the bird feeder activity.

This morning I did snap a quick photo of two dark-eyed juncos resting in the grape vine:

I recently discovered a great new birding app for iPhone from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1478

It allows you to figure out what bird species you may have seen based on size, color, and where you spotted them.  It also customizes a bird list based on your current location.  You can also just simply just look up a particular species.  It has beautiful photos, thorough information and I must say so far I'm impressed with this app.  It would be great for kids and novice bird watchers allowing you to determine what particular species you saw and making the process fun.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a joint partner with Audubon in the Great Backyard Bird Count, which I referenced in my January 13th post, "Welcome to My Blog."  I have used Cornell's online bird identification tool many times during the GBBC.

This weekend I will try to take some more bird photos and also continue talking about the vegetable garden planning process.  As always your comments and suggestions are appreciated.