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May 13, 2020 By Jennifer Lambert 13 Comments

We’ve always been homeschoolers and avid birders.

We’ve loved seeing backyard birds in all the places we’ve lived as a military family: Georgia, Texas, Hawaii, Utah, Germany, and now Ohio.

My kids share my contagious excitement when we see favorites or new birds in our backyard or on nature hikes.

I have proactively taught the kids to be patient, still, and quiet. It’s worth the wait to see a special bird!

We have guide books and apps for IDing song and sight.

We keep journals on our nature finds. We practice our drawing and photography skills.

I have several different bird feeders with different kinds of bird food – nyger, sunflower, safflower, suet, peanuts, oranges and grapes.

We await the hummingbirds each spring.

We also feed the squirrels and raccoons, and even deer. We have baffles and bring the feeders in at night so they’re not destroyed.

We like to visit local parks and ponds to see the water fowl. Feeding bread isn’t healthy. They like peas and greens!

I especially love the owls in our natural areas near our home and the blue herons.

We put up a birdhouse and are waiting to see if we will get a nest and babies.

I notice several nests in the woods in our backyard – squirrels, robins, and more. We see many birds acquiring nesting materials. We love to see the fledglings come to the feeders with their parents.

Sometimes, they get blown down in fall storms and we can study or draw the nests.

Birding helps us appreciate and respect nature, extending to ALL Creator’s wonderful creatures.

Resources:

  • The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies
  • The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
  • The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
  • Seabird by Holling C. Holling
  • Birds, Nests, & Eggs by Mel Boring
  • Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart
  • A Nest Is Noisy by Dianna Hutts Aston
  • Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O’Brien
  • The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America by Bill Thompson III
  • Bird Trivia Game “What Bird Am I?” – The Ultimate Educational Trivia Card Game Featuring Over 300 Cards
  • Fly Away Home
  • The Big Year
  • A Birder’s Guide To Everything
  • Merlin app
  • Birds of Ohio (or whichever state you live in)
  • Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White by Lisa A. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon
  • Sibley’s Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds, Using the Clues in Feathers, Habitats, Behaviors, and Sounds
  • Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding by Scott Weidensaul
  • Handbook of Bird Biology by Irby J. Lovette and John W. Fitzpatrick
  • The Genius of Birds AND The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman
  • The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human AND Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World by Noah Strycker
  • Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year by Neil Hayward
  • To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession by Dan Koeppel
  • Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder by Kenn Kaufman
  • Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans by John Marzluff and Tony Angell 
  • The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik
  • Life List: A Woman’s Quest for the World’s Most Amazing Birds by Olivia Gentile
  • Birding on Borrowed Time by Phoebe Snetsinger
  • John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Richard Rhodes
  • All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures by Roger Tory Peterson
  • Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague by Roger Tory Peterson
  • Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Elizabeth Rosenthal

Notebooking:

  • Montessori Bird Activities
  • Bird Printables
  • Bird Print Pack
  • Bird Fun Pack
  • Bird Unit
  • Bird Nature Study
  • Bird Fun Printables

Bird study notebooking pages for a variety of topics (bird log pages, parts of a bird diagram pages, pages for the study of eyes, ears, beaks, feet, facts, feathers, flight/wings, homes/nests, and songs/calls) plus individual bird notebooking pages for over 170 birds and bird families. Also includes blank templates to add more of your own topics and birds!

Get yours today!

Birds Notebooking Pages

You might also like:

  • Hummingbird Unit Study
  • Eagle Unit Study
  • Quail Unit Study
  • Winter Birds Unit Study
  • Signs of Spring
  • Favorite Nature Books for Kids

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Comments

  1. Allyson says

    May 18, 2020 at 10:01 am

    That’s great your kids have an appreciation of birds. I get excited when I see the return of our rose-breasted grosbeak couple in late spring. We’re now seeing more of our beautiful green hummingbird.

    Reply
  2. elena says

    May 18, 2020 at 3:42 pm

    This is a gold mine of resources! My 8 month old is a budding ornithologist, haha! We start our day with a brief bird-watching session outside on our back porch before starting the day. He loves following them around with his gaze and is so entertained by their birdsong! We are currently on vacation at a beach in Texas and he is going crazy with all the big seagulls!!!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Lambert says

      May 26, 2020 at 12:24 pm

      I love this.

      Reply
  3. Dee | Grammy's Grid says

    May 18, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    I noticed a birdhouse in the bend of our downspout recently. Thanks so much for linking up with me at my #UnlimitedMonthlyLinkParty 12, open May 1 to 26. All party entries shared if social media buttons installed.

    Reply
  4. Karen Del Tatto says

    May 20, 2020 at 10:55 am

    Ever since I was a little girl, I have loved watching birds. My favorite bird song is the Robin’s morning and evening call.

    My husband loves birds as much as I do! He has captured some great photographs. For his birthday, I got him the Audobon Society’s bird caller. It really sounds great!

    This year, we were blessed to find our first Great Horned Owl in the woods! And not just in one set of woods, but two! Last Friday night was a once in a lifetime experience where we saw three adult Great Horned Owls and three owlettes! It was awesome!

    Where we live, snowy owls migrate down during the winter which has also been amazing to see.

    This year we also frequently see a bald eagle and and immature bald eagle.

    We love drawing baltimore orioles to the backyard with oranges and we have a healthy population of hummingbirds!

    Thanks for sharing about your backyard birding experiences!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Lambert says

      May 26, 2020 at 12:24 pm

      This is wonderful!

      Reply
  5. Laurie says

    May 21, 2020 at 1:08 pm

    I love backyard birding too. Thank you for sharing these resources. My favorite bird I saw in the backyard lately: bay-breasted warbler. Plus lots of scarlet tanagers and orioles.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Lambert says

      May 26, 2020 at 12:23 pm

      ah, I want to see a tanager so much.

      Reply
  6. SHARON RICKETTS says

    May 21, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    Thanks for sharing your backyard birding – I love the inspiration of God’s creation, it really speaks to my spirit and it is a real blessing to live in a rural place.
    #Heart Encouragement #26

    Reply
  7. Joanne says

    May 21, 2020 at 5:09 pm

    We love bird watching too! This week we saw a few Baltimore Orioles, a heron, and a few red winged black birds.

    Reply
  8. Tracy Albiero says

    May 26, 2020 at 9:19 am

    I have since discovered a cardinal that made her nest right outside my window. I have enjoyed watching her. #trafficjamweekend

    Reply
    • Jennifer Lambert says

      May 26, 2020 at 12:19 pm

      Cardinals are some of my favorites!

      Reply
  9. Cherelle | The Inspired Prairie says

    June 1, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Backyard birding sounds fun! We have a ton of robins, bald eagles and hawks where we live! Thanks for sharing with us on the Homestead Blog Hop!

    -Cherelle

    Reply

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