ring-necked dove | Life on a Colorado Farm

We are warm today, 67* right now. We have a high wind warning starting at noon today as another cold front blows into our area. But for right now, we are nice…Friday we will be wet again. (I hope it goes around us–we are way too wet as it is and need some drying weather for the pinto bean farmers in the area to be able to get their pinto beans out.)

Anywho….

There is a really cool program through Cornell called Project Feeder Watch. Go Here to Sign UP.

This is a program of a winter long survey of birds that visit backyard feeders across America. Watchers count they birds they see at their feeders from November through April and send in their reports. The program tracks invasive species as they move across the continent, like the Eurasian collared-dove (or ring-necked dove), and measures the decline of species such as evening grosbeaks and the population increase of other birds such as Northen Cardinals, Tufted Titmice and Carolina Wrens. Oh, yes and I think the Redbellied Woodpeckers.

I will probably have one million counts of House Sparrows and Starlings, but I’m going to give it a try.