Quarantine Backyard Bird List

When the daycare first closed back in March 2020 my (then) three year old and I decided to start a list of all the birds we saw in our yard during quarantine. We were in the middle of Spring migration and I figured it’d be interesting to keep track of what we saw over the next month or so.

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Almost one year later and the kids are about ready to go back to daycare, which means it might finally be time to call it a wrap on the list.

Here’s what we got:

Of all of these, I think most interesting might be the Nashville Warbler, which I never would have been able to identify had it not unfortunately hit one of our windows.

The Rose Breasted Grosbeak were also interesting and easily identifiable. They came through on a migration and stayed exactly one day.

All in all, I’d say the kids were moderately interested. Penelope can recognize probably half the birds on here, and likes to take a look through the binoculars at one every now and then.