Welcome to the Bird Journal Page!
One activity I highly recommend that we all do for this class, is to keep a field journal about birds. This can include your notes for class as well as any backyard or local park and or zoo observations you make of birds. You can either make a nature journal from scratch, including making your own paper (made from plants ; ) out of recycled paper, or begin with the most basic of materials such as a blank notebook. You can add some decorations to the cover and make it look very nature-like. Below you can find several websites and video tutorials about making a nature journal and how to use it.
After you make your journal, begin by sitting quietly in your backyard at a special spot. Watch birds of interest and write interesting observations about them. You can either draw them from memory or look them up in your local field guide or online field guide. Using a field guide, try to identify your birds and make a sketch from the field guide picture of the bird. You can also take photographs of the birds, print them out and add them to your field journal later. This can become a weekly routine wherein you visit your special birds "sit spot" each week for at least 5 - 10 minutes (more is even better) and see what the birds you have in your local area are up to.
Below are merely suggestions and guidelines for you on how you can make your field journal, but you get to decide how to design and record information that's interesting to you about the birds around your backyard and local area into your journal. We'd love to have students photograph or scan pictures from your field journal and present your journals in my CurrClick Live classes!
Have fun!
Natureglo