Backyard Birding at Nowhere Near its Finest

When a bluebird couple started nesting in the bluebird house that came with our backyard, my wife and I became enamored with their lives. They had a nest without eggs for some time, but that didn't stop the male from defending his turf from dawn until dusk. Eventually they had eggs, then fledglings, and then they spent all day bringing food to the hungry little monsters that peered out of the little hole in their bird house.

We started seeing woodpeckers and a little Carolina Wren that would sing his heart out every day. I bought binoculars, then a bird book, then several bird books, then I started a "life list". Just like that, my 30s were upon me and I was sitting on the back porch for hours, just enjoying the birds.

We booked a trip to Kauai and I realized that I wouldn't be familiar with the birds there. If I was going to properly identify them for my life list, I'd need photos. The camera on my phone wasn't near good enough to capture all the field markings of a bird hundreds of feet away... so one thing led to another... and now I've built this website to share and organize my bird photos.