$16
Raised of $150
Based on 12 hours spent in nature each worth $1.33
Wendy Walker
Fundraiser Profile
12/24 hours spent in nature
Participating in Murmurations for Mutual Aid: A Female Bird Day Birdathon
May 26-29, 2023
My Mission
I'm excited to be a part of this Female Bird Day Birdathon! Our community is coming together to celebrate and highlight female birds as part of Female Bird Day, while simultaneously fundraising for another often overlooked and vulnerable population in our community—those seeking asylum. I'll be at Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR on Sunday, May 28 from 8 am - 3 pm. My goal is to spend time in nature throughout the birdathon weekend, rather than count all the species I see and hear.
Please help me reach my goal by leaving a flat donation or making a pledge to support my birding efforts in this inclusive campaign. Your support will help provide funding for critical life expenses for asylum seekers in the United States. Thank you for considering!
(Photo: portrait of a female Northern Flicker, a regular visitor to my backyard suet feeder. How do I know she's a female? Because of her gorgeous gray face without a red stripe like a male would have. Isn't she lovely?)
Wendy Walker
1 yr. ago
12
hours spent in nature
$1.33
Per hours spent in nature
$15.96
Earned
The weekend flew by! :) And though I didn't spend as many hours in nature as I'd planned there were some amazing moments.
Saturday during the day my yard was full of chickadee chatter - specifically, Chestnut-backed Chickadees, a bird I only became aware of after living on the west coast for a number of years. Now that I know more about them and their relatively small range, seeing one is always a special treat.
Saturday evening brought more fun nature moments - an evening walk at a local park led me to an active beaver attempting to dam a creek! I wasn't aware of beaver activity there before, and I'm very curious how the park's human managers will react. As for the beaver, it let me watch quietly for a little bit, but let me know with a vehement tail slap when it was time for me to move on. Swainson's Thrushes were singing all around as the light faded after sunset, so I obliged and headed home.
Sunday. WOW. A very full day with fun and interesting people who joined FBC Seattle and FBC South Sound at Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR. We had cool weather and grey morning skies which made for good practice birding by silhouette and behavior and by sound. Two trips around the Twin Barns loop, and a late afternoon trip out to the estuary helped us find 51 species over the course of almost 8 hours. I enjoyed moving at a very leisurely pace, stopping as long as we wanted to listen or look more closely at an individual. Highlights included a stunning female Wood Duck (photo below), a brilliantly yellow Bullock's Oriole, hearing Virginia Rail, Sora, and Wilson's Snipe in the wetland, and some very funny fish-carrying behavior from a Caspian Tern.
Best of all was being with a friendly group of curious and kind people, sharing in each discovery.
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