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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

10,000 Birds

I began a program for PBS on a group of young kids in a small town in South Dakota. On Mother’s Day, an F2 Tornado hit the small town of Delmont, South Dakota. The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species. That blew my mind.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

10,000 Birds

Turkeys, 3 or 4 species of woodpeckers, all kinds of song birds grace our view constantly. All conditions are perfect here in central South Dakota for the waterfowl travelers. We feed them year around here and are “blessed&# to have a wild variety and abundance of birds. Almost time for hummers to make there appearance.

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