Greetings! I'm Your New Moderator
With Scott's farewell -- and we've really appreciated the two plus years of work and care Scott put into the Eons Birding Group -- I agreed to pick up the baton as your new moderator.
So, allow me to introduce myself a bit more thoroughly than I have in my past posts.
I've been birding for over 25 years. I began with a Green Heron. While I was pregnant with our first child, my husband and I would go to parks for walks in the afternoon. One day, at Old Westbury Gardens (Long Island, NY), we spotted said bird and were fascinated by its fishing behavior. It caught a fish and we were hooked!
Currently, we live in San Antonio, TX. Believe it or not, we chose to move to Texas because of the birding here. But we also try and focus much of our travel on our love of birding as well. We've done Pt. Pelee, a spring birding Mecca in Ontario, Canada, several times. We've also visited Panama, Belize and Guatemala. In December we took a cruise and birded during our time in port -- once with a birdingpal (www.birdingpal.org), and once by hiring a cab to drive us to likely places on Cozumel (he did better than we expected, and we would up with almost all the island endemics).
I'm aware that members of this group run the gamut from casual backyard birders, to people who know quite a bit about the birds they see. But only one thing really matters: that we share a love for these feathered creatures, found everywhere you go.
I hope to help you enjoy, learn, and get inspired by this aspect of nature!
Cheers!
April Grunspan
So, allow me to introduce myself a bit more thoroughly than I have in my past posts.
I've been birding for over 25 years. I began with a Green Heron. While I was pregnant with our first child, my husband and I would go to parks for walks in the afternoon. One day, at Old Westbury Gardens (Long Island, NY), we spotted said bird and were fascinated by its fishing behavior. It caught a fish and we were hooked!
Currently, we live in San Antonio, TX. Believe it or not, we chose to move to Texas because of the birding here. But we also try and focus much of our travel on our love of birding as well. We've done Pt. Pelee, a spring birding Mecca in Ontario, Canada, several times. We've also visited Panama, Belize and Guatemala. In December we took a cruise and birded during our time in port -- once with a birdingpal (www.birdingpal.org), and once by hiring a cab to drive us to likely places on Cozumel (he did better than we expected, and we would up with almost all the island endemics).
I'm aware that members of this group run the gamut from casual backyard birders, to people who know quite a bit about the birds they see. But only one thing really matters: that we share a love for these feathered creatures, found everywhere you go.
I hope to help you enjoy, learn, and get inspired by this aspect of nature!
Cheers!
April Grunspan
