First I want to make an announcement that there will be no Free Gif Friday tomorrow. I'm not going to make gifs anymore on a weekly basis. Although I do enjoy making them, they simply take up to much time. I'll only make one if I feel really inspired.
It also distracts too much from what Gardenbsquared is all about and I want to focus more on that.
GBS is all about the garden, nature and life. It's not just about my own little garden but also our beautiful planet which can and should be a Garden of Eden.
The name Gardenbsquared has multiple meanings. The first is that I want our Garden of Eden to be squared. Meaning that I would like to see that all life on this planet flourishes.
The second one is that I would like my own garden to be squared. I hope to buy some land in the future and become more self sufficient.
The third one is that I would like to share all the B's in the garden. With B's I mean birds, bugs, butterflies, bees and nature and wildlife in general.
So that's what I'm going to focus on from now on. Lately I've been to distracted and lost my focus. That's probably the reason I haven't been posting so much lately.
There's a difference between birding and bird-watching. The main difference is that a bird-watcher is looking at birds while a birder looks for them. A birder goes out to see as many different species as possible. Some fanatic birders will go through great lengths to see a rare bird as recently happened in New York.
On 7 November a very rare Corn Crake was spotted on Long Island, east of New York City. Birders from all over the United States hurried to see it. A couple doing a "Big Year" even parachuted in to add the bird to their list. More than a hundred birders showed up to see the Corn Crake which was last documented in 1963. It was shot in a remote rye field. This poor bird also died unfortunately because a few days later it was hit by a car. You can read the whole story here.
I'm primarily a bird watcher. I've always enjoyed watching birds. As a teenager I would go out in the fields to watch them with my binoculars which my parents gave me for my tenth birthday. I had a notebook and my bird guide but not so many birds.
Suriname, on the other hand, is a birders paradise. More than 730 species live in this small country. As an amateur bird-watcher I've only spotted a fraction of them. My lifetime list of birds in Suriname is at 52. My goal is to make that a hundred before the end of the year. That will be very difficult.
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House wren (Troglodytes aedon)
This bird is perfectly all-right. It's just having a sand bath in the sun.
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Wing-barred Seedeater (Sporophila Americana)
Last Monday I went out to spot as many species of birds in and around our garden as possible. I spotted 29 species that day including two that I've never spotted before. One is the Greyish Saltator (Saltator coerulescens).
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When you're out looking for birds it's also important to use your ears. It was by sound that I discovered this one and since I recognise a lot of bird calls I was quite convinced that I haven't spotted it before. I had to wade through a field with high grass and deep vegetation to get close enough to take a picture. Which is not wise wearing flip-flops in an area where there are poisonous snakes. But another one added. Yeah.