Lawn Chair Birding
At times I feel like an apostle for comfortable lawn chairs as an essential tool as important as good binoculars for birding. I felt a bit weary at the end of a busy week at work. Dealing with the issues of placing an aged relation in a good assisted living home added to the weeks fatigue. I decided to just sit for several hours in the woods this weekend in a very comfortable French made folding lawn chair and simply waited quietly to see what birds Idi could see. Over 16 species of songbirds, a red squirrel and several chipmunks approached within 5 feet. I also spotted several larger birds in the distance like turkey vultures, red tail hawks and a bald eagle. People moving around upright make all creatures not just birds cautious. When we sit or recline quietly we have assumed an unthreatening posture and nature's creatures feel safer to go about their daily routines foraging for food in close proximity. i also take my folding chair to the ocean and the mountains for lawn chair birding. Try it!
