As our collective map of what everyone noticed shows, folks heard or spotted killdeer and bluebirds, various sparrows and swallows, woodpeckers and flickers, rock doves, lots of red-winged blackbirds, starlings and robins and chickadees and jays, heard a mockingbird imitating many other birds, saw nesting and mating activity, and more! *Photo: Juno Lamb*

We had a wonderful Bird Language program this May in Remick Park and on the grounds of Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm in Tamworth Village. Big thanks to Remick Museum and the Town of Tamworth for letting us notice birds in these locations, and to all the participants who arrived on time for a 6:20 AM program! Naturalists Hillary Behr and Kyle Ball of New England Wildlife Tracking led us through two bird sits and a period of collective mapping, and shared their ongoing journey with bird language.

Naturalist Hillary Behr on the right. *Photo: Juno Lamb*

Bird Language resources:

What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, by Jon Young, as well Bird Language and Advanced Bird Language DVD sets at the same link.

If you'd like to refresh your knowledge of robins, juncoes, and sparrows before practicing paying attention to Bird Language outdoors:

Click through the links above to listen and learn at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds site, or:
Bird Language Audio Library, audio tracks listed by species and by vocalization type

Naturalist Kyle Ball, second from left. *Photo: Juno Lamb*

A fantastic resource for bird noticing (Jenny Odell proposes this term because paying attention to birds is as much about listening as "watching") is the Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which lets you look, listen, and learn. The spectrograms that show up in Sound ID mode can help visual learners to better recognize bird song.