The last observation I made during out class outing with Dr. Belaire was undoubtably my favorite. As we were fishing up our walk, we heard some birds across the street from us. Although they were pretty far away I used the binoculars to get a good look. Next, Dr. Belaire guided me though the Merlin app, which asks a series of questions to help users identify bird species. After we went through the questions about size, color, and location the app told us we were probably looking at a Cedar Waxwing. I really enjoyed using the Merlin app and the binoculars to figure out what kind of bird we were looking at. I also enjoyed looking and listening closely to see something on campus that I had never noticed before. Although I am confident in my identification of the Cedar Waxwings, because Dr. Belaire helped me and I used the Merlin app, I was unable to get a good photograph so I didn’t get a very good response on my observation.
Observation : http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5434042