Beautiful bluebirds come to call

Bright glints of azure flashed in the air as we neared the Garraway’s yard on Monday’s KissMe walk. 

I pulled up my iPhone’s eBird app to record “four eastern bluebirds.” Atop their nestbox a male wing-waved. Stopped mid-street, I entered into eBird a northern cardinal, two golden-fronted woodpeckers, 2 Carolina chickadees, and, a blue jay. The timer feature of eBird showed “three minutes.”

eBird is soooooooo easy. Just a few years back folks were paying a lot of money for software that took some effort. Now, through Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s app, it’s free. It’s easy.