At birdwatchingandmore.com, our goal is to provide you with the best online experience possible. Hopefully, you can find exactly what you’re looking for in our little corner of the internet whether its information, tools for birdwatching, or things to house and feed birds in your own backyard. I just have to share this. The other day, I'm sitting on my little back porch talking on the phone which I do a lot. The back porch is kinda like my outside office when a female downy woodpecker lands on the brick work right beside my head. She looks at me but doesn't seem to care that I'm there. What she was after was a spider web between the bricks that was full of little "midges". She stayed until she ate every one. I never moved the whole time. I would have loved to get a picture.


To save you some precious time, I’m including a short summary of each page of my website. Firstly, let’s look at Birding Tools. Here you will find information on equipment you can use for birding such as binoculars, tripods, scopes and cameras. The second is a page that provides you with information on Feeding and Feeders for wild birds including what to feed specific birds along with which feeder best suits the job. Next we offer insight into birding software in Software and Books providing you with a way to keep track of your life lists and sightings. There are many books available about birding but the most popular type is the much needed field guide. There is a large variety of field guides out there and we make some suggestions on which we like the most. Where would we be when birdwatching if it wasn’t for our many pocketed shirts, shorts and vests? Birding Apparel helps you think through some of the more basic needs while out trying to catch a glimpse of that illusive bird you’ve been waiting for. We always need a place to store our water, our field guide and our scope. And lastly, we discuss the environments and habits of specific birds in Bird Houses. We discuss how to attract them to our backyards by providing them with the “perfect” place to live.

We value your time, and that’s why we have tried to make our site easy to browse so you can find your way around quickly. We hope you will be thoroughly engaged with the content we provide through articles, product reviews and more!

My name is Jane Morris and my husband is Richard. I have been birdwatching and communing with nature since Grade 6. I had a very special science teacher that year who offered to meet any student who was interested in a field trip to a local agreement forest near our school on a school holiday. What else do you do with school holidays except meet with fellow students and your teacher? It was the most wonderful day of my life and started me on a lifelong journey with nature. I was 10 years old. That day I learned about wild flowers, indigenous trees and mostly about the birds that lived in our neighbourhood. I had no idea there were so many or that each had their own habitats, their own songs and their own routines. I have never looked back.

I’m no one special, just your average joe. I don’t write for any magazines and I’ve never written a paper on birding. I just have a love of birding that I have shared with my husband, my kids and now my grandkids, my friends and even strangers. I guess you’d say I’m self-taught but I know most of the birds of Eastern North America by sight and by song. I know their mating habits, their nesting habits, their migrating habits (if they migrate) and their feeding habits and by experience I have learned about predators, both natural and man-made.

Now, I would like to share with you: information on birds, places to find birds, tools to help make your experience better, and products to help you attract, feed and house your neighbourhood birding population. I hope your experience on our simplistic website is friendly and fun and easy to navigate and I promise to keep it as up-to-date as possible.


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