How To Get Your Kids into Birding
Want to get your kids outside, away from TV and video games? Get them interested in birding.   Here you find my recommendations for field guides, fun books, and basic equipment.  It doesn't cost much and can turn into a lifelong hobby.

Birding Minnesota
Minnesota has some great birds! You just have to know where -- and when -- to find them. This lens provides links to tons of information about birds and birding in MN. Did you know....? that birders from all over the US come to MN in the winter to see the species that are hard to find elsewhere? Species like the boreal owl, boreal chickadee, and great gray owl.

Birding Arizona
Arizona is the desert mecca for great birding -- so many endemic species.  Trogons, hummers, elf owls, cactus wrens.  The list goes on and on. This is a resource guide to birding this diverse state.