Some birders sit still for hours, waiting for nesting parents to return. Others competitively catalogue birds. Todd Newberry practices the art of deliberate observation.
At some point, the idea of flying to the Olympic Peninsula at the drop of a hat to see a rare bird started to conflict with Scott Smithson's values as an environmentalist. So he started the Green Big Day.
Results of the Great Backyard Bird Count are in, and among the gee-whiz infonuggets (like the flock of 5 million redwinged blackbirds spotted in Missouri) are signs of climate change.
