More than an RV, a mobile birdwatching blind

Birdwatching is a perfect activity for RVers. If you haven't yet taken an interest in our avian friends, consider these advantages RVers have for combining birding with your travels.

• You can use your RV as a "blind," much as a hunter would, only using binoculars or a spotting scope instead of a rifle. Birds do not identify the boxy, lifeless, thing as a predator and are less likely to fly away. You can then watch from inside your rig, especially on cold, windy days, with the comfort of home.
• Using your RV as a blind is especially functional when driving along birding trails or on wildlife refuges where you can creep up on birds without frightening them
• Hang feeders, different kinds to attract different birds, from your awning or from a nearby tree limb to attract birds to your campsite.
• Hummingbird feeders with suction cups that attach it directly to a window bring hummingbirds up close.
• When you travel to different regions or altitudes, you will find different birds than you see around your home range. And with the seasonal changes, different migratory birds passing through.
• Stop at the welcome center or tourist bureau of new states you enter and pick up their bird list, birders local viewing guides, and a map and information of their birding trails, which most states have now established.
• Take walks around your campground or on trails and you will be surprised at how many birds have discovered that RVers are bird-friendly, and often provide feeders for them.

Keep a record of what you see, or enter the findings in you bird book. Soon you will see yur life list swell with new discoveries.