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.
2 comments:
Thanks for this blog. I'm a full-time birder, part-time camper/rver. In fact, I got my Great West Van Legend Class B to go on birding trips. I sometimes stay in RV parks and am always delighted when I see a big rig with bird feeders hanging around. Mostly, though, I'm out in the boonies parked beside lakes or wetlands. As You say, the vehicle makes an excellent blind. Many is the time I've parked so that I can open the side sliding door, set up the scope inside on a windy day or outside at a height where I can sit on the steps and look. And, with all the comforts of home (pretty much) with me. What a life!
It's a great way to spend a cold windy day in the RV with a spotting scope on the shoreline of a lake or wetlands. Makes the weather seem unimportant.
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