The Piedmont Virginia Bird Club held a birding event honoring the Birdability movement on 19 October 2024 in the Riverview Park area of Charlottesville. Pat and I attended and we had some fun! This is my brief report.
I was sad that no children attended. It was mostly gray-haired people (as am I). One person was using a motorized wheelchair and another had a walker. Perhaps there were some individuals with not-particularly-obvious disabilities, so I can’t say that there was no one with a disability participating.1 Still, I was glad that the PVBC organized and promoted the event as one accessible to individuals with disabilities.
I’m a novice user of Cornell Lab’s e-Bird, so I wouldn’t trust my report as full, complete, accurate, or otherwise representing truth. Also, I’m not an accomplished identifier of birds…so take these notes with the proverbial grain of salt.
As well as many unidentified species, we saw these (links point to images from the wonderful Cornel Lab Macaulay Library):
Golden-crowed or Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Yellow-rumped or Cape May Warbler
If anyone else is birding during Birdability Week, please post a comment (with a link to a report, if possible). It’s a great excuse to take a kid whom you teach or with whom you live outdoors for some fun.
Footnote
After all, I was there, and I have AR (as in, “he Ain’t Right”), so let’s just say that was at least one person with a disability in attendance—teehee.
That's a lot of birds on your list! I guess we do have quite a few species up here in north Idaho, but they're not very densely populated. We have majestic bald eagles and ospreys and plenty of water birds. I could do without so many turkeys, which can leave quite a mess on our new stone walkways. :^/