I’m a junior high science teacher in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I’ve been interested in birds ever since I was a little kid. When I was 15, growing up in Ontario, we found a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak on our lawn with a broken clavicle. This led me to volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation centre for the summer.
I was inspired to start listing and organizing my birding in part by the book “A Supremely Bad Idea” by Luke Dempsey and I started maintaining a list in the fall of 2009. I also found this book to be something of a precautionary tale and I try to involve family in birding as much as possible – Michael can identify a handful of birds and does a great chickadee call!
Birding also ties in well with my two other principal interests – books and photography. You can find more about these interests under the appropriate tabs above. I don’t define myself by my lists but I do find them to be good motivators and you can find my year list and a few other things under the "Checklists" heading above.
