Today on Facebook and Twitter, I posted a status, “Daylight Savings Time = Birding Time”. Upon reflecting on this statement and the responses from friends, I would like to examine this premise a little further.
With the springing forward of the clock, we birders have a couple of uniquely useful resulting circumstances that benefit most of us greatly. First, we can catch the dawn chorus an hour later in the day. The birds are still stirring with the rising sun as they always have done, but we get the illusion of an extra hour of sleep in warm beds before don our birding apparel. Second, we have that glorious extra hour of daylight after the workday. It is now possible to run out the door with binoculars in hand and rejuvenate ourselves with avian company after a day at the proverbial grindstone.
Daylight Savings Time is Birding Time!
