If you ever want to appreciate birds in a new way, find a way to help with a bird banding experience. When you hold a bird in your hand, you’ll realize that this is pretty much just a heartbeat with feathers: weighing no more than a couple of nickels and capable of flying non-stop to the tropics!!!
Our friends from Audubon South Carolina came out to band with us recently and we gave some new jewelry to more than twenty buntings. We even recaptured several birds~ one was banded here over five years ago!