It is my first blog entry from the New World. We moved to Ames, IA. It's amazing how different everything around from what I'm used to! Something around 247 species of birds are waiting for me to see. So far I've seen:
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cardinal
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bluebird
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Catbird (this one was dead when we found it)
There were also Wilson's Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) and Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus), but I'm not sure about my identification.
And... we saw a turtle, a strange thing after living in St. Petersburg, but after all, we moved 30 degrees to the south.
