GC35XM2 January 5~National Bird Day
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: poolsharkycat @ | Hide Date: 10/13/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 38.240 W104° 16.261 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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Bird Day, National Bird Day and Migratory Bird Day When: Bird Day is always May 4th National Bird Day is celebrated on January 5th International Migratory Bird Day observed on the second Saturday in May People love birds. Bird watching is a favorite pastime of millions of people. It is the most popular of hobbies, and can be enjoyed by everyone regardless of age. With this popularity, it comes as no surprise that there is more than one day established to recognize, appreciate, and enjoy birds. We suggest you celebrate all of these days. Now, lets's help to take some of the confusion around a number of distinctly different "bird" days: Bird Day is the oldest of the days set aside to recognize birds. According to the U.S. Library of Congress, Bird Day was first observed on May 4, 1894. It was started by Charles Almanzo Babcock, superintendent of schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania. By 1910, Bird Day was widely celebrated, often in conjunction with Arbor Day. Bird Day and Arbor Day events are focused upon conservation training and awareness. National Bird Day was established by bird activists. It calls upon people to recognize the plight of captive birds. It also draws attention to exploitation of birds in the U.S. pet industry. On this day, organizers suggest we reflect upon the conditions of birds held in captivity. Note: Our research did not find any documentation that this is a "National" day, which requires an act of congress. International Migratory Bird Day celebrates the incredible journey that migratory birds take each year. They travel thousands of miles between breeding grounds in North America, and their winter homes in Central and South America. Organizers say this is a day to both support, and to increase awareness of conservation efforts in support of migratory birds. They also suggest a field trip into a woods to look for and enjoy migrating birds. On each of these Bird Days, we encourage you to take a few minutes to watch and observe birds, as well as to feed them.

10/27/2018 By GanderGoose
Went for a four hour drive on the plains today in warm temperatures and high winds. There were also a million stickers wanting to go home with me. There were two caches. I combined the logs and threw away the icky chew can that was serving as the newest cache. Thanks for the placement, poolsharkycat!

09/03/2018 By Mean Kitty
Find #48809

Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide poolsharkycat, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!

04/27/2018 By Brewman65
Had a nice visit to Colorado, and found a lot of caches

03/31/2018 By EJBHGV
Touring the plains east of Denver on a nice Spring day.
Found a lot af caches and enjoyed the fastness of the area.
All CO's thanks for making this game possible.

10/13/2017 By L O S T - S O U L
TFTC

Enjoying another day traversing the countryside, acquiring many miles and boosting cache numbers and others in between along the power trails!
Nothing better than caching along the back country roads of America! Thanks for placing these out here. Most were in good shape in these sections however i did replaced wet logs and broken containers as needed. Initialed logs

05/11/2017 By fearthefish
Out and about caching with PayMeCache on a nice but muddy spring day. We decided to hit the plains east of Denver since he had some work stuff out this way. Fortunately that didn't last long and we had time to find some caches. Thanks for the fun addition to a great day of caching in the mud.

P.S. I celebrate this holiday every time I'm with PayMeCache, as I frequently give him the bird.

05/11/2017 By PayMeCache
fearthefish and I had hoped that I was going to be able to play today but heh324 made a couple of appointments for me that threw a wrench in our plans.

I had an estimate not far from here this morning. To be honest I wasn't too excited about coming out here. fearthefish couldn't stand that I was going to be around so many caches that he had not found and decided to throw on his shoes and drive out here to find some caches with me.

All is well here with the cache. Signed our initials on the log sheet to save space and time.

Found January 5~National Bird Day on May 11, 2017 using Cachly for iOS.

Thank you, poolsharkycat for placing a fun cache for all of us to enjoy. I look forward to finding more of your caches.