My Name is Daniel Kerby,
I have always had a passion for nature ever since I was young.
I started out learning about birds from my grandmother who always had bird feeders while I was growing up.
I set up my first bird feeder at a young age and when I saw my first Rose Breasted Grosbeak come to it… I was hooked.
I would spend my springs & summers in the woods, at ponds and rivers etc.. and that didn’t change as I got older.
My very first book I bought was “A Golden Guide: Pond Life”. I read it cover to cover many times.
Shortly after I graduated High School in the mid 80’s, I read an article in the news paper about a program that the MDNR was sponsoring. It involved building, placing and monitoring nest boxes for the Eastern Bluebird. A species that was in decline at that time. I really enjoyed doing this… and went on to placing and monitoring nest boxes to this day. Including other species of cavity nesting birds.
I also starting doing other projects for various organizations. I joined frog & toad surveys, stream monitoring projects and forestry surveying for sensitive species like Red Shouldered Hawks and the Northern Goshawk and so on.
I am currently learning all I can about native plants and how important they are for our pollinators and a healthy ecosystem. And of course… our birds!
