Backyard birders, Pacific Northwest
About Us
The story behind Bird Feed.
- First binoculars · 2022
- First photographs · 2025
- Pacific Northwest
Who We Are
Bird and photo enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest.
We've always admired our local wildlife and in 2022 spent an REI gift card on our first binoculars. In late 2025, two local wildlife encounters pushed us to buy a camera: a lifer sighting of a green heron and a rare superpod of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales. We took cell phone photos through the binoculars and pined for better photos to savor these memories. By 2026, we were spamming friends, family, and neighbors with text messages of bird photos and wanted a better way to share the birds.
Cell phone, through the binoculars · 2025
We are by no means experts (in birding, photography, nor web development), but are nerdy tinker-ers who wanted a place to save and share our bird photos. Thus, Bird Feed was born. After we got it running, we thought others might like to use it too and so we set it up to support individual accounts.
Bird Feed is meant to supplement and not duplicate the amazing birding resources and apps that already exist for identification, life lists, and species information. We link to many of them in our "Resources" section.
Our wish is for Bird Feed to be a simple, approachable, good-looking place to feature and curate bird photos, whether taken in your neighborhood or the Galapagos, with a cell phone or a professional telephoto kit.
This is a hobby project (we are not experts), so we also welcome feedback and suggestions through the "Give Feedback" feature. We hope you like it!
Bird Feed was built in the Pacific Northwest by backyard bird enthusiasts. We're not professionals, just people who like birds and thought it'd be fun to build something.
We are not formally associated with Haikubox other than the fact that we have one.
Begin with one good photo.
A free account, your first species, room for eight photographs. That's the whole idea.
Have a Haikubox? Connect it to automatically track which birds visit your property.