Laura Mae fell in love with birds about a decade ago. She noticed them in the world around her, such as a rare pair of breeding peregrine falcons she watches nest every year in downtown Norfolk.
“Birds have just become my favorite,” she said. “I bird morning, noon and night. I dream about birds.”
Mae, who lives in Chesapeake, also participates in the annual Christmas Bird Count, which is considered the nation’s longest-running community science project…