10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2013
I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. Alas, they both kept their heads down until long after we’d left. Some of us love to chase down preposterous vagrants, while others eschew bird chasing for contemplation of standard local fare and seasonal specialties.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2011
Two weekends ago, I took a little jaunt to Eagle Lake hoping to see the complete courtship display of the Western and Clark’s Grebes but alas, I was too late. They begin feeding by dipping that huge bill into the water and scooping prey into their pouch, water flowing out of the pouch as they raise it back up to horizontal.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The count aims to raise awareness of the important role that farmers play in the conservation of farmland birds, and to measure the impact of the conservation work that many farmers and shoots carry out.” Alas, there wasn’t this year, but this wasn’t due to a sudden collapse in bird numbers, but the weather.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Alas, one would be wrong – I immediately mixed it up with the rather similar-looking Rufous-bellied Niltava (not shown here). In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2017
Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. The lake is a private property, run by the Mika Alas fish farm company and visitors must ask for permission in advance ( management contacts ). Her article starts with a bold claim that “no city makes you feel more like a New Yorker than Belgrade.”
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2017
Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Old Gamboa Road, a new destination for me, was the biggest revelation; I found some of the specialties of this site, though alas not all. Let’s be honest: driving around Panama sucks. Nonetheless, my family trip to Panama qualifies as a birding success.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
For people who aren’t as involved with their bird watching like I am, huummingbirds seem so cute, it’s easy to imagine them raising cute tiny families in little cabins complete with tiny straws and cups, tiny hats and tiny, little table and chairs and the family all humming along in perfect harmony.
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