10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2018
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend would have been the Yellow-billed Cuckoo that popped up in front of him at Kissena Corridor Park on Saturday morning but a rarity in Brooklyn takes the cake instead. It was an incredibly easy twitch with the only downer being the bird’s tendency to stay deep in the reeds.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2019
I’m hardly the first person to observe that it’s all too easy to get overwhelmed by bad environmental news, and the title Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest sounds like a pretty major downer. Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams – Indiana University Press, $29.00.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2013
Did you ever wonder what the world looks like through a bird’s eyes? From the comfort of your own living room (or wherever your TV is), you’ll be able to essentially peer over the shoulders of birds as they fly, and see what they see. Both images by John Downer Productions and courtesy of PBS/Nature. Not in the U.S.?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2014
On Saturday I awakened at 3:30 AM, tiptoed out of the house as quietly as I could, and headed north and west to Sullivan County, the first of three counties I planned to visit in a series of surgical birding strikes to see (or hear) the birds I had thus far missed this year as they migrated through New York City.
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2012
Nothing is quite as much of a downer to a birder than the summer doldrums. Uncomfortable weather and a lack of birds make birders grumpy. What can a bird blogger do but try to write his way out of the summer doldrums? How can you bird for a day in the summer? What other birds can you find in summer’s dog days?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2012
But two days ago, this Debbie Downer got her comeuppance! You see, as I walked across the park with Muir, my attention was drawn upwards by a large flock of birds coming in to settle in a mountain ash. He took it in good spirits.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Any day of birding in New York State that includes a sighting of a Vesper Sparrow is a better-then-average day. Grassland birds have been hit the hardest across the northeast and Vesper Sparrows like closely cropped landscapes and eschew taller grasses, so they have been hit particularly hard. What has caused the decline?
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