10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2021

I’m writing a blog post! But after a couple of exciting visits to mud puddles, which long-time readers of this blog will remember is one of my favorite kinds of birding , I couldn’t resist sharing a few shots of the birds I’ve seen coming in for a drink and a bath. I’m blogging again. Oh my goodness!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That’s a bird that is worthy of being Best Bird of the Weekend on one of the best weekends of birding Corey is likely to have all year. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of the four new year birds for him the best was one of several Nelson’s Sparrows at Big Egg Marsh, always a great bird to see, and Corey saw several very well as the high tide forced them out of the marsh. How about you?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions. There are also surprises.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This is the beauty of this blog, and why we’re ranked in the top 10 birding websites according to the future lord of this world, ChatGPT. However, with just over two hours left to go until this post is supposed to be published, here I am reading 10,000Birds and having a good chuckle here and there – while learning a thing or two.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Common, but rarely so tame, they were a joy to watch! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

It started with an email regarding another birder’s blog. Then, the blogger in Panama mentioned that he was going to be in Toronto in early October. The blogger in Toronto asked if he would like to spend a day birding together. That is how Fitzroy and Leslie became possibly the first writers in recent times from 10000 Birds to meet up.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

When they actually afford you a whole new blog subject to write about, that is certainly an extra bonus.) Some birds are especially exciting, because they are so hard to see. Others are unusually beautiful, or perhaps, just plain unusual. And a few are both.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2024

Still, due to the unofficial and cruel rules of a heartless blog editor (a German, of course), I have to write a post about birding Shanghai this month. July is the least interesting month for birding in Shanghai – it is too hot, and there is pretty much no migration. Just remember that this does not mean you actually… Source

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MARCH 22, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. One such a bird, a Red-breasted Nuthatch , was particularly charming, and is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So much for the educational part of the blog post. Their main use is to display – either to communicate with other members of the species or to scare other species, as a raised crest makes the bird appear larger.

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MAY 2, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. It seemed fascinated with the clicking of Corey’s camera and that makes it his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? The post Best Bird of the Weekend (First of May 2021) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Send a 500-word blog post to 10000birds AT gmail DOT com and/or 10000birdsblogger AT gmail DOT com that will entice birders to visit or work with you when this pandemic is over. Put the blog post directly into the body of the email: we will not open attached documents.

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APRIL 12, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sadly, it did not cooperate for photographs so instead you get to see the Palm Warbler Corey spotted a bit later. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of those, the best was a Bay-breasted Warbler , which is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of the two, he chose the latter as his Best Bird of the Weekend, simply because he got a better photo of it. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JULY 11, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Such a great bird for the northeastern United States was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But the amazingly leucistic Bank Swallow ( Sand Martin if you prefer British English) that allowed Corey to digiscope it was simply too weird to not be the Best Bird of the Weekend! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. No, he’s not doing a county big year but he is enjoying finding so many birds in his home borough! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That was before he lived there and as such, Eared Grebe is easily his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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MAY 10, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. After that, what else could be his Best Bird of the Weekend? How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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APRIL 25, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sometimes they’re all just that good. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

His Best Bird of the Weekend would have been the Western Kingbird he found out in the Rockaways but, always conscious of the need for a photo for this blog post he chose instead to honor the Whimbrel he found on the beach the same morning, only his third Whimbrel sighting in Queens in the decade plus he’s lived there. How about you?

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Despite seeing good birds at both places his Best Bird of the Weekend was actually seen on Friday morning, when he spotted an Eastern Meadowlark at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, his first of the year! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He chased a Ruff on the Santa Ana River in Anaheim and such a cool vagrant automatically beat out other great birds like California Gnatcatcher to take his top spot for the weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not only that, the blog writers were fabulous. I had a blog of my own, but eventually I thought, I wonder if Mike and Corey would let a bird rehabber into their birder world? I kept searching for a head tilt or a wing droop, but there were none to be found.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The finch didn’t show up except for American Goldfinch , so he chose this common species as his Best Bird of the Weekend, as at least they showed up. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey, on the other hand, isn’t a very good birder and saw little of note this weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This one is apparently a Laelia autumnalis, known as Flor de los Muertos because it blooms on the Día de los Muertos — exactly the day when I saw this one bloom!

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MARCH 14, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The phoebe is easily Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But, of them all, his Best Bird of the Weekend was a new one for him for Ulster County, a Lincoln’s Sparrow. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. (Photo is not of either Whimbrel seen on Saturday.). How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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MAY 23, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Instead, his Best Bird of the Weekend was a Black Tern offshore in the Rockaways, his first in Queens in quite some time. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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AUGUST 9, 2020

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of them, the 17 Piping Plovers he saw were his best birds of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. His Best Bird of the Weekend was a nice Orange-crowned Warbler , his first of the fall, that cooperated nicely in the morning light for some photos. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Most of the breeders seemed to have departed already on their journeys south but he did enjoy a Barred Owl serenade in the wee hours of the morning two days in a row so the Barred Owl wins as his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of the species he did see, the young Little Blue Heron that has been around at Meadow Lake for weeks was the one he most enjoyed, so it is his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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