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On Sunday he explored a variety of his favorite Queens locations and enjoyed a wide variety of fall migrants and lingering breeders. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. 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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
Traveling really rejuvenates the passion when local breeders become banal. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. His song, “C hanges in latitude, changes in birding attitude” really rings true when you’re on the road. How about you?
But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If May represents the apex of avian observation opportunities in most areas, June signals the slide down the slope towards a truly tedious valley.
Are these, I ask gesturing figuratively around me, all the winter visitors or resident breeders we’ll be observing for the next few months? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The rush of migration seems to have ended just about everywhere in the world. How about you?
Weather patterns have been far from ideal for us to get our last big burst of migrating spring songbirds and the parks seemed relatively quiet this weekend, with few but local breeders there to be seen. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
Now how about those birds… Corey has really beaten the summertime birding blues by focusing on the best of what the season of resident breeders has to offer: baby birds! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! Patience, thus, is key.
Spotting Blackpoll Warblers around here breaks bittersweet; obviously, anyone would enjoy spotting one of these monochromatic songbirds, but with this late migrant comes the promise of months of little more than resident breeders. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Mid-June has so much to offer in the temperate zones, with breeders in one half of the world and migrants in the other. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Those of you in the tropical zones can enjoy your resident birds in peace for once. How about you?
There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.
Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive.
For those males who pride themselves on being good karaoke singers, it may be pleasing to hear that among male Japanese Thrushes, males breeding with two females tended to have more various trills than monogamous male breeders ( source ). Not this one though.
I imagine the female bosses the male around, but maybe I am anthropomorphizing there based on my experience in recently working on an apartment with my wife. But then, I am not a cooperative breeder either (nor a non-cooperative one, should this term exist). Such a cute bird deserves a better representation.
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