Blog Breeders Hunting 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2016
Mid-June has so much to offer in the temperate zones, with breeders in one half of the world and migrants in the other. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Barn Swallow that kept him company in a bird blind while Seaside Sparrows sang and Common Terns hunted in Wildwood, NJ. And to those of you in the polar zones, just why ?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2024
My way of squeezing more blog posts out of my birding trips. Surprisingly, the chance of a nest being robbed is greater in the forest interior than close to the road, as three of the four predator species listed above (all except the magpie) prefer hunting there. Here are a few photos from the area.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Dragan seems to be confused as to what blog he writes on, as his BBOTY isn’t even a bird, but here’s how he described his encounter in his blog post : The next morning, through Yellowhammers and Eurasian Skylarks singing all around me, I went birding. If three times is a charm what is four times?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Having come back to the blog in whatever form and persistency, the overarching subject of language in birding seemed to be a suitable and deserving theme since bird names were part of my original beat. Hunting in Germany is a very traditional pursuit and thus has a very specific and complex code of conduct. You know, cavity breeders.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2023
To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.
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