10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Corey enjoyed getting out on birding outings both mornings of the weekend, and was out in nature with his family both afternoons. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Needless to say, he has quite a few birds to choose from in terms of his Best Bird of the Weekend.

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Squirrels Louisiana Birds Family 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Corey got his Best Bird of the Weekend early this weekend as while he and his family were making their way home from a week-long vacation in Cape Cod on Friday a Black-throated Gray Warbler was found in Queens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. His wonderful family agreed to drive straight there before going home and Corey got a new Queens bird!

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2020 Jamaica Birds Family 155

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2020

Corey enjoyed camping with family and friends for the long weekend after getting tested for COVID and coming up negative. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Owls Birds Family 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2021

Corey was extremely pleased to finally get out and about birding again after his family all caught COVID and recovered. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Texas New York Owls Birds 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2020

However, my best birds showed up much closer to home in the form of a chattering House Wren family which apparently displaced my usual Carolina Wren. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I need more birds!! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Birds Family Experience 169

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

At least I didn’t have to travel far for great birds; my whole family thrilled to the sight of an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk chowing down on an unspecified rodent in our yard. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 New York City Rodents New York 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2020

However, my whole family did take time to appreciate the understated beauty of Mourning Doves. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. All this time in front of a computer has me craving an epic hike but we barely got off our block this weekend. How about you?

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2020 Birds Family Experience 165

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MARCH 22, 2020

You may have experienced one of the weirdest weekends of your life, what with all bars and restaurants closed and people maintaining a healthy distance from even close friends and family. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2020 ALA Birds Family 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2020

But it was during an outing to Rockaway Beach with his family on Sunday afternoon that he saw his Best Bird of the Weekend, his first Piping Plover of the year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. In fact, he saw six! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 Owls Birds Family 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2023

As usual, my experience with such boardwalks was somewhat underwhelming, as was Eshowe as a whole, but there were still a few birds worth mentioning at the forest and in the area surrounding Eshowe. At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture.

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South Africa Africa 2018 Birds 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2021

Shorebirds – or “shorbs” for the cuteness factor (as if that needed any enhancement) – remain one of the most fascinating families of birds for me. The first post I ever prepared for this blog centred around a search for a vagrant Curlew Sandpiper here in my native Trinidad.

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Buffalo Kenya Trinidad 2019 264

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MAY 25, 2020

Those of us in the United States are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend, normally a time to gather with friends and family for barbecues, beach outings, and other fun group activities. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2020 United States Breeders New York 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2019

Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Share the details! Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt.

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2019 New York California Hunting 125

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Most Americans celebrated a long weekend filled with a lot (maybe too much) food, family, and shopping. My family actually pays attention to eagles too, which makes them more interesting to see. My family actually pays attention to eagles too, which makes them more interesting to see. How about you?

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2018 Bald Eagle New Jersey New York 114

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2019

My extended family from The Bronx visited us this weekend for some upstate festivities. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The end of August keeps most of us in the Northern Hemisphere busy, what with the impending end of summer and all that. How about you?

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2019 Costa Rica Bald Eagle New York 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Corey finished up his family trip to Costa Rica on Saturday and his Best Bird of the Weekend should be a Pacific Screech-Owl outside of his hotel on Friday night, a lifer! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Costa Rica Pelicans Birds 121

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JULY 28, 2019

Though Corey arrived in Southern California late Friday night, he didn’t get much birding in this weekend other than dipping on a Nazca Booby at Dana Point after delaying his departure to go look for it to accompany his family to the beach. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 California Birds Raised 120

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JANUARY 20, 2019

I’ve been chasing a family of Trumpeter Swans from one patch of open water to the next. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But no matter what infernal heat, abyssal chill, or thunderous precipitation blasts a place, birds still endure and often thrive. How about you?

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2019 Birds Family Experience 115

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2015

I took a family trip down to rural Pennsylvania, where I can always count on seeing an abundance of Eastern Kingbirds … and I did. It could have been and of a trio of amazingly cooperative herons at Marine Nature Study Area but he decided to save them for other blog posts. Hopefully you celebrated by enjoying some fine birds!

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Pennsylvania 2015 Sparrows Birds 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2017

On Saturday he dragged his family to the Adirondack Mountains to see a stake out Great Gray Owl in Keene, a first for all three in the family. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. ” How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2017 Owls Woodpeckers Birds 111

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Car troubles keep shutting my birding plans down, but at least I got out with the family to cut down our Christmas tree. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Another weekend in the books means that this calendar year is almost over. How about you?

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2018 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2019

I fell into the latter camp, with cold rain dashing my family’s Father’s Day hike and any interest I had in leaving the house. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Unfortunately, without sunshine and high temps, this time of year becomes a bit of a bore.

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2019 Blackbirds Birds Family 114

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APRIL 19, 2015

Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. And also birds, also cool! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 Birds Family Experience 175

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JUNE 21, 2015

I took my family on Sunday to explore a stretch of the flat but fancy Lehigh Valley Railroad Trail. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This weekend delivered the longest days of the year to those of us on the top half of the world. How about you?

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2015 Jamaica Hunting Birds 165

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I haven’t always acted in accordance with this philosophy, but those avian observation excursions undertaken with friends or family loom larger in mind than the ones I took alone. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Birds 118

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

No, he just brought his family to the area he knew one was hiding and waited for Daisy to make the discovery. 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. How about you?

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2015 Owls Birds Family 176

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

Corey greatly enjoyed his weekend in the beautiful Catskill Mountains of upstate New York with family and friends. His favorite, and therefore his Best Bird of the Weekend, was actually a family of Eastern Phoebes , in particular the four fledglings. That level of cute is tough to top! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Colombia 2014 New York Birds 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

But Corey also hit up the Forest Park bird feeders with his family Saturday afternoon and Desi, his five-year-old, was so taken with a Red-bellied Woodpecker (the one above) that Corey had to choose it as his favorite bird of the weekend too. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2015 Birds Woodpeckers Family 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

While I saw some pretty special species this weekend, the most special was the Gray Catbird because my sweet 7-year niece totally got into finding one; I think I’ve found the next generation birder in the family! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2014 Birds Family Experience 201

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JULY 8, 2018

The reason I ask is because my family and I visited the Bronx Zoo this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. How about you?

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2018 Zoos Raised Birds 100

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the several Black Vultures that went overhead during a family hike to Anthony’s Nose in the Hudson Valley. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Bears 2015 New York Birds 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. This is particularly helpful for bird families that might be new to birders.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

If, on the other hand, you managed to eke out a bird of interest this weekend, tell us all about it… I brought the family to Chimney Bluffs State Park, a magnificent slice of New York currently suffering from extremely high levels on Lake Ontario. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Virginia New York Suffering 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

If you read my weekly posts bookending theweekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and flow of each season impacts out experience of the natural world must inform our efforts to observe avifauna if we want to optimize our experience. Birding best bird weekend'

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2014 New York California Birds 167

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

I ask because, despite my deep affection for warmth, indoor plumbing, and uninterrupted Internet access, I found myself and my family enjoying an overnight out of doors. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Why is camping so interesting? How about you?

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Philadelphia 2014 Birds Family 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2018

Mike, too, chose a bluebird as his Best Bird of the Weekend, though his was a different species seeing as he and his family avoided the cruelty of April by being in California. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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North Carolina Cruelty 2018 United States 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

April bears the most fruit for my family tree, including my own bad apple birthday this week. Does your family celebrate a lot of April birthdays? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 174