10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Many a birder with years of experience in the Neotropical region has never ever seen or heard an RVG. Speaking of cats, I am reminded of an experience a co-worker of mine had while surveying birds years ago in Washington state. He was of course happily flabbergasted. At that moment, a Puma ran across the road.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2015

Of course, Corey wasn’t actually the one to spot it. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I hit Lake Ontario for winter birds this weekend and walked away with a trio of Red-throated Loons. No matter who found it a Northern Saw-whet Owl is always a pleasure.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

I have put this post off for a couple of months now because I wanted to avoid dealing with the huge pile of American Bittern images I had after my experience at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January. Of course, I was unable to keep to just five, but I did keep it well under two hundred.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

The calendar year 2014 has just about run its course. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. And that’s a wrap. It’s all over but the year bird counting, so take stock of any species you’ve added this weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Which is just ridiculous, of course, because birders are clearly more heroic. Mike had already explained to us that, in his experience, Black Rails at St. Nonetheless, hearing tiny little rails in the midst of a vast marsh with a score of other birders while an amazing sunset lit up the sky was an awesome experience.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It was a very pleasant experience. And so they began blasting nightjar song while the bird was still singing, and of course it immediately shut up. Not because I think the birds will be traumatized by the experience, but because I just don’t want that experience to be my experience. Florida Canyon, AZ.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

Of course I will! My only other experience with an Audubon Club field trip anywhere, on a cold October morning in the American Midwest, was frankly kind of a bust. But this one was a wonderful experience. But will I bird? In fact, I already have.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

We’re still far from peak passerine passage, but getting closer every day… I had to move my bird feeder from its perfect position this weekend, because of–of course–squirrels. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2021

One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a rush any new birder experiences: that of every species being a lifer. Once you’ve been around the birding block a few years, your appreciation for the lifer experience deepens greatly. Which is why we all eventually turn to the one way to combine old-birder experience with new-birder opportunities: travel.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

So I did… When you’re offering reasons to pursue a particular course of action, more is often better. Once it comes time to actually explain how to pursue that course of action, however, your design imperative changes. Push every button you can find and hope that some of them stick.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

Except, of course, that some birds are also coming and going too. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This is an interesting time of year when people are coming and going while birds mostly sit still. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an out-of-place Common Merganser that looked very confused as to how it ended up in the only bit of open water by a fountain in a golf course pond in Corey’s hometown of Saugerties. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted. Eric DeFonso: “I think a ‘good guide’, in the most generic sense, is one who provides for a gratifying nature experience for his or her clients. A teacher.”.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

But, of course, it was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that paid off the most when Corey carefully scanned the margins of the West Pond and turned up a surprise American Bittern. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2013

I’ve spent most of my weekend beating my head against this blog (in a metaphorical sense of course.) If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How did that work out for you this weekend? Are you looking forward to more like it or hoping for better?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2020

Several have stayed in our home, and of course, invited us to their own homes. This lifer for both of us would have been our undisputed peak experience for the outing, if it had not been for the majestic sight of a pair of Great Swallow-tailed Swifts that flew near us at eye level. But, of course, I wanted more.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. The mighty Shoebill.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When I call this a rite of passage it’s because watching Short-eared Owls in winter in New York is one of the most miserably frigid experiences I’ve had as a birder – and one I’ve endured on more than one occasion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Of course, you can just recklessly say that you like music – but that would be foolish and almost guarantees you will have to listen to a mix of local folk music (preferably modernized by some electropop elements) and Celine Dion. I am not sure there is a good answer to the question above. Indeed, I fared a bit better this time.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2024

During the rainy season the Rupununi River shares a watershed with the Amazon and is connected to several other water courses via flooded plains. Cameras were still tucked away, but the experience left us all without words. The second bird followed suit, physics itself noisily straining to keep the bird airborne as it wheeled overhead.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2013

Of course we should seek reasons to celebrate every bird species we share our weekends with, but is the species that delights us most always the most memorable? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best (or worst) bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

I, of course, love a good river delta. You can get a sense of the breadth of my European birding experience by how many of my lifers have the word “Common” in their names. I also enjoyed seeing some old friends, always an interesting experience when one has travelled to the other side of the world.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2020

In the normal course of things, Corey’s first Eastern Phoebe of the year on Sunday morning would have easily been his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

This, of course, was a great boon for our group. Of course, the 67 species we saw in the upper and middle segments of Montezuma Peak Road included more than hummers, tanagers, and flycatchers. completed the experience. The experience, as magical as it was, feels far from complete. Leopoldina – Queen of the Mountain.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2022

Over the course of a single Arctic tern’s life (up to thirty years), these voyages can add up to a total distance of one and a half million, or roughly the distance of three roundtrips flight between the Earth and the Moon.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We nature bloggers were part of the scene, first as part of the seminal science carnival Tangled Bank and later with our own community carnivals like, of course, I and the Bird. TL; DR, the Nature Blog Network has run its course. Remember the blog carnival craze? The community, which is the only part that really mattered, lives on.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The evening of September 7, 2012 was a truly memorable birding experience. I just happened to be there to experience it. Of course, unexpected experiences such as this are one of the great appeals of birding. Sometimes they can be seen with a scope from shore. Sometimes they can be seen with a scope from shore.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Both species can theoretically breed in central Mexico, but in my experience are almost exclusively winter visitors. Of course, the super-abundance of marsh birds at Iramuco was not really a good thing, as it resulted from severe environmental stress factors. It preferred to not get out in front of the reeds, but was very close to me.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Of course, he sent this to me before he did his Queens County Christmas Bird Count on Sunday so who knows what his actual Best Bird of the Weekend was! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. Somehow it seemed fitting that after our last theme week – Bird Love Week – that we should spend a full seven days examining what could be the results of that theme. Can you handle the cuteness? Can you stand the anticipation?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2021

Birding Experiences. Of course, we reserve the right to lightly edit any posts we receive and/or refuse to print anything that we don’t find appropriate for this site or purpose. But first take a moment and click through to some of the wonderful submissions from the month of February. There’s something for everybody! Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well. The bird guides have not worked for over a year now, and of course being a young industry, most of the bird guides had invested in other alternative businesses.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

That assumes, of course, that he or she stays at Asa Wright Nature Centre. The walk to this evocative riparian grotto is actually rather short, but the experience feels akin to a ritual to anyone who has long anticipated dropping in on the diablotin. And English is the national language! I’m sure you’ll be as glad as I was.

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