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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

By odd, of course, I mean absolutely lovely. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Last week, I mentioned how odd the weather has been around here. I know these patterns are atypical for western New York. Enough phenology… let’s get down to some field ornithology!

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Tanzania has an enormous variety of exquisite birds but unfortunately it has an equal number of distractions that can interrupt your birding experience. Still reacting to the experience, the female sends a clear signal to the now retreating male. Take these pesky Lions for instance.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MAY 21, 2011

You see, for various reasons, I’ve been unable to put myself in the proper place to experience the kaleidoscopic madness of spring migration. The blessing brings with it certain downsides of course; writing this, for example, is taking forever because I keep watching the Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers outside my office window.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Of course, one must ask – if these guys lacked the one of the primary disadvantage of most 8x42s, did they lack the advantages as well? Of course, no binocular can be all things at once. Did I have a lovely experience with the birds as well? And the brightness was fantastic.

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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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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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JULY 28, 2013

Of course, the reasons why robins might mob a crow are obvious, but I never attributed a mob mentality to that species! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How refined are your tastes in nature? The best birds of my weekend, believe it or not, were American Robins mobbing a crow.

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MAY 27, 2012

A three-day weekend, of course, unless you can swing four or more! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What’s better than a two-day weekend? Here in the United States, we’re in the midst of the Memorial Day weekend. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What my previous experience had not prepared me for, was that this summer I would see many of those species for the first time all at once. Of course, several resident Warblers were also present: Crescent-chested , Grace’s , Golden-browed , and Red Warblers , and our always common Slate-throated Redstart.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. .” And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MAY 27, 2013

Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count.

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