Experience Experiments North Dakota 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2018
If you like birds on posts, if seeing “little brown jobs” posing nicely in the distance as you drive or walk along a dirt road only to have it fly away as you approach makes you deliriously happy, then North Dakota is the place for you. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state.
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. White Lake, North Dakota. Oh wait, it doesn’t.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77. I have put together a video to help you feel the experience I was a privy to on this beautiful fall morning at the refuge. You can check your state’s refuges here , listed by state.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2011
Kirby Adams had a magical experience with his Best Bird of the Year and he blogged about it on his blog, Sharp Tern. While I had heard Yellow Rails in North Dakota in 2010, to see this Ohio Review Species fly, not once but twice, right in front of me was an incredible experience.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2011
I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2013
Indeed, can you truly experience the wonder of nature from the confines of a vehicle? This is one of many Black Terns flying low over a bridge at Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Always, always, have binoculars and camera within reach when you are driving around on a birding trip. Does that sound so bad?
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2011
I imagine these explorers had the same reaction as the Lewis and Clark expedition as they moved from the tallgrass prairies of North Dakota and Montana into the northern Rockies of western Montana. I learned early and often when I moved to Colorado that a birder will have to up their physical ante to experience some of these birds.
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