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Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common. Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. Maybe Kentucky has it right.
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Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. But in many states, any idiot with 20 bucks can get a permit to own a non-native, captive-bred bird of prey.
Seeing the radio show in CMAC’s splendid open air venue made the experience even more genteel, but the performers had a hard time competing with very vocal American Robins greeting the dusk with song. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# Duck MigrationSandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!Avian It was a great experience. Share Your Thoughts « Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! What a spectacle indeed.
Corey’s BBOTW was a singing Kentucky Warbler at Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester County on a family outing… nice find! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
It’s an experience I can’t recommend highly enough. I always knew this on some level but my appreciation was renewed and focused when I took a tree identification class in Prospect Park this past weekend.
His Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one though, as he found a Kentucky Warbler in Forest Park on Friday morning, only his fifth sighting of the species in Queens ever and his earliest by four days. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?
Among the many first-of-the-year birds he saw his Best Bird of the Weekend was a Kentucky Warbler that he really had to work for in Alley Pond Park. 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?
Had we visited during winter, the rainforest portion would almost certainly have yielded tons of warblers; winter residents include Kentucky , Blue-winged , and Golden-winged Warblers along with both waterthrushes. The trail also passes a number of lagoons reputed to be the best chance in Honduras for Anhinga.
Most of all, the time and effort is worth it when we see new birds, surpass our goals, and when we share those trying, challenging, exuberant and triumphant times with others because the birding party is always better, always stronger, when you you can enjoy the experience with like-minded souls.
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Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Lifers included Cape May, Tennessee, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Blackpoll, Kentucky, Canada, and Blue-winged warblers. Geography is destiny. They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J.
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