10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

In that sense, June is no different than any other month, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. You may, if fortune favors you, hit good weather or birds. On the other hand, if fate turns fickle, you’ll miss the good stuff entirely. Rumor (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

The trick is to make sure your path crosses those of the right birds at the right time. 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?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Right now, though, we can watch and listen and enjoy. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. May is a time for birding. We have the slow weeks and months for reading, writing, and dreaming about the birds we’d rather be seeing. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

While I was on a call with Corey, what should fly into the tree right outside my window but a Yellow-throated Warbler ? This species is quite rare during migration in my area and this bird was, in one sense, way too early but, for my purposes, right on time. The Best Bird of my weekend was a real find. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The weekend found me in the Fairbanks area, where the dominant bird right now has to be Sandhill Cranes. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I spent the last week in Alaska chasing all kinds of excitement but finding fewer birds than I’d hoped.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Nonetheless, November can really cook when the birding conditions are just right. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. This month doesn’t really resemble the migratory months or the more staid and settled spans of summer and winter. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

But next season’s specialties are right around the corner… In the face of cold winds and chill rain, I decided to keep my proverbial powder dry this 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

OCTOBER 26, 2014

They sat right out in the open and allowed for extended digiscoping opportunities. 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? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It was a very pleasant experience. 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. Ironically, he eventually saw it because as it was making it’s escape, it flew right by him. That’s right. It happens.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But this experience which I’m about to relate to you was much more significant than chasing a rarity. Having extensive experiences with this species did not prevent me from enjoying them, for as I said – they show themselves. You can still check the spoonbill out in all its innocence here. Aplomado Falcon. Frustrated, yes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

I was especially pleased that a Virginia Rail (pictured above) was hanging out by a puddle right at the edge of the road when I arrived. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. There’s always good birds to be found there. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

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.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

So best of luck to any and all creatures striving towards a distant horizon right now. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Nearly everywhere in the world, birds are on the wing, not just traveling to and from their daily haunts but returning to their ancestral circuit.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These thirty-eight years of experience went fast but that is what happens when you have fun, right? Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February. My name is Paulo Boute. I have been leading birding trips all over Brazil since 1982.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

I am not only surprised but shocked at my second lifer of the month right here in Monroe County. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Nothing unusual in your backyard yet? Keep looking… November 2020 appears full of surprises. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

February feels like a step forward to our next season, but we’ll still be as mired in winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere, at month’s end as we are right now. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Learn to love it! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: “Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.” And that experience has recently put me in a role of an ecotourism consultant in a project aiming at creation of a local ecotourism product.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Considering Broome often experiences cyclones and strong winds it does make sense for the birds to build a more substantial nest to survive the extreme weather. The Crested Pigeon will breed at any time of year if the conditions are right.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

That’s the Kingfisher at the right; on the left was one of the area’s many European Stonechats. 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. Gee, I hope I got this one right.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2024

These feathered friends have a special place in my heart—right next to stepping on a Lego barefoot and stubbing my toe on the bedframe. Allow me to share with you two traumatic experiences that have cemented my deep-seated aversion to these audacious avians. Trust me, I speak from experience. And then, there are seagulls.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2020

But my experience suggests there is a fair amount of geographical overlap between the two ranges in my area. However, in the right habitat I can actually get tired of hearing the lilting song of our endemic Slate-throated Redstart. swee swee-swee-swee-sweeziweet. chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-ssiu-ssiu-ssiu-ssiu.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

You know what that means, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We’re barreling towards an equinox, which signals a lot more than just a shift in local patterns of day and night. Spring may be coming, but the Great Lakes region still lies mired in icy winter.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right… NFL football is back, baby! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We are all entitled to our illusions about ourselves, but the truth will out on Saturday and Sunday! What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2020

When bird activity flags, we can focus our bins and scopes on various other flora and fauna, as well as celestial bodies under the right conditions. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did anyone get a good look at Comet NEOWISE this weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

First and foremost, not every weekend offers ideal conditions for spotting snow birds, but a little patience almost guarantees that the right conditions come along. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did your patience pay off this weekend? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

When you can’t search reports, compile lists, or (as I’m struggling to do right now) post birding blogs without waiting for hours for pages to load, everything feels less efficient, which means less time to do what you wanted to do in the first place: seek the best views of birds. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

They got the message right. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. km long bird path leading to the Palic 2 hide – ignore the confusing arrows pointing left, the path goes over the dyke at the right hand side). And so did I.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2019

And a few years later, I read of her experience birding with me at one of the larger birding web sites and learned that E. had every right to feel worried, with or without a reason. Anyway it was a great experience with you and I am glad that I took the chance.”. What were your experiences with bird guides? I was nervous.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It is not a concept for a total beginner, more of a reminder to someone with some experience. And the paintings are just the right thing to dream over on long winter evenings. Having personal experience with some of those illustrations used in the field, in Europe and in Africa (and remembering them, from mousebirds to orioles, etc.),

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

It did not take long before we had a family group of Tufted Jays right by the side of the road (KM 216) and an uncommon Gray-collared Becard at the same spot. These striking and inquisitive jays were perhaps the bird of the trip for me, and we took our time to soak in the experience of encountering these wonderful birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2014

We’ve all been there, right? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Can the best bird of your weekend be one you didn’t see? Obviously, not seeing a desired bird can place the offender in the Worst Bird of the Weekend category. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

And my decision to take this as a learning experience led to some interesting conclusions — and even some pretty cool birds. Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. I had already chosen to go back up to Lake Cuitzeo on this particular day (October 25th). Wet mudflats are the muddiest mudflats.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2020

Around midnight, I heard the most emphatic grunting right outside my window–unexpected because I was on the second floor. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

I did however manage to be in the right place at the right time to experience a gang of Magnificent Frigatebirds that had a Red-footed Booby surrounded. It was this post right here on 10,000 Birds I ended up bookmarking as the definitive source for ID’ing these two species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2015

Many of these species were very high on my life bird wish list, and the country itself would be a totally new experience: a vibrant and enchanting culture, a varied and tasty cuisine, and stunning and new landscapes. After working so hard for them the previous night, we heard many owls (a couple at close range) right up until sunrise.

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

Due to the plethora of bird species around, invariably we were to experience something breathtaking. These two Muscovy drakes brutally battled for about ten minutes right in front of us. They all coexist harmoniously, apart from the fish perspective that is. They are all free-flying and can choose to stay or leave as they please.

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