10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2015

The first day of spring on Friday brought a snowstorm to New York City, hopefully winter’s last gasp, but the snow drove the redpoll to the feeders, the first of the year to show up at Forest Park this year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2020

The stifling temperatures of a New York City heat wave did what even the height of the COVID epidemic failed to do: they prevented Corey from doing a single dedicated birding outing this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

It is the first record of this invasive species for New York City and it served as a nice contrast to the hordes of pigeons in the neighborhood. 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?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

This weekend was great one for migration in the New York City region and a host of birds made their way in front of his binoculars. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was difficult to choose. Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2012

Though birds sing because it is a biological imperative I find it hard to believe that they don’t get some basic enjoyment out of the experience as well. I would add a third – for the sheer joy of it! I know I do!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sparrows have almost completely taken over for wood-warblers and temperatures are finally waning as is only proper.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Corey thoroughly enjoyed birding around Queens on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, hitting some of his favorite hotspots and leading a New York City Audubon Society trip at the Queens Botanical Garden. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2015

humidity so thick you can practically swim through the air, and the sweet stench of urine in the New York City subway all combine to make life miserable. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience or shared photos online, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

He thinks spring starts with his first migratory Eastern Phoebe of the year so for Corey spring started yesterday, though that might be hard to reconcile with blizzard predicted in New York City tonight and into tomorrow! 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, 2015

It was an exciting experience to see this heron going about its business from close range, close enough that I could hear the crabs being crushed. The Marine Nature Study Area is well worth a visit and I highly recommend that birders coming to the New York City area stop by.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

David Ringer , who recently moved to New York City, spotted it and was immediately confused by the jubilation this common bird caused in the Queens birders with whom he was birding. 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

JULY 21, 2019

Corey enjoyed a weekend upstate in his hometown, beating the heat that baked New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Northern Mockingbirds , for example, are charming any time of year but abundant right now in my part of the world.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2013

His best bird, however, was a bit of a surprise – a Winter Wren in Queens on Friday, a very late bird for New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If only we could recognize birds as individuals! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Corey had a lot of birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend after spending most of Saturday birding on Long Island and Sunday morning leading his New York City Audubon bird walk at Queens Botanical Garden. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

After all, when the president is in town you want to pull out all the stops, though I think I might have taken it too far when I tried to convince him that the cicadas had emerged only after hearing that he would be in New York City. The sound of so many cicadas is just awesome, as is the sight of so many cicadas.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2017

He had better luck on Sunday, seeing a host of autumn migrants including his Best Bird of the Weekend, an Orange-crowned Warbler at the Queens Botanical Garden that he spotted just before the New York City Audubon bird walk he led. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

Corey didn’t get out birding at all this weekend because he instead was squiring his nieces around New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. A visit to the South Street Seaport did enable to see a few birds on the East River, among them a Common Tern.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Obviously, your experience may have diverged from the norm. His Best Bird of the Weekend was a young Red-tailed Hawk that landed close by the beginner bird walk he was leading at the Queens Botanical Garden for New York City Audubon. How did it go for you? My consolation prize was a large raft of American Coots.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2015

I had racked up only twenty-odd species, all of which I’d have to be blindfolded to not see if I spent a year in New York City. On the whole, though, I had a lovely experience with the Naturas, and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone who is looking for binoculars long on brightness and short on neck pain.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Corey had a huge number of birds to choose from this weekend as northwest winds were continuous through New York City all weekend long. 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It was in the great borough of Queens in New York City that I first discovered both beer and birding, two great loves of my life that happily intersect with great regularity here at Birds and Booze. We were fans of the Dominican lager El Presidente (mostly on account of the cool name) and Guinness was always a favorite.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling. And, the young girl, Ruby, is a unique individual–a girl with too much energy for a city apartment.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

It has now returned to seek revenge and wreak havoc in Ontario county before moving on to New York City. But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves. Why so serious, Corey? Mwahahahahaaaaar!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Enjoying these locations over time allows us to experience our beloved birding sites in all their multifaceted glory, even when those facets aren’t exactly glorious. Corey did not see a ton of birds this weekend as he didn’t want to deal too much with the rainy weather that plagued New York City.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Corey, on the other hand, had a wonderful weekend of fall birding whether it was doing a survey at Edgemere Landfill in the rain and wind on Saturday morning or leading a New York City Audubon field trip at the Queens Botanical Garden on Sunday. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Corey did not have a plethora of pleasing species from which to choose his Best Bird of the Weekend this weekend but he supposed that the American Kestrel that perched up for the New York City Audubon field trip he led at Queens Botanic Garden on Sunday morning will have to suffice. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I found myself in a beautiful part of New York that was so remote that birds apparently couldn’t find it. Corey was pleased to enjoy another lovely autumn weekend in New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2018 New York City New York Jamaica 127

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2018

I enjoyed a very birdy weekend with all sorts of expected New York and Pennsylvania fall faves and one rare Wilson’s Phalarope to pad my year list. 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?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

It is my belief that the birds were migrating, though one New York birder suggested that they might have been flying out for some crepuscular feeding. Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2019

Corey enjoyed leading a New York City Audubon bird walk at Forest Park on Saturday morning and visiting Breezy Point on Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Fortunately, I was able to spot one extremely quiet and still bird… I think it was frozen!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

I didn’t wander far from home this weekend, but luckily a ton of new birds came to me. Corey endured a dreary and drizzly weekend in New York City with only a few good birds to help pass the time. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2018

His Best Bird of the Weekend was either of a pair of young White-crowned Sparrows he found in Kissena Park in Queens, a good bird for winter in New York City! 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?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

An immense irruption of Evening Grosbeak occurred in 1962, “when thousands were in the New York City area alone.” It helps us think about birds and birding as an ever changing process, and it enhances the birding experience, making it more than just getting the “tick.” ” 3.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! I can’t wait to be in Florida!

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Wildlife Bald Eagle 2015 New York City 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Plus tales of birding from the point of view of the traveling cyclist. There are also surprises.

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