10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
However, this past weekend I was able to get out for a couple hours to take in a phenomenon that birders in North Carolina have rarely seen of late. The Poler Vortex that has sunk much of the North American continent into the deep freeze has had an effect on us on the margins as well. Trips ducks North Carolina winter'
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2018
This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. This year, traveling in April instead of February, we decided to do a road trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And feel free to leave additional recommendations for good birding stops on the drive between New York and North Carolina.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2014
It can be boring, for sure, but my own birding lately has been pretty much exclusively in service of my home county list, that of Guilford County, North Carolina. For most North American birders, Sora is the most familiar Rallid on the continent. It’s hard to get over your initial impression of a bird or family.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
Granted, it’s not always on a scale we can readily appreciate, and we humans are much more attuned to the differences in each other because that’s how we recognize friends, family, and celebrities on the street, but when a bird is even slightly different from the norm, it’s generally the more expected species than the unexpected.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Evening Grosbeaks have been reported flying overhead across the state (even practically in my backyard), a couple Common Redpoll s made the listserv, and a trio of White-winged Crossbill s spend a few days at a botanical garden on North Carolina’s coast, the first such sightings in decades down here.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 30, 2015
But sometimes the stars align perfectly, as they did a couple weeks ago, in the form of North Carolina’s first record of Townsend’s Solitaire. The species has been on my personal radar for North Carolina for years. I’ve taken them on twitches before , but it’s always been a dicey proposition.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2011
There was a time, a few years back, when I had some really good luck getting on a run of first state records for North Carolina. Fortunately for me, most of the recent new additions to the North Carolina list have been birds that have stuck around long enough for masses of state birders to get on.
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