10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

Hayward, a 39-year old Brit who relocated to Massachusetts for work reasons and stayed, even developing a love of baseball (his Red Sox hat was famously one of his field marks in 2013), started his Big Year late. Note to self–next time you’re down or angry about dipping on a bird, think of Neil.) Neil Hayward.

2013 157

2013 Arizona San Diego Massachusetts 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

These were the sounds I heard as I walked around a small pond in Amherst, Massachusetts last week, looking for dragonflies, listening for birds. The “peeks” were loud and high-pitched.

Reptiles 244

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).

New York City 259

New York City Fox Owls California Condor 259

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nick Lund pretty much says it all when he writes, “Maine left Massachusetts in 1820 to become its own state and took the best of New England with it” (p. American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Maine. we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse.

Los Angeles 246

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 246