10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2020

Learn to read the signs, and you’ll be able to tell the time of year just by which species cross your path… I had the chance to observe some interesting avian activity along the lakeshore this weekend, but the Eastern Bluebirds down in rural Pennsylvania were most distinctively colorful, which counts for a lot with me.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

The Philadelphia Metro Wildlife Center in Norristown covers four Pennsylvania counties (including Philadelphia) and takes in over 3000 animals a year. Here’s a can-you-top this tale of cutting down trees in the springtime.

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Wildlife Philadelphia Wildlife Rehabilitation Raccoons 259

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AUGUST 9, 2024

billion Arizona: $821 million Pennsylvania: $725 million Michigan: $659 million Nevada: $576 million New York: $437 million North Carolina: $435 million Ohio: $386 million Georgia: $383 million Florida: $383 million Wisconsin: $362 million Of course, all states are important to advertise to. The highest spenders are: California: $1.19

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

From 29 September through 1 October, the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philly, will host the third annual American Birding Expo. Optics companies, tour companies, birding festivals, publishers, and wide array of other exhibitors will be present.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ll be heading down to rural Pennsylvania to try to spot some southbound migrants. But don’t look too far ahead if you live in the Northern Hemisphere… the dead of winter looms in the distance. Look up instead; you may just see lots of raptors. Corey will likely be doing the same in the NYC area. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south.

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North Dakota Turkey Pennsylvania New York 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I’m heading down to rural Pennsylvania this weekend to see what migrants might be turning up on the old farm. Argue all you wish about the Great Age of Exploration and exploitation of indigenous peoples. I’ll refrain from getting political for once and just go look at birds! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

There are several states with 100-199 species: North Carolina (172, unchanged), Washington (171, up from 144), Michigan (159, unchanged), Virginia (147, up from 122), North Dakota (141, unchanged), Idaho (129, up from 57); New Mexico (112, unchanged); Massachusetts (110, up from 81); Colorado (106, unchanged), and Pennsylvania (109, up from 102).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

Growing up in western Pennsylvania, she explored nearby woodlands with her mother, a naturalist, who encouraged her daughter to observe all of nature, which ultimately led to Carson’s early stories about birds. Even as she wrote of birds, it seems that Rachel Carson loved the ocean and found it, even in the wide open sky over Pennsylvania.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2016

I enjoyed autumnal splendor down in rural Pennsylvania at that perfect moment when lush green foliage begins to mix with brilliant red, orange, and gold. The month eases you in, docile as a lamb, but promises to bite you on the back end. Hope you took advantage of one of the more gentle weekends this month has to offer.

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Lamb Pennsylvania 2016 Jamaica 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

On August 21st, Maryjane Angelo of Skye’s Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation in Pennsylvania received a call from a man who said his nephew was standing in the middle of a rural road, guarding a Bald Eagle. The program was successful, and the number of Pennsylvania eagles climbed.

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Pennsylvania Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

If you have never been to Hawk Mountain , Pennsylvania during fall migration I would strongly recommend a visit. Pennsylvania Young Birders Many thanks to Nikon , Cabela’s and Hawk Mountain for making this event so special. I had once thought that there were WAY too few young birders coming through.

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Bald Eagle Pennsylvania Sanctuary Hunters 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2015

I enjoyed a nice selection of sparrows and raptors in Pennsylvania farm country, with a pair of bold and noisy Red-shouldered Hawks taking the prize. A beautiful weekend for watching birds demands beautiful people watching birds. Were you out there?

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Pennsylvania 2015 Farming Sparrows 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I’m not sure the cidermakers of Wyndridge Farm Cidery of Dallastown, Pennsylvania had any of this in mind when they chose a Cedar Waxwing to adorn the label of their Wyndridge Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider.

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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. Anyone who didn’t spend this past weekend somewhere in the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere missed out!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

At 8, everything was far away, distant, and foreign, even Pennsylvania. We were going to make the long drive to far away Pennsylvania and stay in the cabin for a few precious, amazing days. They were waiting in the wild places but how could I get there? Fred talked to us now and then about the wild and wooded state.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

All of those birds also fly to and from the woods of Pennsylvania to parts of the Amazon rainforest and back. Many Red-eyed Vireos have seen Harpy Eagles , have kept still upon hearing the haunting calls of forest-falcons. The same can be said of Scarlet Tanagers, Canada Warblers and Eastern Wood-Pewees. Literally in the millions.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I’m headed down to rural Pennsylvania this weekend, hoping to chance upon a grouse or other bird of the hinterlands. Of the town closed as the town awoke. I fear that, were a paean to the tenth month be written today, the focus would not be on birds but rather pumpkin spice lattes!

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Pennsylvania Horses 2015 Farming 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Not all of them call but enough do to remind me of summer sojourns in places like Letchworth State Park , and the forests of the Niagara frontier and eastern Pennsylvania. In this part of country, every other post and branch in edge and forest gaps can seem to host an Eastern Wood-Pewee. Western Wood-Pewee.

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AUGUST 29, 2014

I’ll be taking a break from my labors to explore remote parts of Pennsylvania for anything resembling a migratory bird. While we used to honor the American Labor movement during this time, we’ve turned our collective focus from work to play and plenty of it. Hope you’re on board!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2015

I took a family trip down to rural Pennsylvania, where I can always count on seeing an abundance of Eastern Kingbirds … and I did. The past week has been invigorating for Americans who support freedom, dignity, and equality. Hopefully you celebrated by enjoying some fine birds!

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Pennsylvania 2015 Sparrows Birds 158

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We’re heading down on Saturday to northwestern Pennsylvania, a land that winter relinquishes unwillingly and late. Make no mistake, areas like mine have plenty of cold and snow still in store for the next month or two. But wherever you live, you’ve surely seen signs of the next season as well.

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Bats Pennsylvania 2018 Birds 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I’m only getting away for a night in rural Pennsylvania, but hope that the feeders at my mother-in-law’s place are buzzing with activity. Whether you’re home or away this weekend, reward yourself with some birds! Corey plans some modest birding in Queens while he packs for yet another amazing trip.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2016

I’m headed down to rural Pennsylvania, where fun birds and dark skies no doubt await. Yes, real summer doesn’t begin for another three weeks yet, but when weather heats up and non-breeding birds become increasingly scarce, spring is over! How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Pennsylvania United States 2016 Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Beth McMaster, a wildlife rehabilitator with Wildbird Recovery in Western Pennsylvania, says the first time a crew arrived she threatened to chain herself to one of her trees. You can also report it to your state Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Environmental Protection, or Fish and Game. 5) Display attitude.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Laws Game 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Corey will be doing the same at an undisclosed location in Pennsylvania. I’ll be running around Rochester juggling an assortment of activities while keeping my eyes to the skies for migrants. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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Pennsylvania 2014 Birds 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

I was very happy to see Black Vultures circling in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, since vultures don’t hang around western New York during the winter months. For some of us, the weekend still rolls on. But come Monday morning, we need to consider the spoils of a well-spent weekend. Birds count.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Hornaday, once director of the New York Zoological Garden, wrote that a naturalist in a county of northern Pennsylvania claimed to have fed a flock of 300 pigeons during the autumn of about 1903. Another nature lover of central Pennsylvania, John H. He claims to have watched the bird for about twenty minutes. Tice (July 2001).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Whether you’re a young’un (like the Pennsylvania Young Birders photographed by James , above) or an old’un, you’ve probably got a story to share. It was also present when the super-rare-for-the-U.S. Amazon Kingfisher and Eurasian Sparrowhawk were sighted, and when Neil Hayward set a new Big Year record. So what are you waiting for?

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Pennsylvania 2014 Branding Birds 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

You’ll have your chance three weekends from now, 15-16 October, at the Extreme Raptor Weekend in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Or Mike Freiberg , beat writer on 10,000 Birds and Nikon Birding Marker Specialist ? Yeah, me too! Want to know more? Check out the video below… Sounds great, no?

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Hamburgers Pennsylvania Birds 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2015

But apparently Fred was not alone because over the last three years quite a few people from Michigan, Ontario, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska have chimed in to say that they too, grew up stamping robins and some mentioned passing it on to their children and grandchildren.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Yuengling & Son of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, as well as the latter-day craft beer forerunner, Samuel Adams Boston Lager from the Boston Brewing Company. Vienna lager brewed to even higher strength came to be known as Oktoberfest (or Märzen) and was for many years the most popular beer associated with that annual festival in Munich.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

The infamous Labor Day Pigeon Shoot was held in Hegins, Pennsylvania from 1921 until it was closed down in 1998. Eventually the operators of the shoot were sued, the case climbed through the courts, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously against it, calling it “cruel and moronic.”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, in all of its infinite wisdom, has shot down a bill to ban “pigeon shoots” which consist of live pigeons being released from cages directly in front of men with shotguns. Sickos and poor shots, rejoice!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

They’re better predictors than that more famous overgrown rat in Pennsylvania, bob-bob-bobbing along with the first warm winds to begin caroling from our maples and stalking our lawns. It’s not really spring until the American Robins return, they say. We birders know better, of course. Love robins?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

Mike enjoyed a bevy of rural Pennsylvania feeder birds this weekend. I could have chosen any of the four Snowy Owls I saw this weekend as myBest Bird of the Weekend but I decided that I preferred a Purple Sandpiper at Breezy Point, Queens, (pictured above) mostly because it was feeding on a jetty while waves crashed over it. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Because Corey was busy celebrating Desi’s upcoming birthday this weekend with a trip to Great Wolf Lodge in Pennsylvania’s Poconos, he didn’t get out on a single birding outing. Hope the birds of your next several months have started to settle in too!

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