10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2018
When it comes to initiatives that promote birding, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is hard to beat. The lab at Sapsucker Woods is where we find thousands of nature recordings housed at the Macauley Library. Numerous projects take place that monitor bird populations and help educate people of all ages about birds. The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2018
In the very back of my first bird identification field guide ( Audubon , green, Eastern US) there were several blank pages. Since neither the Internet nor eBird were even a thought, that’s where I collected the place names of my birding bucket list. Along with Hawk Mountain and the Platte River, there were two destinations in Texas near the top of the page – Padre Island National Seashore and the Rio Grande Valley.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
We are now at the tail end of our time in Australia, but I feel like we are ending it with a bang. 8 days in the Darwin area, which includes Fogg Dam, Kakadu National Park, Cooroboree, Yellow Water, and at least a dozen other non-planned stops would provide all the excitement I could handle. We start our first day with a visit to Fogg Dam, a project that was to have been a rice growing area, turned into an amazing waterfowl reserve.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2018
By the time you see this in the United States, I will have had a full week to explore this amazing area, and the wildlife that calls this home. The schedule is a bit daunting, as we are up before 5 AM to get to the gate for the 6AM opening. We are on the go until usually around 1:30 give or take a herd of zebras blocking the road. Lunch has been at the Lower Sabie camp, where there is a pretty incredible view of the Sabie River, and the many sand bars that form in front of the restaurant.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2018
After a very long day of 7 hours of driving, 11 hours flying and then 9 hours more driving, we have arrived at our temporary home here in South Africa. This will act as our base for the next 20 days. The house is a four bedroom, four bath two story, with a deck running around three sides of the upper story, great for wildlife viewing. So far we have seen Impala, Duiker, Greater Kudu, Mongoose, Zebra and warthogs around the neighborhood, and yard.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2018
Late in the afternoon on Friday, 11 May, I was at work in Suffolk County. I wouldn’t get done until 10 PM. When the report of a Kirtland’s Warbler in Central Park came through the listserv you can imagine my chagrin. (Or, perhaps, if you are a person who believes in such things, the death of my soul.) There are many reasons why my not being able to go see a Kirtland’s Warbler was a major bummer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2018
As my long-time fans may remember, back in 2007 – which is to say, more than a decade ago, and YES I am dying a little inside at that realization – I dipped on the Coney Island Creek Western Reef Heron , a major rarity from another continent that was seen by pretty much every other birder on the eastern seaboard. As a result (albeit a very very indirect result) I left my boyfriend, moved more than halfway across the U.S., and got a master’s degree and a tattoo.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2018
Most Americans are on the cusp of one of the year’s most beautiful weekends, with an extra day off from work to boot. No matter where you find yourself or how many days your weekend may last, you have a lot to look forward to. Enjoy! I’ve been remiss in tracking down some of the migrants still missing from my year list. Time to catch up!
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2018
On a visit home to my folks’ house in Saugerties, New York, on Mother’s Day weekend (12-13 May, 2018) I was pleased to once again hear Wood Thrush singing from the periphery of the yard, as they have done every year for as long as I can remember. Somehow, though, I had never found a nest. That changed this year when I spotted a nest in a hemlock branch over the driveway.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2018
This past weekend marked one of the peak moments of migratory bird activity globally, at least in an aggregate sense. Did you notice? Family obligations kept me on the sidelines during Global Big Day, but I did manage to sneak in a little birding before traveling. Black-throated Blue Warblers may not be rare in my part of the world, but they’re still one of my favorite songbirds.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2018
The Rufous Hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) visits my home every year about this time. Of course the males come first to establish territory. According to Macauley Library’s migration map the overwhelming breeding activity for this species occurs north of the state of California. The thing is, I have females that have been hanging around also.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
Happy May Day! Here in New York City, May is a magic time for birders as the migration floodgates open. To celebrate spring migration, I usually review an exciting new bird book. But, this year I’m going to be contrary and give you moths! You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2018
For some of you, this final weekend of May is still in full flower. Let’s not gloat, though. You may be birding on a Monday morning, but we tally weekend sightings now. I cleaned up a few spring species along the lovely and locally legendary Lakeview Community Church Trail, but my best sightings were in the reeds in front of the more widely renowned Braddock Bay Hawk Watch platform.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2018
Last week I mentioned the steady increase of Plumed Whistling-Ducks to the Broome Poo Ponds and that they now number in the thousands. As the land starts to dry out the Plumed Whistling-Ducks head for remaining fresh water around Broome and the ephemeral lakes are good locations for them to move to, but the Poo Ponds are also ideal. Although the Poo Ponds are right in town they are also close to the Broome Golf Course and the grass at the Golf Course is watered via the recycled water from the Po
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2018
A light rain had begin to fall on the valley between steep slopes that held the headquarters of HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. Patches of blue sky winked at me from behind the mountain peaks, raindrops occasionally obscuring my vision as I glanced upwards. At the edge of the Oregon Cascades, rain is expected, and the researchers and scientists thought little of it as they continued about their daily tasks.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2018
The question isn’t whether you went birding this weekend, because everyone who wasn’t part of the Royal Wedding was out chasing birds. The only valid questions involve what you saw and whether you’ll share details. I’m happy to share details on my annual run to Rush Oak Openings for cinch Blue-winged Warblers. Not only did I bag the beautiful bird I expected, but I also encountered a tasty species I never expect there until I see it every year: Olive-sided Flycatcher.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2018
Following an exceptionally wet start to the year we are getting used to finding bird species around Broome that we do not encounter every year. A fine example was on Friday 18th May at the Broome Poo Ponds. We had just dropped our vehicle off for a wheel alignment and the Poo Ponds are conveniently located almost opposite and so we wandered over the road to see what had arrived since our last visit.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2018
This post is going live slightly late today to avoid stealing Harry and Megan’s thunder. Hope you enjoyed the wedding. You’ll be pleased to know that Lady Helen’s hat stayed on, but the shoes don’t usually last beyond the canapes. All our best wishes to the happy couple. How do little old ladies get so much heavy hand baggage onto an aeroplane?
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2018
This weekend may not mark another migratory milestone in the birding universe, but we’re still smack dab in the middle of May. That means you should be birding. I’ve been catching most of my target songbirds this season but plan to land wherever the action along Lake Ontario is this weekend. Corey will be leading a bird walk and doing a lot more bird walking on his own.
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2018
Tomorrow I’m taking part in my local club’s official Big Day event – the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club’s 73 rd Annual Guy Bartlett Century Run – for my fifth year in a row. My teammate Tom and I have managed to surpass the contest’s namesake goal of 100 species in a day on each of these runs, and we even had the highest species count last year with 124 birds found in Albany County, New York – though that’s still a few short of the 128 Corey counted way back in 2008.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2018
Between bird blitzes and Mother’s Day brunches, most of us lived very full lives this weekend. Good thing Monday finally got here! The weather in my area really dampened the flow of migrants on Saturday, but at least I was able to get my daughter on her first Bay-breasted Warbler. Corey had the easiest time ever deciding what bird would be his Best Bird of the Weekend.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2018
After an incredibly wet start to 2018 as a result of several tropical cyclones and other rain events the land remains saturated around Broome and as a result of this there are several bird species breeding that we don’t even encounter in dry years. The highway into town from the south is not as flooded as it has been, but you are still unable to access the land beyond the bitumen unless you want to do some wading or slopping about in mud!
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2018
We had a dusting of snow here at the end of April in Albany, New York – and two days later we set a record high for May Day with the mercury maxing out at 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The erratic weather certainly presents some challenges in the seasonal selection of adult beverages, but I think it’s safe to say – with winter mostly likely behind us for good – that we can ease into refreshing summer thirst-quenchers, lawnmower beers, and summertime wines for the foreseeable future.
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2018
What a time to be alive and birding! Fresh off the most successful Global Big Day in history– 6899 species in ONE DAY –we’re rolling into World Migratory Bird Day in the Americas. Birds are out in both quantity and diversity so staggering that we must celebrate it. Be a part of the excitement! I’m working all weekend, which isn’t as bad as it sounds considering how lousy the weather along my stretch of Lake Ontario has been.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2018
It’s been eight months since we added our last new beat writer, Tristan Lowery , to our roster of exceptional talent here at 10,000 Birds. I’ll blame the delay on all of us trying out too many of his suggestions. Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to add a “ Birds and Booze ” beat to the blog. But we’ve recovered from our drunken stupor, well, most of us have. ( Jochen is still convinced Black Woodpeckers exist and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons don’t.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2018
Nothing makes me happier in the midst of spring migration than spending some quality time at the Forest Park waterhole watching a variety of brightly colored birds come in to bathe and drink. This evening after work was particularly pleasing when a variety of wood-warblers were making regular visits, to say nothing of orioles, tanagers, and buntings.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2018
Early this year Broome received an exceptional amount of rain as a result of tropical cyclone activity and the highways going north and south remain flooded to the edge of the bitumen in places even though we have had no rain for a couple of months now. Access to the local ephemeral lakes remains closed to vehicles, which means the only access is on foot and as such we are discovering the bird life to be particularly good when we do good bush walking into these areas.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2018
Every person’s calendar includes both busy seasons and fallow periods. Our calendar– the birding calendar –has just shifted into overdrive. In fact, some might argue that, on an international level, this weekend represents one of the zeniths of birding activity and engagement. Saturday, May 5 is Global Big Day , when eBirders around the world strive to collectively encounter as many species as possible.
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