10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

At least that’s where I added this species to my New York list. Corey went for a walk at Jamaica Bay with his family on Saturday evening, after the rain had stopped in New York City and went out again, alone, on Sunday morning before the rain picked back up. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2021

All the best birds in my corner of New York over the last few months have been shorebirds, which explains why I dragged myself once again to Rochester’s fabled East Spit to bag a rare local Baird’s Sandpiper. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2020

Somehow, despite seeing both species of cuckoo that show up in New York, two dozen species of wood-warbler, and host of other birds, he managed to narrow it down. 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

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One of the rites of passage I underwent as a birder following my move from New York City to upstate New York was my first winter excursion to the rolling, snow-covered grasslands north of Albany to look for Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border. 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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Bald Eagle Delaware New York Pennsylvania 194

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APRIL 21, 2023

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Of all the species he saw he had one that was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, as it was a new bird for him in New York State. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That’s because very early on Saturday morning he chased a Wood Stork in Suffolk County.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2021

What I have is a typical Upstate New York winter, so this weekend was about adding more typical Upstate New York winter birds. Corey made a second attempt this weekend at seeing New York State’s first Ferruginous Hawk , which has been seen regularly in the Black Dirt region of Orange County.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Mom has a bug!

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

This has been the oddest May migration in memory, at least around upstate New York. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The beauty of May, however, is that there are always birds, even if they’re not the ones we expect! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New York Birds Experience Experiments 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2020

Sliding into mid-August in New York feels like the easing into a Jacuzzi: the heat may be intense to start, but the good times are just getting started. 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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2020 Jamaica New York Birds 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2020

No, I haven’t lost track of the calendar — though that’s quickly becoming a more common experience in our new reality — but occasionally life gets in the way of blogging, which is what happened this week. I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Richard Fried spent 2011 doing a New York State Big Year and managed to top the record of 350 species which was only set in 2008 by Scott Whittle. Richard totaled 352 species, an impressive number, by seeing almost all of the regularly occurring New York birds and the vast majority of the rarities that showed up in 2011.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2021

He also chased and dipped on a Spotted Towhee in Nassau County, which would have been a new bird for him in New York State. 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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Birds New York Owls Experience 220

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Really, the worst part of birding mid-September in upstate New York is the realization that, in a couple of weeks or so, the excitement of migration is over for us. 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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New York Birds Sparrows Experience 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

On Sunday morning, he followed up on a Golden-winged Warbler report from the day before and successfully connected, making Connecticut Warbler the only regularly occurring wood-warbler in New York that Corey hasn’t seen in Queens this year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.) What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

Suffice to say, migrants were having no part of the Arctic chill enveloping Western New York, which means we’re still mired in the first wave of spring arrivals. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Isn’t that against the rules?

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2020 New York Birds Experience 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Of those he did see, he most enjoyed the flyover Pileated Woodpecker in his hometown, a treat for a resident of New York City, and Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. 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

APRIL 5, 2021

Consensus is forming that the bird is a Gray-breasted Martin , a rarity that isn’t expected even in south Texas, much less New York. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Whatever species it turns out to be it is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2020

While birders were out birding the coast of Queens on Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay hit New York City, Corey was stuck working. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you spend any time in the NYC Metro area, you know what I mean!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

And there’s a good chance that, while they’re at it, they’ll trot out that dubious bit of trivia about the starling being brought to America as a part of some scheme to introduce all the birds mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to New York City’s Central Park.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2020

Corey enjoyed a foul-weather seawatch on Saturday morning and birded a couple of locations Sunday morning before leading a walk for New York City Audubon in Forest Park. 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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2020 New York City New York Birds 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2020

I hate to obsess about weather, but June temperatures in New York have taken us all on a roller coaster ride with sweltering highs and frigid lows within days of each other. 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

MAY 3, 2020

I was quite pleased to pull my first New York state warblers for the year from the early bird menu. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Many people consider May to be one of the year’s better months, but birders seem more attached.

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2020 New York Birds Sparrows 160

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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2019 New York City New York Birds 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

While experiences vary all the way along the spectrum from abysmal to divine, we all get a head start on superior when the weather is amazing. Our third trip in three weekends resulted in our third new year bird, this one Semipalmated Sandpiper. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 New York Birds Experience 118

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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2019 New York City New York Birds 108

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Without any real birding or outdoor activity during what was a gorgeous New York weekend, I still observed plenty of birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Even better, this time of year is exactly when fall migration occurs. Did your weekend feature any fall migrants?

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2018 New York City New York Birds 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 247

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

It was seeing this incredibly huge bird sitting against the backdrop of the dignified buildings that line Fifth Avenue, and seeing New Yorkers walking their fast New York pace below the hawk, ignoring my pointing finger. Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York John Waldman, editor. Just a little.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2019

Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt.

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2019 New York Birds California 123

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. How about you?

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