10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2012
On this final day of 2012 it is time, just like it was on the final days of 2010 and 2011 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2012, in no particular order. I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
I saw some sweet fall warblers this weekend down in Pennsylvania farm country, but was most impressed with the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds hanging on despite a mild frost. 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
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
Corey had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this weekend for his Best Bird of the Weekend but he settled on his sighting of Buff-breasted Sandpipers while he birded the sod farms on eastern Long Island, a flock of five that flushed at a distance and then settled, for some inexplicable reason, twenty meters in front of him.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2012
While I’m used to most of the birds of farm and field in Potter County, PA, meadowlarks have mostly eluded me there until now. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Jackson, 2012. The University of Michigan Press, 2012. At several points in recent history, Kirtland’s Warbler appeared to be on the verge of extinction.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
As birders in New Jersey recently found out when a Crested Caracara showed up in a farm field in the middle of suburbia, hawks just might show up anywhere! The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.) Hardover, 352p.
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