10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

But it wasn’t four months ago, it was mid-June, 2020, mid-COVID-19 pandemic. The week before I had tried to walk this trail with my parents and son in the baby jogger, but the constant need to veer off the pathway to avoid those less observant of CDC guidance made the experience more stressful than enjoyable.

Georgia 150

Georgia Transported Horses Fish 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day.

Emotional 219

Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2023

(Except in the sad year of 2020, when Lake Cuitzeo had almost entirely dried up by January 1st.) This past January, however, my experience was even better. Sure, the dog didn’t count for our eBird list. Most years, a day in January of serious birding around Lake Cuitzeo can give me around 85 species.

Blackbirds 147

Blackbirds 2020 Ducks Mexico 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog. Press, 2020, 304p. This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

New York City 180

New York City Birds Owls Fox 180