10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
Subtly plumaged but handsome: a c**k Cretzchmar’s bunting The best places to find Cretzchmar’s Buntings are the foothills of the Troodos, where they like the vineyards and the old, crumbling hill terraces, for much of the agricultural hill land on the island has been abandoned.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2022
Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat. The juvenile Chinese Blackbirds get older but still look kind of stupid. The male at work.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2013
A Common Grackle appeared to be more reluctant to take the plunge into the shallow water, but once it did, it thrashed about with abandon. Red-shouldered Blackbirds seemed to have no qualms about leaping straight in and getting thoroughly soaked. With his feathers sodden, he looked vulnerable on the ground.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Most of them were pretty good in the Owl-Duck-Pigeon range, but they got bogged down when trying to make the leap from a study skin to a particular page of the field guide for, say, a blackbird or a sparrow. And that frustration was epic. Knowing what a sparrow is is kind of easy.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. Blackbird – Turdus merula. Common Chiffchaff – Phylloscopus collybita. Eurasian Blackcap – Sylvia atricapilla. Spotted Flycatcher – Muscicapa striata. Robin – Erithacus rubecula.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
A hard-working Chinese Blackbird almost certainly already incubating its second brood is certainly not a target customer for a La-Z-Boy. If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. These birds have too much taste.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2011
I chanced to glance at a bird perched atop the Oak tree in my back yard, figuring it was one of the Blackbirds or Grackles that had recently returned to my neighborhood. I can’t help it, there’s just so much interesting stuff up there. Instead I saw a flash of orange.
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