10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2011
Despite the uninspiring root of their name, Sandwich Terns are pretty darn cool birds, with their yellow-tipped black bills and their shaggy hairdos. And our bird did more than just sit around – it decided to look for food while we watched! Now that is one heck of a tern combination! … a.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. She runs the popular birding blog, Birdchick.com , and has been in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and on NBC Nightly News as well as making regular appearances on Twin Cities’ TV and radio stations.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2013
I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York Harbor and vicinity looking for good birds. We made our way from our boat’s berth out to and around the tip of Breezy Point, seeing the typical and expected ducks like Long-tailed Duck and Red-breasted Merganser. It seemed liked an innocuous idea.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
His nature essays are a joy to read, especially for those who, like me, grew up in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York which John Burroughs called home. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2011
The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.
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