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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second Weekend of 2011)

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Plus my New York Football Giants just advanced in the first round of the NFL playoffs. Note that I only condone this treatment for the highly localized Atlanta Falcon. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Don’t you agree? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2011)

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It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel. Mike was in Costa Rica this weekend after what felt like an interminable delay at the airport in Atlanta where he had to change planes. How was your weekend?

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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.