10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2021
As always, we held our sit high atop Battery Harris at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. His delay would cost him too, as Ryan and I were treated to a fly-by Red-headed Woodpecker , only the second time we’ve had one on the count! Osprey are nice but after awhile you wish one would be a different species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
It was also great to finally travel overseas again, meet a lot of people I did not know (and some I did), to be in a new country… and not just the new country, but its best birding area, where almost all local hotspots are yellow (150+ species) and several are ochre (200+ sp.), impressive for Central Europe.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Ascending further requires a hike – required to see some high-elevation species absent from elsewhere on the island. The machine-gun drumming of a Chestnut Woodpecker greeted us once we alighted from the vehicle. No visual on the woodpecker, sadly – several Scaled Pigeons bolted from the treetops as we searched, though.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2020
Although relatively common here they’re notoriously difficult to see well – a phenomenon clearly not unique to this species ! A Lineated Woodpecker banged its head against a dry branch. Golden-crowned Warbler is one of the three resident warbler species on Trinidad. I was thrilled to see a Short-tailed Hawk fly in.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2018
1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. 1PM – Carrie: Invasive Species Can Be Awesome. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. 7AM – Intro Post. 7AM – Corey: Snowy Owls are Superior in Every Way to Great Gray Owls.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2018
We are more refined, merely enjoying invasive species, thinking extinct birds are gone and you should get over it, and that those who like to watch gulls probably have a screw or two loose. 1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. 1PM – Carrie: Invasive Species Can Be Awesome. 7AM – Intro Post.
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