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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2021)

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Halloween weekend tends to be a distracting weekend at best for birding activity. The current birding action in the Rochester area focuses almost exclusively on scanning rarities migrating out in the deep water of Lake Ontario. What was your best bird of the weekend? Hope you didn’t get fake blood on your Swarovskis!

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of September 2021)

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Actually, many birds started their seasonal peregrination weeks ago and may have many more weeks ahead until they’ve reached their destinations. Migration is meaningful to those of us who appreciate when non-local birds invade our local airspace, so make the most of this one. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of June 2020)

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But we’re not confined to a wasteland of resident breeders just yet, are we? Corey got out and about birding on both Saturday and Sunday morning, before joining a Black Live Matter march on Sunday. What was your best bird of the weekend? Hopefully, you’re still finding surprises. Saturday night, a surprise found me.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. That includes breeding birds, as indicated by the presence of some rather cute chicks ( video ). Also as video.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of May 2020)

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Though we may not be able to enjoy our normal Memorial Day gatherings one thing is constant whether there is a pandemic, a war, or any other calamity: there are birds. Perhaps for those of us in the northeastern United States the number of birds this weekend has been a bit of a disappoint though. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of November 2019)

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Are these, I ask gesturing figuratively around me, all the winter visitors or resident breeders we’ll be observing for the next few months? Don’t give up on the next season of birding just yet. So it was a pleasure to see one and the gallinule was Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

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It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.