10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2024
On Tuesday, my wife and I travelled 1750 miles (2,800 km) from our home of thirty years in Morelia, to the region in which I grew up, the San Mateo Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. But will I bird? But this one was a wonderful experience. Of course I will! In fact, I already have.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2019
I was poking around my eBird checklists recently and came across one from one of my more intriguing days birding. Like many birders, I’ve had “patches” where I routinely go birding. Patch birding is rewarding because the birds become familiar, as do the changes across the seasons. There is satisfaction in the everyday.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Last week I wrote about my first experience with a new site that a friend thought looked promising when he saw it on Google Maps. This experience of finding an entirely new, but very birdy, site is nothing unusual for me. And E-Bird only listed a couple of high-quality sites back then. My friend was right. Find some new ones!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
In a recent post, Corey listed five things to do when it is too cold to go birding and one of those things is planning birding travel. Here in Portland, Oregon, it is more frequently too rainy rather than too cold to go birding, at least comfortably. Thus, my “good birds” are likely the opposite of an eastern birder.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2012
The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. The majority of diehard birders do not care where they get their birds. There is a caste of birders, however, that do not subscribe to this way of birding…no. Oh wait, it doesn’t.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. Most of the time the birds were concentrated on the invertebrates they all seemed to be locating and gobbling up continuously.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2014
It was a very pleasant experience. When everyone is using tapes on a bird, it will tape the bird out”, I observantly pointed out to him. I told him where I last had the bird and he stumbled over to the spot, looking forlornly at the slope that the warbler had previously occupied a few minutes earlier. .”
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