10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. As such, it’s generally one of the best attended meetings and boasts the best bird list with field trips that range inland as well as up and down the barrier islands.

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North Carolina Owls Geese Alligators 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

For the past several weeks a pair of Trumpeter Swans have made themselves at home along a road through Mattamuskeet NWR in eastern North Carolina. I know this for a fact, because this is precisely what I did last week when I spent a day in the eastern part of North Carolina chasing rarities. I guess so.

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North Carolina Wounded Hunting Geese 114

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

I love birding games. I’m constantly on the lookout for different angles to take with my birding. Not that birding for its own sake isn’t great, but sometimes you need that extra little motivation to get you out the door on a day you’d just as well sleep in. Birding competitions county listing fun games'

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Game Raleigh North Carolina Gorillas 186

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

And this goal has to do with birds, and I assume since your perusing this here blog, that’s something that might interest you. in the nearly two years since I’ve been here I’ve been steadily climbing towards 200, a fair goal for a county in the center of North Carolina. I won’t feel bad. So read on.

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2016 North Carolina 2015 Raleigh 141

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.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This, I am told, is seawatching , a birding activity in which one stands in one place, sometimes for hours, and watches for birds of the sea and lake and river. It is acceptable to point out other sea creatures–dolphins or whales or dragonflies–but the main goal is the observation and identification of the birds.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 237

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2021

By their very name, most would assume you can’t spot Snow Geese in Florida. The Sunshine State isn’t known for its massive snow drifts, nor for the massive flocks of Snow Geese that grace states like Texas and New Mexico every winter. Two Blue Morph Snow Geese feed at the edge of the marsh. I love Snow Geese.

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Geese Florida Tampa New Mexico 171