10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
One particular resting place brought me to familiar birding territory: Pleasure House Point, Virginia Beach. When I was first learning to bird in the summer of 2013, I spent a summer living with my fiance in Virginia Beach. During my three days in Virginia Beach, I knew I had to walk that path again.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2022
Birdability was founded by Virginia Rose and she is thePresident. As I recently wrote , after hearing an interview with Virginia and Freya, I realized that I knew little about the accessibility of my regular birding locations. Freya McGregor is the Director of Programs and Outreach. Just start! Because birding is for every body!
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2019
Lots of warblers were found, including Grace’s, Nashville, Virginia, Red-faced, Hermit, Lucy’s and Wilson’s. In addition, it became quite apparent that many of the birds we were seeing were the first wave of migrants starting to move thru the area. Here is that Red-necked Phalarope.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
Virginia’s Warbler –which never turns up in Virginia–can be the Big-eyed Warbler. I’d prefer something descriptive like Flamboyant , Orange-throated , or Fire-throated Warbler , but feel free to incorporate other evocative nicknames like fire-brand and torch bird. NAMED FOR PLACES.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2017
We have a lot of mountainous land and it’s way cooler up in them hills than down by the coast or back in the heat-stricken states of Indiana, Virginia, and nearly every other state and province south of Alaska. Yep, come to Costa Rica to cool off! You won’t find any glaciers in Costa Rica but you can certainly escape the heat.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Preferably, they should be wearing colors of purple, white, and gold, the branded hues of their movement. She describes Virginia and Leonard Woolf walking to the polling booth to vote in December 1918, Virginia noting the displays in the Surrey shop windows and commenting, “I don’t feel much more important” (p.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. I don’t have a copy of the 1994 Western Audubon Guide, but I bet it would describe Virginia’s Warbler as preferring scrubby brush.
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