10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

Enjoy your patches and your resident breeders. I’ll take new birds in new habitat any day. The reason I mention vacation birding is that I’m headed down to Virginia Beach this weekend for sun, sand, and who knows what else. Anyone who knows me knows my favorite kind of birding: vacation birding.

2014 175

2014 United States Breeders Virginia 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

Traveling really rejuvenates the passion when local breeders become banal. I’ve only been in Virginia Beach for a few days and I’ve already knocked down most of my targets, including Blue Grosbeak and Yellow-breasted Chat at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

New York City 168

New York City 2014 Breeders Virginia 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2014

On Saturday I awakened at 3:30 AM, tiptoed out of the house as quietly as I could, and headed north and west to Sullivan County, the first of three counties I planned to visit in a series of surgical birding strikes to see (or hear) the birds I had thus far missed this year as they migrated through New York City.

Breeding 154

Breeding New York Breeders Downers 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2014

I expected a bit of a wait, or perhaps an outright dip, as Least Bitterns are notoriously skulky and I had neither seen nor heard a Least Bittern in New York in three years. ( The last one were breeders also, at Massapequa Preserve. ). I was pretty slow on the draw, unfortunately, but I did manage this horrific shot of it.

Virginia 185

Virginia Breeders New York Fish 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

All birds are equal on this list; parking lot birds or pelagic species, breeders or fly-overs, all will be accorded the same status and each shall be worth 1 credit on the list. Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Salt Lake WMA. 21 Jan 2016.

2016 154

2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

All birds are equal on this list; parking lot birds or pelagic species, breeders or fly-overs, all will be accorded the same status and each shall be worth 1 credit on the list. Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Salt Lake WMA. 21 Jan 2016.

2016 100

2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

All birds are equal on this list; parking lot birds or pelagic species, breeders or fly-overs, all will be accorded the same status and each shall be worth 1 credit on the list. Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Salt Lake WMA. 21 Jan 2016.

2016 101

2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 101