10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2012

It was a warm winter day and the bird seemed to be practicing its song for the breeding season to come. Charlton Ogburn in The Adventure of Birds Here is an outstanding video from The Music of Nature of a singing Hermit Thrush that shows the beauty of the song far better than I or anyone could express.

New York 186

New York United States Breeding Emotional 186

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

What are you going to do, stare at some mobile device like a 21st century zombie and watch videos of people doing silly things? Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? If you live in the northern hemisphere, of course there isn’t! No, everyone should be out birding.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica 2016 2001 Battery 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Some of this adventure is captured by Mullin on video (he was masquerading as a National Geographic photographer), a part of which can be seen on YouTube. a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family.

Falcons 232

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Let us for once judge a book by its cover, and take a thorough look at a Black-headed Gull in breeding plumage. In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Wicked, right?

2011 171

2011 Birds Deer Europe 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I love hearing woodpeckers drumming and that was how I discovered this bird, plus I was able to get some good photos and video of him drumming ! Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. What better way to start a birding day?

2012 160

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 160