10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

This is the vital time to get outside and see what’s around because lifers could be in the neighborhood, rarely seen species might be just around the corner, and each and every “regular” bird is decked out in beautiful breeding plumage, many also filling the outdoor audio scene with song.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

In fact, the main point of Warbling Vireos seems to be providing a tabula rasa onto which birders can project their wish of seeing a Philadelphia Vireo. Warbling Vireos are found breeding in open deciduous woods, often riparian, across Mexico, the United States, and southern Canada.

New Jersey 208

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

The Black-headed Gull , Larus ridibunus, is similar in many ways to Bonaparte’s Gull , Larus philadelphia of North America. Note the long legs and red bill of the breeding-ready Black-headed Gull below. They breed noisily and colonially at large lakes with reed beds and marshy areas.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2017

It is warm and humid at Dave and Dave’s but it probably still won’t be as hot as July in Philadelphia. The other day, I was up there to do my annual breeding bird survey and it was a fine morning of cool, highland jacket weather birding.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

But I have now visited Magee Marsh in autumn, or, technically, the very tail end of summer, but whatever the season might actually have been the birds were not in their breeding finery and they were heading south. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring. There were even wood-warblers! American Golden-Plovers !

Ohio 188

Ohio Birds 2013 Massachusetts 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The north wind also brought flocks of Double-crested Cormorants and Brant , the latter the first ones back this fall from their breeding grounds in the far north. My break was cut short though, when Eric and Lisa let me know that Eric had found a Philadelphia Vireo foraging directly behind the platform.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

But you do not want this to happen while you are outside of Philadelphia and facing hours of rain-slowed traffic just to get back to New York City, especially when the bird in question, while within the one hour radius of home, is on the northern edge of that radius. And I even got to work on time! … a.

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