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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of June 2012)

10,000 Birds

Expect lots of excruciating details, but for now drool over his potential Cape Verde Shearwater sighting, which will be both a lifer and a rare New York sighting assuming NYARC accepts it. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Amazing Seawatch from Robert Moses State Park

10,000 Birds

I don’t remember who the first person was that said the words “ Cape Verde Shearwater ” but those words were uttered. Now Cape Verde Shearwater was described as a species in the 1890′s and later lumped in with Cory’s Shearwater. horrifically bad digiscoped images of a possible (probable?)