10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I was shocked to still find a number of shorebird species up at Braddock Bay, perhaps because of how much productive mud the dropping lake levels have exposed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey had a few really good birds this weekend.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. In my experience non-birders connect with the travel, visiting beautiful places and spectacle of birding and hawkwatching often entails all three. In many states the best chance you have of seeing many of these and other bird species are at a hawkwatch.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

For example, during my long and tasty weekend, I spotted a variety of early winter species, the best of which was Golden-crowned Kinglet by the flockful. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend™ was, in typical hyperbolic fashion, a lovely, rare male Painted Bunting in Connecticut of all places!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

A filtration system that works on waterfowl pools without clogging,” wrote Linda in Connecticut. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? “Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A I’d wish for respect for what we do.”.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

There’s a little hint of white in the malar and throat too, which would seem to be a problem for the species Black- chinned Sparrow. Once you know that hybridization between these two species is, as the great ornithologist Charles Townsend relates, “extensive” , the possibilities are endless.

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