10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2024

Eurasian Green Woodpecker In other areas, the lawn was densely covered in daisies and I experimented a bit with photographing from low angles to make the daisies look even more dense. This abundance by no means meant theat they are easy to see, and I got quite a sore neck from peering into the canopy.

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Soreing Owls Woodpeckers Eagles 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

… The delicious mojito that I gulped down with lunch had sufficiently numbed my poor, sore butt enough that getting back on the bike caused no pain. But first we had to explore the good habitat of the ex-golf course from the paved trails and there was no better way to do that then by bike. Joining this story a bit late?

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Soreing Birds Suffering Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course. It’s a bit of a sore thumb, a well-known essay by a famous writer-who-is-also-a-birder in a collection of essays by new and experienced-but-as-well-known-as-they-should-be writers, and I wish Rogers had given some background on its placement here.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In an interesting experiment featuring a stuffed model of a Collared Scops Owl , Crested Goshawks arrived when hearing the mobbing call of Light-vented Bulbuls that they use when encountering such a scops owl, but not when hearing other mobbing calls. On the plus side, it looks rather funny when wet.

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China Vietnam Birds Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

Of course, this is one of the great boons of traveling for a birder: you get to see stuff that would otherwise be impossible to see on your home turf. The male Pine Grosbeak is, of course, gorgeous, but the subtle shading of a young bird, below, is pretty nice too! Of course, other birds besides finches came down to the tray feeder.

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Birds New York Fox New York City 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Plenty of other species stopped by, of course, but they were sorely outnumbered. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Songs of turtledoves and swans a’swimming are not far off, but we in the U.S. have our minds on turkeys right about now.

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Soreing Turkey Falcons Birds 194