10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“Sit under a fruiting tree and birding shall be fruitful.” After spending the last couple months chasing migratory shorebirds, I was aching for some forest birding. And what better way to do it than to fortuitously come upon a fruiting tree being attended to by a multitude of species? Birding on its own is rewarding enough, but when you can pull out your folding chairs, sit back and sip coffee and have everything come to you without any effort whatsoever – it almost seems too e

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Trinidad Birds Woodpeckers Species 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Faithful fans of 10,000 Bird will know that each Friday Mike invites us to comment where we plan to go birding that weekend. On Friday, September 18th of this year, I commented that I planned to go try out a new site, Las Mesas, which my biologist friend Jonathan Vargas had noticed on Google Maps. All we knew from that page was that there was a small reservoir just below the tiny town of Las Mesas, about ten miles east of Morelia, and the town itself is just short of the same large swath of pine

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2020 Birds South America Reptiles 266