Fri.May 22, 2020

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of May 2020?

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Every week during the COVID crisis has felt like at least a month, but now that we’re deep into May, nobody is complaining. We should all savor this moment, one of the best birding periods of the year, bar none. Even better, May 2020 features as many weekends as a month can accommodate, so live it up!! I’ll be breaking shelter in place for a visit to friends in New York’s Southern Tier.

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Sloop Brewing: Juice Bomb Northeastern IPA

10,000 Birds

As the peak of spring migration in the northern hemisphere, May is always an exciting but exhausting month for birders in North America. For the last three weeks, I’ve been getting up early every day to spend several hours before work searching for newly arriving migrants at my local patch, waking earlier and earlier each day to beat the sunrise. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t tiring.

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