10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2018
With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. Birdwise, it turned out to be a good one and my year list was almost 400 species long, which made me happy… almost. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. At home, I may find a new bird, perhaps two, but four? The solution? The Kerkini Lake.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2018
Stick birds. Rock birds. Plastic bag birds. Leaf birds. Stump birds. Branch birds. Snow birds. Lump birds. Pipe birds. Plastic birds. Every birder has been fooled at least once by inanimate objects masquerading as birds. This has a lot to do with the way the birding mind recognizes patterns: see the correct shape and color in the right context and you automatically think that distant plastic bag shifting in the breeze is a distant Snowy Owl.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2018
Though temperatures have rebounded from the nadir and were temporarily above freezing here in New York City, the mercury has plummeted again and long outings out of doors are distinctly less pleasant than they would be if it were T-shirt weather. What’s a birder to do when weather fails to cooperate? After all, you don’t want to sink to spending time with family or doing chores, do you?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2018
Three weekends into a new year should see everyone still taking their resolutions seriously. Whatever birding momentum you picked up from a fresh year list should still be strong, driving you to seek out new ticks for 2018. If your enthusiasm is flagging, pick it up… we’ve got a long year ahead with a lot to see. Without intending to, I’ve been birding assiduously this month, hitting both reliable haunts and new hotspots.
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2018
Two weekends into the new year, I’m already wondering if the weather will be this volatile every month. This crazy climate change must be wreaking havoc on birds. In between arctic blasts, I got up to the lake at Hamlin Beach State Park, where I found a very confused and noisy Red-Headed Woodpecker. Well, maybe I was confused at the appearance of this unexpected bird, but it was definitely noisy.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2018
Last year we had an odd observation concerning a Greater Sand Plover. This marked individual had completely normal plumage when it was captured and marked in 2012 during its second year of life, but over the period of mid-November 2016 until December 29th 2016 its plumage changed dramatically. The skin on the Greater Sand Plover’s legs became very orange/pink and the bill also changed colour from black to orange/pink and I documented this here.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 13, 2018
Most of you will be more comfortable with the name Common Merganser , but the Brits still like to use Goosander. Whichever one you prefer, the Latin name (odd waterbird, odd waterbird, a bit like a goose) is still Mergus merganser. The European version takes the nominate while the North American race takes M m americanus. It has become more common in the UK over recent years, but in my experience are usually seen at quite a distance.
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