10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

New Year’s resolutions from birding friends are starting to trickle in as I write this review. It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. Big years, little-big years, surpassing your state list, trouncing your best friend’s state list, inching up on the eBird top 100 (well, no one says that, but you know people are thinking it).

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 5, 2016

We all love our furry friends, and of course we pamper them every chance we get! Do you know how much we are projected to spend on our furry friends this year? Quiet a lot! Good planning for pet needs … Continue reading → The post The Economics of Pets appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Pets Animal 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

I like 8x30s. I started with one such pair, until I capsized my kayak and had to swim to the riverbank with bins around my neck. A few days later, when I complained about algae growth, the repair serviceman told me that it would be cheaper to get a new pair, than to polish the prisms. Instead of buying a new pair, I started to use the one I already had but never used: 12×40.

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Birds Serbia Eagles Fish 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2016

The hardest part of reviewing this jacket, much like the hardest part of birding itself, was reckoning with the perversity of Mother Nature. Though I got this lovely item a month ago, it’s taken this long to find some temperatures that would let me even come close to fairly assessing a jacket that claims a 20 degree Fahrenheit/ -7 degree Celsius comfort rating.

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Unwanted Dogs Experience Experiments 110

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2016

Happy New Year! Did you realize that your Best Bird of the Weekend is, at least for now, your best bird of the whole year? Don’t worry… you have 51 more weeks to improve on your current best. Corey had a host of birds to choose from as his Best Bird of the Weekend as he spent Friday morning birding at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Orange County, California.

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2016 Sanctuary Birds California 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2016

According to most sources the time to visit Zion National Park is in spring. Summer is too hot, the birds are quiet in fall, and winter is too cold. That said, there is really no bad time to visit a national treasure like Zion National Park. The red rocks against the clear blue sky are simply sublime. I loved the time we spent at Zion and only wish that we had more of it!

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Birds Mules Utah Deer 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2016

Now that we’re a week into the new year, you can tell if you are on track to beat Noah Strycker’s epic Big Year. He averaged 16.55 new species a day. Are you keeping up? I’m going to concede the record for another year but do plan to find one of the Snowy Owls popping up in the Greater Rochester area this weekend. Corey will be spending some time upstate and some time downstate, which will maximize his chances of either seeing something great or having no time to chase birds at

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2016 Birds Owls Species 100