10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
360 miles of National Park land at the border! My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! As a youngster who loved to read, I thought the best way to stop this assault was with words.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2018
August draws to a close, which means that a new migratory season has begun. We may be chasing migrants well into October, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start the process now. Happy hunting! I’ll be out and about enjoying a glorious stretch of summer weather, though I don’t know where I’ll be looking for birds. Corey may still be recovering from a California birding blitz, but he’ll probably hit the coast in Queens or the surrounding area.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2018
We expect climate change to have a mostly negative effect on natural habitats, at least short and medium term. Yes, there has “always” been climate change. Stable and healthy modern ecosystems known to have existed in recent decades (there may be none extant at this very moment) arrived at that state after a long history involving change.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
No matter where or when we bird, we have our targets. Our bogey or nemesis species, birds that we would opt to see over others. Back in the early days of birding with optics, I wonder if such wanted species would have been birds that were much more common in present times. Perhaps elegant waders pushed to the edge of local extinction like Great and Snowy Egrets , or the Roseate Spoonbill ?
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2018
Even notice that hot weekends don’t usually make for hot birding? Interesting, no? Though I succeeded in resisting the siren song of shorebirds at the lakeshore, I couldn’t help but pay attention to birds everywhere else I went. Most engaging was an active pair of Northern Mockingbirds frolicking (kind of like this Victory Dance ) behind the big test at the Rochester Ukrainian Festival.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2018
Over the past few weeks we have been observing a steady increase in the number of Flock Bronzewings around the Broome area. For the past couple of years we have only been observing a lone pair of Flock Bronzewings, which I have documented before. Large flocks of Flock Bronzewing are unusual in the Broome, but do occur occasionally. There have now been several occasions near Broome this year where we have seen small flocks of a dozen birds.
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