10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2015
Common Ravens have, it seems, finally nested in Manhattan, the densest metropolitan area in the nation. The photo above depicts three fledglings I encountered on the morning of March 31, 2015. But let’s back up for a minute. Over the last five or six years, Common Ravens have been sighted with increasing frequency in New York City, part of a resurgence throughout the Northeast after more than a century of regional extirpation.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2015
Gaborone, Botswana; June 1999. Marvellous orange-pink sunrise high over the Indian Ocean… Then, landing on a small airport at Gaborone, Botswana. Impossibly bright blue sky. Billboards advertising safari operators in the north of the country. A manicured green lawn in front of the building and an iridescent blue bird on a smallish aloe tree. It was June 1999 and I was observing my first ever bird on African soil.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2015
Life in Broome evolves around the tides and it does not matter if you are interested in shorebirds, fishing or the creatures of the reef, because you are in some way reliant on the tide chart. With the full moon this past week we were taking note of the bigger tide and therefore the lower tide to follow. The tidal range in Broome is one of the largest in Australia and offers excellent reef walking at low tide.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2015
Despite a life White-fronted Parrot being in contention, the title for my BBOTW this week was taken by the Cordilleran Flycatcher Empidonax occidentalis. I am not sure why the flycatcher got the nod, perhaps it was the oxygen starvation, maybe it was in reparation for simply turning away in the past. My common reaction to any Empidonax is to pretend that I have not seen it and move quickly along in case I get drawn in to the fruitless task of estimating primary projection, comparing wingbar
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2015
Wouldn’t you love to enjoy birding and sunset at Lake Apopka ? This is the time of year when many of us in the Northern Hemisphere have to come to grips with two pressing questions: 1. What am I going to do now that spring migration is over? 2. What am I going to do now that my kids (grandkids, neighbors’ kids, etc.) are getting out of school?!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2015
Bay-breasted Warblers are one of those wood-warblers that you hope to hear high up in the canopy on their spring migration. Then you induce a crippling case of “warbler neck” by tipping your head back and staring through your binoculars up into the leaves while desperately trying to piece together enough field marks to be sure of the identification.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2015
One of the recurring discussions in the world of nature writing is the problem of tone. Given the sheer magnitude of the issues facing our planet, to write optimistically can feel dishonest, sometimes like a betrayal. At the same time, nonstop pessimism can burn out even the most committed activists, and gives casual readers no reason to get on board.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2015
In many ways the weaver family is for Africa are similar beasts to the pseudowarblers of North America (sometimes called wood-warblers). There are a lot of them, they are generally attractive, and prone to being yellow. If anything, some of the weavers take being gaudy to levels unimagined by America’s ‘weavers’, especially when you consider the widowbirds, bishops and malimbes.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2015
Lake Apopka Restoration Area in Lake County Florida is fast-becoming one of the best bird magnets in all of Florida. Situated pretty much slap-bang in the center of the state north of Lake Okeechobee, this massive wetland was once the Florida’s most polluted body of water. Today, through extensive management by the St. John’s River Water Management District, the fifty square-mile lake is cleaning up its act.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2015
If you’re a mom or dad, chances are that at some point you fantasized about the day your little one would be able to assemble his/her own breakfast, thus scaling back your kitchen duties (and buying you a few more moments of shuteye). Well, if you were a Red-throated Loon , like the pair in Clare K.’s photo who blissfully have no idea what’s in store for them, nature would be on your side.
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