10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

I finally found one of those Lesser Black-backed Gulls I’ve been chasing all winter, a worthy replacement for the rare geese I hoped to find at Braddock Bay’s North Marina. They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

He was pleased to see several hundred Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. There are few things nicer than a big ol’ flock of Snow Geese! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Geese Jamaica Turkey 183

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

So many sexy snow birds pop up this time of year: Snow Buntings , Snow Geese , Snowy Owls … But if you’re like me, you couldn’t get out to see them this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Too much snow! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2015 Geese Birds Owls 192

Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. This is Girlie Girl. Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course.

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Geese Ducks Feral Cats Vermont 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

I miss living close enough to the ocean to see these great little geese on the regular. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I was all set to stay home, but a crisp and bright Sunday morning called me to the lake, where I picked up my annual Brant.

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2018 Geese Birds Experience 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. Next time, I’ll know why. It’s not always easy reading.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

I got my owl fix last weekend but spent the bulk of the week chasing a rare pair of Greater White-fronted Geese around Monroe County. Fortunately, I finally tracked them down yesterday, hiding out amidst teeming masses of Canada Geese. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2016 Geese Owls Canada 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Little geese are awesome, at least when you find them. I visited Hamlin Beach in search of an errant Ross’s Goose mixed in with Canadas but found only Snow Geese. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I also encountered lots of Snow Buntings. How about you?

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2013 Geese Texas Birds 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Taking Amy birding is an extremely rewarding experience, as she seems to know the calls of every bird species that exists. Early on in my experience with the group, my church work took me to Veracruz, a tropical city on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and I got to visit a mangrove forest near that city with Luis.

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Birds Mexico California Spain 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2014

Of the three, he decided on Pink-footed Goose over Ross’s Goose or the four Greater White-fronted Geese because, well, Pink-footed Goose is just plain awesome. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Geese Birds Experience 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

I couldn’t quite turn a runt among Canada Geese at Genessee Valley Park into a Cackling , so my best bird had to be a flyover Sharp-shinned Hawk. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Erratic weather patterns signal flux. Cherish them! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2016 New York Geese Canada 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2014

On the same day that I journeyed out to eastern Long Island to enjoy birding Shinnecock Inlet in the fog I also explored the fields of Riverhead, where large flocks of geese congregate and where a Yellow-headed Blackbird had been reported recently amid a large flock of icterids at a Buffalo farm. Is it just me? ” What a bird!

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Canada Killing Buffalo Geese 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. Geography is destiny.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

We know that big birds like waterfowl such as ducks and geese benefit from the flying-V. In fact, such flocks demand a higher energy cost and, based on my personal experience with Columba livia , a great tolerance for trash birds. Waterbirds like pelicans and cormorants make the most of the chevron formation as well.

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Pelicans Geese Ducks Experience 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was either of the two Cackling Geese that he found at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens on Sunday morning. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Not anymore! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Nikos said: “I may have about an hour before breakfast and can take you to see the geese.”. Kostas Papadopoulos observing Lesser White-fronted Geese at Kerkini. Lesser White-fronted Geese, of course. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. How do you find lions in Africa?

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I was pleasantly surprised to see that Colusa NWR was beginning to fill its impoundments during this drought, and there were quite a few ducks and geese present. I have put together a video to help you feel the experience I was a privy to on this beautiful fall morning at the refuge. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Wildlife San Francisco Sacramento North Dakota 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

For the first week of the year Corey has enjoyed catching up to some of New York’s visiting rare geese and making their acquaintance in 2017. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Barnacle Goose is my choice for the next bird, because we discovered one lone bird among all of the hundreds of Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon at Freiston Shore and it was as if it was a test to see if we would notice “the odd one out”! Canada Geese , Greylag Geese and Eurasian Wigeon.

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2016 Geese Birds Ducks 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other. Still, there are plenty of other birds and animals to see along the way, including Glaucous and other gulls, geese, herds of sheep and Icelandic horses. Patience, thus, is key.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Despite my best efforts and despite seeing around 200 Canada Geese , I had no luck with the Specklebelly. I saw lots of Canada Geese – about 450 – but no Greater White-fronted Goose. After all, birding under a highway is not exactly my idea of a pleasant experience. The morning wasn’t a total loss though.

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Puerto Rico Geese Canada Porpoises 122

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Though Corey had a host of good birds to choose from (again) he has decided that his Best Bird of the Weekend was the one he found because he took the time to scope through a ginormous flock of Canada Geese : a diminutive Cackling Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County, New York.

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Polar Bears 2012 New York Geese 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I was to go inland to Pocosin Lakes NWR, home of massive flocks of Tundra Swans and Snow Geese. We saw both, though the goose flock was too distant to pick out the Ross’s and Cackling Geese that are usually tucked within. This is my second ridiculous mink experience. The second was better. All in all a fun trip.

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North Carolina Owls Geese Alligators 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I observe them, but feel I still lack experience to tell with certainty the SEO from LEO in flight. Numerous Mute Swans , Greylag Geese among them, together with Mallard , Gadwalls , Eurasian Wigeons , Eurasian Teals – practically the full hand of dabbling ducks at this lake. And the citizens of Kikinda are justly proud of it.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If your CBC experience is anything like mine here in eastern New York, you’ll be counting an awful lot of crows. The 118 th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) began yesterday and I’m sure many of you have at least one count scheduled in the next few weeks.

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New York Portland Washington Geese 124

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lesser White-fronted Geese, of course. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. With one Black Stork near them, some 80 LWfG were foraging in the distance, where the sun was just now clearing the mist. Then 20 more joined them, so I entered 100 in my notebook.

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2018 Serbia Falcons Greece 117

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

The incredible lighting at dawn in the Pantanal is an experience in of itself. Screamers are most closely related to waterfowl such as ducks and geese. I will also never forget the experience of rolling out of bed, walking down a couple miles and back, and having breakfast at around 8:00AM with a day list already over 100 species.

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Brazil Birds Blackbirds Paraguay 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Does anyone here have personal experience visiting the Charles M. Moreover, children can watch nest cams without adult supervision so a parent’s lack of knowledge or interest is no boundary to the child’s education, the way it would be if learning required a visit to the park or an investment in binoculars.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese. Some people, one or two of my family members included, hate Canada Geese with a passion that rivals their hatred for mosquitoes (if you’re from Maine, or New England at all, you know that hatred runs deep). Weather is weird. Mallard in a lovely place.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2016

Most were similar to what we had seen in September, with the addition of Magpie Geese in the flooded long grass. It was nothing like the experience in September with literally hundreds of each species looking for water.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

Now it was nice to see our first Green Pygmy-Geese for the year, but nothing is as good as a Jacana! They go everywhere in a line and it was actually in the media this week that some scientists had been experimenting with them to see what caused them to follow each other. They removed some hairs from their tail end and the line failed!

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

We are a far bigger problem on this planet than the (over)population of feral cats, elephants, Canada geese, or any other creature we "manage" or want to manage, "humanely" or otherwise. In my experience there are at least a handful of issues that involve compromise when the idea of veganism collides with real life.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." When it comes to the legislation ( which may or may not mean anything for dogs and cats ), Cohen sides with the people who recognize that cats and dogs are no different from chickens and geese. product that comes from an animal ). The theory is sound. There's no way out.

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Pigs Dogs Meat Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Looking down on the Hudson River from 212 feet in the air is an experience worth having and there is plenty of time to look down at the river or at the gorgeous views in every direction on the 1.28-mile mile long walkway.

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Transported New York City New York Birds 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. The bar was covered with shorebirds, gulls, geese, and cormorants.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 168

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting. Next day, first stop – really to get some wins after the disappointment of the cancelled plans – was reliable Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR. We stopped at Rosie’s Diner. I can recommend it.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 150