10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One of the rites of passage I underwent as a birder following my move from New York City to upstate New York was my first winter excursion to the rolling, snow-covered grasslands north of Albany to look for Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

At least that’s where I added this species to my New York list. Corey went for a walk at Jamaica Bay with his family on Saturday evening, after the rain had stopped in New York City and went out again, alone, on Sunday morning before the rain picked back up. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border. 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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OCTOBER 4, 2022

For Rogers, the finding of the sparrow is not just about the rarity of the find or the decline of breeding Henslow’s Sparrows in New York State, though she is proud of the first and concerned about the second. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)

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AUGUST 22, 2021

All the best birds in my corner of New York over the last few months have been shorebirds, which explains why I dragged myself once again to Rochester’s fabled East Spit to bag a rare local Baird’s Sandpiper. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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MAY 18, 2020

Somehow, despite seeing both species of cuckoo that show up in New York, two dozen species of wood-warbler, and host of other birds, he managed to narrow it down. 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

MAY 10, 2021

Of all the species he saw he had one that was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, as it was a new bird for him in New York State. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That’s because very early on Saturday morning he chased a Wood Stork in Suffolk County.

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APRIL 21, 2023

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JANUARY 24, 2021

What I have is a typical Upstate New York winter, so this weekend was about adding more typical Upstate New York winter birds. Corey made a second attempt this weekend at seeing New York State’s first Ferruginous Hawk , which has been seen regularly in the Black Dirt region of Orange County.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Fortunately, Tom spotted it flying in and landing in a tree over the house and we all enjoyed scope views of a great bird, a lifer for most of us and Isaac’s 400th bird in New York State!

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MAY 23, 2021

This has been the oddest May migration in memory, at least around upstate New York. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The beauty of May, however, is that there are always birds, even if they’re not the ones we expect! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Mom has a bug!

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2020

I know that June has a poetic reputation for perfect days , but July in upstate New York may offer the ultimate summer nights. The stifling temperatures of a New York City heat wave did what even the height of the COVID epidemic failed to do: they prevented Corey from doing a single dedicated birding outing this weekend.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

Sliding into mid-August in New York feels like the easing into a Jacuzzi: the heat may be intense to start, but the good times are just getting started. 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 13, 2020

But 2020 clearly resists the storylines of more predictable years, as those of us birding New York state discovered this weekend. This poor bird has got to regret whatever poor choices or ill luck drove it from the southern latitudes to Upstate New York! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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AUGUST 13, 2021

So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2021

He also chased and dipped on a Spotted Towhee in Nassau County, which would have been a new bird for him in New York State. 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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AUGUST 29, 2021

Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.) What was your best bird of the weekend?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Really, the worst part of birding mid-September in upstate New York is the realization that, in a couple of weeks or so, the excitement of migration is over for us. 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

APRIL 10, 2020

No, I haven’t lost track of the calendar — though that’s quickly becoming a more common experience in our new reality — but occasionally life gets in the way of blogging, which is what happened this week. I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Richard Fried spent 2011 doing a New York State Big Year and managed to top the record of 350 species which was only set in 2008 by Scott Whittle. Richard totaled 352 species, an impressive number, by seeing almost all of the regularly occurring New York birds and the vast majority of the rarities that showed up in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

On Sunday morning, he followed up on a Golden-winged Warbler report from the day before and successfully connected, making Connecticut Warbler the only regularly occurring wood-warbler in New York that Corey hasn’t seen in Queens this year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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MAY 10, 2020

Suffice to say, migrants were having no part of the Arctic chill enveloping Western New York, which means we’re still mired in the first wave of spring arrivals. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Isn’t that against the rules?

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JULY 12, 2020

While birders were out birding the coast of Queens on Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay hit New York City, Corey was stuck working. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you spend any time in the NYC Metro area, you know what I mean!

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MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2021

Consensus is forming that the bird is a Gray-breasted Martin , a rarity that isn’t expected even in south Texas, much less New York. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Whatever species it turns out to be it is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Of those he did see, he most enjoyed the flyover Pileated Woodpecker in his hometown, a treat for a resident of New York City, and Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. 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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JULY 31, 2020

And there’s a good chance that, while they’re at it, they’ll trot out that dubious bit of trivia about the starling being brought to America as a part of some scheme to introduce all the birds mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to New York City’s Central Park.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Corey enjoyed a foul-weather seawatch on Saturday morning and birded a couple of locations Sunday morning before leading a walk for New York City Audubon in Forest Park. 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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JUNE 14, 2020

I hate to obsess about weather, but June temperatures in New York have taken us all on a roller coaster ride with sweltering highs and frigid lows within days of each other. 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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MAY 3, 2020

I was quite pleased to pull my first New York state warblers for the year from the early bird menu. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Many people consider May to be one of the year’s better months, but birders seem more attached.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2022

This incredible mileage inspired the name of this week’s beer, Moon & Back, an imperial stout from the Warbler Brewery of Delmar, New York, flavored with cacao nibs and Madagascar vanilla and aged in oak bourbon barrels.

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JUNE 6, 2023

I was concerned and horrified that this happened in my city and astonished when this seemingly local story became national then international news. In Better Living Through Birding , Chris tells us stories of his life, a very unique life, but he also crafts his experiences so we can relate to them as birders and as people.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Corey thoroughly enjoyed birding around Queens on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, hitting some of his favorite hotspots and leading a New York City Audubon Society trip at the Queens Botanical Garden. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2012

Nassau County, New York, March 2009 After having fully explored the trail around the West Pond at Jamaica Bay , we four bird bloggers agreed to load up Patrick’s car and head over to Jones Beach to see what kind of birds we could find there and some other locations in Nassau County.

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