10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2021

Then there was a Syrian Woodpecker , practically a species of almond orchards and open savannas, as well as the ubiquitous Common Kestrel , Common Magpies and Hooded Crows. A humid subtropical climate sounds like a very good description of what we experience in warm part of the year, but is it true? It’s too hot for that.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school. He probably should do.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

The best of the bunch was a hulking Hairy Woodpecker that dwarfed the diminutive Downies around it. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Of course both Mike and I were out and about spotting some birds this weekend. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Molly Hashimoto is an illustrator, birder, and teacher (she teaches plein air watercolor painting and printmaking at nature institutes near her native Seattle), and in Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide she masterfully brings all skills into play. I also love the design of the book itself, credited to Kate Basart of Union Pageworks.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2018

It was an all around quality experience. From here, we were headed towards London, and our final flights back to the US and Seattle. We were visited by a couple of Great Spotted Woodpeckers. Just a bit north of London is Warwickshire, where we were hosted by some long time friends of my wife. Here is that very Eurasian Nuthatch.

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