10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2019

Despite getting good looks at Virginia Rail , lots of Eastern Kingbirds , and a host of other birds he decided to stick by his old standby as his Best Bird of the Weekend, a Green Heron. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2019

Corey has been enjoying the beach and the sun down in Virginia all weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Don’t tell me migration is over already! Though he’s seen some decor birds he hasn’t been actively birding very much. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Pelicans Breeders Virginia 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Birdability was founded by Virginia Rose and she is thePresident. As I recently wrote , after hearing an interview with Virginia and Freya, I realized that I knew little about the accessibility of my regular birding locations. Freya McGregor is the Director of Programs and Outreach.

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Virginia Portland Oregon Branding 225

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

It is written in English, mostly, or a form of English anyway, and on first encounter the book and its language is weird, intriguing, puzzling, and beautiful in a way outside the normal realm of experience. But to fully understand it, to be able to “read” it – well, that’s either impossible, or else takes years of dedicated ardor and study.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 236

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2015

My travels with family to the coast of Virginia have already yielded a bevy of birds I usually only see once a year. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Summer often means vacation. Vacations mean travel. Travel means new ecosystems. New ecosystems mean new birds.

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2015 Virginia Birds Experience 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2022

They refer to the depression some people experience with shorter hours of daylight, and they are not welcome. There seem to be only one each of the Virginia’s and Black-throated Gray Warbler , which would seem sad if I didn’t love solitude so much myself.

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Nashville Virginia Sparrows Species 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

My annual sojourn to the Eastern Shore of Virginia delivered all manner of tasty coastal specialties from Seaside Sparrow to Piping Plover to Red-headed Woodpecker (not always coastal, but still cool!) 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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2017 Virginia Sparrows Game 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

While it was neither the rarest or most interesting bird I saw this weekend, the Eastern Bluebird that flew over my car as I drove through Virginia has to take Best Bird of the Weekend honors just because it will be my third blue bird in a row. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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New Jersey 2014 Virginia Birds 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2014

I’ve only been in Virginia Beach for a few days and I’ve already knocked down most of my targets, including Blue Grosbeak and Yellow-breasted Chat at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. 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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New York City 2014 Breeders Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Corey’s BBOTW was a Virginia Rail in the Great Vly in his hometown. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Also, we all know that hummers in the woods are more exciting than ones in the backyard, right? Not bad as a year bird on September 1. How about you?

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2013 Virginia Birds Owls 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. Although I surely missed some things and do not have any training or experience to make a proper evaluation, my impression is that it is pretty good.

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

My annual Piping Plover pilgrimage to Assawoman Island on the Virginia coast struck gold as usual. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Think about it now, because you’re likely to forget about such serious matters by the time the weekend rolls around again!

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2016 Virginia Jamaica Birds 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Smith’s Longspurs, Vermillion Flycatchers, Burrowing Owls, Long-billed Curlews, Virginia Rails, Black Terns, Crested Caracaras–there’s a bird here for every taste. Marybeth and Lynn chase birds familiar and unfamiliar to me, a Northeastern birder, and I’m sure it will be the same for any reader in North America.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. I want all of the above,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Creative muscle. “I

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Creeping Fig / Virginia Creeper: Birds love to nest on the 3-story green wall made by these vines. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter.

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Birds Woodpeckers Madagascar Nashville 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

She describes Virginia and Leonard Woolf walking to the polling booth to vote in December 1918, Virginia noting the displays in the Surrey shop windows and commenting, “I don’t feel much more important” (p. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

I reside in Costa Rica, the country is roughly the same size as West Virginia, but I rarely make it to some parts of this birdy nation. In general, “photogenic” pretty much sums up the San Vito experience. My view from the Casa Botania.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Birds Panama 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Theodore Roosevelt, both bird watcher and then President of the United States, said that in May 1907, when staying at the family’s cabin in Albemarle County, Virginia, he saw “what he believed to be a small flock of passenger pigeons, the first he’d seen in 25 years.” Wisely, he obtained corroboration from a neighbor.

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Pennsylvania Indiana California Condor 2013 193

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. 17); he was born in West Virginia and spent most of his life and career in Cincinnati.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. It is my experience that good things happen after trips and festivals end. Now, years later, it was time to return. I had a list of birds I had missed and a list of birds I needed to see again—second lifers I call them. Fortunately for us all, Linda is such a driver.

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Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 102

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2011

.&# Happy New River Birding Festival attendees moments after adding Swainson’s Warbler to their life lists The New River Birding & Nature Festival is in the mountains of south-central West Virginia. There have not been mountains around Lake Erie (either the Ohio part or the Canada part) since the glaciers came through.

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North Dakota Birds Ohio West Virginia 145

Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

It's probably more powerful if you were just there and have something to say about your "Dining Experience" (they ask which franchise and at what time you visited). Northern Virginia? Here's their Facebook page: [link] and here 's the "Contact Us" form that's easy to fill out and submit. I could go to Princeton and there it was.

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Vegan Vegetarian PETA Chickens 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What my previous experience had not prepared me for, was that this summer I would see many of those species for the first time all at once. El Temascal does not (to the best of my knowledge) host the Ovenbird , Northern Waterthrush , Lucy’s , or Virginia’s Warblers , although I do see these species elsewhere each winter.

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Mexico Nashville Virginia Shelters 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

The economic impact of refuge visitation is broad: Recreational visitors pay for recreation through entrance fees, lodging near the refuge, and purchases from local businesses for items to pursue their recreational experience. Chincoteague NWR (Virginia/Maryland): 7,000,000; $390 million; 3,647. million; 111 jobs. million; 63 jobs.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 241

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

He’d heard reports of Virginia Rail being present there in winter but was amazed when one responded to a recording! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Curse my rotten owl luck, I didn’t see a single one, but did manage a pale Rough-legged Hawk.

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2014 Virginia Owls Birds 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

As a clumsy person, she enjoys the experience of literally stumbling through nature, learning as she goes, experiencing the magic of finding something interesting. A few weeks ago I joined a group of bird lovers to go out to a little clearing in the woods of West Virginia and watch the skydance of the American Woodcock.

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West Virginia Birds Chickens Maryland 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Some months later, I had a similar experience with one at a site known as “El Cafecito” This one also carried a feather in its beak, snatched tadpoles, and stood in the open for all to see. Life is always better when bearing witness to Sunbittern madness. The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl project. New Birds for Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica 2018 Birds West Virginia 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. The new offspring of that year hang back and leave later, finding their way to their wintering grounds using something other than experience, and something other than being taught by their parents. More alarm calling. Apparently.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 202

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. I wrote about the experience here. But really, the year was sewn up six days in when one bird made a spirited attempt to disembowel me with claws as long as my hand (or at least that was what he seemed to want to do).

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 144

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique. However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!], How sick and twisted is that.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

After a brief look at a map, my rough guesstimate is that the territory from Guatemala and Belize south to the Darien gap is roughly equal to New England, or Florida and the eastern parts of Georgia and the Carolinas north to the Virginia line. Finally, I made it to the main gap in my birding life north of Colombia!

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Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 113