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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2020
What I noticed is that some gannets would start to dive in a spot, probably where there were large numbers of bait fish, and then the hordes would descend, with dozens plummeting at a time. It was an invigorating experience and an example of my favorite kind of birding, that of the spectacle. The main thing is the number of gannets!
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2018
New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
Drew Lanham draws on years of field experience to give us birders a feeling for what it’s like to hunt wild turkey (noting that he always takes “a bird list from the woods; seldom a life”), concluding with the exact same point. Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2020
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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
It has now returned to seek revenge and wreak havoc in Ontario county before moving on to New York City. But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Why so serious, Corey?
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