10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
For instance, #400 for is Peregrine Falcon , which I first spotted in the Florida Keys. For many birders it may be hard to believe that I could have seen 399 species of birds in North America and none of them had been a Peregrine Falcon, but it’s just one of the strange ways birding plays out.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2012
I’ve been told that you can regularly find yourself in some pretty exceptional shorebirding in North Carolina as you get closer to the coast. With large numbers of shorebirds present, the falcons came. For we birders in the more populous but less birdy Piedmont region of that state, the shorebirding is hit and miss.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards North Carolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard. All three species of expected falcon, including lots of big, beautiful Peregrines like the young bird above were everywhere. Perhaps the most impressive movement I personally witnessed were the Red-breasted Nuthatches.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
Normally the lighthouse is obscured in fog, but when we arrived the air was crystal clear, and in addition to seeing groups of Gray Whales migrating past, I spotted hundreds of Surf Scoters , a Pigeon Guillemot , and a pair of Peregrine Falcons from my perch atop the lighthouse cliff. White-crowned Sparrow.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Get on the plane anywhere from North Carolina to Texas or Florida and we are talking three to four hours. Lately, I have been waking up to the vocal antics of Laughing Falcon , the newly split Gray-cowled Wood-Rail , Grayish Saltator , Melodious Blackbird , and this beautiful male Blue Grosbeak that sings about a block away.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
From North Carolina south to Texas, just under half of beaches are developed. Examples of actions underway to improve feeding conditions for knots and other shorebirds in the Delaware Bay include beach management to minimize disturbance and to reduce interference from gulls and Peregrine Falcons. Birds in Delaware Bay.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
It looks like the illustrations were created with colored chalk on sandpaper, a terrific idea that didn’t occur to me till I noticed that the authors thank a woodworking shop in North Carolina for “quality sandpaper for the illustrations” I wish they had provided more information about this aspect of the book’s creation.
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