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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2012
The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards North Carolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard. A closer look at the individual suggests that, with that white edging right under the bill, this bird probably has a bit of Myrtle in it.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
A Peregrine Falcon soared around to the west before stooping in the forest in a particularly dramatic way, which was exciting. It has earned the right to stand among the big boys, and is well worth your time should you find yourself in western South Carolina on a windy September day.
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