10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2011
There was a time, a few years back, when I had some really good luck getting on a run of first state records for North Carolina. Fortunately for me, most of the recent new additions to the North Carolina list have been birds that have stuck around long enough for masses of state birders to get on.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist traps that make visiting the shore such a delight. Seaside Sparrows were incredibly abundant in the saltmarsh west of Gordon Pond. It was great!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” There’s more than one song per warbler?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. That more rehab centers would accept non-natives, like pigeons house sparrows, and starlings,” wrote Charis in Oregon. Monte in California agreed: “I’d like some time just to watch healthy wild families.”.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2013
We soon figured out the place for Barred Owls, for Harris’s Sparrows and Brewer’s Blackbirds and all sorts of semi-rare birds that we were solely responsible for bringing to the count list at the end of the day. I’m living and birding in North Carolina. We all knew that area well, and were rewarded for it.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2012
With a full-time job and a toddler at home, I find that paying attention to counties offers the opportunity to fill that competitive jones that so many birders feel without running deficits in time and money that would see me pushing the boundaries of my family’s patience. State tick! But more importantly, county tick!
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