10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This 90 acre lake, managed by Arizona Fish and Wildlife is about a 45 mile drive from Tucson, and 9 miles from Mexico, as the Chihuahuan Raven flies. The layout of the lake has many small fingers that provide shelter, shallow water and many dense areas of Willow and Cottonwood trees. Here is one of our local Ladder-backed Woodpeckers.

Mexico 132

Mexico Tucson Arizona Ducks 132

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

There are plenty of lookouts and shelters, but there is no drinking water available at the toilet facilities, so you need to carry plenty of water. We encountered a Grey-headed Fish Eagle flying through the area, which kindly landed in a tree and allowed for photography! Grey-headed Fish Eagle. It proved to be a good decision.

Singapore 133

Singapore Birds illegal Eagles 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

I stitched away as I watched the Red-bellied Woodpecker scatter the smaller Chipping Sparrows and Carolina Chickadees as it glided down for a few seed morsels. Ahab wasn’t fishing, and the guys in ‘The Big Year’ aren’t watching birds, they’re scouring North America in a ruthless bid to tick off more species than anyone else.

Agenda 140

Agenda Birds Louisiana North America 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the birds were astonishingly confiding, including a Rufous -capped Babbler foraging for insects, a tiny Rufous Piculet ( a diminutive type of woodpecker) and a very bold Black-and-yellow Broadbill. Two highlights of the walk back were a bright green Greater Green Leafbird and a Lesser Fish Eagle following the road above our heads.

Lemurs 158

Lemurs Family Rhinoceros Fish 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Those conditions shape entire ecological communities, which we birders tend to think of broadly as “habitat,” including the plants that birds need for shelter, nesting substrates, and food, and the other species that interact with birds in their environments, from predators to competitors to food sources like insects or fish.

Species 175

Species Science Los Angeles 2000 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2017

Reeds attract Meadow Buntings and Reed Buntings and provide shelter for little fish which, in their turn attract Great Egrets , Little Egrets and Grey Herons. Dusky Thrushes and a single Pale Thrush bathed by the water’s edge whilst Japanese Whiteyes and Japanese Pygmy Woodpeckers kept to the trees.

Birds 100

Birds Ducks Shelters Falcons 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Filling the niche of the woodpecker here they use their small and long bills to explore and hammer through rotting wood and bark for insects. The sheltered bays of the Coromandel are home to another endemic, the Southern Merganser. We’ll also be on the lookout for the melodious North Island Piopio.

New Zealand 200

New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 200