10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Here in Suffolk we now have impressive wintering flocks of Barnacle Geese, often numbering 1000 birds or more. The purist birders take little interest in them, regarding them as no more interesting, or exciting, than the flocks of Canada Geese that have long been established in the county. It’s spectacular stuff.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
We boarded the 8:40 pm red-eye from JFK to Reykjavik on May 28; the intention was to sleep on the plane but with the excitement of travel and possibilities swirling around my head I didn’t sleep a wink (*tip – Iceland Air offers free stopovers for up to seven days as you travel from the US to Europe!
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
My visit on Saturday morning was meant to be a quick stop to scan the ducks, geese, and gulls to see if anything interesting was around. Even more exciting than close range waterfowl was the Iceland Gull I picked out from among the gulls that roost on the ice. Iceland Gulls look good even when surrounded by goose poop.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
I finally found one of those Lesser Black-backed Gulls I’ve been chasing all winter, a worthy replacement for the rare geese I hoped to find at Braddock Bay’s North Marina. They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2011
Eurasian Wigeon Ross’s Goose Upland Sandpiper Little Gull Wilson’s Phalarope Marbled Godwit Least Tern Iceland Gull Many of these would be great additions to the yard list. According to Rich Guthrie, the man with a yard list of 207, a group of four geese lit upon the Hudson River by his house.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
I was to go inland to Pocosin Lakes NWR, home of massive flocks of Tundra Swans and Snow Geese. We saw both, though the goose flock was too distant to pick out the Ross’s and Cackling Geese that are usually tucked within. The Iceland Gull at Wanchese was a no-show. The second was better.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our fourth country on this trip. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in the park that sunny day.
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