10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2019
Then my phone buzzed with a text message from my good birding buddy Mary and, well, it let me know that a Burrowing Owl had been found in Queens and the photo posted to twitter. Forgetting, of course, that I am an administrator of the page and we have a strict no-specific-locations-of-owls rule.) I was looking at a Burrowing Owl !
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
A Short-eared Owl , a winter visit from Europe, appeared briefly hunting low over a distant ditch and two Cattle Egrets , very recent colonizers of the UK, flew in to forage between the feet of a group of cows. Passing close to a metal gate, my eye caught sight of a bird tucked in tight against one of the gate’s wooden posts.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
One of the rites of passage I underwent as a birder following my move from New York City to upstate New York was my first winter excursion to the rolling, snow-covered grasslands north of Albany to look for Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ). Sometimes you’ll see no owls at all. You usually wind up frozen either way, owls or not.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2019
Even though you know that you saw a Yellow-eared Toucanet and heard a Spectacled Owl the day before, you can’t really expect them on a rainy count day. Spectacled Owl from another day. But, keep birding because cold fronts also bring in other stuff. Just kidding! Keep on birding, I hope to see you in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
And so I recall the numb feet, the knowledge of knowing about the importance of staying sufficiently warm and the race against time for finding shelter when the winds howl turned into an invisible attack on inner warmth. To be honest, I shouldn’t downplay the lower temperatures of Costa Rica’s high elevations.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Each day, the small bird then has to fly down and find a resting place, an area to feed and take shelter. If it finds a good spot to survive for several months, a spot with enough food and shelter, it might be able to fly all the way back to the north for another summer of song and nesting.
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