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One certain way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
My best birds this weekend were a matched pair of Northern Cardinals, the male singing in the sun. Corey’s best bird of the weekend is, by his admission, a [...]

One certain way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
My best birds this weekend were American Tree Sparrows and Mourning Doves, both roosting in large flocks. Regrettably, I observed these birds while at a party and consequently [...]

One certain way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
My best birds this weekend were Ravens, honking through the icy valleys of Potter County, PA. I’d rather be bragging about the Northern Shrike I spotted at [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!

My weekend mostly lacked for birds. Not only was my family visiting from the Bronx, but I was also laid low by a stomach bug and consequently slept much of the weekend away. Still, I was pleased to spy a Brown [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird was a Sharp-shinned Hawk in my front yard, stalking my bird-barren bird feeder. I wouldn’t even have noticed the hawk had it not been persuaded to abandon its perch by a crow, no doubt in an act [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird of the weekend was an apparently confused Wild Turkey that trotted across my suburban side street, a new first for the yard list. Charlie’s best birds were probably the Great Bustards gracing the cover of the Otis [...]

Did you have a nice weekend?  Did you enjoy watching the Jets and Colts, Vikings and Saints?  Looking forward to the Super Bowl showdown between the Saints and Colts?  Well, slow down for a second and tell us what your best bird of the weekend was.
Of we three 10,000 Birds bloggers Mike undoubtedly had the [...]

How was your weekend? Did you have a better one that the Arizona Cardinals or Baltimore Ravens, both of whom washed out of the NFL playoffs?  Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best birds were the Short-eared Owls I watched with Seth, Laura, and my new birding buddy, Debra. Corey finds it hard to play [...]

How was your weekend? Did the New Year bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My favorite birds of the weekend were the Ravens from Baltimore who inflicted a great unkindness on the New England Patriots. The Ravens join the incredibly explosive Arizona Cardinals as the only two bird-named teams [...]

How was your weekend? Did the New Year bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird of the weekend was a puffed-up, pink-billed Dark-eyed Junco in one of the English Yews in front of my dining room window. I missed my neighborhood snow birds! Corey’s best bird [...]

How was your weekend? Did Santa bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
The best bird of my weekend had to be the Red-tailed Hawk soaring with the gulls over Giant Stadium during the last Giants game at that hallowed arena. Corey reveled in feeder birds at his parents’ [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
The best bird of my weekend was undoubtedly the Red-tailed Hawk that took an American Crow right outside my window. Wicked! Corey found favor with the normal Forest Park feeder birds after a big NYC snowstorm, like the Carolina Wren [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird was a Sharp-shinned Hawk standing vigil over my bird feeder. Unfortunately for the eager accipiter, the feeder hasn’t been filled for a while! Charlie founds favor with his first Great Chalfield Common Snipe. Alas for Corey, his [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My own weekend was rather devoid of birds; I couldn’t even take pleasure in the asymmetrical clash between the Eagles and Falcons.  Charlie didn’t see much worth mentioning either. Fortunately, Corey redeemed us and himself by finally finding that Queens Ash-throated [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? (Turducken doesn’t count!) Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird was Great Black-backed Gull on the Tappan Zee Bridge en route from NYC to Rochester; great black-backs always look so regal perched atop lightposts. Charlie contended with any number of common British backyard birds. [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird of the weekend was a Brown Creeper on a tree outside my kitchen window. Corey’s best birds were Cattle Egret and Black-legged Kittiwake, the former a year state bird and the latter a year bird and an [...]

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
My best bird this weekend had to be Brant, a hard goose to get on Lake Ontario. Corey’s best bird was also a goose, specifically a Cackling Goose, although a Long-eared Owl in Brooklyn came in a close second. Charlie hasn’t [...]

Though health care reform has been passed in the U.S. House of Representatives we all know that the best cure for what ails you is seeing a really good bird over the weekend.  So, where did you bird and what did you see on this weekend after Election Day in the United States?  Tell us [...]

While winter weather is knocking on our doors in the northern latitudes, winter birds have not yet arrived in force. November feels like a shoulder season, a gap between the thrill of migration and the pleasures of old friends returned for a few months. Yet in any month or any season, treasures await for those [...]

How was your weekend? Enjoy Halloween, El Día de los Muertos, or All Souls’ Day? How about those birds? Tell us about your best bird.
My best bird of the weekend was a Black Scoter at Hamlin Beach State Park on Lake Ontario. Coincidentally, Corey was most pleased with his first-for-Queens Surf Scoter (bird number 240 for [...]