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October is over and though this post is being posted just short of midnight on Halloween there is no need to be afraid…10,000 Birds will keep publishing in November and beyond and bring you all the birds you need (even if somehow, and this should make you afraid, John McCain wins the presidency).  What a [...]

Blogging is just like everything else in this wild world… if you work at it long enough and surround yourself with talented individuals, you’re bound to earn some level of respect. 10,000 Birds has been most fortunate in that regard.  We’ve been showered with links, spots on people’s blogrolls, heck, we were even declared one [...]

September, when passerine migration in the northern hemisphere goes into full swing, when listers try desperately to pick up the migrants they missed on their way north on their way south, and when cool nights means one has to put blankets back on the bed, has been a marvelous month for 10,000 Birds.  Not only [...]

August in the Northern Hemisphere, as the days shorten and the first chilly nights occur, is a transitional month.  The beginning of August is still summer with shorebirds being the only birds on the move and any birding expedition is slowed by heat and biting bugs.  At the end of the month kids enjoy the last [...]

Charlie, Corey, and I have been so busy of late that we completely overlooked the fifth blogaversary of 10,000 Birds. Can you believe that this blog is already five years old? Believe it.  On 8/12/2003, I started 10,000 Birds as a way to combine twin interests in birding and blogging. On 8/13/2003, having appeased the [...]

July.  Summer heat and sweat.  Breeding birds go silent and migration hardly exists until the end of the month when shorebirds start to move.  It is a time to savor air conditioning, cold beer, and vacations.  It is not a great time to bird, well, unless you are some kind of sadist.  Nonetheless, we 10,000 [...]

After the frenzy of birding that accompanies May migration June seems sleepy.  Most birds have arrived on their breeding grounds and the flood of migrants slows to a trickle and then virtually stops.  June, at least in New York, is time to search out breeding birds, check out bugs, and try to stay cool.  Mike [...]

May has been kind to we 10,000 Birds bloggers. Once again the number of visitors and page views set monthly records: in fact the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend was the only day that brought less than 1,000 visitors to the site. And though it is doubtful that the numbers will bear this [...]

April might be the cruelest month but here at 10,000 Birds it has been nothing short of marvelous! The big news for the month here, in case you haven’t noticed, was our complete makeover with a new theme. Charlie gave a hint of what was to come with his well-thought out essay The [...]

It is said that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.  This March 10,000 Birds both came in and went out like a lion: we broke our records for most visits and page views in a month!  Big news this month included Charlie getting well over the halfway point of [...]

This leap-year twenty-nine-day month has been a marvelous one for the 10,000 Birds bloggers. We got together for an historic first-ever day of birding as a group. And it snowed. And sleeted. It was fun nonetheless. We gave away two copies of Audubon Backyard Birdwatch for the Great Backyard Bird [...]

Holy cow! I’ve been blogging for a year and a day! Last Valentine’s Day during a major snowstorm I sat down and created lovely dark and deep which I cruelly abandoned when Mike asked me to join 10,000 Birds. I even deleted my first blog post which was about how I wished [...]

Up until today Mike has always written our month in review posts. He has done an excellent job. For some reason, maybe it was the threatened beatings, maybe it was the promised beers, I have agreed to shoulder the load of summarizing our month in bird blogging for your reading pleasure. So, [...]

In the beginning of 2007, the indefatigable Bora Zivkovic compiled a collection of 50 selected blog posts showcasing the quality and diversity of writing on science blogs in 2006. This volume, The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006, was not only an outstanding representation of how exceptional science blogging can be but [...]

If you haven’t been dipping into the deep pool of 10,000 Birds archives lately you might not have noticed that all of the posts that were transferred over from my old blog, lovely dark and deep, are missing their pictures. This is because I finally felt it was time to put the poor old [...]

While I like to think that we at 10,000 Birds carry ourselves with a certain level of worldly maturity, our worldly wisdom is usually tempered by a certain youthful exuberance. Still, we must be making a particular impression as we were just collectively included on an all-star list of 40 Bloggers Over 40. The tastemakers [...]

Welcome to 10,000 Birds! With so many new visitors arriving every day, we felt an overview of the site might be in order. After all, we wouldn’t be very gracious hosts if you showed up here and we didn’t take the time to give you a tour, would we?
First, a bit of history. [...]

Since both Charlie and Mike have weighed in on different aspects of this whole transition from individual blogs to group blogging on 10,000 Birds I figured it was time I threw in a couple pennies worth myself. It’s great to be blogging here!
When I started my blog way back in February I was mostly [...]

Some days, all seems right with the world. We’ve all had that experience, a sharpening of the senses and shift of perception where we recognize how rich, sweet, and fraught with dynamic potential everything in our life really is. Those are the days you ask yourself: “Can my pillow be any softer?” “Can this coffee [...]

Happy Memorial Day weekend! If you live in North America and work in an industry that allows for such an indulgence, you’re probably in the midst of a fabulous extended weekend. Rest assured, I am! I’ve recently revised my Birds page, the resource any visitor to 10,000 Birds should consult if looking for information on [...]