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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 last hours of 2007, as December and the year as a whole wind to a close, one can only marvel at what a month we’ve had at 10,000 Birds! One of the highlights of the month was definitely the continuation and conclusion of our BIRD: The Definitive Visual Guide Giveaway. Readers had to [...]

November 2007 has been a blast here at 10,000 Birds. One of the major catalysts has been the big, beautiful BIRD: The Definitive Visual Guide. First, I reviewed this magnum opus of avifauna. Next, we started giving copies away. In the process, readers delivered a boatload of brilliant bird limericks and some excellent recommendations for [...]

October 2003 was another outstanding month for the Core Team, one that brought us down the Delmarva Peninsula for a family fishing trip. Of course, we had to check out the wild ponies of Assateague Island while we were there! Not only was the birding excellent at Virginia’s Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, but we stopped [...]

This officially closes out 10,000 Birds’ very first month. Starting a birding blog must have pleased the avian spirits because the very next day, we spotted our very first Eastern Screech-owl!
The Core Team has been all over the Tri-state area this month, hitting the Great Swamp, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, Constitution Marsh, and [...]