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Any season is good for looking for birds if you have the right mindset. Sure, in many locations spring and autumn are the highlights if all you care about are numbers. To the more rounded birder, however, any season provides opportunities to see interesting birds doing interesting things. Winter is often seen as a rather [...]

As you all get ready for the onset of spring in the northern hemisphere we are heading into autumn. In the north of Australia we also have changing colours, but it is not the foliage that changes. Those of you that are familiar with leaves turning different shades of red  can imagine the same happening to shorebirds! [...]

After our great holiday in Tasmania we were keen to see the changes around Broome after some substantial rain. We have some wet weather ahead by the looks of things, as we have our cyclone season at the moment. We have been lucky so far, as the cyclones have formed and moved along the coast [...]

In New York City temperatures have reached into the fifties on the Fahrenheit scale today and they are predicted to do the same again tomorrow.  Spring is, of course, more than just one warm spell but as of today we are getting a full hour and twenty-nine minutes more daylight then we did on the winter solstice [...]

Today, Thursday, the 23rd of September 2010, is the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere, otherwise known as the first day of fall.*  Our night and day will be as close to equal length as will happen all year.  And while the sun has crossed the celestial equator on its way south many of the [...]

In the busiest and most developed borough of New York City, Manhattan, which is what most tourists think of when they think of New York City (if they are thinking at all), the signs of spring are sometimes subtle, but most are, like much of Manhattan, in your face.  How, for example, can one miss [...]

By now, Christine Guarino, a regular Welcome Wednesday contributor, needs no introduction. If you don’t know who she is, you can get an idea by reading her previous contribution about banding owls and her tale of chasing an elusive gull. And we 10,000 Birds bloggers think her phrase “unambiguous amphibious” is pretty freaking cool. When [...]

Today, the winter solstice, December 22, is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It is also, despite the quantity of snow on the ground outside of my house as I type this, the first day of winter. That’s the bad news. The good news is that every day from now until [...]