Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of February 2010?
By Mike • February 11, 2010 • 24 commentsMany students, teachers, and school staff in the United States, or at least my section of the country, are about to embark on a week without school with all the attendant excitement and aggravation that portends. Then again, most people in the northeast have already been dealing with the excitement and aggravation that only 12-24 inches of snow can offer! Whether you’re digging out or shipping out, your weekend awaits. If you’re sticking around, you should strongly consider participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Please share your plans in the comments below.
My family will be coming in from NYC (to escape the snow!) so birding will be minimal to say the least. In any case, I’ll do my best to log some GBBC observations. Corey will no doubt slog through some snow-covered urban park. Charlie rounds out our idle trio with a similarly shaky commitment to bird watching, but he has observed that everything in his part of the UK is in song now, so wildlife is definitely waking up.
Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend!
Charlie visited his local Great Bustard site last week. The weather has been a bit wet lately… the ‘stream’ in the photo above is actually the main road into the site after days of heavy rain!
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Pretty skywatch photo and scene!
Perfect capture–reflections, meandering water and those soft clouds. Thanks for sharing the beauty!
Ohh, this is beautiful – and with great depth
Well captured 
Nice view of the sky from there, hope spring is brining lots of birding opportunities for you.
I love the clouds being reflected in the water. This looks like such a peaceful and quiet spot.
I think your place is awesome no trace of snow what so ever. ^_^
Romantic Sunset
I’m hosting the Avimor communities second Great Backyard Bird Count event! Looking forward to teaching kids about birds right here in my neighborhood.
I have to work, so I will be birding at the park. I work at Southeastway Park in Indianapolis, IN. We had a Eastern Towhee at the feeders yesterday, so hopefully it will stick around.
That’s a fabulous shot for skywatch Mike. I wish you a lovely time with your visiting family.
Great shot and wonderful clouds…shows great perspective.
I’ll be pretending that the Nelson waterfront is my ‘back yard’, and I hope driving across Stagleap to Creston, BC, in search especially of C a r i b o u, which I’ve never seen.
Beautiful scene…amazing sky!
Very, very nice! Love the colours.
wow, that road makes a really pretty stream!
the stream is so clean … and the sky is so calm … perfect shot..
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That is a lovely photo
Lovely, I love how the clounds reflect in the stream
The question is do you take the car or the boat! Great photos.
Wonderful colors!!!!
Really creative, instead of the road, the canal, keep up the good work
Lovely shot! I’ll be counting birds at home. Anything else depends on the weather.
Ed and I will be off to the California Central Valley to see the white geese and sandhill cranes, yellow-headed blackbirds, and more of Charlie’s favorite birds – he’s been there more than once.
Stuck in the city, so will be birding from the window! Love this shot! It has such depth. ~ks
Excellent view! Sky reflecting in the water stream look awesome!
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