I don’t know how the weather is treating you in your neck of the proverbial woods but it’s getting chilly around here. Warm nights turning cool is a signal that birds are on the move, so you might want to be too. Not only will the activity warm you up but you might find yourself in the midst of a massive wave of migrants. My advice to you is to keep your head up! Where are you going this weekend and will you watching birds? Comment below on the excitement you have planned!
Corey and I will be watching birds aplenty as we assemble the 10,000 Birds Butcher Birders to dominate participate in the Montezuma Muckrace. Corey assures me that a 24-hour marathon of avian observation is actually enjoyable, albeit exhausting. I’ll let you know on Monday! Wish us luck. Charlie may need a bit of luck as well as he’ll probably spend part of his weekend stitching together his recent South African adventures.
Even if you’re not scanning the skies for every possible bird species, be sure to celebrate Sky Watch Friday…
Watch the skies for completely improbable vagrants, like Corey’s New York Magnificent Frigatebird
Have fun! 24hrs? Ouch! Well you better “dominate” the competition!
I will be heading out to get me some Herons and Egrets in a couple of minutes. Target today: Great Blue Heron in flight. Let’s see how that works out.
Cheers, Klaus
Very Nice Photo..
Bring the rain gear, could be a wet one at the Muckrace
The Three Muckateers are down to two, one has a family emergency and can’t come. So here is some advice, never pick your team name if it has a number in it. (oh wait, 10,000 is a number…I errr mean…)
So we will be a “recreational” team instead of a competitive team (need three to play with the big boys). So that means you can tell me where all the good birds are and feel good about helping the less fortunate…heehee.
Seriously….we’ll be looking for you all, and we’ll throw any tips your way since we are just going for fun now!
John of the Two Muckateers.
We are birding Rock Creek Park with the DC Audubon club; hopefully there will be lots of warblers!
Off to look for plovers and grasspipers north of Tucson tomorrow, then perhaps some canyon birding Sunday afternoon. Right now it’s hard to tear myself away from the swarm of Phainopeplas in our hackberry hedge!
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Always beautiful bird and sky.
great catch of the bird.
The Meadowlands Festival of Birding (NJ) is this weekend. So, Me and loads of my closest friends will be there. It has been raining all day, so fingers crossed for tomorrow!
I’m anxiously awaiting the migrating birds that come to Arizona every year! Your picture is awesome! Thanks and happy SWF!
Lovely bird flying in a blue, blue sky. Oh the freedom of it!
We are birding out our window overlooking the Deschutes in Bend Oregon. The Lewis’s Woodpeckers, Common Night Hawks, Swallows, Rufus Humming Birds and others have headed South. The Anna’s Humming Birds have moved back to our feeders.