With this weekend consumed by Halloween excitement, bats were more easily encountered than birds. How did you fare?
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a relatively common species though it was uncommonly cooperative. A juvenile White-crowned Sparrow is an expected bird in late fall in New York State but it is always nice when one sits still for a digiscoping session. My best birds were even more common, but who can complain about Black-capped Chickadees, still present and perky even as the mercury dips.
How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Striding past Wellington Harbour in a gale when I see a flash of grey shoot past in the water. Only a feeding Blue Penguin!
The juncoes who made their season debut on my back deck.
A FOS (and first-in-Philly) two-fer: Red-breasted Merganser diving in the Schuylkill River, and like Mark, Dark-eyed Juncoes skittering about my building’s courtyard. Winter is coming!
After being away for most of October, it was a pleasure to refill my feeders and wait for my yard birds, and finally see my Carolina Wren again. He was mostly a no-show last year, so I hope he sticks around this winter.
My favorite was a beautiful male Elegant Euphonia near Cinchona, Costa Rica.
In Barbados we just coin the term for November “Rare Bird Month” and what a start we had. On the 1st – Black-throated Green Warbler on the 2nd – Blackburnian Warbler which was my bird of the weekend.
Four Varied Thrushes in my yard. I was thrilled!
Lesser Yellowlegs – two of them. And two days earlier a first of the winter Snow Bunting.
Read about both on my blog by clicking on my name above.
I have an interesting ( I think) back story to the Lesser Yellowlegs, it involves phalaropes and what may be strange coincidence, or just may be a repeat sighting of the same individual bird separated by three years. Is that probable?
Sunda Coucal at Jakarta’s Muara Angke reserve!
Yyyessssss!!
Stop. Just stop it. 🙂