How was your weekend? Did Santa bring you any good birds? Don’t be shy… tell us about your best bird!
The best bird of my weekend had to be the Red-tailed Hawk soaring with the gulls over Giant Stadium during the last Giants game at that hallowed arena. Corey reveled in feeder birds at his parents’ house. Charlie frolicked with the Northern Lapwings and European Golden Plovers at Great Chalfied.
What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed in the comments section. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, we invite you to include the link in your comment.
Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds in 2003, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.
Had a bird blogger convention of sorts when David Ringer of Search and Serendipity and I checked out a Rufous Hummingbird while home for the holidays.
I hadn’t seen a Tufted Titmouse in my yard in a few years. Not sure why. But one showed up yesterday.
Northern Harrier, seen at Ballona Wetlands with Amy Hooper.
Nothing out of the ordinary so far as species is concerned, but I did enjoy a rather vigorous argument between a tufted titmouse and a white-breasted nuthatch (with a downy woodpecker who mistakenly got in the middle of it). Much to my surprise, the nuthatch won and claimed the tree limb that was in dispute.
Burrowing Owl! It was about time too, I was thrilled. Snagged a couple photos in bad (lack of) light. Here’s the post- <a href=”http://nutcase007.blogspot.com/2009/12/burrowing-owl-finally.html” Burrowing Owl
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Brown-headed Nuthatch in North Carolina, which completes my roster of North American nuthatches.
Yeah, the Rufous was awesome, and it was good to see Nate again and meet his wife and their adorable baby. 🙂
Rock wren on the back porch; Bewick’s wren came through later, making it a 3-wren-porch for the weekend, when you add in the everpresent Cactus wrens.
Fortunately I was in transit to South Carolina for the holidays and got a look at my first ever Masked Duck at Viera Wetlands, FL.