One essential way to heighten the pleasure of a special bird sighting is to brag about it later. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.
Of all the excellent early spring birds I saw at Montezuma NWR this weekend, my favorites were probably Snow Geese and Swamp Sparrows, though all those ducks were pretty welcome as well. Corey’s best bird of the weekend was his first-ever Black Brant in flooded Flushing Meadows Park during a lull in the Sunday morning rain.
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, you should include a link in your comment.
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I would have liked to have seen a Scaup for the last three weekends, but haven’t.
http://countingcoots.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-need-tele-scaup.html
It’s like the opposite of the best bird of the weekend. Is that allowed? 😉
Ha, Michael has beaten me to the first comment! Geez, seems I have to get up earlier on Monday to defend my pole position next week! 🙂
My best bird is kind of like Michael’s, a no-show: dull weekend with lousy weather, of course birds are always nice but there was nothing out of the usual. Therefore, as I can’t claim a Greater Spotted Eagle or a Sociable Plover for Germany, I’ll have to go with my season’s first singing Dunnock.
Nice song.
Nice bird.
always reminds me of a Lincoln’s Sparrow – “always” here meaning “after May 2005” when I saw my first ever Lincoln’s.
Before that, Dunnocks always reminded me of Dunnocks.
So it goes.
Oops…it looks like my Black Brant actually was a hybrid Cackling Goose X Brant. I knew there was something odd about the brant because it lacked any white on the neck and have been informed that it is likely the same hybrid that spent time at Flushing Meadows Lake last winter. It’s still my best bird of the weekend though!
Eastern Phoebe in my backyard
My second-ever sighting of a Northern shrike.
a redwing blackbird, a several woodstorks and a few other wading birds
Rather boring, but it was exciting to see the female wood duck enter the nest box in the front yard. They have been returning for about 10 years now. We started with three wood ducks last Monday, and today we have 17 back.
I, too, had exciting birds I didn’t see. All three rosy-finches, thanks to an unseasonable snowfall in Albuquerque. Feh!