What a weekend for those of us experiencing the exhilaration of spring migration! Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds…
The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. I regret having no photo proof of a bird this unlikely, but rarely regret leaving that long lens at home; how many of you worked through your photography bug and back to birding without all that cumbersome gear? Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the many species of wood-warblers he saw this weekend, which was amazing for neotropical migration in New York City. The Bay-breasted Warbler he saw in Forest Park in the company of Carrie Laben was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, even though it was not terribly cooperative by the standards of other species of wood-warbler that Corey has encountered of late.
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.
My best bird for the weekend is easily the rare and endangered West Indian Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna arborea) seen on Sunday 11 at a private pond .
All I saw was the super-rare IKEA-bird. 🙁
I visited Point Pelee, Ontario this weekend and viewed a Scissor Tailed Flycatcher as well as many migrating warblers. The flycatcher was an awesome surprise to the many birders at the park.
I heard a New Zealand Falcon on Saturday so ran to the window, only to see it was mobbing an Australian Harrier. Both of NZ’s birds of prey at once!
A little late to the party but better late than never … BBotW was heard but not seen: my FOY Common Nighthawks outside our rather tumbledown hotel on the outskirts of Toledo, Ohio.