September migration is a fine time to appreciate birds on the wing, so fine that many of you may have missed many of our Extinction Week posts. Fortunately, Monday morning is a fine time to catch up on what you missed over the weekend!
My Best Bird of the Weekend was a turkey, actually several Wild Turkeys. While I see turkeys intermittently all year long, these birds really look best in autumn sunlight. Corey was in position to appreciate a kettle of migrating Broad-Winged Hawks over Lancaster, PA.
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.
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.
My most fascinating bird was a raven. I was sitting reading on my deck and heard a raven cawing as it flew by in the distance. Then I heard a loud whoosh-whoosh right behind me, the sound of the raven’s wings in flight. I turned in time to see a huge bird fly into the forest. A few seconds later it was cawing and whooshing past me in the opposite direction. I’d never heard such loud flying from a bird before!
I had a great day in Presqu’ile provincial park, where my group had 2 Red Knot, a Hudsonian Godwit, and a flock of over 500 warblers and vireos, including over 50 Northern Parulas.