What’s so great about April? A better question might be to ask what isn’t great about April. This month introduces change for the better, movement from one state to another, and a season that unfolds magically week after week. Also lots of birthdays in my family, which is cool. And also birds, also cool!
I finally got my eyes on my first Eastern Phoebe of the year, pumping that tail in the cold spring sunshine. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Black-and-White Warbler of the year, carefully searching every crevice in the bark of a large oak tree in Forest Park.
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.
April always brings two birding festivals, signals the end of the winter birding and time to start working hard to find the summer SE. Texas residents.
Spent the weekend as guide to first time visitors to the San Bernard NWR, just outside Churchill, TX. I hope I got at least one interested in our hobby.
Surfbird was my best for the weekend- several seen at Bajamar, Costa Rica.
For once we have the same birds as you. B&W Warbler and Eastern Phoebe at the Heinz NWR on Sunday. A lovely pair of Towhees and a palm warbler at Palmyra Cove, NJ on Saturday. Nice to welcome back the warblers…
It’s been a slow weekend, especially fro those of us in the northern temperate regions of N America who await spring’s new arrivals.
probably best was a baby Great Horned Owl that I delivered to an Owl Rehab center. Click on my name above to read about it.
My best bird of the weekend was a gorgeous Prothonotary Warbler in Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
Birding was great, but my real highlight was my first ever banded bird, an American Tree Sparrow.
Finally got back out in the field after too long away … and a bird walk at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, PA produced many cool sightings, but the best by far has to be the pair of Northern Harriers we were lucky enough to spot winging by!
A Golden Eagle flying over the Olympic Mountains!
Prothonotary Warblers or an American Redstart! A sight for winter-weary sore eyes!
Birded in the Michoacán highlands of central Mexico, as usual; but the highlights were two birds I had only seen in very different environments: 2 Crested Caracaras, more common on the coast, and a Striped Sparrow, previously only seen by me in the mountains west of Mexico City.