Summer, by which I mean accepted as opposed to seasonal, surges towards its inevitable end and I find myself wondering when real summer, by which I mean hot weather, will arrive. Somehow, I suspect fall migrants and summer heat will arrive at the same time… sounds awesome!!
My favorite birds this weekend were a mess of Mallard ducklings I could share with my kids, niece, and nephew. Mallards are best when they are fuzzy and cute. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Yellow-breasted Chat, only his third ever in Queens, that he found at Fort Tilden. He didn’t get a picture of the chat though, so he thought that the female Hooded Warbler he found at Alley Pond Park would do as a stand in.
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.
Got my year Spotted Shag down in the marina by Te Papa. Such a pretty corm.
it rained so hard and steadily that biding was limited in Ontario’s cottage country. But from the warmth and shelter of a cottage I enjoyed Ruby-throated Hummingbirds best of all. Read more about them and many more other birds in the week before on my blog by clicking on my name above.
Best bird of the weekend was an Osprey heading out to sea by way of Ventnor Beach in NJ (where Laughing Gulls were also high on my list, since I’d previously only seen the Coney Island one before).
But absolute, without-a-doubt best *creature* of the week (OK, so it was a weekday last week) was the family of four, count ‘em four, Red Foxes cavorting a few blocks from my home in northwestern Philly, in broad daylight! That’ll teach me to go to the gym without my iPhone camera. So cute and such a special experience!
Swallow-Tailed Kite in OH