Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2017)

February 20, 2017 by Mike 9 Comments

The third weekend of February seems fairly uneventful, but birders and nature lovers know how to make these days count… by counting. Did you participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count?

I counted birds not at my own feeders but at those of my mother-in-law, where my best sighting was a single Northern Raven that croaked back and forth for hours in the unexpectedly warm winter sun. Corey had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this weekend. His Best Bird of the Weekend wasn’t a Pink-footed Goose, a Barnacle Goose, an Eared Grebe, or a Northern Saw-whet Owl, even though he saw all of those species. Neither was it an American Bittern, a Harlequin Duck, nor any of the three scoters despite him seeing all of those as well. Instead, Corey chose his first Barrow’s Goldeneye in a couple of years as his Best Bird of the Weekend. It’s a good duck and he’d missed seeing them.

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.

Written by Mike
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.