Summer may be the season that best illustrates the stark difference between being outside and being in position to see interesting birds. Obviously, staying indoors ratchets up the difficulty in bird-spotting quite a bit, but working in your yard on a hot, summer day isn’t much better. What do I need to add to a bird bath to attract shorebirds?
As mentioned, I toiled away in what will soon be a new garden for much of the recreational portion of my weekend. Luckily, I made it to Cobbs Hill Park for a quick walk, which turned up a frenetic Northern Flicker family. Oh, how I love the Polka Dot Woodpecker, as does Corey, who clearly also enjoys taking pictures of 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.
I rejoice in all the Common Swifts I can lay my eyes on (which are a lot) since the count-down is on for them to leave Heidelberg/Germany. So yet again, and for the next 2-or-so weeks, the BBotWE has to be Common Swift.
A brown creeper! He was sneaking (creeping) around in the midst of a loud flock of pygmy nuthatches, in my own front yard in Colorado. Such a tiny bird, I wonder how many times I missed him.
Here on the Olympic Peninsula the Rhinoceros Auklets are wonderful to watch this time of year.
My favorite was probably my year Pied Puffbird seen while guiding in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica.
I was in the land of no internet for the weekend so Mike never learned that my BBOTW was definitely a Hermit Thrush singing in a gorgeous hemlock ravine in the Catskill Mountains. It was a good weekend.