The month may be winding down, but March Madness is reaching a fever pitch. Sure, college basketball is a big deal, but I’m thinking about the burgeoning spring. Think your coworkers would be up for an office pool to pick the next early migrant to arrive? Perhaps you don’t work in that kind of environment, but don’t let that stop you from immersing yourself in the experience of a world in flux.
I’ve got an active schedule ahead of me this weekend, but hope for the chance to chase an owl or two. Corey will be kicking around the NYC area, so send your swankiest vagrants his way. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your comments in the comments below.
Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend!
Blue skies with perhaps a touch of smog over the scintillating central coast of Portugal
(Find out why Dale Forbes finds Lisbon birding pretty crazy…)
South Jersey–should be great.
This weekend I shall forsake the birdies for the snakies.
The Adders are out!
I’m really hoping that I might finally find my first Purple Martin ever in Queens.
Sapsucker Woods! Yay me! I’m here in Ithaca, NY on grandma duty, and my granddaughter lives only 2 miles from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Today I dropped her off at her preschool then went there for the first time. I was quite proud of myself for spotting the nest of the Great Blue Heron pair before seeing it on the live video cam. On Saturday morning my son and I hope to make a morning of it.
I will be doing a Big Day in Costa Rica on Sunday. We have a good route, birds are singing, and there are migrants around. Like any Big Day, it is bound to be pure birding madness that will require a generous supply of coffee (easy to find in Costa Rica) and the concentration of a Zen master (that is going to be a tough one since none of us are a master of anything). Nevertheless, if the cards are in our favor (good weather, traffic avoidance, enough migrants and shorebirds) we just might get the world record for a Big Day. I will be pretty happy if we can hit 300 species though.
Texas Gulf coast, where the wood warblers are winging. Spent Friday morning in Fort Bend County and will be in and around Harris County Sat/Sun.
Would like to be in Costa Rica, though! Seriously – 300 species in a day?
Hampton Bays, Long Island NY. I go every day to watch a nesting pair of Ospreys but I always see many others. I saw Northern Gannets for the 1st time last week. There are many Oystercatchers and Red Breasted Merganser. Also Great Blue Herons, Great Egrets. Can’t wait to see what else I’ll find tomorrow!
I joined a bird walk at the Broomfield County Open Space event here in Colorado. Had a great time!
http://birdspyblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/broomfield-open-space-bird-walk.html