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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of October 2011?

October 27, 2011 by Mike 10 Comments

The shadow of Halloween is falling over the United States as we speak, foreboding haunted hijinks for celebrants, especially the junior set. Have you ever seen anyone birding in costume or even done it yourself? Wearing camo while busting the ghosts of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers doesn’t count, but otherwise we’d all love to hear stories and see pictures!

I’ll be shuttling my little goblins to an assortment of Halloween-themed diversions this weekend. If anything, I’m certain to see crows. Corey will be birding somewhere all day on Sunday, but has no earthly idea where. What are you doing this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans 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!

Sunrise at Higbee Beach in Cape May, NJ. Time for the morning flight!

October weekend

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.

10 Comments

Don and Lillian Stokes October 27, 2011 at 1:48 pm
We’ll be looking for Golden Eagles at Pack Monadnock Raptor Migration Observatory in NH, the last weekend of the hawk watch season.
Ubermoogle October 27, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Hope to spot a few migrant loons and snow buntings at the Glenmore Reservoir on Saturday and looking for some late migrant Golden Eagles at Mt. Lorette west of Calgary, AB on Sunday. Hope it’s a success!
Christine October 27, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Inspiring.
Mike Cerio October 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Heading to The Montezuma Audubon Center to visit Frank. I would highly recommend visiting your local center. It’s a great time and they generally have a nice area set up with scopes to do a little indoor birding 🙂
Magical Mystical Teacher October 27, 2011 at 9:01 pm
The birds look like little grains of pepper scattered in the sky!
STARFALL
In the sky the stars shine bright
Not by day, but through the night.
Should the stars begin to fall,
There would be no sky at all!
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
California Sky
AL October 27, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Wow I can see lots of birds! Beautiful!
Carolyn H October 28, 2011 at 9:05 am
Actually, it looks as though I will be dealing with 5-9 inches of snow this weekend, so maybe I’ll just fill up my bird feeders, pour a glass of wine, and see if anything interesting comes to eat.
Pat ODonnell October 28, 2011 at 10:29 am
No Halloween happiness in Costa Rica so no costume birding. I might get up into the mountains on my quest for identifying 600 species for the year- only 20 more to go!
Joseph October 29, 2011 at 7:49 pm
I am going to go to Alley Pond Park in Queens NYC and do my last survey day for the NYC Audubon’s Harbor Heron project.
From May through October I went every two weeks to document herons, egrets and ibises and to see if they were feeding. It has been a fun project to be involved in.