Birding

Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of June 2013?

May 30, 2013 by Mike 8 Comments

Keep your eyes to the skies. Maybe you’ll get lucky and see the bird that may some day be called Pacific Fulmar!

What happened? I was just getting into the season, setting aside time to scope waves of wood warblers, when Corey offhandedly crushed my spring dreams just by saying, “Migration is over.” Is it really? Let me know if you’re catching any last vestiges of spring migration in your neck of the woods…

Since migration is allegedly over, I’m going on strike until autumn. Corey, on the other hand, will spend the weekend reveling in resident breeders all across New York State. Even he doesn’t know where he’ll end up, but there will be birds. How about you? Where will you be 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!

June 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.

8 Comments

Naomi in upstate NY May 30, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Doodletown. I don’t even care if I see any good birds. The name just cracks me up.
HansHB May 30, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Great sky-composition!
Eileen May 30, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Cool capture and sighting. I would love to see a new bird this weekend. Happy Skywatching!
Jidhu Jose May 31, 2013 at 5:16 am
Excellent click
happy SWF
Anuradha Shankar May 31, 2013 at 5:53 am
nice capture… we just returned from a trip where we saw lots of birds, many of them migratory ones. we thought they would have been gone by now,but as someone said, there are some birds or the other all the time. so anytime is a good time to go birdwatching!
Meredith May 31, 2013 at 12:49 pm
@Mike: According to fellow Chicagoans, migration is mostly over here (although there are still some warblers hanging around — slackers!). Our collision-monitoring team has been picking up mainly flycatchers and cuckoos for the past few weeks, and local birders’ focus seems to be turning to shorebirds. The season came and went too fast this year!
Gordon May 31, 2013 at 9:41 pm
Heading to Democrat Point at Robert Moses State Park. Hope to see some shorebirds!
Gordon June 2, 2013 at 7:31 am
Robert Moses was not very birdy but I had a few good sitiings. It was the first time. I had ever seen black crown night herons walking down a beach! Also saw a pair of nesting piping plovers. One seemed not to care I was nearby and walked right over and posed.