I don’t know how this month has commenced where you are, but around here March has come in like a lion with multiple personality disorder. Three days in and we’ve had about seven different kinds of weather. No wonder I have no idea if or where I’ll be birding this weekend. Corey feels more confident; he doesn’t yet know where he will be birding but rest assured, he will find good birds! Where will you march forth to 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!
Keep your eyes to the skies for sawbills, like this Red-breasted Merganser by Corey Finger
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.
Amazing capture!
Up north in MN I’m listening to the chickadees call ‘fee bee’ and am excited to hear the nuthatches once again. We move slowly up here :O)
What a fabulous picture! The only thing I’ve seen lately are seagulls and an occasional heron!
Great capture! Really nice!
I’ll be on the hunt for Melodius Larks in the neighborhood and going to the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens for another look at the Grey Wagtail!!
Interesting looking bird the Red-breasted Merganser, nice capture Corey!
I’m going to go to Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NYC on Saturday. I’m not sure where I’ll go on Sunday, but I’ll go. I have to try and catch up to Corey on the ebird top 100 Queens birders list 😉
Outstanding merg photo, Corey!
Busy, busy, but hope to get out to look for waterfowl in the Vancouver area.
Heading to the Soo, looking for Snowy Owls.
Love the bird pic. I am not a birder but one day I likely will be 😉 March here has been good so far though there was storm at the outset, it wasn’t as bad as expected. At least in my city though others didn’t fare as well. I hope you get the birding weather you need.
I don’t want to sound like a whiner, but I wish everyone who posts would give their location…(I am in So. Calif.)
@ VRinA2 – where are you looking for Snowy Owls? We took a trip a couple of weeks ago to Montana – Pablo Reservoir just south of Flathead Lake had 2 Snowies for awhile, but (of course) they left about a week before we got there.
We, along the coast in Los Angeles County, have a FY Harris’s Sparrow here now for about a week. I was very glad to see him, as I probably won’t be getting to Northern Canada or the Hudson Bay anytime soon…
We also have a Tropical Kingbird and a Chestnut-sided Warbler nearby, which I saw on Thursday – doesn’t count for the weekend, though? Then Harris’s Sparrow is my best bird of the weekend!
Happy Birding!
@Jospeh: You’ll never take me alive! 🙂
@Rick: Thanks!
@Peggy: Agreed. And I am jealous of your Harris’s Sparrow.
I went to Flushing Meadows Corona Park yesterday and to Kissena Park this morning before the rain set in.
@Corey: I’m shooting for the numbers of species and number of lists I had in 2008!
That would be a good year…but try to match Andrew Baksh’s numbers from last year!