The sun shines over Deep Bay, Hong Kong’s shorebirding playground
What is more restful for a birder than the weekend after a big birding trip? Obviously, when we’re away from home on extended journeys, various tasks and issues accumulate in our absence. But mundanities and minutia are easier to handle while reminiscing about avian adventures. Part of being a birder entails dealing daily with that gnawing realization that, at any given moment, birds are out there that need to be seen. That pressure lets up, ever so slightly, every so briefly, during the days after you’ve seen big deal birds.
On that note, my Swarovskis are smoking after brilliant birding adventures in Hong Kong and Macau. I shan’t be birding this weekend but will try to work on a mega trip report. Corey, on the other hand, will be birding somewhere fun. 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!
I’m birding this weekend (March 1, 2014) in the Dana Point Harbor and Dana Point Headlands. I saw 12 Red-breasted Mergansers (2 males, 10 females) Awesome to see these birds as it is very rare to see them there.
Great shot! Nice light 🙂
Photographing a Red-breasted Merganser in the chilly water amongst the ice breaking up on Lake Michigan at the Montrose Harbor breakwater wall with the skyline of Chicago in the background. This is part of “The Magic Hedge” nature sanctuary on a spit of land that juts out into Lake Michigan. I bike out there often each week. On the opposite side is a very large sand beach with some of that area also set aside. This winter (2014) a snowy owl has been spotted there and birders with long lenses and spotting scopes have descended on the peaceful area.