April is here and change is upon us. If you hail from a temperate region, you’re in the midst of a magical transformation that has billions of organisms growing, blooming, and moving. Join the action! Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
For the first time in a long time, Corey and I will be birding together. Look for us at Jamaica Bay and the south shore of Long Island. Charlie will be roaming Great Chalfield looking for Willow Warblers.
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!
Springtime comes to a lovely corner of England
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.
I’ve got a trip around Cayuga Lake including Montezuma NWR planned for Friday and then Sunday I’ll be birding from the canopy of a Sycamore while teaching a Tree Climbing course here in Ithaca. Glad to see that the migrants are still arriving! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Ooooooh [claps hands] I am EXTREMELY excited about birding the boredom flats south of Heidelberg yet again this weekend, as I have done on nearly every weekend for the last 2 years.
Raptor migration is in full swing and – honestly – pretty exciting, especially now as the satellite tracked Spotted Eagle “Tönn” is well on his way back from Spain to the Baltic and he might, might, might just so happen to fly over Leimen this coming weekend while I look up at the sky with a camera at hand.
Chances are slim but what the hay.
Here is the link to Tönn’s travel route, or rather to where he currently is:
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/index.php?lang=en
Keep your fingers crossed!!!
I will be out and about in Clay Island (Lake Apopka Restoration Area), to get some friends to see nesting Ospreys, Baby Barn Owl, Barred Owls and Great Horned Owls. And after that a trip to see what my Burrowing Owls are doing these days. Might be another day with 4 Owl species! 🙂
Good luck, Jochen!
I’ll probably check the tide tables and head out to Iona Island in hopes of catching some early shorebirds. It’s April, after all!
Go to a sage grouse lek to see the spectacle with a good friend. Sounds of the lek are almost as important as the visual splendor.
Great.
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. Let’s hope I get to see a chicken! Then maybe onto High Island. Last weekend was great with golden-cheeked warbler, though it was a bummer dipping on the black-capped vireo.
As usual, I’m jealous of everyone here.
Karen, I had the same experience of seeing the warbler (barely) but dipping on the vireo at Dinosaur National Park a few years ago. Good luck with the chickens!
Think I will be at the mouth of the River Don again over the weekend.
Did go and watch 4 red Kites yesterday which was a first for me .. Such amasing birds Im sure I’ll be seeing them more over the summer.
Cheers and have a good weekend folks
AL
Wonderful country lane to wander down.
Fantastic place! This is such a beautiful shot that you’ve shared with us!
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