What could be better/worse than a winter that won’t quit? How about a week during that winter when your kids are not in school? How awesome/less than awesome. Where I live, schools are closed next week for winter break, which seems an awfully long time to celebrate President’s Day. Whether you’re excited or ambivalent about this situation, you may be looking at anything from a long weekend to 10 days of freedom/managing your children. How will you be spending this weekend and will there be birding involved? Share your plans in the comments below!
I’m thrilled to have good friends coming to visit for a few days. Frank has been known to watch a bird or two in his time, so perhaps we’ll be able to chase owls together. Corey will continue to find outstanding avifauna everywhere he goes… jerk.
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!
Don’t you love a painted sky, even one over Long Island?
In reference to the previous post, I plan to spend the weekend looking at my backyard.
The Hudson Valley can’t hope to contain my birding this weekend. So, yeah, I’ll actually be looking for a car to buy which is a really odd feeling after three years without.
Bartel Grasslands, south of Chicago…
It looks to me that Long Island has nice sunsets.
What a mesmerizing sky. I’m in awe of all the warm colors. I hope you enjoy the winter break with the little ones!
Hi there – “standardized test preparation”, hey thats what I do as well, “nature blog”, hey thats what I do as well, are you sure your not me!!!
Had not visited your blog before – will be back!
Cheers Stewart M – Australia
Zaagkuildrift area Northern Province…
Amazing colours – I do love a painted sky!
Tough choices——do I head up to Croton Point Park/St. George’s Island and try to catch more Bald Eagles before they head back to upstate New York, or follow my urge to return to Twin Lakes Park in Eastchester? (I miss my old stomping grounds!) I wish this long weekend weren’t so booked. 🙁
Hopefully I can make it out to Point Pelee tomorrow while the weather is still mild, and then bird some of the surrounding areas for the GBBC. I luckily have ten glorious days off!
This weekend I’ll be camping near the cool springs in Central Florida. You got it, 70 degrees ouside and sunny. Maybe I’ll even see a FL Scrub-jay or two.
I hope to survey high elevation forest at Poas National Park on Saturday and then will be guiding in Caribbean Slope foothill forests at Quebrada Gonzalez on Sunday.
As ever, I’m jealous of all your plans!
Meredith, you might want to go to Croton again. That place is amazing.
Stewart, are you my Australian doppelganger?
This weekend will find us at the Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area (Punta Gorda, Florida) looking for Red Cockaded Woodpeckers and early Zebra Longwing Butterlfies.
Tomorrow we are thinking about going up to the Myakka River State Park (Sarasota, Florida) to see some gators, wading birds (maybe a roseate spoonbill if we are lucky) and the odd warbler!
This time of year we are on the lookout for Swallowtail Kites in our neck of the woods!
I was actually in Cuba at that time!!!