Birding

Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of May 2011?

May 19, 2011 by Mike 11 Comments

Does anybody track how devastating spring migration must be to the global economy? Seriously, I know what kind of hit my personal productivity has taken this week once wood-warblers descended upon trees outside my home office window (awesome, right?) and can only imagine the economic impact extrapolated across birders all over the world. Sounds like the issue deserves further study, and by issue I mean the warblers outside my window! Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

Obviously, anyone associated with 10,000 Birds will likely be birding this weekend. Corey and I will both be close to our respective abodes.

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! And if you’re not getting enough of the wood-warbler wave sweeping North America, enjoy the offerings of our recent Wood Warbler Week.

Duncan shares stupendous skies over Wellington, NZ in celebration of Not Wood-Warbler Week

May 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.

11 Comments

Outdoor Man May 19, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Wow, what a spectacular photo!
Carola May 19, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Awesome clouds.
Adam May 19, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Doodletown Rd in Rocklin County, NY for warblers!
Nora May 19, 2011 at 10:10 pm
I’ll be sticking to neighborhood parks (Heritage Park, Long Park, and maybe one new one.) unless the listserves show something more tempting in Ann Arbor.
Mickie Brown May 20, 2011 at 2:44 am
Stupendous just “begins” to describe what a beautiful shot this is. Excellent photo of a beautiful place. Mickie 🙂
Stewart M - Australia May 20, 2011 at 5:11 am
Thats a good sky, and the mist is pretty splendid as well.
Cheers – Stewart M
Laurent Fournier May 20, 2011 at 9:32 am
doing a green big day tomorrow in my county (washtenaw, Michigan)!
Pat ODonnell May 20, 2011 at 10:37 am
After missing out on birding last weekend, I hope to bird the middle elevation cloud forests of Tapanti National Park or maybe some awesome foothill site on the Caribbean Slope.
Linnea May 20, 2011 at 12:22 pm
That is truly a spectacular view and sky!
Laura Hegfield May 20, 2011 at 6:24 pm
beautiful!!!!!!!
Sue McG May 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm
My goodness what a fabulous photo! I posted some birds for skywatch, I’ll have to go back through my pics and dig out their name, they roost on a mountain-top in Switzerland . . .