Keep your eyes to the skies for flying pink birds like these Roseate Spoonbills, which are really ibises with big flat bills!
Excited about the equinox? One half of our global population will be surrendering minutes and then hours of daylight for darkness while the other half enjoys the inverse transaction. Those dark days of December are still far off, however, and migrants fill our skies in light and darkness. This threshold weekend holds promise everywhere in the world, so enjoy it!
I’ll be surreptitiously watching birds during a golf tournament this weekend; it’s touch being the guy on the course with binoculars, but someone has to do it. Corey will be combing Queens for his 300th bird, having missed earlier in the week what would have been a rare addition to that list. 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!
Down here near the equator, it’s nearly the same amount of day and night year round so no equinox for us! There are migrants though and I hope to find some choice ones along with rainforest birds while guiding at the Lands in Love hotel in Costa Rica. Although this hotel is off the regular Costa Rican birding routes, it’s easy to get to and excellent for everything from raptors to antbirds, tanagers, Sunbittern, and more.
Fantastic capture, never seen anything like this!
I hope the weather will be not all too nasty this weekend. I plan on taking at least one long walk in the cultivated and in the wild parts of Schönbrunn Park.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
Merisi
What a great shot! I thought they were flamingos. They are incredibly beautiful.
I take my hat off! What a joy to see this picture!
I’m birding on the island of Malta this weekend.