Do you love your birds of summer? Enjoy them while they last; depending on where you live, they’ll be departing before you know it. Increase the pleasure of your special bird sightings by bragging about them here. Step right up and share your best bird of the weekend.

Despite being out and about this weekend, I hardly saw any birds. Odd, huh? An iridescent Common Grackle that my kids and I observed picking around the yard was as good as it got. Charlie didn’t fare much better at home in Wiltshire. Corey, on the other hand, has tons of hot birds to choose from; his best bird of the weekend were three Marbled Godwits at Jamaica Bay, not only his first Marbled Godwits ever in Queens, but, also, inexplicably, his first ever Marbled Godwits in New York State. Go figure.

What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.  If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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.