Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2015)

March 9, 2015 by Mike 3 Comments

Those of you who have never experienced a clock change in Daylight Savings Time are really missing an opportunity to complain about the time the way most of us gripe about the weather. Since some of us are early risers and others night owls, we don’t all agree on the best hours of the day. But we can all rally around the pain of losing an hour of sleep as we spring forth. On the other hand, seeing sunlight well after 6pm makes me realize that spring may actually come after all.

Spring may be on the horizon, but we’re still snowbound here in Rochester. I’ve got little besides House Sparrows to entertain me as I hide indoors. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Red-necked Grebe, an amazingly cooperative individual at Baisley Pond Park in Queens that had been reported the previous weekend when Corey was out of town. Was he ever relieved and elated to get such good looks at a pretty good bird!

How about you? 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.