April: Retrospecticus
The month where I finally cracked 200 for the year, and started getting some great spring birds.
The month where I reminisced about my first pair of birding binoculars (and learned a lot about German optics in the comments).
The month where I kicked a dead horse one more time for good measure.
The month where I studied unidentified sandpipers and the bird credentials of an excellent band.
The month where I despaired about walls that keep us from enjoying a wonderful birding locale.
Can I tell you how excited I am for May? Coming up in the next month, not one, but TWO trips to the western part of the state (finally!), and a pelagic during the best time of the year for pelagics off North Carolina’s coast. They call it Pterodroma alley, we’ll see how well that name applies.
Should be lots and lots of birds. Stay tuned…
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The very best of luck for May, and would you mind seeing some Swainson’s Warblers and blogging about them?
Have fun on your pelagic as well, and may it not be the slow one I mentioned (it won’t, as I won’t be on it, but actually my two pelagics were excellent so it just pertains to my last comment).
And:
Cheers, Drinking Bird!!
Yes, both Swainson’s and Cerulean in the same place. It’s in the works, and only an hour away…
Okay N8, I give up. This sure beats a bag full of Canadas.
You win.
Is my prize a Canada Warbler? Cause that’d be great.
I’ll try, but first I’ll have to find one here in Germany, which has never happened (I think there’s less than a handful of WestPal records), and then I’ll have to convince that individual to make the long flight back over the Atlantic, not directly to its breeding grounds but down South to – say – Florida from where it is to go North to NC.
That’s a big price you’re asking for.
But I try, I like a little challenge now and then.