Best Bird of the Weekend
3 years ago - By 10,000 Birds
At long last, we can put all that stuffing and gratitude behind us. The only thing we Americans, a curious people to be sure, love more than a holiday is the next holiday. If you haven't already transitioned from turkeys to French hens and turtle doves , you'll falling behind the rest of us...
I'm terribly grateful for all the amazing seasonal birds I saw this weekend, but none more than the Glaucous Gull that winged by while a group of us waited fruitlessly for a formerly abiding King Eider to turn up. What made this white-winged gull special was, first, that I identified it on the wing...
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