USA Today's Top 10 spring birding venues

Kern River Preserve, Weldon CA
Francis Beidler Forest Sanctuary, Harleyville SC
Rowe Sanctuary, Gibbon NE
Waunita Lek, Gunnison CO
High Island, 45 miles suth of Beaumont TX
Eastern Egg Rock, Muscongus Bay ME
Ottawa NWR Oak Harbor OH
Central Park, New York City NY
Souris Loop NWR, Minot ND
Tara Wildlife, Vicksburg MS

nice list, thanks for posting!

What was the criteria for selection the top 10?

Hey Jerry,

Thanks for posting this. I was a bit surprised to see Central Park on this list. It always amazes me what is in my own back yard that I do nt take advantage of.

I was thinking the same thing as John. I am curious as to what criteria they used to determine this.

Cheers
James

Hard to say what criteria they used. Maybe - "I can only think of 12 sites, and here are my favorite 10." (grin)
I just got a copy of a book: The Art of Bird Photography" by Arthur Morris. He lists many sites (none in NY), and one is in NJ: Barnegat Inlet lighthouse and jetty. Birds there - purple sandpiper, ruddy turnstone, harlequin duck, Ipswich sparrow, red-throated and common loons, oldsquaw and red-breasted merganser. I've not been there myself.

I can think of thousands of sites, of the sites listed only central park would have come up on my top 100

Barnegat Inlet is nice as is many of the sites on the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia east shoreline-prime migration stopover points and sites with many summer resident birds