You’re in luck . . . another weekly recap. This time we travel to Nantucket, Massachusetts, home of the uber rich and Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving Day get away. There we chase a Eurasian Bird that has been hanging around for almost two weeks.
As our Big Year calendar flips into December, we wrap up our final “scheduled” trip of the year. We pick up two rarities and explore some of our favorite Lone Star hot spots.
In this recap, we visit Texas for the third time . . . in an effort to see an Indian Subcontinent Exotic, an incredibly rare owl, and the most elusive breeding bird in the United States. Oh and we ate lots of Tex-Mex.
After several weeks without a new bird . . . Snowy Owls show up for the first time in almost two years and we get one . . . our 19th Owl species of the year. In this recap we explore why the Snowy Owls haven’t been around and the sad relationship between Owls and […]
A quiet week here in Maine as we enter the homestretch of the Big Year. A surprise rare bird appeared on a golf course about an hour north of our house. The next day Ethan found the rare bird . . . and then got a big surprise.
In this week’s recap, we reach 700 birds for the year . . . in the most unsatisfying way possible and unveil the embargoed bird from Arizona during week 41. We also . . . for no apparent reason . . . show the most iconic television commercial ever made.
A recap of the 41st week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). In this episode we travel to Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona to add to our year list. These included two hard to find Owls, a White-tailed Ptarmigan and seven other life birds.
A recap of the 40th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). In this exciting episode we travel to Long Island to see a bird that should be in Africa by now. We also meet other Big Year Birders including at 19 year old who is having an amazing year.
A recap of the 39th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). With the Big Year three quarters of the way complete . . . we lay out our plan to reach 700 birds for the year. Where we plan to visit and what birds we hope to see. We also discuss why a […]
This weekend, Ingrid’s brother John Judge gave us this ink drawing of a Streak-backed Oriole . . . a rare bird we saw in April in Arizona. John is a professional artist based in Massachusetts and drew the Oriole to celebrate our 10th anniversary. We love it.
A recap of the 38th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). We are back home in Maine, planning how we get another thirteen birds to reach 700. We learn of a nemesis bird in a park just outside Boston. Or as we New Englanders call it . . . the City of Champions […]
A recap of the 37th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). We complete our tardy first visit to California. Visits to San Francisco, the Red Wood Forest, the Channel Islands and a pelagic out of Monterey put a period on one of the best trips of the entire year. We now sit at […]
A recap of the 36th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). We travel to San Diego for one of our more successful pelagic trips of our lives. We also make a trip to the ecologically troubling Salton Sea. In between Los Angeles, San Diego and the Imperial Valley we make numerous stops to […]
A recap of the 35th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we make our first visit of the year to California . . . our long planned California Cleanup. Five lifers in the first 24 hours and a brutal heat wave are highlights of our arrival in Los Angeles.
A recap of the 34th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we travel to Cape Cod to chase a sea bird that has eluded us to date. We also talk about our new camera that should make our bird identification and documentation even better.
A recap of the 33rd week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we recover from jet lag, chase a nemesis shore bird and try to figure out how the latest Lumps and Splits from the AOS will help or hurt our Big Year. If you don’t know what the AOS, or a […]
A recap of the 32nd week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). We close out our second Arizona visit of the year with four days at a Birding Festival and then spend a final day twelve hour day driving around the state in a desperate effort to get the birds we missed earlier. Highlight […]
A recap of the 31st week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we make our second trip of the year to Arizona, this time for the rainy or monsoon season in early August. The rains cause things to green up, flowers to bloom and insects to hatch . . . which draws […]
A recap of the 30th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). We spend the week in our home state of Maine chasing the hard to find Little Gull on the beaches, a South Polar Skua out at sea and the elusive American Three-Toed Woodpecker in the North Woods. Also Maine is visited by […]
A recap of the 29th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). We finish our trip to Florida and return to Maine. In the process we take another crack at the Yellow-headed Caracara, collect a couple more sea bird tics on a Maine based whale watch and make an homage to Paul Harvey. Good […]
A recap of the 28th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). Our third trip of the year to Florida (this time during the heat of July). We chase four life birds . . . with some successes and one big nasty failure.
Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year (Week 27) A recap of the 27th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). Well that headline is really a lie . . . it’s actually a review of a bird we saw in late May . . . a Willow Ptarmigan. This bird of the high arctic […]
A recap of the 26th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This is our second week in the Pacific Northwest highlighted by DIPPER DAY!!!! Other highlights: Lewis’s Woodpecker and Williamson’s Sapsucker.
A recap of the 25th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we visit the Pacific Northwest to see Tufted Puffins and many more . . . if the airlines ever get us there.
A recap of the 24th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week discuss nemesis birds and how we finally got our own nemesis bird off our back.
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