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.
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