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.
A recap of the 23nd week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we pick up birds in Michigan, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey . . . highlighted by the Kirtland’s Warbler and a Yellow Rail.
A recap of the 22nd week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we visit mountain tops, cemeteries and even great dismal swamps in our quest for birds.
This morning Ingrid and I loaded into a van with eight other crazy birders and headed up the Mt. Washington Auto Road in quest of a highly sought after bird. . . the Bicknell’s Thrush. It’s a tiny brownish bird with a raspy, uninteresting song . . . so why is the Bicknell’s so fascinating […]
A recap of the 21st week of our 48 State Big Year (2024). This week we tick-off the Atlantic Puffin in our home state of Maine, quote from Emily Dickinson and use our Big Year to get out of Jury Duty!!!
A recap of the 20th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we bird around New England.
A recap of the 19th week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we visit the Dry Tortugas, the Florida Keys and Miami.
A recap of the eighteenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we bird around New England.
A recap of the seventeenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we chase a two birds from Europe . . . a Ruff and a Garganey.
A recap of the sixteenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we complete our 81 day road trip around the country.
A recap of the fifteenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024) – the Crazy Chicken Edition
Today we visited a Greater Sage-Grouse Lek in Henefer, Utah. A Lek is a a courting display, where dozens of male and female Grouse gather together in a dawn mating ritual. Males will repeatedly expand their chests, which are equipped with special air sacks, trying to impress females. We arrived an hour before dawn, […]
A recap of the fourteenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024) – the Lovebirds Edition
A recap of the thirteenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we chase the Elegant Trogon.
Before our Big Year began, Ingrid and I talked about which bird we were most looking forward to (hopefully) seeing over the course of the year. I was hoping to see a Great Gray Owl . . . basically for petty reasons . . . as it was the only species Ingrid had seen that […]
A recap of the twelfth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we chase the Golden-cheeked Warbler and Rosy-Finches.
On the 80th day of Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year . . . we travel to Saddleback Mountain Ski Area in search of the White-winged Crossbill.
A recap of the eleventh week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we chase the last few outstanding Maine winter birds before hitting the road again.
A recap of the tenth week of our 48 State Big Year (2024), as we make an identification error and return to Maine for a few weeks.
With a name that is as difficult to pronounce as it is to spell, the Pyrrhuloxia is often mistaken for a female Northern Cardinal. Found in brushy desert habitat of the Southwest, it can be differentiated from a Cardinal by its stubby yellowish bill and comical pointed crest.
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