Last spring, while suffering a bout of temporary insanity, I dug a hole in our backyard. Not just any hole. An 18-square-foot hole that I confidently explained to Ingrid was going to become a bird pond. I explained that the bird seed, mealworms, suet and sugar water we already provide weren’t enough. Our birds needed […]
Find it in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bird-field-guide-for-kids/id1666078962 Bird Field Guide for Kids Discover birds. Learn what makes them special. Then head outside and find them! Bird Field Guide for Kids is a colorful, easy-to-use bird guide created especially for young bird lovers—and anyone who is still a kid at heart. Explore 500 birds of the […]
Ethan and Ingrid chase a lifer and dozens of California Birds on a family vacation.
Two Mainer and their French Bulldog Biscuit spend February Birding in the Southwest.
Join us for a light-hearted, fact-filled tour of America’s woodpeckers, from the backyard-friendly Northern Flicker to the elusive American Three-toed. We sort out the differences between traditional woodpeckers, sapsuckers, and flickers, and explore the remarkable adaptations that let these birds drill, climb, and thrive across the continent. Meet favorites like Downy, Pileated, Acorn, Lewis’s, and […]
A fun recap of Ethan and Ingrid’s Twitch of a Smith’s Longspur
On Tuesday, October 21st, Please join Ethan and Ingrid on Zoom as they recap their 2024 Big Year. They will share their adventure across the Lower 48 States with photos, videos funny stories from the road. Zoom Link
Ingrid and I are on the latest Edition of the Bird’s Eye View Podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-e7-from-sea-to-shining-sea-a-couples-big-year/id1710429878?i=1000696137190
Ingrid and I just released our book EVERY BIRD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA on Audible . . . the bad news, Audible version has no photos . . . the good news . . . Ingrid is the narrator!!! We have a limited number of FREE review copies available from Audible. If you’d like […]
Ethan and Ingrid Whitaker have published EVERY BIRD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA, their 2024 Big Year Book. EVERY BIRD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA ONE COUPLE’S BIG YEAR IN BIRDING A PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVENTURE ACROSS THE LOWER 48 STATES 288 Pages 800+ Wildlife Photos by the Author Humorous accounts of what it takes to find […]
A fun and final recap of Ethan and Ingrid’s entire 2024 Big Year. Join a retired couple from Maine as they break outside of their comfort zone for a Lower 48 State Big Year . . . a contest to identify as many species of birds as possible in a calendar year. What were our […]
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 […]
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