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.
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, […]
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