Greetings,
While I was hoping to make a long post of this wonderful trip, too much time has passed since I first started writing the original draft, and I can not correctly remember all of the events and stops to justify writing a lengthy post. So, while I regret not having more to write at the […]

It should go without saying that living in the county that has the highest known density of breeding ‘Northern’ Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis) in the world is nothing short of fortunate and amazing. But even living here in Marin County, CA for 5 out of the last 10 months has not been enough for me […]

For those of you who have not yet heard about this guide, I highly recommend picking it up! The Shorebird Guide by Michael O’Brien, Richard Crossley & Kevin Karlson will be a great reference guide for anyone looking to learn more about identifying birds of this challenging, yet fun group. While I do not own […]

Greetings,
This past Sunday, I drove down to Monterey to go on an 8-hr pelagic trip aboard the Pt. Sur Clipper, as a chummer, with the Monterey Seabirds Co.
The 3 hour drive down from Palomarin went fast as this was my first pelagic trip of the season, so I had many wonderful things to look forward […]

This morning was the first time in the last 12 days or so that I came across a good mix of migrants.  While hunting the Robinson Hollow area in northern Tioga county, I came across a flock of BLACKPOLL (4+), TENNESSEE(2+), BLACKBURNIAN 1, and MOURNING WARBLERS 1 joined by 8 other warbler species.  The bird […]

Greetings,
Due to recent adventures and misadventures in my life, I have been unable to add any posts recently to the site. However, today was the first day of Point Counting this season, so I figured I should at least make some note of it.
I Point Counted at the Palomarin Field Station on 3 of the […]

Greetings,
How amazing that working with the public can elicit so many different feelings. Today when the day first began, we had a school group of about 15 3rd graders from Mission, CA (near Sacramento). This is actually the same school group that Melissa, the education director of PRBO went to, and when she was in […]

Marking the passage of time for many birders just as New Years Day, Christmas, and birthdays do for the general public, the New Jersey Audubon Society just hosted its 23rd Annual World Series of Birding (WSB) on International Migratory Bird Day (May 13, 2006). Being a birding competition where “Everyone wins and nobody loses” that […]

For those of you who did not know, today was International Migratory Bird Day, a day devoted to the celebration of migratory birds and their journeys between their breeding grounds in the northern US and Canada, and their wintering grounds in Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies.
For more information on this wonderful […]

Along the same lines as my ‘Trillogy’ post, I would like to cover the topic of Swallows in flight. The primary gray area lies among juvy Tree Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, and Bank Swallow but why not cover all swallows.
Chad and I have had, what I would consider, some pivotal experiences in our birding education […]