Total Bird-a-thon Species: 91 Though exhausted from a long, sleepless night, we pushed on into the morning, a virtual confetti of warblers, thrushes, flycatchers, and so much more. Basically, the bird-a-thon had the great fortune of occurring during a bird fallout. Moving beyond out immediate backyard, we decided to pedal to other parts of Scituate, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9bNWmE8EAA&feature=youtu.be The following is a video we created to help families start backyard birding with eBird. We hope it is helpful. Enjoy!
Part 1 - January 25 More than an hour before dawn, while packing in the darkness for the upcoming twelve-hour Super Bowl of Birding, a familiar whinny stretched thinly from the invisible trees. It was the first Eastern Screech Owl of the year! And though I ran in to tell the others, I also knew …
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A little over a month ago marked the end of our first Family Big Year. That year ended with a smaller flurry of activity than we had anticipated probably because the Big Year exceeded all expectations, including finding the Pink-Footed Goose early in November. We had originally dreamed that we would be driving and hiking …
Pinnacles National Park, California, Late August After spending three days in the Monterey area -- visiting the splendor of Big Sur, birding at the state parks and beaches of Point Lobos, Zmudowski, and Moss Landing, and just hanging around a bonfire on the beach – it was time for our long drive to Palm Springs …
Jackson and I woke up by sunrise of his fourteenth birthday with a relatively light fog over San Francisco Bay. Today was to be one of the highlights of our California trip, a six-hour excursion to the Farallon Islands, almost 30 miles out into the ocean. Among the birds we hoped to see were the …
While out birding in the North Shore of Massachusetts in late October, an alert opened a window that everyone wanted to jump into right away. Everyone that is, but me. I was hesitant. Eight hours was a long way to drive in one night, only to return later the following night. All to see one …
Observations occurred mostly throughout Scituate or at the Manomet Mini Bio-Blitz (wide array of plants and wildlife recorded) and the Hingham Harbor Islands (amazing rookery). NOTE: Large amounts of shorebirds seem to be migrating into the area. Monday, 7/22/19 American Crow Blue Jay Cardinal Tufted Titmouse Song Sparrow Chipping Sparrow American Robin Gray Catbird Wood …
The hottest section of our Big Bend trip was at Rio Grande Village, which, as its name suggests, is along the Rio Grande and Mexican border. As you descend into the valley and see the massive bluffs of Sierra del Carmen in Mexico, the temperature gauge rises. By the time we had left out campsite …
Driving through the flat desert leading into and through Big Bend, Jackson and I noticed random windmills, not turbines, in the distance. Sometimes they were near a farm. But more often than not, they were solitary towers amongst small stands of trees and scrub. Not seeing the need for electricity, the best answer seemed water. …
The Year of the Green Kingfisher 