2022 BIG YEAR

After visiting Texas in November I stayed close to home for the rest of the year. I did get one more bird - a Slaty-backed Gull in...

Sunset viewed from plane My Big Year began in earnest in early January with a trip to the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) in Texas. I...

My plane landed in San Francisco after midnight local time. By the time I checked into my hotel it had been 23 hours since I started the...

Cape May New Jersey is a bucket-list destination for many North American birders. Nearly 400 different species of birds have been seen in...

Elegant Trogon Grandson Peter joined me for a one-week trip to Arizona with Wildside Nature Tours. Alex Lamoreaux, our guide, lived up...

I didn't plan my July trip until I wrapped up the first half of the year. I wanted to go where I had the best opportunity to add new...

There are no direct flights from Nome to Barrow, so we flew back to Anchorage on the 11th and had time to bird some local parks. Our...

Nome is situated on the south side of the Seward peninsula halfway up the west coast of Alaska. Gold was discovered there in 1898 and...

I spent the last half of May in Michigan where I added Kirtland's Warbler and a few other birds to my list. On June 3, I started my most...

One of the bucket list trips for North American birders is a pelagic trip on the Stormy Petrel II with captain Brian Patterson. The trip...

Flying from Texas to Florida, getting my rental car (after being 65th in line), and driving to my first destination took most of the day....

Painted Bunting After a disappointing Florida trip, I was home for a day before heading to Texas. Twelve days of birding and 90 new...

This was supposed to be a three-day, Three-night boat trip to the Dry Tortugas islands. I arrived in Key West at about 3:00 p.m. and...

We left the hotel at 4:40 and drove to a Lesser Prairie-chicken lek near Scott, Kansas. We were positioned in blinds by 6:00 and spent...

We returned to the scenic Colorado National Monument Sunday morning, April 10. Two members of the jay family were the early stars. The...

I am enjoying Tropical Birding's "Chasing Chickens" tour in Colorado. The featured birds are various grouse and prairie chickens that...

After spending two days on Oahu and two days on Kauai, we flew to The Big Island for the final four days of our trip. The trip exceeded...

After 11 hours of flying spread over two days, I arrived in Hawaii on Friday March 4. The birding began the next morning with a rush of...

My New England trip was very successful. I found seven new birds for my annual list in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Then I joined the...

Although I did not see most of my target birds while birding on my own, the Tropical Birding tour has more than made up for it. We are...