During my winter break, we decided we wanted to end our year with a big trip. After much debating and some scheduling setbacks, we...

When you're in a long distance relationship, you end up really getting to know the place where your significant other lives. That's the...

Just two weeks after the Georgia Ornithological Society meeting, I headed down south for the Florida Ornithological Society Meeting in...

Heather invited me to join her at the twice-a-year meeting of the Georgia Ornithological Society on Jekyll Island. Not only did the...

Going into fall, Heather and I realized that we needed to do very well with migratory birds if we had a chance of getting our numbers up....

Believe it or not, New Jersey is one of the best states for seeing fall migration. So on the second weekend of September, when migration...

As we pulled into fall migration, one of the themes of this Big Year has been our amazing ability to miss birds that were reported...

Flying from Phoenix, we landed in Denver Friday evening. It was the wedding weekend of Peter's old friend, and we went right to a brewery...

We still had a lot of things to see on our last day, despite flying out to Colorado early in the afternoon for a wedding. We woke up from...

Our Arizona trip was productive so far but, of all days, we probably had the highest hopes for our last full day in Arizona. And, as...

Peter and I woke up earlier than the others (which meant no coffee yet) to bird around our campsite, which just happened to be a birding...

One of the big trips Heather and I planned for our Big Year was one to the birder's mecca of Southeastern Arizona. We only could afford 3...

We woke early Sunday, picked up Noah, and headed to Spruce Lake Bog. The bog itself was small but hosted some gorgeous carnivorous...

If you are like Heather and I, conferences are tough. You're inevitably in a new place, with limited time, and all you want to do is get...

Heather and I both received scholarships to attend the National Audubon Convention, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this year. We packed our...

Jeez, if there is one consistent theme this year it's been the number of times St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge has saved the day with...

After the AOS conference ended, we headed towards the Denali Highway bright and early Saturday morning. We'd heard from several people...

The title of this blog post essentially sums up how Heather and I have been completing this Big Year. We aren't rich, don't have tons of...

How could we possibly follow a pelagic trip, in terms of species and sights seen? In short, we couldn't, but we were going to do our best...