Kicking Around on a Piece of Ground in my Hometown This year has been an incredible journey so far – one that for the rest of my life I will look back on as a highlight. The memories I have made, the people I have met, the places I have explored,
Beating the Heat Coming off a week that was one of the year’s lowlights, Week Twenty-six didn’t need to do much to be an improvement. Despite the low bar and the high heat, however, Week Twenty-six would prove to be a highlight of its own right – not quite as spectacular
The Least Birdy Week This Year Week Twenty-four, spent primarily in upstate New York, was among the highlight’s of the entire year, replete with a wide variety of birds as I explored the Adirondacks and Fingerlakes regions. It’s successor, however, make the lowlights. Allergies, heat, and technical difficulties conspired to leave
Vermont With the value of hindsight I can say with absolution that Week Twenty-four was among my favorite weeks this year. If you had told me during the early days of the week, though, as rain plagued nearly every moment of every day and I struggled with a near-total lack of
Visiting The Rock When I started this adventure back in January, I knew I would have countless experiences that would stay with me for the rest of my life. Many of these, like my time in southeast Arizona and seeing the Sandhill Crane migration in Nebraska, I knew would be exciting
Cape Cod On Saturday, May 23rd my last charged camera battery died. If your thought upon reading that is that some issue was causing me to be unable to recharge them, don’t worry, no such issue exists aside from my repetitious disregard when it comes to remembering to bring both the
Once-in-a-lifetime. When I crossed into Connecticut on the 18th, I finally got started on birding the of the last two general areas of the county in which I’d never previously birded: New England. The other, the Pacific Northwest, will have to wait until the fall, but weeks Twenty-one through Twenty-three will
The Biggest Day After tying West Virginia as my highest species total on my first day in a state to close out Week Nineteen, Delaware had left me with a very solid first impression. This impression was one that would be hard to keep up, but when I say that over
Down The Mountains After a stretch of birding away from the coast last week, Week Nineteen saw a return to coastal birding, kicking off what will be a month-and-a-half of birding along or relatively near the Atlantic Ocean. Before I could get back to the coast, however, I first needed to
Closing Out Virginia Week Eighteen got off to a to a bit of a slow start – not really in terms of birding but at least in terms of the time I spent birding. The time I did spend birding, though, was pretty great. I started the week off with a visit
First and foremost - thank you to anyone who chooses to support me in this insane adventure of mine. When I initially had this idea and began planning I didn't even consider the possibility that others would want to support me, but I am extremely grateful to those who have reached out to do so. For those who are interested in supporting me, I have set up a Patreon, which can be accessed by clicking the logo to the left (or you can send me a message via the contact page). Again, thank you for your incredibly generous support!
All Patrons will receive my "Daily Notes" 12-36 hours after the end of each day, and Patrons subscribed to the "Sponsor" tier will receive monthly postcards, mailed out between the 25th and end of each month.
For anyone who wishes to support me without using Patreon, clicking the "$" Icon will link you to my Venmo as well. There is also an option on Patreon to purchase my Daily Notes Collection for a one-time $10 payment without becoming a paid member, which will give you access to the Daily Notes without having to subscribe to a monthly subscription. For those who it requests the last four of my number for, it's 1403.
Following recent suggestions I went ahead and created a GoFundMe in order to help ensure I can keep this adventure going and afford the costs of gas, vehicle maintenance, and food (including, with enough support, some more diversity in my diet). The GoFundMe can be accessed by clicking the image link with the coin going into the donation box. (If anyone knows how to add a custom icon on Elemetor to make the Venmo and GoFundMe Links their respective logos, I'd love to hear how to do it!)
Thank you again to those of you who have supported me so far, it's tremendously generous and greatly appreciated.
Follow me on my journey to see 100 species in every Lower-48 State during 2025, experience some of the incredible places and events in American birding, and meet and bird with as many local birders as possible along the way.
Posts will be made every Wednesday (I will try to have them out by 5pm, but situationally they might be a bit later) and will cover the previous Monday through Sunday. Additional posts will be made periodically with no set schedule.
