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North Carolina

Week Seventeen – The East Coast

Heading Towards the Coast     While in Week Sixteen I began the process of birding the coastal states, it wouldn’t be until week Seventeen that I would actually reach the coast and begin the process of following migration northward – and aside from a detour inland to West Virginia for week Eighteen most

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North Carolina

Week Sixteen – The Last of the Southern States

Warblery     Throughout Week Fifteen things had started to heat up in terms of spring migration, but in Week Sixteen pretty much right off the bat things got Warblery, starting with the 14th as I began to work my way up towards the Nashville area. I kicked off Monday morning at the

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Kentucky

Week Fifteen – Spring Has Sprung

Floodles Abound     One of the sections of this year that I’ve been most looking forward to has been following spring migration up the east coast. Spring has always been my favorite time of year when it comes to birding, with warbler migration at Magee Marsh and Tawas Point having been instrumental

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Status Update

Status Update 4/15/25

The Journey So Far     March was a… complicated month. Starting with my being rear-ended, then the root canal, then dealing with a true Great Plains blizzard, then blowing a tire. Then, right at the very start of April, I needed to get my brakes worked on. Don’t get me wrong, I had

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Kentucky

Week Fourteen – The Rain

A Slow Start     Despite myriad setbacks, Week Fourteen was a truly spectacular week of birding primarily focused in Missouri. While in the end the week was a great one, it certainly got off to a painfully slow start. Initially I had planned on being in Arkansas through Monday the 31st, but

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Arkansas

Week Thirteen – I Feel Like I’ve Been Here Before

A Near Disaster     On Monday the 24th I began the birding of my return visit to Kansas, kicking off my morning at the Tuttle Creek State Park Fancy Creek Area, where I quickly added Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Eastern Bluebird, Field Sparrow, and Fox Sparrow to my Kansas list. Then, with

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Kansas

Week Twelve – The Raptor Wars

The Competition     There are a handful of habits that I have adopted over the years when it comes to birding – or more specifically eBirding – but one of the earliest and most consistent of those habits is my entering of every single raptor that I see into eBird. Going into

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Colorado

Week Eleven – The Week of Not Very Much Birding

Kicking off Week Eleven     Week Eleven got off to a phenomenal start on the 10th, with a day spent birding my way east through Colorado from my starting point of Montrose. While the day would prove to be among the birdiest of the week, it definitely didn’t start that way at

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California

Week Ten – Murphy’s Law

Heading East     The morning of Monday the sixth I finished up my birding in California and began the long voyage east that will take me through through the “next layer north” of states I haven’t yet visited before turning north when I reach the Atlantic Ocean, following spring warbler migration along

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Status Update

Status Update 3/11/25

Touching Base.     When last I posted I was sitting in a state of limbo, not quite sure what the coming weeks would bring. The car accident I was in while in Salt Lake City cast a shadow on my plans for the year, and as I dealt with contacting body shops

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