Wrapping up Nevada Week Nine started with a trip into the mountains northwest of Las Vegas in search of several potential Lifers. This trip to the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area started with some brief birding around the Visitor Gateway, where Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Steller’s Jay, and Spotted Towhee were all bouncing around in good numbers.
A series of unfortunate events. The past few days have been somewhat cursed one. First, as I believe I mentioned in a previous post and have mentioned in the Announcements section below my posts on my home page, I have had an ongoing dental issue the past couple weeks. I had
The Constant Exceeding of Expectations Continues Week Eight was a weird week in terms of my adventure this year, suffering from a distinct lack of one of the key main elements of my ‘People, Places, Birds.” adventure: People. While I met and messaged with a handful of birders throughout the week,
Birding in the Rain The start of Week Seven was a fairly slow one, as on Monday 10th I didn’t do that much birding as I spent a significant time working on my blog, planning, and doing other non-birding work midday . I began Monday morning with a visit
Wrapping Up Florida With the conclusion of Week Five I found myself about to leave Florida behind and move towards Georgia. I was now into February, and January had been undoubtedly the best month of birding I’ve ever had in my life – and personally I find it hard to believe
Foley Feeder Frenzy To say the year so far has been anything short of remarkable would be an understatement. Never would I have previously considered states like Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama to be states with fantastic birding – though obviously that was a misconception as the second half of Week Three
Dowitchers Galore The Gulf Coast – known for its year-round warm climate, fantastic winter birding and… snow? Seriously? Yep, that’s right. Snow. Before departing on this adventure, as November and December began to get colder and colder back in Michigan, I kept reminding myself that I only had so much more
Big Bend & The Valley Covering 1252 square miles and containing more than 80 different trails, Big Bend is a truly massive and spectacular place, and my allocation of a single day was… laughably insufficient. Now, I knew I wouldn’t even begin to scrape the surface of this massive National Park
Albuquerque Following the beyond-exciting kick-off my year in southeast Arizona, I was admittedly left a tad spoiled. Not every state will the century mark be easily attained as it was in Arizona, let alone a total tally as high as 173 with 50 Lifers – that said, New Mexico remains, in
The Big Day After 18 months of preparation, the time for my 2025 adventure has finally arrived – and in typical “me” fashion kicked it off with a “Big Day”. I met Timothy Burkhardt at his house on the morning of the first to join him for his traditional Pima county
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!
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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!)
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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.
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