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2020 Sucked. I'm going to try to make it a better 2021.

Fairweather Zealot
Forsythe NWR – Feb 6th

Forsythe NWR – Feb 6th

Year Count: 110 | Species: 51 | FOY Birds: 6 | Lifers: 0 For my first trip in February, I picked a location which had a number...

John Heinz NWR at Tinicum – Jan. 31st

John Heinz NWR at Tinicum – Jan. 31st

Year Count: 104 | Species: 25 | FOY Birds: 3 | Lifers: 1 I was hoping to finish out the month of January by beating my old...

Meanwhile at Home

Meanwhile at Home

Not all the birding can be at exciting locales like Manasquan or Barnegat. Much of the birding takes place much...

Barnegat Inlet – Jan. 16th

Barnegat Inlet – Jan. 16th

Barnegat Lighthouse Year Count: 100 | Species: 38 | FOY Birds: 7 | Lifers: 0 It’s an annual tradition for me to hit Barnegat Light every winter,...

Manasquan Inlet – Jan. 9

Manasquan Inlet – Jan. 9

Year Count: 88 | Species: 20 | FOY Birds: 4 | Lifers: 0 After my great trip – sans camera...

Cape May – Jan. 2nd

Cape May – Jan. 2nd

To start my Big Year, I made may (almost) annual pilgrimage to Cape May to get a lot of the...

Day 1

Day 1

Day 1 started with the call of a Canada Goose flying over at just past midnight. Perhaps frightened by the...

And So It Begins

2020 sucked. Pandemics, horrible wildfires, the political scene, the Kardashians. And my workload was so heavy that I rarely had...

Big Year 2016: Barnegat Light & Island Beach State Park

Big Year 2016: Barnegat Light & Island Beach State Park

One of my favorite things about spring birding is taking a day off on a beautiful day and hitting a...

Big Year 2016: Forsythe NWR

Big Year 2016: Forsythe NWR

I usually doesn’t take until March to get to Forsythe but Shari and I decided it was time to take...