Birding the Bog -- Day 2

Our second day in the Sax Zim Bog was another amazing day. We started early, hoping to catch a glimpse of Sharp-tailed Grouse as they moved off of their lek. The big birds of open plains like Sharp-tailed Grouse and Greater Prairie-chickens find areas called leks to perform elaborate courtship displays from.

Birding the Bog -- Day 1

No offense to Ohio, which gets plenty cold, but Minnesota is a seriously cold State. As a result, there are some seriously cool birds, which are often tough to see anywhere else. It wasn't hard to talk my younger brother Daniel into coming with me for a long weekend of birding in the Sax Zim Bog; it really only took a few pictures...

Great Gray Owl in the Sax Zim Bog

Braving the cold for winter birds

Okay, one of my New Year's Resolutions was to revive this blog. We'll see how it goes! This first post is a write-up of a Columbus Audubon trip I led up to the Cleveland Lakefront. Yes, people actually came.

Trip West: from Ohio through Kansas

Hello! I know some of you have been waiting for a post about my western roadtrip, so here we go! We set off on Saturday, June 4th from Columbus. We got out bright and early, at 6AM and jumped onto I-70. By lunchtime, we were in St. Louis! We stopped at the Gateway arch for a picture, and then found a spot to make lunch.

The Gateway to the West!

Good news and bad news

Good news first. Migration is heating up, which means lots of birds around! I'm sitting at 189 Ohio birds for the year and more are showing up every day.

Florida double-twitch

As teased in previous posts, here's the trip report from my Florida excursion! I call it a "twitch" in the title, which is birding lingo for chasing after a rarity. This particular excursion was organized by Jeremy, who has his own blog here. The plan was easy enough in theory

January 100

As promised, another post for January. I mentioned in my last post the goal of recording 100 Ohio birds in January. The fabled January 100 was looking fairly easy early on, but late into the month I learned that I wouldn’t have the final weekend to wrap up! More on that in another post; here’s how January went...