The Birdchaser

On Jan 5, the weather was turning bad with a week of subfreezing temperatures forecast.  Birds were few and far between at my backyard...

So by the numbers, 2017 was better than average for me, though not particularly stellar. I did manage to get my official (old) ABA area li...

As of the end of May, my photo standings for the year are: Mammals   6/25  Herps         8/50 Moths       0/100 Birds     118/200 I...

A little game I'm playing this year is to see if I can take identifiable photographs of: 25 Mammals 50 Reptiles or Amphibians 100 Mot...

I've been A.W.O.L. here at the Birdchaser blog for over a year.  Most of my social media time is now on Facebook.  I post most of my bir...

Looking forward to giving an all new Maya birds talk this Saturday at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.   More details here .

Most of 2015 was dedicated to my Backyard Big Year .  So I didn't chase many birds.  Or build much of a list outside of my yard.  But I ...

Pre-dawn BigSit in the backyard I love the Big Sit .  A few years ago I managed 47 species seen or heard from my backyard in one day .  ...

After a month of travel in Mexico and out to Utah, it was hard to get back in the Backyard Big Year saddle.  Hard to get excited about hardc...

We originally planned to spend a week in the Lacandon Maya village of Metzabok and a few more days in Naha, but we had a medical emergency a...