American Redstart, singing |
American Robin on the nest |
American Woodcock |
Baltimore Oriole |
Baltimore Oriole |
Bay-breasted Warbler |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher with nesting material |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher with food |
Blue-headed Vireo |
Blackburnian Warbler flying through the trees |
Blackburnian Warbler |
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Black-throated Green Warbler |
Black-throated Blue Warbler... where are you going? |
Black-throated Blue Warbler |
Amigos... Carlos Bethancourt and I |
Blandings Turtle |
Canada Warbler |
Cape May Warbler, coming in for a landing |
Cape May Warbler |
Common Tern, reTERNing with food for the young |
Common Yellowthroat |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
Dunlin Flock coming in for a landing at sunrise |
Dunlin flock zipping by |
Underside of an Eastern Screech Owl |
Great Blue Heron |
Great Horned Owlet in the snag |
Gray Catbird |
Great Egret fishing |
Great Egret flock |
Great Egret |
Gunnar jamming away, with his Bird Party song! |
Hooded Warbler |
House Wren |
Indigo Bunting |
Jeff Bethancourt (left), Carlos Bethancourt, Jenn Sinasec and I |
Birding crowd, to see the Kirtland's Warbler! |
Kirtland's Warbler!! |
The Kirtland's Warbler mecca |
Female Kirtland's Warbler |
Female Kirtland's Warbler |
Female Kirtland's Warbler |
Female Kirtland's Warbler |
Female Kirtland's Warbler |
Female Kirtland's Warbler |
Female Kirtland's Warbler, looking cute! |
Photographers, waiting patiently for the Kirtland's Warbler |
In this tree there is a Male Kirtland's Warbler... can you find him? |
Male Kirtland's Warbler |
Male Kirtland's Warbler |
Male Kirtland's Warbler |
Hanging out with Kim and Kenn Kaufman :) |
Magnolia Warbler taking it easy |
Magnolia Warbler |
Magnolia Warbler |
Nashville Warbler |
Northern Cardinal |
Northern Parula |
Northern Parula |
Northern Parula singing his heart out! |
Northern Parula |
Northern Parula looking silly, while looking for insects |
Northern Parula |
Northern Waterthrush |
Northern Water Snake |
Palm Warbler on the ground |
Palm Warbler |
Palm Warbler |
Pied-billed Grebe |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler singing! |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Prothonotary Warbler, big leap! |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Painted Turtle |
Rusty Blackbird |
Ruddy Turnstone that I found near the shore of Magee Marsh |
Red-winged Blackbird |
Snowy Egrets that I found along the Magee Marsh dike |
Sora, sleeping away... |
Summer Tanager |
Hanging out with Birdchick... Sharon Stitler and I |
Tree Swallows doing some "cloacal kissing" |
Tree Swallow at Sunrise |
Trumpeter Swan |
Tukrey Vulture |
White-crowned Sparrow |
Willow Flycatcher |
Wilson's Warbler |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
Yellow Warbler, coming in for a landing! |
Sweet Sweet Sweet I'm So Sweet... Yellow Warbler singing |
Yellow Warbler |
Zeiss booth |
Bee, Damselfly and Questionmark butterfly |
Bird bumper stickers |
Bird Nerds... Ethan Kistler and I |
Ethan Kistler and I |
In Oak Harbor, the local businesses are very welcoming and accomodating of birders during the Biggest Week |
My Van and Ethan's Van |
Sharon Stitler and I at Birds n' Beers! |
Birding Guides for the Biggest Week in American Birding 2012 |
Birders enjoying the birds at Magee Marsh |
Birders on the lookout tower, within Magee Marsh |
Birders at Magee Marsh |
Birders |
Bullfrog |
Butterfly |
Butterfly |
Carlos Bethancourt and I... we had a blast at The Biggest Week in American Birding |
Carlos Bethancourt guiding people to see the Kirtland's Warbler! |
Carlos Bethancourt, Jenn Sinasac and I |
Carlos Bethancourt, talking about Canopy Tower |
Carlos Bethancourt pointing out warblers |
Cicropia Moth |
Couple going birdwatching |
Birding Crowd |
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Wildside Nature Tour guides and I |
Flowers in the woods |
Fly |
Ken teaching about banding birds, with a banded flycatcher in-hand |
Fox Snakes |
Fox Snakes |
Fungus |
Fungus |
Garter Snake |
This is the group I guided around on Friday. We had a thrilling time watching birds, and made some wonderful friendships |
Hanging out with two of my trip participants |
Gunnar Engblom and I |
Lots of midges in the air... with many songbirds to migrate through shortly with this abundance of food! |
Jeffrey Gordon of ABA and Carlos Bethancourt of Canopy Tower |
Kaufman sign along Highway 2 |
Kowa booth |
The scopes are all lined up, ready to be field-tested |
Birdwatchers |
Head of the Magee Marsh trail |
Magee Marsh |
Moon |
Mushroom |
Naturally Avian Booth |
Painted Turtles |
Questionmark butterfly |
Questionmark butterfly |
Rainbow over Metzger Marsh |
Little pond, cutting through Magee Marsh |
Rob, Rob and I. These guys were a hoot to birdwatch with! |
Sharon Stitler helping point out the Whip-poor-will with her scope |
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The Soup Nazi was here! Too cool! |
Sunrise along Lake Erie... during the morning which the Kirtland's Warbler was found! |
Sunrise in Metzger Marsh |
Tom Bartlett conducting the Big Sit, to help raise money for Black Swamp Bird Observatory |
Warbler food in the sky |
Warbler list, from the Biggest Week... this is why they call this festival the "Warbler Capital of the World" |
Warbler sign, at the head of the boardwalk |
I took this photo as I was heading home, leaving a toll booth in Chicago |