For those among us who “chase” rare birds you will understand the following. The rest, well, consider it a harmless obsession and be done with it… After seeing the report of a Nutting’s flycatcher in western Arizona starting on the 19th of December I began to wonder if this was a possible species for me [...]
Posts tagged ‘big year’
Upping success rate
Posted January 3rd, 2012 by kcorliss. Comment (0).
Birding, Hollywood-style
Posted March 26th, 2010 by kcorliss. Comment (0).
Many moons ago I penned (or do we say keyboarded in this computer age?) a column about a certain book I had read called, The Big Year, A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik. It was a pretty good read with all the mania, competition, and human foibles which accompany this whacky birding hobby [...]
