Birdernaturalist

This week I auditioned to join the Eugene Gay Men’s Chorus. My tour guiding schedule has prevented me from joining any chorus for the past d...

Pleasant Hill Proto-CBC – January 10, 2021 This past weekend, at personal request, several teams of some 15-20 birders helped Alan Contreras...

The Eugene CBC is now my “home count,” as I live just 2.3 miles from the circle center (a CBC circle is 7.5 miles in radius). Last year I wa...

I participated on this wonderful southern Oregon coastal CBC on January 2 this year. It has the potential to have the highest species count ...

I decided to give the two Long-billed Curlews found by Barb Combs the day before on the Brownsville CBC a search. It’s a rare bird any time ...

I did the Brownsville Christmas Bird Count on December 27, a back-up date after heavy rains a week earlier made it unsafe, not to mention un...

I thought I’d re-cap the last five CBCs that I did, making for a total of seven this season, all in Oregon: 12/14/20 Tangent 12/19/20 Rosebu...