Day 2, January 25, 2016, was our first full day of birding. And what a day it was! We birded the Space Coast area of Florida from Melbourne to Daytona Beach Shores. We ended the day with an unofficial tally of 95 species. And we added an additional 31 species to the year total…

Wow! That week went incredibly fast! 208 species! I was anticipating about 160 species total. The number is good. But what matters is uniqueness. What do I mean? Well, getting a great bird in Southern California may be a common bird on another tour. In short, it means more effort to see a bird we’ll…

Greg Miller’s first Big Year Tour is underway in sunny… umm, well, rainy southern California. An unexpected turn in the weather, thanks to El Niño, has erased the typical sunny skies and replaced them with rain and yes, snow in the mountains east of Los Angeles. Interestingly, when Greg did his original Big Year in 1998,…