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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Virgin Islands. Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. Geography is destiny.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. Virgin Islands.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. Virgin Islands.