This episode is a crazy quilt of topics including an overview of spring birding festivals, a review of the guys’ travel plans, the technological challenges of list keeping, the humor of Al Batt, Audubon’s Elephant Folio, loud rock concerts, choosing the best optics, and a special musical interlude from a podcast listener. And a sort-of update… Read more »
By Diane Porter Birds fly, innocent of national borders. They don’t get their passports stamped at the airport, but they carry the story of one nation to another. A Wilson’s warbler that I welcome back to Iowa in May tells me that a patch of forest in Central America is still there. Some countries where… Read more »
Back in the USA, the boys are excited about waterfowl watching season. Ben talks about his bout with Duck Eye and how the Swarovski BTX scope cured him. Bill talks about #TamronTuesday and the opening day of the new baseball season. They also chat about the challenges of the Global Big Year Challenge™ and their… Read more »
Los dos pajareros (The two birders) recorded this episode in two segments from the porch of their rustic accommodation at The Lodge at Pico Bonito. In Part One they chat about the wonders of birding in the tropics. In Part Two they discuss the proposed closing of the Pico Bonito lodge—a sad possibility. They have no… Read more »
Spring birds and birding are on the minds of Bill Thompson, III, and Ben Lizdas in this episode. Bill waxes rhapsodic about seeing a timberdoodle and shares some tips for getting ready for spring migration. Ben is preparing for a cross-country skiing race and bragging about closing the gap in the OTWTB Global Big Year… Read more »
Fresh from the Space Coast Birding Festival, Bill and Ben welcome special guest Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik to talk about his start in the bird biz, birding festivals, bird photography, and why Corpus Christi, Texas, is the continent’s birdiest city. Ben and Bill reconvene aprés the Reader Rendezvous to discuss the glamor birds of… Read more »
Bill and Ben launch their OTWTB Global Big Year Challenge to see which of them can see the most birds in 2018. They discuss the Polar Bear Club, favorite birding gear for travel, high-end compact binoculars, the wonders of Merino wool, and they welcome two new sponsors: Swarovski Optik and Redstart Birding. Listen here: https://www.birdwatchersdigest.net/podcasts/otwtb/episode28.mp3
Bill Thompson, III, and Ben Lizdas gab about a huge array of topics, including their first birds of the year, their birding resolutions, planning the (bird) garden, gearing up for 2018 birding events, seeking the chalk-dusted barley hopper, and some wildly disparate music recommendations. Listen here: https://www.birdwatchersdigest.net/podcasts/otwtb/episode27.mp3
As they pass the quarter-century mark for episodes, the fellas sit inside on a snowy day and chat about winter birding, the recent Rock & Roll Reader Rendezvous in Cleveland, Jen Brumfield’s record-setting county Big Year, the treasures held by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, snowy owls, spark birds and spark jobs, Balto the… Read more »
by Chris Larsen Peru is one of the very best places to watch birds and wildlife anywhere in the world. From the Pacific coast, via the high Andes to the Amazon rainforest, Peru wildlife offers an unparalleled variety of exotic species in some of the world’s most stunningly beautiful landscapes. Now, Blue Sky Wildlife, working… Read more »
