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the birdchaser skip to main skip to sidebar the birdchaser birding all the time home about me night flight calls bird book reviews links about me birdchaser view my complete profile archives 2026 1 february 1 2026 year of the gwitawo yo 2025 3 november 1 march 1 january 1 2024 2 december 1 january 1 2023 6 august 5 june 1 2022 3 december 1 october 2 2021 1 july 1 2020 4 may 1 april 2 february 1 2019 8 december 4 june 1 april 1 march 1 january 1 2018 4 july 1 may 2 january 1 2017 5 december 1 june 1 may 3 2015 11 december 1 october 1 september 1 august 2 june 1 april 2 february 1 january 2 2014 20 december 5 november 5 october 1 september 2 june 3 april 1 march 2 february 1 2013 41 december 1 october 3 september 19 august 3 july 1 june 1 march 3 february 4 january 6 2012 59 december 2 november 2 october 13 september 2 august 1 july 1 june 4 may 5 march 10 february 12 january 7 2011 85 december 3 november 6 october 10 september 9 august 10 july 3 june 1 may 1 april 3 march 9 february 15 january 15 2010 109 december 8 november 9 october 19 september 9 august 18 july 5 june 5 may 4 april 10 march 3 february 6 january 13 2009 125 december 8 november 2 october 5 september 14 august 5 july 7 june 4 may 8 april 11 march 13 february 35 january 13 2008 289 december 10 november 13 october 15 september 29 august 23 july 16 june 15 may 21 april 18 march 41 february 36 january 52 2007 190 december 17 november 21 october 16 september 13 august 11 july 8 june 9 may 18 april 18 march 14 february 24 january 21 2006 287 december 10 november 21 october 18 september 23 august 25 july 13 june 27 may 20 april 22 march 41 february 37 january 30 2005 108 december 14 november 26 october 17 september 6 august 1 june 3 may 5 april 11 march 16 february 5 january 4 2004 9 december 8 november 1 my blog list 10 000 birds birding brochure english part 6 pristine 13 hours ago birdchick north minneapolis heron rookery turmoil 3 weeks ago birding new jersey the outer banks 3 months ago birdfreak the bird conservation blog force of nature george fell founder of the natural areas movement 1 year ago the birder s library the shorebirds of north america a natural history and photographic celebration 1 year ago a dc birding blog loose feathers 800 4 years ago urban birdscapes birds and windows at yale university 6 years ago aba blog excellent essays and fantastic photos reveal threats to western hemisphere birds 6 years ago christian artuso birds wildlife owls of sulawesi and satellite islands 7 years ago bird calls and songs red eyed vireo anomalous song 7 years ago bill of the birds on blogspot spring migration 2017 part 2 8 years ago round robin wisata air di obyek mata air cokro 8 years ago slow birding the big year meets the big night 2016 holiday chase and year end review 9 years ago birding with kenn and kimberly painted turtle update 9 years ago the urban birder undiscovered owls a sound approach guide magnus robb the sound approach 10 years ago backyard big year a full year of hard core birding in one new jersey yard winding up the ground game 31 dec 10 years ago birding is fun 2015 backyard big year update may 10 years ago bob s birds and things snowy owl at craney island 12 years ago leica bird blog raptors in the valley 14 years ago view from the cape cape may bird observatory bird cape may birding nature the hawk owl s nest subscribe rss feed xml powered by skin design free blogger skins monday february 02 2026 2026 year of the gwitawo yo gwitawo yo is the northern eastern shoshoni name for the black billed magpie since i started the year in northern utah this was the first bird i saw and heard to start 2026 and i want to honor it with a name from those who knew it before it was discovered or scientifically described by joseph sabine in 1823 while i haven t found any gwitawo yo tales from the northern or eastern shoshone yet here is a fun one from their more southern timbisha shoshone cousins where magpies win a race against coyote photo by polinova cc by sa 4 0 posted by birdchaser at 1 53 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday november 28 2025 happy turkey day 2025 my very first post on this blog 21 years ago was a successful thanksgiving wild turkey search with my three kids we tried it several other years but with mixed results and finally it wasn t feasible this year there is a wild turkey flock that i sometimes see a few miles from our new home in mendon ny this thanksgiving my oldest was in town so we slipped out for a few minutes to search for them with luck we facetimed my wife at home my son studying in morocco and my youngest daughter on her lds mission in denmark they all got virtual digiscope views of the flock foraging in a distant corn field facebook killed blogging i m not in a hurry to join substack i rarely post here but enjoying a turkey day flock of wild turkeys again to revisit where this all started feels like coming full circle posted by birdchaser at 12 04 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday march 26 2025 oh how lovely was the morning o n the morning of a beautiful clear day early in the spring of 1820 a young joseph smith retired to the woods near his home in palmyra ny to pray the result was a vision of god and jesus that initiated his call as a prophet and eventually the formation of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints recent analysis of weather patterns and other evidence suggest that that early spring day may have been march 26 palm sunday and the first day of the season when temperatures in the area rose into the 50s to mark the anniversary of this first vision i headed over to the sacred grove at the joseph smith farm and spent a few hours walking around in the cold overcast and snowy morning not as clear or warm as the day in 1830 but still signs of spring were in the air including over 20 bird species seen or heard in the grove ebird checklist all in all a nice walk in the sacred grove though not as remarkable as the experience of joseph smith in his own words because he couldn t decide which church to join i at length came to the determination to ask of god concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom and would give liberally and not upbraid i might venture so in accordance with this my determination to ask of god i retired to the woods to make the attempt it was on the morning of a beautiful clear day early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty it was the first time in my life that i had made such an attempt for amidst all my anxieties i had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally after i had retired to the place where i had previously designed to go having looked around me and finding myself alone i kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to god i had scarcely done so when immediately i was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that i could not speak thick darkness gathered around me and it seemed to me for a time as if i were doomed to sudden destruction but exerting all my powers to call upon god to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me and at the very moment when i was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction not to an imaginary ruin but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world who had such marvelous power as i had never before felt in any being just at this moment of great alarm i saw a pillar of light exactly over my head above the brightness of the sun which descended gradually until it fell upon me it no sooner appeared than i found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound when the light rested upon me i saw two personages whose brightness and glory defy all description standing above me in the air one of them spake unto me calling me by name and said pointing to the other this is my beloved son hear him early morning sun in the sacred grove deer in the sacred grove pileated woodpecker workings posted by birdchaser at 8 35 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 12 2025 first bird of 2025 ok it isn t groundhog day but here we go again as was the case last year my first bird this year was a blue jay so lets try this again and maybe have a better birding year than last year posted by birdchaser at 4 00 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 31 2024 backburner birding 2024 birding recap so this past year has been momentous i took a new job at the palmyra temple in palmyra new york in january we finally sold our house in delco in july and we bought a house and moved to mendon ny in august new yard list up to 75 bird species by end of the year so new job new house new lots of stuff but not a lot of new birds or many birds at all as birding took the biggest back seat in my life since i took a couple years mostly off to serve an lds mission in ecuador from 1988 1990 by the numbers i only saw 213 bird species this year ouch i did not leave the u s this year and logged birds in only 11 states including 199 in new york shoot i just saw that if i had been paying attention i would have worked harder this week to have made sure that total got to 200 that s what happens when you aren t paying attention in the back seat i did not see any new birds for my world list or my north american list this year the first year i haven t seen a new bird since 1987 most of my birding this year was just an hour here or there before or after work the only real birding games i tried to keep up with this year were my daily attempts to get my 20 bird minimum daily requirement and to get an all time new day bird a bird i hadn t ever seen before on that calendar day i will have to count but i got one or both of those on most days though there were plenty of misses including today dec 31 when i got neither since i saw so few birds it is hard to even come up with a 2024 top 10 birds list for the year but here goes 1 wood stork the only rare bird i found myself this year an october surprise up on the shore of lake ontario in rochester ny fortunately it stuck around for several days so many people got to see it 2 snowy owl i haven t seen any for a few years so nice to see one again at sodus point this fall definitely worth a quick drive up one afternoon between work shifts 3 king eider i hadn t seen one since chasing one on the texas coast back in 1998 so more than time to have seen one took several attempts to see one that spent a few weeks at sodus point back in february 4 american woodcock since these were always a bit of a challenge to find in delco it was nice to have several displaying every night at the sacred grove next door to my work so i saw them over 15 times in april and may on the evenings i got out of work early enough to catch their twilight sky dances 5 barred owl always fun to hear them and i heard them 15 times this year at the sacred grove and saw one twice 6 rough legged hawk this was one of my top jinx delco county birds having narrowly missed it a few times finally was able to see one at the philadelphia airport back in january this may well be my last new delaware county pa bird ever 7 swainson s hawk a bird i see most years when i am out visiting family in utah but this was one that someone found in wayne co new york and i drove over to see one afternoon in may before work 8 purple sandpiper another bird i hadn t seen in a number of years good to finally see one again three times up at sodus point on lake ontario 9 bonaparte s gull uncommon in philadelphia nice to live where you can see them all the time if you drive to the right place on lake ontario i saw them 24 days this fall as opposed to only 8 times in 2023 a reliable get when needed as a new all time day bird 10 swamp sparrow like the bonaparte s gull a fairly reliable all time day bird many times this year at the sacred grove when needed quickly on the way to work 99 observations this year as opposed to 27 observations in 2023 when i was birding more frequently aside from the birds it was actually a spectacular year for watching the sky i got to see my second full solar eclipse my best views yet of the northern lights and the great comet show this fall so looking forward to what heavenly visions 2025 will bring birdwise astronomically and otherwise comet through my spotting scope aurora from my backyard in ny moon and venus in fall ny sunset posted by birdchaser at 5 45 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 01 2024 year of the blue jay tiyas di di my first bird of 2024 this morning was a blue jay i heard from inside before i even left the house so 2024 will be the year of the blue jay for me enjoyed a couple hours of quick birding in the morning managing 50 species including mute swan new for my all time jan 1 list and lingering red necked grebe and common loon in the impoundment at john heinz nwr in philly this is going to be a year of big changes i will take the lenape name for blue jay tiyas with me as i move up to the land of the seneca where it is apparently called the dí di to take a new job later this week posted by birdchaser at 7 07 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday august 16 2023 ask and ye shall recieve a couple years ago i posted this on the ebird discussion group in facebook very happy that this year ebird overhauled their database so that we can report these exotic birds track them in the database but not have them show up in our birding totals for listing purposes great job ebird so these chukars from behind the philly airport in 2020 are now officially in ebird but they don t add to my county totals love it chukars shown below my main delaware county ebird list listed with other exotics i ve seen in the county but not included on my main county list posted by birdchaser at 11 18 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to comments atom search this blog followers good bird books amazon com widgets class class skin design free blogger skins