Season 2, Episode 9: The Season Finale
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ivcyf-175f177 It is December of 2024 and we’ve come to the end of another season of The Big Year Podcast. Welcome one and all as we look back on another year of birding or are looking forward to next year and possibly your own Big Year. If so, let me know and we can have […]
Season 2, Episode 8: Josh Gant, 2020 Ocean County, NJ Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a5vic-173338c Well, it’s Friday, November 7, 2024. I’m now five weeks late for my latest podcast, this episode with Joshua Gant, which was supposed to have appeared on October 1st. Well, I got busy in October, actually in September as well, and I started a project that kept me pretty busy. Not only was I […]
Season 2 Episode 7: Danny Bernard and his Accidental Michigan Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pnnj6-16bb769 Well, it’s September 1, 2024, the Dog Days of Birding are behind us and fall migration is underway, signalling the end of the summer breeding season and birds booking their flights south for the winter. Happily, there are no direct flights from the breeding grounds in the north to the wintering grounds in the […]
Season 2, Episode 6: Marcus Legzdins and his 2023 HSA Big Yea
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kidnz-168b5b2 Welcome, birders and non birders who have to put up with the birders in their lives, to the Big Year Podcast, with me, the one, the only,(thankfully), Robert Baumander. As I sit and type this introduction, it is August 1, 2024 and the unofficial start of The Dog Days of Summer. Actually, for birders […]
Season 2, Episode 4: Trailblazing Extreme Birder Lynn Barber
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-maftz-1658110 Today’s episode, features a trailblazer, who was the first woman to do a full out ABA Big Year and has been an inspiration to women in the birding world ever since she saw 723 species in 2008, one more than Sandy Komito’s first Big Year in 1986. Lynn Barber is an author and artists […]
Season 2, Episode 3: Krissi Martin’s 2022 Double Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rnsj7-1600902 Welcome back to The Big Year Podcast. Sorry to have been gone so long, but birding seemed to drag me away from editing more often than not in April. Not to mention that I was recovering from a severe hand injury, when I fell after seeing both Ross’s and Snow Geese in Burlington in […]
Season 2, Episode 2, Part Two: Bruce DiLabio’s Canada Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ichkv-15c10c1 Hello there everybody, Welcome back to The Big Year Podcast. This is part 2 of my chat with the new all time record holder for a Canada Big Year, Bruce DiLabio. As I type this, it’s a sunny spring day in late March and the excitement of migration season is just around the […]
Season 2 Episode 1 Part1: Bruce DiLabio Canada Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yb4q2-15af0ca Hello Birders, welcome back to The Big Year Podcast. I am so excited to be back for a second season. I wasn’t sure we’d get renewed but the birds tweeted their approval and desire to hear from even more Big Year birders, so here I am and boy do I have a great line […]
Episode 3: Christian Hagenlocher: 2016 Big Year on a Budget
I was fortunate enough to meet Christian back in 2016, during my Birders and Blue Jays Big Year. I had driven down to the US to search for a Barnacle Goose. Christian had driven out to see it as well. My memory is vague on the timing and location, other than it was in the middle […]
Episode 2: Yve Morrell and her 2017 Big Year
Pictured above, Yve holding a picture of the final bird of 2017, a Loggerhead Kingbird The Big Year Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts Spotify and anywhere else you listen to your favorite Podcasts, including Amazon/Audible and Podbean I first met Yve Morrell in 2017 during her Big Year. I had flown down to Texas to search for a Jabiru. A […]