Season 4, Episode 5: Tarik Shahzad’s Cook County Big Years
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vziye-1b37ef9 It’s my birthday and I’ll bird if I want to bird if I want to. You would bird too – if it was you. Welcome to the birthday edition of the Big Year Podcast. Well, the only thing that makes it a birthday edition is, well, because it’s my birthday. I’m Robert Baumander […]
Back on the Road Again
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jcw8c-1b0b1c1 Yes, once again, I am back on the road again. Welcome back to the Big Year Podcast, I remain and am still Robert Baumander and you’re well, you. And thanks for being you and taking the time to listen. Today we’re taking a little break from Big Year Birders and talking to a few […]
Season 4, Episode 3: Tobin Brown’s Nebraska Big Year, and a Whooping Craine update
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-48vmx-1aeb729 A hardy welcome to summer birding and the return, after a break for migration, of The Big Year Podcast. Seems silly of me to tell you the title of the show, since you must have known it when you clicked on the podcast to begin with. Today, we have two guests. Our first […]
Season 4, Episode 2: Canadian Astronaut Roberta Bondar, and A Space for Birds
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z2rv9-1ab1597 The year was 1969. I was a month shy of my ninth birthday. It was way past my bedtime, though it was only 10pm. In my memory of the event, it was the middle of the night. Along with my family, gathered around the black-and-white television in my parent’s bedroom, we watched the broadcast […]
Season 4, Episode 1: Josh van der Meulen’s 2012 Ontario Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gnepa-1a89860 The Big Year Podcast April 1, 2026 It is April 1, 2026, I’m Robert Baumander and welcome to season 4 of The Big Year Podcast. My 4th season? Really? So glad to be back again. Miss me? It’s been an exciting journey and this season promises to be the best ever. Maybe. Or not. […]
Season 3, Episode 8: Ellen and Jerry Horak’s Big Years
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dnwn3-19da77d Welcome to another episode of The Big Year Podcast. I’m your host and guide to the world of Big Year birding, Robert Baumander. It’s December 1, 2025 and you’re listening to the Season Three Finale. That’s right, l have been blathering on now for nearly three years. When I began this podcast in January of […]
Season 3, Episode 7: Liam Ragan’s Victoria Island, BC Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hz6x2-19ad1d5 It’s a rainy day in Birderland. It’s October 30, 2025 and I am writing this on night before Halloween. I won’t claim that this is going to be a spooky episode, but there are one or two scary birding stories from our guest Liam Ragan. Liam broke the record for a Vancouver Island, British […]
Season 3, Episode 6: On the Road, Again
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-b3s8p-194f0b8 It was the perfect way to begin The Big Year Podcast On the Road, Again, with discovery of a very rare bird, right here in my backyard, near Cambridge, Ontario. A young birder by the name of Nathan Hood found a Spotted Redshank, a rare visitor lost on its way back from Eurasia. Almost […]
Season 3, Episode 5: 2012 Ontario Big Year with Andrew Keaveny
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wfwvq-191e17b Welcome all to The Big Year Podcast. I’m Robert Baumander and you’re, well, you. It’s the end of July, 2025, and you know what that means? Certainly an all new episode of the Big Year podcast, naturally, but mostly, we’re smack-dab in the heat of the summer and the lack-of-birds blues. In July and […]
Season 3, Episode 4: Ingrid and Ethan Whitaker’s Lower 48 Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tcfkr-18f2577 Happy Canada Jay Day. It’s July 1, 2025 and for most people it’s a holiday and a chance to barbecue, picnic, get away from the house and watch or set off fireworks after dark. For birders,(those poor souls that have to work for a living during the week), it’s a day to celebrate birds […]