optics & birding enthusiast

August isn’t that far off, folks. You’ll want to clear your calendar and register soon. 

One of America’s most beloved songbirds, the oriole, is coming back from its wintering grounds, and heading our way! 

Potholes & Prairies is a tremendously friendly and comfortably small festival, run with great attention to detail and the contentment of its participants.

Funding is instrumental in preserving the miracle of migration in one of the most critical flyways in Eurasia: the Batumi Bottleneck in Ajara Province, Georgia.

The American Birding Association (ABA) announces its two week-long camps for young birders: Camp Colorado in Estes Park, CO, and Camp Avocet in Lewes, Delaware!

My historic stone house probably has fewer windows than most houses.

Our friends at Bird Watcher’s Digest have come up with a fabulous idea!  It’s a new series of events called Reader Rendezvous: three weekends, three seasons, three different locations in the U.S.–each a distinctly wonderful opportunity in 2014 to discover, learn, and walk alongside one of the birding industry’s most notable celebrities: Al Batt, Julie Zickefoose, or Alvaro Jaramillo.

Come for a day or two or three, or for the entire week.

You can imagine our surprise when a call came in to Eagle Optics early this week to say that one of Operation Migration’s ultralight aircraft and 4 immature Whooping Cranes had just landed at nearby Pope Farm Conservancy.