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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Season 3, Episode 3: Alberta Bider and Guide, Gavin McKinnon
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tbkx3-18c4c7a Well, thank you once again for joining me on the Big Year podcast. As May turns to June, spring migration is coming to a close. I’ve been busy all the merry month of May, birding in Long Point Provincial Park, where we got to see a Summer Tanager, Rondeau Provincial Parks for a Mourning…
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Season 3, Episode 2: Natasza Fontaine and Robert Gundy Florida Big Year and Artist of the
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mcn96-1880608 Happy Podcast day, one and all! Welcome to back to The Big Year Podcast. Thank you once again for joining me. It’s April 15, 2025 and spring migration is well underway here in southwestern Ontario. It’s actually a bit of a miracle that I finished this episode on time because the last 2…
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Season 3, Episode 1: Jean Iron
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-62g7e-1834824 Yes, The Big Year Podcast is back. And after a long, cold, snowy winter, the temperatures are finally on the rise and the birds are finally on migration. It’s March 15, 2025 as I sit down to write this, I’m looking out my front window, here Brantford, Ontario to bright blue skies and hearing…
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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…
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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…
The Trans-Canada Jay Highway 