The Trans-Canada Jay Highway

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Birding changed my Life. . . I shouldn’t be alive. No, really, I shouldn’t have survived. You see, I was born in 1960 with multiple birth defects and now live with a laundry list of chronic conditions for which only modern medicine has kept me alive and mostly well, all these many years. I spent…