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116th Audubon Christmas Bird Count
The Mad Birders will be participating in the 116th Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Our circle includes parts of the Mad River Valley, Roxbury, Northfield and Berlin (Pond) and our count day this year is Friday, December 18th. Teams of Mad Birders will set out at first light in whatever weather nature gives us that day […]
Join the Mad Birders for an Autumn Birdwalk and Brunch on Saturday 10/10/15
The Mad Birders will be holding an Autumn Birdwalk at 7:30am on Saturday October 10th at the home of Jeannie Elias and Craig Goss on Center Fayston Road. Songbird migration will mostly be over but we will see what we can, and then circle back to Jeannie’s for a Mad Birder Brunch. We will be […]
4th Annual Mad Birder ‘Big Morning’ is a Big Success!
Well, the 4th Annual “Mad Birders Big Morning and Birder BBQ” is in the books. And this one proved to be just as satisfying and surprising as its three cousins. Today, 58 people from across Vermont (and a couple from Connecticut), spanning ages from 12 to 81 gathered to bird CrossHaven Farm in Moretown, and […]
Mad Birders Score an Orange Crowned Warbler on New Year’s Day
This bird was NOT supposed to be here now. Warblers head south for the winter, right? Well, mostly right…but not always. Zacheriah Cota-Weaver was the first of ten Mad Birders out and about in Washington County on a “First Birding” expedition to notice a small yellow bird in a line of Spruce trees on a […]
Mad Birders Christmas Bird Count Featured on WCAX TV!!!
The Mad Birders were delighted to be featured in a WCAX story about the Christmas Bird Count. The Chickadees, as they are known, who covered the Waitsfield South sector for the 2014 count included Pat Folsom as the leader, along with Ellen Barillaro, Bonnie Darby, Christine McGowan and Tom Rogers. Watch the video here.
MAD BIRDER TEE SHIRTS ARE COMING!!!!!!
Good news birders! Mad Birder Embroidered Logo Tee Shirts; (featuring the same glorious image shown above on one of our hats*) can now be ordered! The price will be $20 for any shirt. The shirts will be available in an astounding variety of colors (click on the style of your choice to see color options). […]
Think Bobolinks!!!!
The Bobolink is a small songbird that migrates between South America in winter and the Northern and Midwestern sections of the United States in spring and summer. This male of this cheerful species is often described as wearing a tuxedo backwards, due to the contrasting black and white patches of its plumage. Its song is described […]
Spring Migration is upon us!
This American Woodcock was spied along Center Fayston Road at High Noon on 4/3/14 by Mad Birder Craig Goss. Good Spotting! Listen for these birds doing their mating call and aerial ballet at dusk and dawn (and all night long on nights of a full moon) for the next two months.
Happy Spring Morning! by Scott Sainsbury
Six more inches of snow last night! It feels like we’re living in a igloo. This morning, the snow was so high on the ground around the feeders, that all the doves, cardinals, and other birds that wait on the ground for the chickadees to spill seed for them to pick up, were finding nothing. […]
A Novice at the Mad Birder Christmas Bird Count by Christine McGowan
I’m a novice birder. In fact, I can’t really call myself a birder. I know my Black-Capped Chickadees, American Goldfinches and other common backyard birds. But I struggle with sparrows, warblers and ducks. And I don’t (yet) keep a life list. When I discovered the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count, I was excited to […]