I delight in guiding visiting birders to local hotspots in Southwestern Ohio when I am not traveling to other areas for new adventures in birding. Contact me!

Nemesis Birds Remaining :
Bird name (ABA difficulty level): Emperor Goose (2);
Curlew Sandpiper (3);
McKay's Bunting (3)
are the only "easy" birds (i.e., Difficulty Levels 1-3 according to the ABA 5th Ed. Checklist of NA Birds) I have not seen. If you can help me find any of these, please let me know. I have tried several times for each of them and have so far failed to see them.

Some of the sagas of searches for the others can be found on the following Field Trip Reports pages. These were submitted to the BirdChat mail-list whose members were extremely helpful in giving good advice on when and where to find my Nemesis Birds.

For a couple of samples, try the good news/bad news1996 trip to Nova Scotia and Billie's Excellent Alligator Adventure in the 1998 Florida trip.

1996
San Francisco - JUL 26-AUG 1
Nova Scotia- OCT 25-28

1997
Grasslands and Mountains - APR
New England- JUN 14-26
Los Angeles, CA - OCT 17-23
Rio Grande Valley, TX - NOV 8-17

1998
Florida - JAN 5-11
Texas/Arizona - APR 22-MAY 4
Bicknel's Thrush - JUN 1-3
Himalayan Snowcock - AUG 8
LA Audubon Soc. Pelagic - SEP 20
Arizona, New Mexico - DEC 14-21

1999
Maryland Gull Chase - FEB 24
Xantus's Murrelet - MAY 8
Alaska - JUN 24-AUG 15

2000
Ivory Gull - DEC 27-28

Added since I filed trip reports with BirdChat:

Flame-colored Tanager
Northern Jacana
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
Little Egret
Golden-crowned Warbler
Blue Mockingbird

Our summer project in 2003 was to volunteer at City Of Rocks National Reserve. Beth worked in the office and I did a breeding bird survey.