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This past Saturday the Bloggerhead Kingbirds once again, for the third consecutive year, participated in the Superbowl of Birding.  Our third attempt netted us more species and points than ever before but we finished out of the money, with not a single award being won by our team.  None of us even managed to win [...]

It is January and the deep freeze has locked New England in the clutches of snow and ice.  Half-hearties are perishing, winter finches are flocking, and alcids await just offshore.  Yes, it is time.  Time for that most marvelous and mad of birding events, the Superbowl of Birding. Once again, just like in 2009 and [...]

With many, many, many apologies to Wallace Stevens, who does not deserve what I am about to do to his most famous poem, here is my take on the Superbowl of birding, which has been covered almost exhaustively already by my teammates on the Bloggerhead Kingbirds, Andrew, John, Christopher, Mike, and Nate.  So, without further ado, [...]

Yes, the Superbowl of Birding was an absolute blast and I will be recounting in exquisite detail the day the Bloggerhead Kingbirds had in a future post, but for the moment it will be enough (I hope) to recount our day before the Superbowl of Birding, that is, this past Friday, 29 January.  After all, [...]

By the time this blog post publishes I will be in a minivan with Andrew and John heading north and east to compete in the Super Bowl of Birding!  Along the way we will likely be stopping to look for previously reported rarities so hopefully we will have lots to blog about upon our return.  [...]

Our legions of fans and followers can relax and the rumors of our demise can be put to bed: the Bloggerhead Kingbirds are going to compete in the Superbowl of Birding VII.  Though internal dissension almost destroyed our team before we could get it off the ground this year (Who knew that the color and [...]

When competing in a birding competition a team of birders will undoubtedly experience blissful highs whenever a new bird, especially a good new bird, is sighted.  With those highs, however, come the lows whenever an expected bird is missed, especially when it is a good bird.  Our Superbowl of Birding team, the Bloggerhead Kingbirds, were [...]

…of birding. Tomorrow, Saturday the 22nd, is the Superbowl of Birding, a twelve hour contest in the bitter New England winter, a race against the elements and time to score the highest possible score by seeing more and better birds than all the other teams.  The Bloggerhead Kingbirds, the crack bird-blogger squad that Christopher has [...]

On the next to last weekend in January, when the cold wind is blowing snow and ice and there is nothing I’d rather be doing than reading a book while curled up on my couch under a blanket and a cat or two , I’ll be birding.  Not only will I be birding, but I’ll [...]