Hannah and Erik Go Birding

Our adventure to the Big Island of Hawaii continues above and below the water!  SCUBA recertification was our main goal in going to Hawaii, and then a surprise pelagic birding trip was something we couldn't pass up. 
Listen in to our venture seeing birds on the ocean and fish underneath.
Adventure Begins at: 8:40  
Show notes
eBird Big Day; GoBirdingTeam
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival
Birding The Border
IC4WB
Jack’s Dive Locker
Hawaii Bird Tours  
eBird Trip Report 
Birds/Animals mentioned
Hawaii Amakihi
Brown Noddy
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Blue-Gray Noddy
Spinner Dolphin
Intro Bird Call: Apapane (Recorded: Hawaii, December 2024) 
Outro Bird Call: Northern Cardinal (Recorded: New York, April 2025)
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Hawaii has a lot to offer, including endemic honeycreepers! We visited the Big Island for a SCUBA and birding trip with an impending hurricane in the forecast.  Erik got to check off a bucket list item of seeing lava, we explored some native habitats, and enjoyed some amazing food.
Adventure begins at: 8:00 
Show notes 
eBird Big Day; GoBirdingTeam
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival
Birding The Border
IC4WB
Naturalist Journeys
Hawaiian Style Café
Kilauea live camera
Hawaii Wildlife Center 
Birds/Animals mentioned 
Hawaiian Hawk
Iiwi
Palila  
Intro Bird Call: Omao (Recorded: Hawaii, September 2026) 
Outro Bird Call: Apapane (Recorded: Hawaii, December 2024)
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Naturalist Journeys is a company we've been excited about since we first heard of it, as it is woman-owned and operated and has a strong ethic of supporting conservation and the communities it visits.  Peg Abbott launched Naturalist Journeys in 1998 and it has grown into a top tour company but has maintained the same charm and values she started with.
Peg joined us to answer some of our burning questions about guided trips, how one can get started, and what participants can do to make the most of it.  
Interview begins at: 10:30 
Show notes
eBird Big Day; GoBirdingTeam
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival
Birding The Border
IC4WB
Naturalist Journeys
Intro Bird Call: White-browed Robin-Chat (Recorded: Uganda, November 2021)
Outro Bird Call: Short-billed Pigeon (Recorded: Costa Rica, August 2024)
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We were lucky to have not one, but TWO excursions aboard the Alaska Sunrise out of Garibaldi, Oregon, to look for seabirds and some incredible sights.  First up was an all-women's pelagic trip and then the second half of the episode was about our nearshore trip to our local lighthouse.  
Adventure begins at: 8:21 
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse eBird Trip Report
First Ever All-Women’s Pelagic Trip 
Show notes 
Mainely Nature Art
eBird Big Day; GoBirdingTeam
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival
Birding The Border
IC4WB
Wings Of Survival
Garibaldi Charters
Oregon Pelagic Tours
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse 
Birds/Animals mentioned 
Sooty Shearwater
Mola Mola 
Intro Bird Call: Pink-Footed Shearwater (Recorded: Washington July 2020) 
Outro Bird Call: Pink-Footed Shearwater (Recorded: Washington July 2020)
 
 
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Alt. Title: Looking for White-tailed Ptarmigans
On a rare day off from work, we ventured up to Mount Rainier National Park in Washington in hopes of finding our lifer White-Tailed Ptarmigan.  We hiked the Skyline Trail which runs past Panorama, our best bet to see this uncommon species.
After our hike, we raced up to the Stanwood Water Treatment to see if the rare Terek Sandpiper was still hanging around.
Adventure begins at: 15:20 
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eBird Trip Report
Show notes 
Mainely Nature Art
eBird Big Day; GoBirdingTeam
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival
Birding The Border
IC4WB
Mount Rainier 
Birds/Animals mentioned 
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Terek Sandpiper
Hoary Marmot
Intro Bird Call: Chipping Sparrow (Recorded: Washington June 2025) 
Outro Bird Call: Sooty Grouse female grunting to young while feeding (Recorded at Mount Rainier, Washington, July 2026) 
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