Yep. We’re in Louisiana right now! And we’re having a blast! I cannot wait to come back. Grand Isle is a WONDERFUL place to visit!

Check out my Big Year Blog for the latest updates and tally of species!

And if you wanna go on a tour with me, then take a look at what is still available at the Big Year Tours page.

All the tours are being run by Wildside Nature Tours. And for each person who signs up, a donation will be made the ABA (American Birding Association) Young Birders. Not only are you signing up for a fun tour with me, you’ll be supporting a very worthy group of aspiring young birders.

And thanks to Leica for the terrific optics I am using to do what I love this year…birding with passion and getting people hooked on it. You should see the really cool binoculars I am using this year–the newly released Leica Trinovid 10×42 HD binoculars! They are light weight. The view is crystal clear. They perform wonderfully in low light. And the close focus is so good you can even look at Chestnut-sided Warblers at Magee Marsh in Ohio during Biggest Week in American Birding. That is because these birds are ridiculously, reach-out-and-touch-them close. And now you can look at specs on an individual feather with these new binoculars.