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Current road trip: Ontario -> West Virginia Side quests include hiking Dolly Sods, Bird banding at AFMO, trying out new ...
08/20/2026

Current road trip: Ontario -> West Virginia
Side quests include hiking Dolly Sods, Bird banding at AFMO, trying out new binoculars from Nocs Provisions stargazing from a hot tub with my mountain mama.

Forests without moss is boring - Sonya Szabo | 🇨🇦 Business Lawyer

(I know this isn’t moss)

Saw a Hooded Warbler (happy dance)

31 bird species during our early morning hike at the Monkey Run trail near Cornell University. Highlights were a very vocal Veery, 4 types of Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse and getting my eyes on a Hooded Warbler.

First impressions of the Nocs Provisions Pro Issue 8x42…give me a week of trying them out before I give a full review.

Who is using NOCS? What do you like? Dislike?

My goal this week is to find some white blazes! IYKYK

Bonus: bins that match my car.

08/10/2026

Sorry, I need you to stop talking for about 40 seconds.

08/06/2026

Put Chaplin Lake on your 🪣 list.

Seeing over 30,000 shorebirds at one time blew me away.

This mineral heavy lake is a critical stop over spot for shorebirds on the for way up to the arctic. Chaplin lake is about 2.5 hours west of Saskatoon and the perfect stop on your way to Grasslands NP!

Kinda the same thing. 📸
08/02/2026

Kinda the same thing. 📸

Oops…anyone else?
07/24/2026

Oops…anyone else?

07/24/2026

Have you ever seen a brancher?
Full video on YouTube

07/24/2026

This was the last thing I said to my family before 30 days of total silence.

I handed my phone to the producers, hit record one more time, and told them I loved them. Then I told them something else. I’m going to win this.

Minutes later I was blindfolded, walked out of the hotel, and put on a private jet headed somewhere I was not allowed to know.

30 days with no phone and no contact. No idea what part of the world I was standing in.

And yes, I won.

Destination X aired on NBC last summer, and we are coming up on the one year anniversary of the finale, the night a birdwatcher took home the grand prize.

Here is the part that surprises people. I never doubted that I’d win. Not for a single moment. That mindset did not start on that jet, it has shaped my entire life.

If you had to hand over your phone tomorrow for 30 days, what is the last message you would send, and who would you send it to?

07/22/2026

Everyone goes quiet after seeing their first Resplendent Quetzal.

Costa Rica, November 2026.
Nine days. 6 to 12 people. Beginners welcome.

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