Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we promote other areas of conservation as well. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Big Sit 2008

October 7, 2008
Article in: Birding

The Big Sit! is upon us again this Sunday, October 12th. Each year, teams all over the country try to see as many bird species as possible in a 24-hour period starting Sunday morning at midnight. The catch? You can only count birds sighted (or heard) from within a 17-foot diameter circle!

For the last two years, the Birdfreaks have won the Big Sit! for Illinois. In 2006, we found 30 species and in 2007 we found 29 species. This year we hope to break out record by camping out at Rock Cut State Park in Winnebago County. We have high hopes of winning Illinois and breaking our record.

Follow us on Twitter to get play-by-play results of birds we are seeing and we will post results when we are done!

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