@dhitchcox.bsky.social
Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon
They took it to the next level: ebird.org/checklist/S2...
06.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Iceland is on a hot streak!! 🔥 Huge congrats to Björn Arnarson for the new finds!
06.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Yes! My wife loves shooting film
30.09.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black-throated Gray Warbler is my 415th Maine bird, on Monhegan Island today.
29.09.2025 19:56 — 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I don’t think eBay knows what’s “similar” to the Annotated Checklist of Maine Birds by Peter Vickery, 1978
23.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0wow the audio sounds terrible after uploading
22.09.2025 22:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of many highlights during @maineaudubon.bsky.social’s Borestone Naturalist Weekend was this family of River Otters on Sunset Pond, viewed from the porch of the lodge!
22.09.2025 21:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New video up on a bird you’ve probably seen me post about. 💀
Years of Searching for One Nemesis Bird...
youtu.be/eC7deEqNwTE
We looked closely for Scopoli’s Shearwaters on the Cashes Ledge (Maine) trip on Saturday, but couldn’t find any. Here’s a fun composite of a Cory’s banking, showing how dark (or light) p10 can look as the sun hits it.
25.08.2025 20:39 — 👍 39 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
New video up about my thoughts on the “best” field guide, and a teaser of what may take the top spot next!
The BEST Birding Field Guide is...
youtu.be/hN7926wHsLk
OMFG. FINALLY!
8th attempt this year paid off with Tufted Puffin as #414 on my Maine list.
Earlier this week, the eBird app updated to automatically estimate your unique distance traveled.
If you know: Rejoice!
If you don’t know: Watch this video:
eBird Tracks update solves BIGGEST problem
youtu.be/CwwGhAesbpA
Zoom in on the 🫶
27.05.2025 19:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sandhill Crane was a nice rarity for Washington County during the Downeast Birding Festival last weekend.
27.05.2025 19:52 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Using iNaturalist to ID a snake before adding it to my eBird checklist media
21.05.2025 21:58 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Honored to join this crew to find 109 species in underbirded Somerset County, Maine today
@dhitchcox.bsky.social @tflight.me
🤯 If you haven’t sorted “Other animals” by Best Quality, you need to check this out: media.ebird.org/catalog?othe...
08.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Sun joined @maineaudubon.bsky.social’s Evergreen Cemetery Warbler Walk today, and brought many birders and crushing Cerulean Warbler views!
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
What an insane morning! Got back from AZ at 2AM, and one of the first birds at our 7AM Evergreen Cemetery bird walk (in the rain) was a CERULEAN WARBLER!! A literal dream come true after 11 years of leading these walks.
06.05.2025 15:58 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Always gotta give a shoutout for the @princetonupress.bsky.social sale. This applies to almost everything published before 2025; some really good deals for the naturalists out there!
30.04.2025 21:54 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Checklist Media is now live! ebird.org/news/new-che...
30.04.2025 19:55 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
Our Arizona tour starts in just a few days, but we’ve still got space on @MaineAudubon’s Ecuador tour this Nov/Dec. Check out the itinerary (and join me!) here: fieldguides.com/itineraries/...
26.04.2025 21:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fun milestone today. Thanks everyone who is watching my “niche birding videos!”
22.04.2025 01:43 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s still in beta, but I made a video previewing Checklist Media, coming soon to eBird. I already spend too much time perusing the Macaulay Library, and this will only make that worse (but so much better).
SNEAK PEEK: eBird Checklist Media
youtu.be/sTVrbk7kQ4U
I’ve got a new video up explaining all of the eBird breeding (and behavioral) codes, and more importantly WHEN and WHERE to use them:
eBird's Breeding Codes Explained
youtu.be/CtMITJpRMzU
I was pretty excited to get my hands on the new Nat Geo Field Guide to the Birds of US and Canada East & West, but after using them for a couple weeks I have some issues…
National Geographic Birds of East & West Second Edition review
youtu.be/J5PiWMzcw8s
The birding world lost another legend with the passing of Victor Emanuel.
I never got to bird with him, but he gave a heartfelt & inspiring talk a few years ago on his book, One More Warbler. Second photo is a few quotes he included in it, which seem especially poignant today.
I do think the world would be a better place if we can get the most people to see the most birds. And you can help me with my pursuit of that goal by subscribing and learning more about birds and birding: youtube.com/dhitchcox
11.03.2025 01:52 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This will always be too niche to ever become “successful” but I’m hoping it’ll eventually be sustainable. I love my day-job but it’s hard to save for new equipment, so you’ll know when I’ve hit “success” with the channel because I’ll be recording in higher than 720p.
11.03.2025 01:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unsure of how to measure success, I set the goal of qualifying for the YouTube Partner Program. That requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours. Every day I plotted my growth (below) and while 1k subs took 6mo, 4k hrs would take 12 long form videos and 11mo. Success!! 💪
11.03.2025 01:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
