Doug Hitchcox
@dhitchcox
Staff Naturalist at Maine Audubon
This is stunning. I can’t justify $129 for someplace I’ve spent a few hours, but damn, that a beautiful volume. www.sbnaturestore.org/products/bir...
Buying a field guide to a place you are actually going hits differently. 🤩 Join me and Jesse Fagan in the lowland Darién, Panama in February 2027 on a tour for @maineaudubon.bsky.social! fieldguides.com/panamas-cano...
When you’re at the rarity stakeout and someone posts in the group chat “any updates?”
Took a quick trip after work to a remote pitch pine-scrub oak barren in York County, Maine and found my lifer Edwards’ Hairstreak; listed as endangered in Maine. Not a bad way to end the day!
Here’s a behind the scenes for my next video 😂 While trying to record a-roll, these huge Summer Fishflies (Chauliodes pectinicornis) kept smashing into and flapping against the window behind my camera. Can’t wait to hear how the audio turns out 🤦♂️
Continuing my goal to record 200 species of birds in Maine, this Ruffed Grouse during the Downeast Birding Festival was a pretty easy addition
Picked up #416 for my Maine list at my favorite patch (Monhegan Island) during a field trip for the Acadia Birding Festival today! Also was my 3,200th county tick for Maine (notable as averaging 200 per county)
Today marks my 18 years of working for Maine Audubon and another day with over 80 people on our bird walk! Birding has changed a lot and I love being a part of that growing community.
We’re at Kennebunk Plains picking up the last targets for #GlobalBigDay Rain is getting pretty heavy so a little birding-by-van is our mode of choice currently.
Detour for a rarity was unsuccessful but we’ve made it to the coast with 103 species. Rain starting…
First bird for #GlobalBigDay was Eastern Whip-poor-will quickly followed by a very entertaining pair of Barred Owls at Sunkhaze Meadows
It’s #GlobalBigDay! We’ve dipped on owls at two stops in Portland but now we head north for dawn.
Day 2 of @maineaudubon.bsky.social’s Warbler Walks at @cityportland.bsky.social’s Evergreen Cemetery was hoppin! Huge push of birds (3 MILLION on BirdCast over Cumberland Co last night) brought in new warblers and warm weather had 80+ people out. Many thanks to @thebirdist.bsky.social for assisting!
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Working on recording more species in Maine this year, and happy to get these local Bohemian Waxwings before they head north. 164/200 (getting to 200 species is my goal)
I always thought putting company names in usernames was a little cringey, but I respect the hustle. Putting “Your Ad Here” is… something else.
Two years since starting my channel making “niche birding video”. I thought I’d share some metrics but mostly want to thank you all for watching, commenting, and/or subscribing!
Many thanks to everyone on here helping me reach these milestones! More “niche birding videos” coming soon! Get subscribed at: youtube.com/@dhitchcox
This is going to be a really fun review. I’m leading a Jamaica tour next month, and will shoot a lot of content there, but stay tuned for a *deep* dive.
I went out to record a displaying flock of Barrow’s Goldeneyes off Harpswell, Maine today. Tough conditions with cars and distance but got one of the few recordings of this species in the east, and first for Maine (in the Macaulay Library): ebird.org/checklist/S2...
Just got my #eBirdRecounted2025 and for sharing 73% of lists submitted in 2025, I birded like a Guira Cuckoo 😆
All the Mammals of the World has been out for a couple of years, but as I’m finally adding it to my library, would anyone be interested in a review video?