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Presented by Erik Bruhnke
Date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 The world of thrushes is filled with charismatic song and impressive migration. Every year these birds wow us with their beauty, and every year these birds cause identification challenges among fellow birders. Thrushes share many similarities to each other and also look like other birds completely unrelated to them! Join in the fun as Erik talks about the field marks, songs, and more with thrushes and their look-alikes About Erik
Erik Bruhnke has loved birds since he was a child looking at chickadees. He graduated from Northland College in Wisconsin with a Natural Resources degree in 2008 and taught field ornithology at Northland College for three semesters. After graduation his springs and summers were spent conducting bird surveys through northern forests, vast prairies, and western mountains. He worked as an interpreter for six fall seasons at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth, Minnesota; counted migrating raptors at the Corpus Christi HawkWatch in Texas in 2015; and was the 2016, 2017, and 2018 hawk counter at the Cape May Hawkwatch in New Jersey. In the fall of 2020, he educated visitors at the Cape May Hawkwatch. Throughout the past two fall seasons he has assisted counting raptors and pointing out the migration to visitors back at Hawk Ridge; his earlier hawkwatching stomping grounds. Visible migration makes him happy, as does helping people connect with the world of birds. Erik’s wildlife photography has won national awards, and he’s written for the American Birding Association’s Birder’s Guide, BirdWatching magazine, and Bird Watcher’s Digest. Erik is a birding tour guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours as well as his own business, Naturally Avian. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, ice skating, and just being out in the snow. In his free time he loves to cook and bake, often following the recipes of his Omas and Opas. |
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Presented by Katie Andersen
Date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Spring warblers in the eastern US come in a dazzling array of colors and patterns, making their migration through the area one of the most anticipated events of the season. This same wealth of birds, however, can sometimes be overwhelming to new birders, especially when faced with the mixed foraging flocks that form up along Lake Erie during spring migration. This workshop provides an introduction to separating the species by setting aside the technical jargon and using simple memorable clues to help new birders arrive at an ID when faced with an unknown warbler. About Katie
Katie’s parents took her birding for the first time when she was just a couple weeks old, and she has been a birder ever since then. Growing up with a pair of biologists for parents and having PA’s Presque Isle State Park as a backyard meant she has been steeped in nature, and has had a front row seat to the seasonal bird migrations along Lake Erie her entire life. Fast forward a few decades and Katie now gets to share her passion for birds as a naturalist for Erie Bird Observatory, educating and exciting people about the birds around us. |
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Presented by Kenn Kaufman
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Details are still in the works for this presentation, but we already know it’s going to be a great one! Stay tuned! We’ll update this page as soon as we have information to share. About Kenn
Kenn burst onto the North American birding scene as a teenager in the 1970s hitch-hiking all over the continent in pursuit of birds, an adventure later chronicled in his cult-classic book Kingbird Highway. After several years as a professional bird tour leader taking groups to all seven continents, he transitioned to a career as a writer, editor and illustrator. Most of his energy currently goes into book projects and painting bird portraits. His 13 books include seven titles in his own series, Kaufman Field Guides which are designed to encourage beginners by making the first steps in nature study as easy as possible. His next book is The Birds That Audubon Missed scheduled for publication in May 2024. Kenn is a field editor for the National Audubon Society and a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, and is the only person alive to have received the American Birding Association’s lifetime achievement award twice. |
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Presented by Jamey Emmert
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Birding has the power to connect people to place—and few places are as vibrant, vital, and bird-rich as Ohio’s Lake Erie shoreline. Originally launched in 2014, the Lake Erie Birding Trail program just received a major refresh, with 90 featured hotspots, a brand-new guidebook, an app, and a whole lot of heart. Join Jamey Emmert of the Ohio Division of Wildlife for a behind-the-scenes look at the revitalization of this beloved trail—from big-picture conservation goals to quirky bird-nerd side quests. Learn about hidden gems along the route, discover how the trail supports communities and conservation, and hear what’s next as the program soars into the future. Whether you’ve birded the trail for years or are just hearing about it for the first time, you’ll leave inspired to explore—and share—this iconic Ohio birding experience. About Jamey
Jamey Emmert is the Avian Education Coordinator for the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Since earning her Wildlife Management degree from Hocking College in 2003, she’s been passionately driving conservation and educational initiatives—most notably, the revitalized Lake Erie Birding Trail program. When she’s not leading workshops or collaborating on conservation projects, Jamey is out birding, traveling, hunting, fishing, artifact hunting, and gardening with native plants—often with her husband Greg and their two record-setting canine birders. |
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Presented by Hugh Powel
Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 The beauty of birding is you can do it anywhere, anytime, with little more than a pair of binoculars around your neck. Add some targeted information into the mix, and you can open horizons and make birding even more enjoyable. Cornell Lab tools like Merlin Sound ID can point you toward birds you might not find otherwise, and can help you lock in the songs you’re learning. All About Birds can help you explore the birds of any region and time of year in the U.S. and Canada. eBird Science maps invite you to explore bird abundance information in incredible detail. In this engaging talk, we’ll take a look at some of the Cornell Lab’s most helpful tools for birding and offer pro-tips to be prepared for birding at any level. About HUGH
Hugh is a writer and editor for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where he manage sites like All About Birds and the Cornell Lab institutional website. He was introduced to birds early on by my father, who was an obsessed birder. He has conducted bird research in rain and cloud forests of Panama and in burned forests of Idaho and Montana, after a stint as an editor at the ornithological journal Condor (now Ornithological Applications). In the 2000s he switched to science writing and have been lucky enough to travel to Antarctica, South America, Australia, Africa, Iceland, and elsewhere—even to Ithaca, New York. He loves the little, intricate ways that nature surprises us, day after day and year after year. And birds are some of the sweetest and most beautiful of those surprises. |
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Presented by Tom Stephenson
Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026 Time: 12:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Please note time change) Location: Maumee Bay Lodge - Starboard/Navigator Room (Please note location change) Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Identifying the warblers and other species singing in the field is one of the most enjoyable and satisfying aspects of birding. However, trying to learn and remember the important ID points of bird vocalizations can be difficult and sometimes very frustrating.’ This lecture will cover many new techniques that make it easier to identify singing birds. Based on the system outlined in The Warbler Guide, the lecture will also explain how understanding a song’s structure, using objective, easy-to-hear song qualities, can speed up the identification process and make separating similar-sounding species much easier. Learning and remembering songs is another important skill for birders. The lecture will also cover the science of memory and learning, and outline a simple, 3-step system that works very effectively for memorizing bird vocalizations and anything else you’d like to remember! About Tom
Tom has been birding since he was a kid. His articles and photographs are in museums and many publications including Handbook of the Birds of the World, Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Birds of Madagascar, and Guide to the Birds of SE Brazil. He’s guided many groups in the Americas and Asia, and had the honor of training guides for the government of Bhutan. He’s won categories in the World Series of Birding and holds the US photo big-day record at 208 species. As a musician Tom played concerts and did studio work for many years, worked with several Grammy and Academy Award winners, and performed with members of the NY Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His clients included the Grateful Dead, Phil Collins and the FBI. His latest book, The Warbler Guide, is published by Princeton University Press and won the National Outdoor Book Award. The Warbler Guide App includes 3D rotating models and won the 2015 Design Award for AAUP. He is currently working on five more books and apps for Princeton including a full US field guide app based on the 3D rotation and comparison features in The Warbler Guide app. Tom has a patent on technology to identify animal vocalizations using a wide range of analytic criteria. |
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Presented by Erik Bruhnke
Date: Sunday, May 10, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Have you ever wondered what that speck of a hawk is way out on the horizon, or the one circling right over your head? Would you like to learn about the raptors found throughout the area and in your backyard? Are you interested in fine-tuning your hawkwatching skills? Come join Erik as he shares a wealth of knowledge about raptors along with catchy identification anecdotes, and an abundance of his raptor photography, to help you enhance your appreciation and identification skills of these splendid birds About Erik
Erik Bruhnke has loved birds since he was a child looking at chickadees. He graduated from Northland College in Wisconsin with a Natural Resources degree in 2008 and taught field ornithology at Northland College for three semesters. After graduation his springs and summers were spent conducting bird surveys through northern forests, vast prairies, and western mountains. He worked as an interpreter for six fall seasons at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth, Minnesota; counted migrating raptors at the Corpus Christi HawkWatch in Texas in 2015; and was the 2016, 2017, and 2018 hawk counter at the Cape May Hawkwatch in New Jersey. In the fall of 2020, he educated visitors at the Cape May Hawkwatch. Throughout the past two fall seasons he has assisted counting raptors and pointing out the migration to visitors back at Hawk Ridge; his earlier hawkwatching stomping grounds. Visible migration makes him happy, as does helping people connect with the world of birds. Erik’s wildlife photography has won national awards, and he’s written for the American Birding Association’s Birder’s Guide, BirdWatching magazine, and Bird Watcher’s Digest. Erik is a birding tour guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours as well as his own business, Naturally Avian. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, ice skating, and just being out in the snow. In his free time he loves to cook and bake, often following the recipes of his Omas and Opas. |
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Presented by Tom Stephenson
Date: Monday, May 11, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 The Overlooked ID Points that Make Identifying Warblers Easy:Our warblers are some of the most beautiful birds in the world. But their beautiful colors often blind birders to many of their most important ID points. This problem is compounded by the often brief and obstructed views we have in the field. This talk discusses many of these very important but often overlooked ID points such as overall contrast, subtle facial features, color impressions, feather edging, rump contrast, and foraging style, location, and behavior. And fortunately, viewing a warbler from below can reveal some of the most important ID points for many species. Learn how many tail and undertail covert patterns are, in fact, diagnostic alone or when combined with one other ID point. Individual species, especially the most challenging to identify, will also be discussed with outlines of the important ID points, comparisons with similar species, and illustrations of how even partial views can be used to identify many of even the most challenging warbler species. About Tom
Tom has been birding since he was a kid. His articles and photographs are in museums and many publications including Handbook of the Birds of the World, Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Birds of Madagascar, and Guide to the Birds of SE Brazil. He’s guided many groups in the Americas and Asia, and had the honor of training guides for the government of Bhutan. He’s won categories in the World Series of Birding and holds the US photo big-day record at 208 species. As a musician Tom played concerts and did studio work for many years, worked with several Grammy and Academy Award winners, and performed with members of the NY Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His clients included the Grateful Dead, Phil Collins and the FBI. His latest book, The Warbler Guide, is published by Princeton University Press and won the National Outdoor Book Award. The Warbler Guide App includes 3D rotating models and won the 2015 Design Award for AAUP. He is currently working on five more books and apps for Princeton including a full US field guide app based on the 3D rotation and comparison features in The Warbler Guide app. Tom has a patent on technology to identify animal vocalizations using a wide range of analytic criteria. |
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Presented by Cassidy Ficker
Date: Monday, May 11, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Flipping through the pages of a field guide can be very intimidating to a new birder, with countless photos and unfamiliar terms. Before learning the differences between species, it is important to learn what to even be looking for! From locating important field marks to explaining what terms such as "supercilium" actually means, join this presentation to understand how to work through identifying birds on your own! Additional topics include how to use binoculars, how to find bird sightings, and more. About Cassidy
Cassidy Ficker is a senior veterinary student at the Ohio State University, planning to specialize in companion animals and wildlife when she becomes a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2026. She completed her undergrad at OSU in the spring of 2022 with a major in Animal Sciences and minor in Wildlife Sciences. She has been a birder since third grade, growing up in the Miami Valley Christian Academy Bird Club and Ohio Young Birders Club. One of her favorite aspects of birding is connecting with others as we all celebrate a common love for birds, and she has been honored to have ample opportunities to do this both as the former president of the Ornithology Club at Ohio State and a guide at the Biggest Week in American Birding festival for the past few years. The Biggest Week area is particularly special to her as she serves as an eBird reviewer for the counties. |
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Presented by Lisa Rainsong
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Have you ever tried to learn bird songs in May? If so, you quickly discovered that everyone seems to be singing at once. Although it may feel almost impossible to sort out the singers and the songs, music theory professor Lisa Rainsong will introduce you to a step by step approach that is engaging and enjoyable. If weather permits, we’ll walk outside after the indoor presentation so that we can practice our listening skills. About Lisa
Lisa Rainsong holds a Doctor of Music in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has recently retired after 22 years on the music theory faculty at CIM. She teaches birdsong, insect song, and amphibian song classes across the state and makes field recordings of all these avian, orthopteran, and amphibian singers. In addition, she does field research throughout NE Ohio on crickets and katydids – research that is done primarily by ear. Information on her programs is available at Listeninginnature.com and her online field guide to the crickets and katydids of NE Ohio is at listeningtoinsects.com |
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Presented by Jerald Reb
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Here at the Biggest Week in American Birding, we get to experience the magic of migration firsthand, with thousands of songbirds seemingly dripping from every tree. Join Jerald Reb as he dives into the factors behind songbird migration, including wind patterns, geography, and the phenomenon known as morning flight - newly arrived songbirds that appear in the first hours of the day, before making their way to migration stopover sites such as Magee Marsh. About Jerald
Born and raised in Delaware, Jerald Reb grew up making frequent birding trips to nearby Cape May, New Jersey. After graduating high school, he dove headfirst into visible migration monitoring in Cape May, and has since worked there as a counter for the Spring Seawatch, Morning Flight Count, and Hawkwatch. In 2024, Jerald served as the counter for the inaugural year of the Morning Flight Monitoring Project at the Biggest Week in American Birding. Jerald is excited to return to that project in 2026, and hopes to share his knowledge with others interested in the spectacle of migration! |
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Presented by Tessa Rhinehart
Date: Wednesday May 13, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 To understand and conserve bird populations, we need detailed knowledge of where birds live and how they behave. Over the last decade, many ornithologists have begun to gather such information at unprecedented scales using acoustic monitoring. This approach combines two recent technological innovations: affordable sound recorders that collect massive amounts of acoustic data, and machine learning algorithms that can rapidly identify bird calls within these recordings. These tools enable biologists to monitor huge swaths of land–such as entire states, mountain ranges, or even ecoregions–and to detect species that are rare, nocturnal, or live in remote environments. By revealing the habitats that species rely on and how their populations respond to environmental change, acoustic monitoring helps biologists identify which restoration or habitat protection efforts make the greatest difference for birds. This talk will explore how acoustic monitoring works and how scientists use it to study and conserve bird populations. We will look “under the hood” of automated sound identification tools like Merlin Sound ID and discuss how reliable they are. We will hear stories of how conservation biologists are using this technology to help bring bird populations back from the brink. Finally, we will look ahead to emerging frontiers in bioacoustics, such as tracking individual birds by their distinctive voices, mapping birds’ positions and interactions in real time, and uncovering the habitats that serve as nurseries for our most vulnerable species. About Tessa
Tessa Rhinehart is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biology. She develops methods to monitor animals remotely using autonomous sensors, especially acoustic recorders. Her research aims to reveal bird behavior and ecology at a scale and level of detail that would be otherwise impossible for human observation to achieve. Tessa’s expertise includes acoustically triangulating birds’ singing locations to understand their habitat use and behavior, studying how to handle the mistakes made by automated sound identification algorithms, and studying prey availability for birds using nocturnal “photo booths” for moths. |
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Presented by Gautam Apte
Date: Wednesday May 13, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Always abundant but notoriously confusing, sparrows can be a real treat for birders when they aren't an identification headache. Join us to learn some new tips and tricks to make the most out of your birding next time you're out in the field. We'll explore some identification methods that most field guides don't cover and aim to simplify and advance your understanding of this tricky family. About Gautam
Gautam is a lifelong birder and field biologist originally from Cleveland, Ohio. After spending his early years enjoying the spectacles of fall waterbirds and spring songbirds along the shores of Lake Erie, he went on to earn his degree in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife Science from The Ohio State University. He has worked with birds on a number of projects all over the United States, but is most interested in studying the various mechanisms of migration in all its forms. Most recently, he completed his third season counting the autumn songbird migration at Cape May, New Jersey. Gautam is thrilled to be returning to Ohio for the spring to observe one of the continent's great migratory spectacles once again. |
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Presented by Kenn Kaufman
Date: Thursday May 14, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Details are still in the works for this presentation, but we already know it’s going to be a great one! Stay tuned! We’ll update this page as soon as we have information to share. About Kenn
Kenn burst onto the North American birding scene as a teenager in the 1970s hitch-hiking all over the continent in pursuit of birds, an adventure later chronicled in his cult-classic book Kingbird Highway. After several years as a professional bird tour leader taking groups to all seven continents, he transitioned to a career as a writer, editor and illustrator. Most of his energy currently goes into book projects and painting bird portraits. His 13 books include seven titles in his own series, Kaufman Field Guides which are designed to encourage beginners by making the first steps in nature study as easy as possible. His next book is The Birds That Audubon Missed scheduled for publication in May 2024. Kenn is a field editor for the National Audubon Society and a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, and is the only person alive to have received the American Birding Association’s lifetime achievement award twice. |
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Presented by Andrew Marden
Date: Thursday May 14, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 We will be taking a closer look at birds that are often confused with each other like vireos, swallows, woodpeckers, and all those little brown birds you might see at your feeders! Join us to learn about what to look for when trying to separate these species as well as how to go about working through confusing IDs in the future! About Andrew
Andrew is a life-long birder who is currently in graduate school at Northeastern University in their Environmental Science and Policy program. He hopes to have a career in either science communication or habitat restoration and management, but he would also like to continue bird guiding whenever he can! He grew up in New Jersey where he spent his teenage years birding up and down the state, but Cape May and specifically its migration spectacle struck him. He spent many seasons there including one as an interpretive naturalist for Cape May Bird Observatory. He has been leading bird walks since college, and he is currently leading whale watching trips for the New England Aquarium in Boston while he pursues his graduate degree. |
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Presented by Auriel Fournier
Date: Friday May 15, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 A remarkable number of secrets remain in wetland birds, and Auriel has had the joy of getting to discover some of them over the past 10+ years of working with rails and other secretive marshbirds. In her talk she will share about the natural history and biology of rails, gallinules and bitterns, from their breeding ecology and migration to how they respond to wetland management. About Auriel
Auriel Fournier is an Associate Research Scientist with the Illinois Natural History Survey and the Director of the Forbes Biological Station, a part of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Auriel’s work focuses on the science, management and conservation of wetland birds and wetlands. Auriel completed her PhD in 2017 as a part of the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Arkansas. She then joined the Gulf of Mexico Avian Monitoring Network as a postdoc at Mississippi State University before starting at the Forbes Biological Station in 2019. |
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Presented by Alison Kondler
Date: Friday May 15, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Join Allison for an engaging, interactive talk that makes bird sounds unforgettable through mnemonics using rhythm, emotion, creative stories, and visual memory cues. Includes mouth-sound comedy. About allison
Alison is an Audubon Master Birder, bird guide, and content creator known online as @birding_by_ear. She teaches bird sound identification through mnemonics, shows how to build backyard bird habitats, and inspires others through storytelling and humor to experience the peace that birdwatching can bring. Her work has reached millions across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube, and she recently gave a TEDx talk titled How to Speak Bird, presented in Nice, France, now on the TEDx YouTube channel. |
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Presented by Scott Albaugh
Date: Saturday May 16, 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 We’ll take a deep dive into bird feeding and discuss the details! This program will explain techniques to feed birds safely and effectively. Understanding the wide variety of feeders and bird seeds can feel daunting. This talk will explain bird feeding in simple understandable terms. Let’s look at backyard bird feeding from a scientifically grounded perspective and understand how to turn your yard into an active and healthy feeding station. About Scott
Scott has a master’s degree in wildlife biology from Marshall University. He began bird watching in the early 90’s and has been an avid birder ever since. After obtaining his master’s degree, Scott was an Assistant Professor at a community college in southeast Ohio for several years where he developed and taught the school’s first Field Ornithology course. Scott was a Regional Coordinator for Ohio’s second breeding bird atlas as well as a field researcher for the atlas. He has conducted numerous field studies and bird surveys in several states. |
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Presented by Gautam Apte
Date: Saturday May 16, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Location: Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center Fee: $10 Registration Required: Yes Capacity: 80 Shorebirds are not the first thing most people think of when reflecting on the magic of migration, but Northwest Ohio’s expansive wetlands host a staggering abundance and diversity of migrating shorebirds in both spring and fall. While they can be tricky to identify, sifting through shorebird flocks can become an exciting activity with the right perspective! Gautam Apte will share some tips and tricks to help tease apart the subtle field marks of these difficult species in this interactive workshop. About Gautam
Gautam is a lifelong birder and field biologist originally from Cleveland, Ohio. After spending his early years enjoying the spectacles of fall waterbirds and spring songbirds along the shores of Lake Erie, he went on to earn his degree in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife Science from The Ohio State University. He has worked with birds on a number of projects all over the United States, but is most interested in studying the various mechanisms of migration in all its forms. Most recently, he completed his third season counting the autumn songbird migration at Cape May, New Jersey. Gautam is thrilled to be returning to Ohio for the spring to observe one of the continent's great migratory spectacles once again. |