The DeDUCKtions completed their 24-hour distributed Birdathon on April 15 (tax day). (Update: Jim’s and Eric’s stories have been added!) Cumulative team total: 155 species!

The Hot Spotters are a county-wide, 24-hour distributed Birdathon Team lead by Matthew Dodder on Wednesday, April 8. (Updated April 14 with Jim Dehnerts story, more photos and more checklists!)

The Birdcassos, a team of local artists, set out to sketch, paint and draw as many species as possible in a 4-hour window on Wednesday, April 1.

The Backyard Birder, Eve Meier, let the birds come to her in this unique take on a Birdathon Big Day.

The Wrong Terns somehow managed to avoid taking too many wrong turns this year while scouring the county for birds.

The Subspecies toured Santa Clara County in SCVAS’s first “distributed” Birdathon Big Day adventure.

Barry Langdon-Lassagne writes about a brief scouting expedition with the Sharpies team before the start of this year’s Birdathon.

Welcome to Birdathon Stories, a place where we’ll be sharing our outdoor adventures with you and where we will post stories that you submit to us. This is a way we can all be part of this year’s Birdathon, even those who can’t go out and be on a team.