Giff Beaton has been observing and photographing nature for almost 30 years, the last 15 in Georgia. He is the senior author of the Annotated Checklist of Georgia Birds and Birding Georgia and Birds of Kennesaw Mountain. He has been leading bird tours in Georgia and across North America for about 10 years and has been on the state Bird Record Committees for both Georgia and South Carolina. He and his wife Becky live in Marietta, Georgia, not far from the great migrant location Kennesaw Mountain.