2020... I don't think I need to tell you it sucked in pretty much every way. I want to emphasize, pretty much. It also set personal records for me with 261 species!!! This consisted of 36 lifers! Here are my top 5 of my favourites:
- Worm-eating Warbler - This bird is at the top where it should be! A first county record for Haldimand County and an amazing bird for anywhere in Ontario! Even though it was a one-day-wonder it was still an amazing find by me!
- Brown Booby - This rightfully is at #2, seabirds anywhere in Ontario (aside from Jaegers in Hamilton) are an insane bird to find but this bird was amazing and stayed for a long time! I personally went out to see it 4 times, including the second it was found!
- Barred Owl - This was a heard-only bird, but one of my all-time favourites from the year, and it could not have come on a better day, our Birdathon!
- Piping Plover - What a day that was! I will always remember going up to Wasaga early in the morning and sitting in the sand with little plovers running around by my feet!
- Prothonotary Warbler - these little guys were amazing to see! Even though they breed not too far from where I live I've never made the trip out. But, now that I did, I am going to go back every year!
Now I'm hoping for 2021 to knock 2020 out of the water, and I'm already starting out really well!
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| This is one of my all-time favourite shots from 2020, I've always loved shorebirds but Piping Plovers just might take the cake for the most amazing shorebirds I've ever seen! (10-Jul-2020) |
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| Although it's not the best shot, it still shows how bright Prothonotary Warblers really are! They really fit the name Swamp Candle! (31-May-2020) |
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| Definitely a record shot, nothing short of fuzzy, but you can see that this is a Brown Booby! One of the rarest birds to show up in Ontario this year! (only rivalled by the Variegated Flycatcher). (08-Sep-2020) |
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