Best Rare Birds of 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- A look back at the rare birds, unusual birds and notable birds we saw in Ontario and beyond during The 300 Bird Challenge of 2024.
Note: Stu is currently a little under the weather with a cold. The next video in the 350 Bird Challenge series will be out in about a week from now.
Correction: Ruby-throated Hummingbird is the only EASTERN Canada hummingbird. Oversight by me being too East-centric. Thanks to Shayna.
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Great recap! What stood out to me is all the owls you saw in 2024! Awesome!!
Yeah, not sure if we will top the owls of last year!
Great summation of your 300 Challenge!
Thank you!
That was Wonderful! 👏🥰
Thanks Kim 😊
Your content is so inspirational! I hope I'll catch you guys somewhere sometime! Love from Kitchener!
Thanks so much, glad you enjoy it and thanks for joining us 😊
This was a perfect video to watch over my lunch break! So fun to revisit all of the amazing birds you saw over the year! Looking forward to all the amazing birds you will see this year too
Thanks Shayna. Gotta get through these slow first 2-3 months and find some colour!
Those were cool birds! I just saw a juvenile northern gannet fly over a river in Kentucky. It's very rare to see one there, but Ebird says there was one sighted there before. It was also a lifer for me.
Nice sighting, Nathan!
Loving the new content you are adding.
Thank you!
I am really enjoying your content from here in Michigan. Thank you for sharing all your discoveries. I would like to suggest that you consider reducing the amount of "breaks" you include in each video. Some of the breaks seem to spur an add segment. For those of us without an add-blocker, multiple breaks get tedious and ruin the vibe you are trying to impart.
Hi Lisa, thanks for watching from Michigan!
Normally I add less adverts than the TH-cam default. This means the channel gets less ad revenue share, but I reduce it anyway, because I know they can be disruptive to viewers and my ability to tell our story.
In this particular video, I added a couple more than I usually would. An oversight on my part, rather than anything intentional. But feedback noted and I'll pay more attention next time!
A nice look back at some very nice birds -- a few make me very jealous, especially those oystercatchers. I was surprised to see that it was the summer months that really did you in, though I shouldn't have been. It's always a dry time for birding around here once the migration ends. I wonder what your plan is for midsummer this year.
Thanks!
In an ideal world with enough time off work, a visit to the prairies might be a good summer destination. But I only get three weeks, which will likely be Spring/Fall trips.
Last summer, we barely birded at all. Maybe only 10 checklists 😲
So as long as we can beat that, it would be an improvement. Some key species missing last year were Black Tern, Caspian Tern, Chimney Swift, Bank Swallow, Piping Plover... which could all potentially be added in the summer. We also have a lead on Kirtland's Warbler, which would be pretty epic if it worked out.
@@BritHikesOntario Watch for the black terns at Point Pelee in the spring, if you go. I've seen them around the marsh boardwalk, where I've also seen short-billed dowitchers.
Nice compilation and rare and lifer bird's. I was about to watch it and my niece sen't me a picture of a long eared owl sitting on a window seal of a local establishment. Apparently it has been 20yr's since one was spotted in Michigan. I did get 2 gulls yesterday. A Franklin's and a short billed. I would like an expert to confirm though. You saw much more that I haven't even thought about looking for.🙂I watch all your video's and hope to see some of those rare one's come this way. I'm heading to the UP this weekend, wish me luck for those winter bird's I didn't get last year.
It wasn't a window seal it was on top of a deck railing.
Thank you Susan. Bit of a head cold for me this week, but hopefully back to some regularly scheduled birding this weekend.
I actually think, for Michigan, the Short-billed Gull sighting is way more notable than the Long-eared Owl sighting - if you can confirm it.
Best of luck and happy birding in the UP. Hope the winter birds go better for you than they have for us so far!