Day 16 - 100th Species
It had to happen at some point; my first big milestone for the year... Species #100. And it happened before lunch today. It wasn't anything super unique, an expected bird for the year. A pair of Elevated Streakers flew over calling providing a lackluster #100 in some respects. No glowing bird on a branch to drool over. But it was okay--today was about birding and bird we did. By lunch time my year list had jumped to 118 species, and before the day was over I would be sitting at 131 year birds. A massive jump for a mid-winter day in Narnia. There were some major highs today, as well as a few unexpected misses. In fact several species that I thought would be home runs never showed.
I had 2 unexpected finds for the year, and although I want to share more apparently someone calling themselves the Undercover Big Year Detective claims to know who I am and basically everything about my year. Ironically they claim to have looked at my eBird checklists from today, which is odd, because I haven't submitted any of this weekends checklists at this moment. In any event, I hope "The Detective" will write me back and let me know who they think I am!
With my 2nd biggest day of the year behind me, these massive days are now over for good. If I get 10 new species in any single day the rest of the year, it will literally be a miracle!
At the end of a long day of birding, I went to sleep knowing that regardless of how the rest of the weekend went, today was a success. Check out the bird list to see some of the wild and crazy things we saw today!
New birds today: 37
Year List: 131
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