End of Year Summary
Our Ohio Birding Big Year finished with a fizzle rather than a bang. Mike and I only added two new birds in November and one in December. We did attempt to chase a number a birds but were generally unsuccessful. We were out of state for a week around Thanksgiving and another week around Christmas. All and all, we were very pleased with our total number of species for the year. We finished with 304 which exceeded our goal of 300 birds. This put us in 4 th place for the year behind the top birder who had 314. We saw 19 new Ohio life birds this year which are listed below. We also saw an American Flamingo and White-cheeked Pintail in Florida as well as a Baird’s Sparrow in Alberta which were all ABA life birds. Mike and I want to thank ev...