Nice total for the day! I ended up w/the same total in Upstate NY w/a juv black-crowned night-heron being the highlight. I'm shooting for my 4th year in a row of 300+ for NY. It's always fun to hit the "reset" on January 1st!
Love your videos. I live in Minnesota so have similar birds and I’m learning to identify much easier by watching your very clear beautiful videos. Thank you so much!
50 is a hot start. I suck at recording all of my outings because I'm normally fumbling around with a camera and bins too much, but for my yard I already have 25 which I think is decent for January
We got 20 on our first day but we were pretty casual about it, just visiting a few spots not far from the house with potential for open water. I took a look at the reports for a few of the gulls you saw and wow, lots of reports along the Lakes. Almost none in MN. So, yeah... there just aren't as many bird species here in the Twin Cities area as you have available to you. Thanks for letting us all follow along.
Very interesting outing with a good number of species, which I am gradually learning about by watching videos and photos. I also have the tradition of going out on the first day of the year, although I couldn't because of the rain and then because of work; I will do it this weekend leaving early, here where I live in the early hours of the afternoon it will exceed 35C (95 F)
Yay!! Been looking forward to your NY bird species count, so fun!! Been birding since June after my BF moved to a new place and was bothered by all the crow ruckus, I suggested he learn about them so he is not so bothered. That was it. Hooked. Now crows follow my car down my street when I come back from work and once left me a gift! Found a few rare sightings and even got the thumbs up from eBird (after the interagation 😊) Thanks for all the inspiration, and what a gift to share with your brother. That's the best part 😊
Happy New Year and what a great day of birding you guys had. I love birdwatching but because my husband is disabled, we don't get out in the winter so I do a lot of backyard bird watching through my kitchen window. Happy Birding
Congrats y'all! That's a great number for that far north! I didn't bird on the 1st, but I went on the 2nd to the NC coast and wrote down 62 species. I missed out on a few rarities, but hopefully I can go back soon to see them! Thank you for sharing.
Got my lifer Trumpeter Swan and GBBG on 1/1! Do you guys have any videos on owling? I'm interested in trying it but don't know where to start. Any other owling resources you know of? Thanks for the content!
I made an owl playlist for you! It really depends on what species you’re looking for. Which one did you have in mind? ua-cam.com/play/PLflNUezclylBJLPzvGssEaLWR11kIOiMU.html
@Badgerland Birding Thank you I will check out the Playlist! Really any species, I'm in MI and I've heard of people having luck calling Screech Owls. Not sure of some species are more receptive than others to calling?
@@jadn64 it’s tricky because owls are sensitive and people are sensitive about owls. Some people don’t agree with calling them, however others don’t think it has a negative effect. If you do try calling them I would look for recent reports and start with the smallest to largest species. With species like Snowy Owls, they’ll be out in the day so looking for recent reports and checking open areas and tall structures near open areas is a good way to try and find them. Short-eared Owls normally come out around sunset in open areas. For cavity nesters you can always look for holes in trees and see if anyone is poking their head out. A lot of owl info on specific locations is spread individually and isn’t normally posted as public so it makes it hard to locate them reliably unless you have at least a little inside info, but definitely not impossible to find them on your own.
It's a good start of the year. Up north it's more challenging to find birds because less birds around but you guys did well. I was out birding at Jan 1'st also got 82 species here in Florida Screech Owl was the first bird.
Hi from North Wales (UK) - great to watch your video, with species from the other side of the Atlantic! We did our "big day" on the 6th, not the 1st, and had 91 species - most very different from yours! Seeing your Black Duck reminds me of when I found one here in 1979 - an adult male - it was the first record for Wales ... it ended up staying for a few years and bred with a female Mallard, producing a number of interesting hybrid offspring 🤪 Many thanks for your video ... I'll look out for the next one 👍
Nice!! I'm definitely not making a super huge effort, but, I have gone out for the last three mornings and just sat in my yard to see what I can see (or hear as the case mostly is) And! The first bird I actually got eyes on, was a Carolina Wren, which I'd never seen before! There were two of them just hanging out on the neighbor's fence. There were also at least a dozen other birds in the big tree in the yard, which happens to be a sweet gum. Other than that they were REALLY tiny (not bigger than the sweet gum seed-balls), I have no idea what they were, I couldn't make out details. So I've got a plan to maybe find a different spot to sit that won't have me facing into the sun. I'm still figuring out ways to do this "right" but I'm enjoying myself, plus, it gets me away from my computer for a while. A win all round!
Wow! Not bad. I got 31 here in South Korea and that included 2 lifers. But I'll have to develop my skills more and get up even earlier in the morning to get 50.
I ended the 1st with 107 species down in Florida. Highlights were definitely a White Wagtail and American Flamingo, along with lifer Roseate Spoonbill, Royal Tern, Black Skimmer, and Fish Crow. A couple of my bigger misses were Red-shouldered Hawk (somehow), Osprey, and Cattle Egret. For a little while I was the #10 ebirder in the US, but ended the day at #42
Good day hitting 50! My son and I tallied 57 and 55 respectively (he had two heard-only birds that my poor hearing could not pick up) in Michigan on January 1. We started the day with an Eastern Screech-Owl that came in and landed just over our heads. Highlights on the day were a hooting Great Horned Owl at first light, two Cackling Geese, 180 Sandhill Cranes, all three swan species, 22 Black-crowned Night-Herons roosting on an island on the Rouge River in Detroit (a traditional wintering location), three falcon species (Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrel, Merlin), a Carolina Wren, a Northern Harrier, and a Northern Shrike. We finished our day with four(!) Short-eared Owls hunting over a rural weedy field. BIG misses included House Finch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Hairy Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, and Brown Creeper. 300+ miles and five counties birded. The weather was gloomy gray and wet, but we enjoyed our day!
@@Fire_2000 Thanks! Couldn't stir up a Barred Owl despite our efforts. We did manage a beautiful all-white male Snowy yesterday - first of the season for me.
@@Fire_2000 The magical alure of owls! I've seen well over 100 Snowies, but only a handful of Long-eared Owls - which are so incredibly difficult to see! Nice find!
Honestly yeah. I scope with them on a tripod and the zoom rivals most scopes. I think a really nice scope let’s you see slightly farther and clearer but for me at least, I’ve found the camera to be sufficient for most situations. -Derek
Good job, gentlemen! It would be a blast to go birding with you two. Anyway, I did a first of the year hike, on Jan 1, so I wasn't technically birding, but of course I'm always birding whenever I'm outside. I didn't see nearly as many birds as you did, but my first birds of the year were a belted kingfisher, and a great blue heron, which are two solid finds.
Just officially started birding 2 months ago, set a goal to reach top 100 in the county by 2023 and did it.. You guys helped a lot, looking forward to when you’re both retired and traveling around the country birding everyday
A very good First-Of-The-Year-Day I'd say! I/we only got 18, but then we 1) only started at midday, which means only 3 hours of daylight left 2) didn't really drive anywhere but to our forest bird feeding station (called Tweety's Diner, as I mentioned earlier) and we didn't get all 14 frequenting species that day, only 11 3) then we drove like 500 meter along the creek (frozen mostly) to the bridge where we got Mallard and Common Merganser 4) then we crossed the creek and walked along the (totally bird-empty) pastures to the nearby "farm" where usually a few wintering Rooks can be found together with the Jackdaws and the Hooded Crows. We did find them, at sundown (3 PM). Add to that the Magpies at our yard and the House Sparrows at the feeders in the next block, seen on the drive to Tweety's. We prefer to take it more slowly with the year-ticks nowadays. They will pop up when they pop up, or we go to the places they are... We had some nice 90 minutes at Tweety's, sadly our place were crowded with local birders that wanted some of our forest birds for their year list...😂
great start my friend! I was able to end the year with a SNOWY OWL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOL. i made a vid check it out if you can! love to stay in touch
Well done!
Thanks for watching!
I saw that same canvasback on the same day
Only hit 31 this year, couldn't get out for most of the day though because of a storm. 1st was a House Finch!
Wow! That was great!
Fantastic haul guys thanks for sharing !
congratulations guys impressive number
These guys are so calming to watch, love the content, its a nice watch
Nice total for the day! I ended up w/the same total in Upstate NY w/a juv black-crowned night-heron being the highlight. I'm shooting for my 4th year in a row of 300+ for NY. It's always fun to hit the "reset" on January 1st!
Love your videos. I live in Minnesota so have similar birds and I’m learning to identify much easier by watching your very clear beautiful videos. Thank you so much!
50 is a hot start. I suck at recording all of my outings because I'm normally fumbling around with a camera and bins too much, but for my yard I already have 25 which I think is decent for January
Congrats on highest bird count in Jan 1 23!
9:10 there are two adult GBBgulls in this frame, no?
Yup!
We got 20 on our first day but we were pretty casual about it, just visiting a few spots not far from the house with potential for open water. I took a look at the reports for a few of the gulls you saw and wow, lots of reports along the Lakes. Almost none in MN. So, yeah... there just aren't as many bird species here in the Twin Cities area as you have available to you. Thanks for letting us all follow along.
Very interesting outing with a good number of species, which I am gradually learning about by watching videos and photos. I also have the tradition of going out on the first day of the year, although I couldn't because of the rain and then because of work; I will do it this weekend leaving early, here where I live in the early hours of the afternoon it will exceed 35C (95 F)
The Song Sparrow video was so picturesque! Great video, guys. Happy new year!
Yay!! Been looking forward to your NY bird species count, so fun!! Been birding since June after my BF moved to a new place and was bothered by all the crow ruckus, I suggested he learn about them so he is not so bothered. That was it. Hooked. Now crows follow my car down my street when I come back from work and once left me a gift! Found a few rare sightings and even got the thumbs up from eBird (after the interagation 😊) Thanks for all the inspiration, and what a gift to share with your brother. That's the best part 😊
Happy New Year and what a great day of birding you guys had. I love birdwatching but because my husband is disabled, we don't get out in the winter so I do a lot of backyard bird watching through my kitchen window. Happy Birding
I’ve never been a get out there and look for birds kind of birder, but y’all make it look so fun that I’m thinking about giving it a try.
Nice! I was at the arboretum on the 31st! I missed you by one day 😮. Happy 2023!
Congratulations! 50 is a great number! Happy New Year!
Congrats y'all! That's a great number for that far north! I didn't bird on the 1st, but I went on the 2nd to the NC coast and wrote down 62 species. I missed out on a few rarities, but hopefully I can go back soon to see them! Thank you for sharing.
Nicely done and great to see vid of the different species. Kingfisher! Surprised at the Waterfowl numbers. I did get close to 30 robins on a cbc.
Nice work! Good effort!
Excellent video! I'm in Dane County and Im feeling very inspired to do some winter birding!
I would to see more challenge videos!
Check our latest video out!
I live in Oregon and I had 45 species with one rare bird a male Black-throated Blue Warbler.
Nice! That’s a great bird!
Got my lifer Trumpeter Swan and GBBG on 1/1! Do you guys have any videos on owling? I'm interested in trying it but don't know where to start. Any other owling resources you know of? Thanks for the content!
I made an owl playlist for you! It really depends on what species you’re looking for. Which one did you have in mind? ua-cam.com/play/PLflNUezclylBJLPzvGssEaLWR11kIOiMU.html
@Badgerland Birding Thank you I will check out the Playlist! Really any species, I'm in MI and I've heard of people having luck calling Screech Owls. Not sure of some species are more receptive than others to calling?
@@jadn64 it’s tricky because owls are sensitive and people are sensitive about owls. Some people don’t agree with calling them, however others don’t think it has a negative effect. If you do try calling them I would look for recent reports and start with the smallest to largest species. With species like Snowy Owls, they’ll be out in the day so looking for recent reports and checking open areas and tall structures near open areas is a good way to try and find them. Short-eared Owls normally come out around sunset in open areas. For cavity nesters you can always look for holes in trees and see if anyone is poking their head out. A lot of owl info on specific locations is spread individually and isn’t normally posted as public so it makes it hard to locate them reliably unless you have at least a little inside info, but definitely not impossible to find them on your own.
Great job guys!! Beautiful birds!!
Loved it!!
👍
It's a good start of the year. Up north it's more challenging to find birds because less birds around but you guys did well. I was out birding at Jan 1'st also got 82 species here in Florida Screech Owl was the first bird.
Hi from North Wales (UK) - great to watch your video, with species from the other side of the Atlantic! We did our "big day" on the 6th, not the 1st, and had 91 species - most very different from yours! Seeing your Black Duck reminds me of when I found one here in 1979 - an adult male - it was the first record for Wales ... it ended up staying for a few years and bred with a female Mallard, producing a number of interesting hybrid offspring 🤪 Many thanks for your video ... I'll look out for the next one 👍
50 is awesome! I only got 5 species, but I didn't travel anywhere. That's just what was in my yard that day.
Great start guys, keep it going!! Love watching your channel!
I was sick on Jan 1st so I couldn't do the challenge. Good Job guys!
50 is great 👍 congrats on 9k yall
Great birding day! My first bird of the year was a short tailed hawk light morph❤😊
Insane kumliens gull. I found one in California once, they're so beautiful!!!
Happy new year y’all ! My favorite birding channel on UA-cam ! Keep up the great work this year and cheers to more lifers
Nice!! I'm definitely not making a super huge effort, but, I have gone out for the last three mornings and just sat in my yard to see what I can see (or hear as the case mostly is)
And! The first bird I actually got eyes on, was a Carolina Wren, which I'd never seen before! There were two of them just hanging out on the neighbor's fence.
There were also at least a dozen other birds in the big tree in the yard, which happens to be a sweet gum. Other than that they were REALLY tiny (not bigger than the sweet gum seed-balls), I have no idea what they were, I couldn't make out details. So I've got a plan to maybe find a different spot to sit that won't have me facing into the sun.
I'm still figuring out ways to do this "right" but I'm enjoying myself, plus, it gets me away from my computer for a while. A win all round!
I have 2 juvenile white crowned sparrows hanging around again this year
Happy New Year and congrats on your total! Keep up making the great content!
Wow! Not bad. I got 31 here in South Korea and that included 2 lifers. But I'll have to develop my skills more and get up even earlier in the morning to get 50.
I ended the 1st with 107 species down in Florida. Highlights were definitely a White Wagtail and American Flamingo, along with lifer Roseate Spoonbill, Royal Tern, Black Skimmer, and Fish Crow. A couple of my bigger misses were Red-shouldered Hawk (somehow), Osprey, and Cattle Egret. For a little while I was the #10 ebirder in the US, but ended the day at #42
In Louisiana I see lots of robins, and it’s been pretty warm.
Good day hitting 50! My son and I tallied 57 and 55 respectively (he had two heard-only birds that my poor hearing could not pick up) in Michigan on January 1. We started the day with an Eastern Screech-Owl that came in and landed just over our heads. Highlights on the day were a hooting Great Horned Owl at first light, two Cackling Geese, 180 Sandhill Cranes, all three swan species, 22 Black-crowned Night-Herons roosting on an island on the Rouge River in Detroit (a traditional wintering location), three falcon species (Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrel, Merlin), a Carolina Wren, a Northern Harrier, and a Northern Shrike. We finished our day with four(!) Short-eared Owls hunting over a rural weedy field. BIG misses included House Finch, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Hairy Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, and Brown Creeper. 300+ miles and five counties birded. The weather was gloomy gray and wet, but we enjoyed our day!
Nice job on 3 different owls species in one day!
@@Fire_2000 Thanks! Couldn't stir up a Barred Owl despite our efforts. We did manage a beautiful all-white male Snowy yesterday - first of the season for me.
@@darylbernard2616 I wish I could see a snowy owl (I definitely will eventually). I did find 5 long eareds today which is always fun
@@Fire_2000 The magical alure of owls! I've seen well over 100 Snowies, but only a handful of Long-eared Owls - which are so incredibly difficult to see! Nice find!
Love the videos guys! Quick question though. Do you feel like your superzoom cameras give you all the length you need for birding!?
Honestly yeah. I scope with them on a tripod and the zoom rivals most scopes. I think a really nice scope let’s you see slightly farther and clearer but for me at least, I’ve found the camera to be sufficient for most situations. -Derek
I so appreciate your videos. Aside from the learning about a favorite topic, I find them to be so relaxing.
Glad you like them!
Congrats guys 50 Birds on January 1st especially in the conditions you guys are in that cold area that's fantastic .
New Years day birding is always a blast! Nice list
Great vid, as always! Looks like the trip was well worth it!
Good job, gentlemen! It would be a blast to go birding with you two. Anyway, I did a first of the year hike, on Jan 1, so I wasn't technically birding, but of course I'm always birding whenever I'm outside. I didn't see nearly as many birds as you did, but my first birds of the year were a belted kingfisher, and a great blue heron, which are two solid finds.
Did you happen to save the recording the red breasted nut hatch . I would be interested in hearing it .
Just officially started birding 2 months ago, set a goal to reach top 100 in the county by 2023 and did it.. You guys helped a lot, looking forward to when you’re both retired and traveling around the country birding everyday
Haha awesome! Congrats on being in the top 100!
A very good First-Of-The-Year-Day I'd say! I/we only got 18, but then we 1) only started at midday, which means only 3 hours of daylight left 2) didn't really drive anywhere but to our forest bird feeding station (called Tweety's Diner, as I mentioned earlier) and we didn't get all 14 frequenting species that day, only 11 3) then we drove like 500 meter along the creek (frozen mostly) to the bridge where we got Mallard and Common Merganser 4) then we crossed the creek and walked along the (totally bird-empty) pastures to the nearby "farm" where usually a few wintering Rooks can be found together with the Jackdaws and the Hooded Crows. We did find them, at sundown (3 PM). Add to that the Magpies at our yard and the House Sparrows at the feeders in the next block, seen on the drive to Tweety's.
We prefer to take it more slowly with the year-ticks nowadays. They will pop up when they pop up, or we go to the places they are... We had some nice 90 minutes at Tweety's, sadly our place were crowded with local birders that wanted some of our forest birds for their year list...😂
I feel in america getting over 75 is difficult but I know someone who was in West Africa on the 1st and got over 500 species and 234 lifers!
😮
Yay! That's great! Thanks for letting us tag along with you virtually at least. The first of the year challenge is always a favorite of mine🙂
My first bird of this year is the American crow, Corvus americana.
great start my friend! I was able to end the year with a SNOWY OWL IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOL. i made a vid check it out if you can! love to stay in touch