September - December:
For 4 months I had the opportunity to study in Denmark. Thanks to the lack of assignments/homework I had plenty of time to get out and explore the country.
I saw several species of shorebird, 22 to be exact including some that I had already seen in Canada:
Lots of beautiful rainbows:
An amazing trip to Norway with a few friends:
Beautiful sunsets:
A weeklong trip to Spain:
where I saw my main target bird, the Lammergeier:
I grew in love with long days watching the sea:
In November I switched to digiscoping and have been finding it a great endeavour so far. See my album of digiscoped photos here.
A Eurasian Pygmy Owl:
...and a White-throated Dipper became familiar faces on my blog:
On one of my last days in Denmark I finally managed to find 2 Black Woodpeckers. My most desired bird for Denmark and a great way to end the 4 months and the year!
I ended up with 154 species of bird in Denmark - I was lucky to have this opportunity to learn the birds of Europe and who knows... maybe I'll see some of the same birds back in Canada ;)
Throughout the year I saw 447 species of birds - I'm pretty happy with that considering I've only been birding for 3 years of which the first year wasn't nearly as serious as the last two.
Top 3 birding highlights from 2011:
3: Shearwater feeding frenzy in Newfoundland in August
2: Point Pelee in May!
1: Carden Alvar Surveys (May/June) - I really do love that place.
Happy New Year and thank you to everyone who has been reading my blog - I've been finding it to be a lot of fun :)
