2022 First of the Year Birding Challenge 

Good for you!

While the birds were cool to see, my favorite memory from the day is getting to hang out with Rob and Eric and have a big adventure. It's great that you got to spend time with your dad driving around! Often times, it's the people that make the memories and not just the birds :)

Agreed

Its nice to see other 14 Year old birders :)

Same here lol

Thanks for watching!

Still more than zero!

Thanks so much, Mark! We appreciate it! I don't know about Michigan, but around here the Purple Sandpipers typically only stay for a few hours it seems

We’re looking forward to it too!

Same here!

Thanks for watching!

Thanks s much for watching! Glad to have a viewer from Greece!

Thanks so much for the compliment and for watching!

Thanks for watching!

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! We're glad you enjoyed it!

You’re welcome!

Thanks for watching!

I'm glad it made you excited for your survey! Good luck and find some rarities for us!

Makes me excited for 01/01/23 since I didn't start listing until March this year. 203 species though! (in U.K)

It's definitely been a good year around the lake

Thank you and thanks for watching!

Thanks. As I read this just got a heads up for a yellow throated warbler. Wouhouu

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Thank you!

How many did you get on the first, Gabe?

@@BadgerlandBirding sad to say I’m not even sure. I had to spend most of the day driving to GA in snow and rain, but I did have a nice flock of goose sp. in the morning 😂

READY TO ROCK!

@@BadgerlandBirding ALWAYS!!;)

Thanks so much for watching! Solid total!

@@BadgerlandBirding So far, I've seen 261 species of birds to be exact.

It was funny to see them hanging out together!

It was a pretty solid day! lol

@@BadgerlandBirding yea but, there is a lot more snow here than in this video which definitely affects the amount of migratory birds that stay for the winter

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You'll have to come to Wisconsin sometime and get some lifers!

Fingers crossed!

Could you do us a favor and send more of them over here? lol

@@BadgerlandBirding If you send us a winter irruption of Snow Buntings, Snowy Owls, and Redpolls, you have a deal

That's interesting that they like to hang out together. Sounds like you had a very solid first of the year as well! What was your favorite bird you saw?

@@BadgerlandBirding I think my favorite was the first bird, Eastern Screeched Owl. I have the video of my first day birding, take a look. 👍🙂

Thanks for watching!

What a cool thing to do for work though!

Hey, River! My number 1 tip would be to make lots of content and see what connects with your viewers the most. There are a couple good channels on RU-vid focusing on growth and this is one you may want to check out. -Derek ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aeDPI-7aMJU.html

@@BadgerlandBirding okay, Thank you!

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There could potentially be a video about that in our futures!

What a great adventure for us to watch? I live in Louisiana and herd some Kent calls last year!

Yes, we do. Very handy tool for tallying species and keeping precise records

I'm actually not sure. he's in Costa Rica right now so I'll have to ask him when he gets back to the states!