Erika and I spent most of 8 May 2021 counting birds for eBird’s Global Big Day. For 24 hours (local time), birders from around the world are urged to submit checklists to be tallied. Last year over 50,000 people from 175 countries submitted 120,000 checklists—6,479 species were recorded. I doubt any of the 50 species that we submitted this year were unique or even all that rare. This photo of a Pigeon Guillemot in the Olympia harbor was one of the best birds we found. In any event, we enjoyed the chase. We suspect that ours will be an easy total to surpass next year if we forgo an unproductive afternoon driving through the birdless hills beyond Olympia.
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