The only thing more relaxing than watching this series is actually being out birding. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into this and I look forward to the rest of your journey and quest.
Have you two ever been to California ? If you ever have the chance to visit California and do birding activities there, make sure you drive up and down the San Francisco coastline from northern San Francisco coastline all the way down to San Jose. Along the coastline, you can see many shorebirds like Terns, gulls pelicans, plovers, etc. Also visit the city parks especially San Francisco Golden Gate Park, there are Red-winged Blackbirds, Starlings, Hummingbirds, common California blackbirds, as well as mammals like the Golden Mantle Squirrels, Elephants Seals, California Otters 🦦, Harbour seals 🦭, etc.
Great work, guys! I used to live in Ontario many years ago. I live in Quebec now, close to Montreal. I have been in Florida a lot, almost every year, for the past 10 years. Always go to the Vero Beach area, between Orlando and Maimi. Love Florida for birding. I usually go in the spring before the migration and once I went in December. I like late February or mid-March. It's one of the best times to go birding. You did a great job capturing your 300 challenge. Great show! Happy birding! I hope to see you guys one day on the trail.
Florida every year would be a great thing to have on your calendar to look forward to. Glad you've enjoyed watching. Thanks for taking the time to comment 👍
Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR in the semi-rural areas at the beachfront promenade, there are several species of Egrets : Chinese Egrets, Lesser Egrets, Great Egrets and Cattle Egrets. Adding to that, are the Yellow Bittern and the Chinese Bittern.
Glad you had an enjoyable Florida getaway, I felt I was there with you! Being a lepidopterist it's nice to see you include the occasional butterfly in among 🙂
Thanks for sharing these awesome adventures from Florida! I have really enjoyed this series, but I am also excited to see you two back at home! Keep up the great work!
I became a birder in Gainesville/Alachua County so seeing you at Paynes Prarie and Sweetwater, two places I frequented fairly often, was nice. Safe travels back home and I enjoyed your videos!!
These past two days in the semi-rural part of the New Territories of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR, I saw for the first time (LIFER), a Chinese Pond Heron and a yellow Bittern looking for food in the undergrowth of shrubs as well as right out on an open field where some cows 🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂were grazing. Two other events were very surprising : the first event took place last week where a pair of JUVENILE Asian Koel birds (MALE and FEMALE) were harassing a flock of Black-collared Statlings in the tree hoping to occupy their nests 🪺. Today, as I went for my morning walk in a public park along the seaside promenade, a single FEMALE Asian Koel, also a Juvrnile, was harassing a flock of Red-whiskered Bulbuls. What a DRAMA 😁😁😁😁😁
In the semi-rural area of the New Territories of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR, we have the Cinerious Tit. This bird was previously regarded as a race of Cinerious Tit Paris (and before that Great Tir Parus major) this common Hong Kong species has now been reclassified as a taxon of Japanese Tit Parus minor commixtus. The Japanese tit (Parus minor), also known as the Oriental tit, is a passerine bird which replaces similar great tit in Japan and the Russian Far East beyond the Amur River, including the Kuril Islands. The Cinerious Tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. This species is made up of several populations that were earlier treated as subspecies of the great tit. These great titles in the new sense is distinguished by the greenish-black and yellow underside. Pretty confusing, I must say……😁😁😁😁😁😁
I really enjoyed the Florida series! I am actually planning a Florida Trip of my own for next spring, and your videos gave me some ideas of where to look.
Thank you for doing these videos! You really do a great job, and I really enjoy watching them! I have been going and trying to watch as many as I can. I am planning a trip to Florida myself in November and hope to visit some of the locations myself. I have a question for you. How did you pick your Florida spots to visit, ebird, using the target of birds you were hoping to see or locals pointing to great spots? Good luck on you 300 bird challenge and looking forward to more videos!!
Hi Leonard, we both really appreciate comments like yours. It gives us a lot of motivation to keep going, so thank you for taking the time. Sara is the big research one, lucky for me. You're correct - she will look at what is reported on eBird. If you view the eBird website on a desktop computer, you're able to look at older sightings. So for example, we visited in April. Sara pulled up sightings in April within the previous 5 years to pick out species and locations, and then we built an itinerary around that information combined with what we already knew about birds that could be found in Florida and a couple of guide books. We decided to leave out the pan-handle due to limited time and basically circle around the coast in a counter-clockwise direction, stopping at different hotels along the path with time for 2-3 stops per day. We might occasionally shift our plans slightly if good sightings crop up nearer to the time, if a local person makes a solid suggestion, if a stop ends up deserving more or less time or if weather interferes etc... Although we don't have time to watch too many other youtubers, sometimes a channel might also influence spots that we choose to visit. We both like Sparky Stensaas - www.youtube.com/@SparkyStensaas - who is based in Minnesota, but did some Florida videos last year that we enjoyed - here's one: ruclips.net/video/8qsxzF9J96I/видео.html Best wishes and good luck for your trip in November.
The only thing more relaxing than watching this series is actually being out birding. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into this and I look forward to the rest of your journey and quest.
Thanks for the kind comment, we appreciate it 😊
Have you two ever been to California ? If you ever have the chance to visit California and do birding activities there, make sure you drive up and down the San Francisco coastline from northern San Francisco coastline all the way down to San Jose. Along the coastline, you can see many shorebirds like Terns, gulls pelicans, plovers, etc. Also visit the city parks especially San Francisco Golden Gate Park, there are Red-winged Blackbirds, Starlings, Hummingbirds, common California blackbirds, as well as mammals like the Golden Mantle Squirrels, Elephants Seals, California Otters 🦦, Harbour seals 🦭, etc.
Hi Mark, yes we have. There's a Playlist on the channel from our trip last year. We travelled from San Fran to San Diego and back up.
Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful video like always ❤
Thanks Miguel 😊
3 more Lifers... Excellent well done indeed. Looking forward to the next video. Safe travels
Thanks Marcus 😊
Great Florida series! I really enjoyed it. The Dry Tortugas looked amazing.
Thank you Sarah, yeah great times. Tortugas sure were great, but everywhere gave us great sights and nature 😊
Looking forward to your Point Pelee birding video...
Thank you 😊
Coming soon...ish!
Congratulations on an amazing trip and discovering all those wonderful birds, including so many lifers!
Thank you, and thanks for watching 😊
Looks like you had a great time exploring Florida.👍
Yep, where next? 😆
Great work, guys!
I used to live in Ontario many years ago. I live in Quebec now, close to Montreal. I have been in Florida a lot, almost every year, for the past 10 years. Always go to the Vero Beach area, between Orlando and Maimi. Love Florida for birding. I usually go in the spring before the migration and once I went in December. I like late February or mid-March. It's one of the best times to go birding. You did a great job capturing your 300 challenge. Great show! Happy birding! I hope to see you guys one day on the trail.
Florida every year would be a great thing to have on your calendar to look forward to. Glad you've enjoyed watching. Thanks for taking the time to comment 👍
That color on the Yellow-throated Vireo is distinctive. Good ID to me.
Thanks Cliff, appreciate the feedback on that
Congratulations on your lifers. That was fun to watch.
Thank you! 😊
Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR in the semi-rural areas at the beachfront promenade, there are several species of Egrets : Chinese Egrets, Lesser Egrets, Great Egrets and Cattle Egrets. Adding to that, are the Yellow Bittern and the Chinese Bittern.
Glad you had an enjoyable Florida getaway, I felt I was there with you!
Being a lepidopterist it's nice to see you include the occasional butterfly in among 🙂
Thank you. Yep, I'd say lepidoptera are my next favourite creatures 😊
Thanks for sharing these awesome adventures from Florida! I have really enjoyed this series, but I am also excited to see you two back at home! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Jordan. Have a couple of Ontario ones lined up. Also going to try to do a video for your project this weekend if we get time!
I became a birder in Gainesville/Alachua County so seeing you at Paynes Prarie and Sweetwater, two places I frequented fairly often, was nice.
Safe travels back home and I enjoyed your videos!!
Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching. Lovely part of the world for birding!
These past two days in the semi-rural part of the New Territories of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR, I saw for the first time (LIFER), a Chinese Pond Heron and a yellow Bittern looking for food in the undergrowth of shrubs as well as right out on an open field where some cows 🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂were grazing.
Two other events were very surprising : the first event took place last week where a pair of JUVENILE Asian Koel birds (MALE and FEMALE) were harassing a flock of Black-collared Statlings in the tree hoping to occupy their nests 🪺.
Today, as I went for my morning walk in a public park along the seaside promenade, a single FEMALE Asian Koel, also a Juvrnile, was harassing a flock of Red-whiskered Bulbuls.
What a DRAMA 😁😁😁😁😁
Congrats on the cool sightings 😊
You should have counted the big flamingo 🦩 at the Tampa airport 😎😜
Haha, yeah, it's quite cool 🦩 Considered filming it, but was a bit of a rush that evening.
My daughter and I enjoyed this series!! Hope you enjoy your Point Peele trip We love it there.
Thanks guys 😊
Another great video from Florida! Great to get a few new ones right at the end! Excited for your Pelee videos as that is my home area.
Thanks 😊
We found Pelee a little quiet this year as you may have heard from others. But we still picked up a few species.
In the semi-rural area of the New Territories of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR, we have the Cinerious Tit. This bird was previously regarded as a race of Cinerious Tit Paris (and before that Great Tir Parus major) this common Hong Kong species has now been reclassified as a taxon of Japanese Tit Parus minor commixtus.
The Japanese tit (Parus minor), also known as the Oriental tit, is a passerine bird which replaces similar great tit in Japan and the Russian Far East beyond the Amur River, including the Kuril Islands.
The Cinerious Tit is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae. This species is made up of several populations that were earlier treated as subspecies of the great tit. These great titles in the new sense is distinguished by the greenish-black and yellow underside.
Pretty confusing, I must say……😁😁😁😁😁😁
I really enjoyed the Florida series! I am actually planning a Florida Trip of my own for next spring, and your videos gave me some ideas of where to look.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed them and hope you have a great trip!
Florida brought so many cool videos and new species! Excited to see you try and hit the goal during the remainder of the year
Thanks. I think it's going to be tough to get there after a slow summer, but let's see 🤔😊
another lovely video, back to birding at home for the next video?
Thanks Nigel. Couple of videos from around Ontario next, yep.
Thank you for doing these videos! You really do a great job, and I really enjoy watching them! I have been going and trying to watch as many as I can. I am planning a trip to Florida myself in November and hope to visit some of the locations myself. I have a question for you. How did you pick your Florida spots to visit, ebird, using the target of birds you were hoping to see or locals pointing to great spots? Good luck on you 300 bird challenge and looking forward to more videos!!
Hi Leonard, we both really appreciate comments like yours. It gives us a lot of motivation to keep going, so thank you for taking the time.
Sara is the big research one, lucky for me. You're correct - she will look at what is reported on eBird. If you view the eBird website on a desktop computer, you're able to look at older sightings. So for example, we visited in April. Sara pulled up sightings in April within the previous 5 years to pick out species and locations, and then we built an itinerary around that information combined with what we already knew about birds that could be found in Florida and a couple of guide books. We decided to leave out the pan-handle due to limited time and basically circle around the coast in a counter-clockwise direction, stopping at different hotels along the path with time for 2-3 stops per day.
We might occasionally shift our plans slightly if good sightings crop up nearer to the time, if a local person makes a solid suggestion, if a stop ends up deserving more or less time or if weather interferes etc...
Although we don't have time to watch too many other youtubers, sometimes a channel might also influence spots that we choose to visit. We both like Sparky Stensaas - www.youtube.com/@SparkyStensaas - who is based in Minnesota, but did some Florida videos last year that we enjoyed - here's one: ruclips.net/video/8qsxzF9J96I/видео.html
Best wishes and good luck for your trip in November.