Bird Watching: 2012 Best Bird Sighting, 2 by Mrs_Ed

Mrs_Ed wrote:
Some of us were keeping track of birds in 2012 and I asked what was everyone's best bird of 2012. Resin suggested a new thread… So let's hear your thoughts!

Regarding 2012, what was everyone's "bird sighting of the year"? Might not be the best bird or most rare, but what you would think was the best sighting. Maybe top three if you can't narrow it down.

Snowy Owl in February for me. I had to drive to a local small airport. The one guy on duty opened the gates and we followed him by car through the airport and down a runway! So besides the sighting, it was special treatment! Ha.

Close runners up were the Eurasian Tree Sparrows and the Rough-legged Hawks (including a dark morph) that I saw recently. Also i suppose, the collective group of warblers in the stream this year. I did not know that I was getting so many at one time.