Bird Watching: 2012 Best Bird Sighting, 4 by Elphaba

Elphaba wrote:
What a wonderful thread. I've enjoyed reading all of your posts. It's so interesting to see what is unusual or special for other people.

I have been thinking about this for a while too. I actually made a photo flipbook of my favorite birding moments and it has more than 20 photos in it! Here are my top three (I guess -- like Patti -- the top 3 at the moment!)

1. Snowy Owl near Dallas. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and a big owl fan, so this was a double delight.

2. American Bittern that walked all around the car.

3. Merlin eating dragonflies who just let me watch her for a long time.

Very close runners up were: Burrowing Owl (my first and way too cool!), Great Horned Owlettes, Yellow Rail that hovered (caught in the wind) right in front of my face, colony of Swallowtail Kites, and my first Scaled Quail. Dang it was a good year!