Highlights:
Grace's Warbler (!!)
Common Ringed-Plover (!)
Crested Caracara (!)
Shearwater sp. (!)
Townsend's Warbler
Added with these, a few nice self-finds, like these:
Swainson's Hawk
Western Sandpiper
Carolina X Black-capped Chickadee hybrid (obviously not counted in the species list)
Henslow's Sparrow
Neotropic Cormorant
Eurasian Collared-Dove
When this is added in, there's a total 51 species + 6 possible species seen in Ontario that I would have been able to see:
| Bohemian Waxwing | ||||||
| Brant | ||||||
| Hudsonian Godwit | ||||||
| Red Knot | ||||||
| Long-eared Owl | ||||||
| Purple Sandpiper | ||||||
| Red Crossbill | ||||||
| Hoary Redpoll | ||||||
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | ||||||
| Barrow's Goldeneye | ||||||
| Ross's Goose | ||||||
| Spruce Grouse | ||||||
| Red Phalarope | ||||||
| Pomarine Jaeger | ||||||
| Eared Grebe | ||||||
| Great Gray Owl | ||||||
| American White Pelican | ||||||
| Le Conte's Sparrow | ||||||
| Snowy Egret | Holiday Beach - August | |||||
| American Three-toed Woodpecker | ||||||
| Boreal Owl | ||||||
| Laughing Gull | Rock Point | |||||
| Gray Partridge | Ottawa | |||||
| Yellow-throated Warbler | June - Thickson's Woods | |||||
| Prairie Warbler | ||||||
| Western Meadowlark | Rainy River | |||||
| Yellow Rail | ||||||
| Northern Bobwhite | Walpole Island | |||||
| Ruff | May - Brighton | |||||
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | July - Hamilton | |||||
| Common Eider | May/June - Burlington | |||||
| Varied Thrush | Feb/March - Kirkland Lake | |||||
| Arctic Tern | Burnt Point | |||||
| Smith's Longspur | Burnt Point | |||||
| Willow Ptarmigan | Burnt Point | |||||
| Worm-eating Warbler | May - Pelee | |||||
| Mississippi Kite | May - Pelee/Niagara | |||||
| Louisiana Waterthrush | ||||||
| Spotted Towhee | February - Thunder Bay | |||||
| Eurasian Tree-Sparrow | January - Bruce Peninsula | |||||
| Bullock's Oriole | January - Ottawa | |||||
| Vermilion Flycatcher | January 1 - Wallaceburg | |||||
| Townsend's Solitaire | January - Toronto | |||||
| Western Grebe | Spring - Toronto | |||||
| Cattle Egret | October 14 - Hamilton | |||||
| Thick-billed Murre | 11/25/2016 - Cobden | |||||
| Black Guillemot | November - Netitshi | |||||
| Cave Swallow | November - Pelee | |||||
| Glossy Ibis | October - New Liskeard | |||||
| Lark Sparrow | December - Toronto | |||||
| Black-headed Gull | December - Niagara | |||||
| Unlikely, but Possible | ||||||
| Little Blue Heron | July - Harrow/Holiday Beach | |||||
| California Gull | ||||||
| Northern Fulmar | ||||||
| Western Kingbird | July - Rainy River | |||||
| Mountain Bluebird | November - Moosonee | |||||
| Barn Owl |
Had I seen the 51 species would be enough to break the record, coming in at 345. The additional 6 species would bring me in at 351(!). Considering this hasn't been the greatest year for vagrants; and the Ontario big year is within the grasp of anyone looking to break the record.
