Hi all -
Happy to announce the 2021 Year List & Big Day report for Washington Birder is up and available.

Check out the files at the following link to see how everyone did in 2021 - http://wabirder.com/online.html <http://wabirder.com/online.html>

Highlights for the year include:
A new State Big Year record - Will Brooks, with 376 species in 2021.

3 new county big year records and one tie w/ a previous county big year.
Nancy LaFramboise in Benton County [239]
Raphael Fennimore in King County [278]
Ken Brown in Mason County [194]
and Mark Selle in Spokane County [240] (matching the previous record)
Raphael Fennimore's King Co. big year total of 278 species is the highest single county big year total ever achieved.

Two people reached 100+ species in all 39 counties on their life lists, Matt Dufort & Ruth Godding

County Big Day records were set in Mason County [118] and Thurston County [84]

All that and more is compiled in this year's report.


A direct link to the list report with all the state & county life and year list totals can be found here: http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2021.pdf <http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2021.pdf>

And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2021 is here: http://wabirder.com/docs/BigDayReport2021.pdf <http://wabirder.com/docs/BigDayReport2021.pdf>

Thanks to everyone who sent in your totals, and here's to many more updates and surprises in 2022.


Matt Bartels
Washington Birder