My birdwatching year

I usually have extra focus on one organism group a year, and last year it was birds. I am in general a bad birdwatcher since my focus is more on the plants on the ground, and then I don't see the birds. But I wanted to make an effort this year. Here are some highlights, mostly birds I'd never seen before.

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Also today I went birdwatching by the sea after a hard wind with some better birdwatchers to help me, and saw kittiwake and black guillemot! This was actually one of my bingo squares for this year, but maybe I'll go once more before I cross it off. Would love to see a northern gannet.

2020's theme is lichens, probably of less general interest.