My CRAZIEST birding adventure EVER! (new owl on camera)

[@kalebanderson2903]

What a trip! It’s so special when you are able to see so many amazing birds and so many lifers in a day, especially in the US! Congrats on all the lifers!

[@brighteyedbirding]

It was an awesome time! Appreciate it! Thanks for watching!

[@bphenry807]

Nice work Jordan, one of our favorite episodes so far!!! Congrats on all the lifers and entertaining content with the squad.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks for saying that! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@olenskafanboy]

Dude, you're crushing it out west. Hope you get to come out east sometime to do some birding and see some of those eastern birds you want to see. Congrats on the lifers. All of the birds you saw were cool and would be lifers for me, but I love orioles, so the Scott's was nice, along with the hummingbirds. I also really want to see a cross bill, having heard some out in the Seattle area, but never putting eyes on one.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks I appreciate it!! I would love to come out East! I'll be in Montreal in August, (maybe that counts as "East") Sending you crossbill luck so you can see one soon!

[@yuutuubewacher]

Hi! I'm glad your video popped on my YT page. Fun to share in your excitement of birding and finding lifers. What a great day you had! Loved hearing you first find the owl 11:30. Funny and exciting! Been a birder 50 years, and no, I've never seen one. Just yesterday talked to a lifelong friend/birder about looking for saw-whet's! We used to go look in all the cedar trees at the Cincinnati Nature Center as kids on the Christmas Bird Count. Never found one! Fun note, though: I was at Mammoth Lakes in California with my spouse last week. We went hiking, and I stumbled on a pair of Williamson's Sapsuckers feeding their young at a nest cavity in a tree right in the middle of a fairly popular trail. It was also a lifer for me! Thanks and good luck with your vlog.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks for watching the video! I don't know if I will ever have looks at another Saw-whet like I did in that moment. That was super special. Hope you get to see one real soon! Congrats on your lifer Williamson's Sapsucker! That's awesome!

[@HaydenEpp]

Congrats on a successful trip! I loved seeing the Saw-whet Owl. I've never seen one myself. I also enjoyed learning about the Cassia Crossbill - I had never heard of that one before! I've never seen even a Red Crossbill either!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thank you!! Sending you saw-whet and crossbill luck 🍀

[@sarahdzielski9637]

Congratulations on all the lifers! Love your shots of the juvenile saw whet, what a good find

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks for your help in finding some of them! I couldn't have done it without you!

[@markshen3280]

CONGRATULATIONS on your so many LIFERS ! Enjoy your birding camp 🏕️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks I appreciate it! Camping was so much fun!

[@joshdhankins]

My wife and I had a private demonstration with a falconer in Big Sur CA last Feb. He brought 6 birds which were all amazing, one of them was a northern sawwhet owl. So it doesn’t really count the same as seeing it in the wild, but the experience of being 6 inches from one was so awesome. Was so cool to see it that close. That demonstration is literally the reason I’m here watching KZbin birding videos now. I’d lose my mind if I came across an owl in the wild like you did. Great video brotha.

[@brighteyedbirding]

What an awesome experience! Hoping you see a wild owl someday! Thanks for watching!

[@betterbirders]

Always wanted to see a Saw-whet, but haven't gotten the chance yet!

[@brighteyedbirding]

I got really lucky! Hope you get to see one someday!

[@betterbirders]

@@brighteyedbirding Thanks!

[@sylviamaulding2237]

great birding video. I’ve seen Saw-whet Owls in OR and WA, always a fun bird to see.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thank you!! Oh wow, how lucky you've seen them a few times!

[@HawkInTheLens]

This seems like one of the most amazing birding trips ever! The views of the Nighthawk were honestly my favorite but so many highlights! Congrats on all those lifers and hitting your goal of finding those Scott’s Orioles

[@brighteyedbirding]

It was awesome!! Getting views of the Common Nighthawk like that was priceless! Couldn't have asked for a better trip!

[@danieladelacruz3150]

Wish I had a birding squad!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Come bird with us! 🤝

[@TracyBirds]

Congrats on your lifers! That’s a juvenile NSWO, so the mom was probably close by. I have seen one in the wild, plus have attended banding nights where I’ve seen multiple in one night and got to release one after it got its bracelet! 😍

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thank you so much! I stayed up a bit late that night reading trying to hear if they would call, but didn't hear them. I can't complain though, seeing one is hard to beat!

[@jurassic_hobbyonmyaltaccou3878]

Love the videos keep it up!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks I appreciate you saying that!!

[@markdayton6759]

I got a Northern Saw-whet Owl here in the highest mountains of San Diego County. Following up on intell we had got of its location, we heard it first. It took about 90 minutes for us to locate it in the tall pine trees even though it was calling constantly. We used a thermal imaging scope to locate it, then got looks with our flashlights and binoculars.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Oh wow that sounds like a special ops mission! Congrats on finding the owl! What an awesome experience!

[@markshen3280]

Good morning to you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰. From what I learned by looking through the book, BIRDS OF HONG KONG, as well as my visits to Singapore 🇸🇬, there is the Black-naped Oriole. Though I have never seen an oriole in Hong Kong 🇭🇰, I have seen them in Singapore 🇸🇬👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@brighteyedbirding]

That's such a beautiful bird!

[@jurassic_hobbyonmyaltaccou3878]

That saw-whet owl is so cute! Can’t believe you spotted it

[@brighteyedbirding]

It was absolutely adorable. The biggest eyes I have ever seen on a creature haha

[@birdman5223]

#6 Great content young man😱 Lewis’s Woodpecker👍

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thank you!! Lewis's Woodpecker was the icing on the cake I think!!

[@douglasstemke2444]

Congratulations on your trip. Idaho was also where I got my Caliope HB and Lewis Woodpecker.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thank you!! It's a pretty underrated state for birding I think!

[@jurassic_hobbyonmyaltaccou3878]

4:08 if you look at the ground at the right side of you it looks like some type of shrew or mouse ran to the wood lol, take a closer look

[@brighteyedbirding]

Oh yeahhh! Good eye! There were a lot of rodents that day haha.

[@JT_Birder]

Awesome trip and awesome birds! Even got some Chukars at the end, so cool. Great spot of the Saw-whet Owl. I’m pretty jealous, been trying to find one on my home patch in Massachusetts for years.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks for watching!! I honestly don't know if I will experience luck like that for a very long time haha. Everything went my way that weekend!

[@douglasstemke2444]

I'm in Indiana and my daughter said. There was a 'baby owl' in the pine tree at school. I raced over there and sure enough, a Northern Saw Whet.

[@brighteyedbirding]

Oh wow! What an awesome experience to have! Good on your daughter for letting you know!

[@TheBackyardAviaryAdventures]

Excellent video Jordan, makes me want to come to the US to do some birding!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks so much! You should come! I can give you a tour and see some awesome birds 🤩

[@TheDutchBirder]

Great video. Def your best so far!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thank you! I appreciate you saying that!

[@benjaminmaughan6127]

That’s so cool!! Amazing trip!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Thanks! I appreciate you tuning in!

[@jurassic_hobbyonmyaltaccou3878]

I saw my lifer Short toed snake eagle today!

[@brighteyedbirding]

Congrats on the lifer!

[@Johnnywhipple-y1z]

how many bird species have you seen in your life

[@brighteyedbirding]

I'm sitting at 313 life birds at the moment.

[@StellarLimpkin]

Yo i can help with Arizona and New Mexico 200s get down here

[@brighteyedbirding]

I'll try to plan a trip!!