The re-birth of the "UOB" - 2003 to 2004

Back in the good old'e days, I had a page on my website called "Unusual Ontario Birds" .....


Then my website died a horrible death when I had a hacker-attack of some sort that inserted malicious code onto every page of my darn site!


Then I tried to rebuild quickly, but years worth of work had been put into the darn thing... I managed to get my main species back online, but other parts (like the UOB page) were merely patch jobs with useless things like flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhbirds/


It was fine in the short term, but IT AIN'T FINE ANYMORE!




I started with the oldies... I actually did a re-edit on 75% of these photos, and some have never before seen the light of the interwebs... Such as this one:

Or this one:

2004

Nov 23, 2004 - Cave Swallows - 2 birds, the first for Hamilton (and self found)

Nov 21, 2004 - Rufous Hummingbird - the star of Niagara in 2004

Nov 11, 2004 - King Eider - funky plumage at Fifty Point. Late fall was good to me in '04!

Nov 9, 2004 - Western Grebe - Fifty Point CA in Grimsby

Oct 31, 2004 - Pacific Loon - my self found adult that set off the "patagonia picnic table effect" at Fifty Point in Grimsby

Aug 31, 2004 - Cattle Egret - near Rock Point

Mid Aug, 2004 - Painted Bunting - stunner of a 2CY at Normandale

Jun 16, 2004 - Black-necked Stilts - the birds that produced Ontario's first nest at the Jarvis sewage ponds

May 9, 2004 - Harris's Sparrow - a fun self found at Long Point



2003

Dec 17, 2003 - Gray Flycatcher - an incredible CBC flycatcher to twitch in Hagersville

Sep 27, 2003 - Black-capped Petrel - a dead bird thanks to Isabel. Awaiting the day I get a living one!

Sep 14, 2003 - Western Sandpiper - a juv at the Grimsby angry army poop swamp

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Remember those good times?! Again, this is a much more limited collection than the "old site" had, but I DID get the best species back online (who really cares about Long-tailed Jaegers anymore anyways......)