2025 Year in Review
Another year, as they all seem to lately, went by quick. Winter is officially not even a month old, and I am already fed up with the cold and wind outside. With warmer weather months (or a plane flight, or daydream), away, there are no planned excursions yet on my horizon. To make use of the down time, I thought I might as well reflect back on what I saw and shared in 2025. I did manage a few trips this year outside of New Jersey (252). With family, I made several trips to Rhode Island (64); two to Florida (101); and one trip each to California (92), Arizona (63) and Massachusetts (20). Of course, driving to Rhode Island also took me through New York (9) and Connecticut (1), but those were not destinations. I also found my way in Maryland (4) waters on one of my pelagic trips. On the birding front, I racked up 334 species. The parenthesized numbers represent the number of species I saw in that state for 2025. New ...