<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi all -<br><div><div><br></div><div>Happy to announce the 2025 Year List & Big Day report for Washington Birder are up and available.</div><div>It is always fun to pull together this glimpse of our community.</div><div><br></div><div>Check out the files at the following link to see how everyone did in 2025 - <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wabirder.com/online.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!klyGfMaiYiakJTdtJjhCpnIXCByCMv-JnymPOylNMJ8Db4R8vrwdZ11wpoKJTTo6BeUW4j7FdewQtXQgqf3rxkEtN2z_$">http://wabirder.com/online.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Highlights for the year:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Eight birders tallied over 300 species in the state in 2025.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;">New County big year records were set this year for four counties:</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Columbia County: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Christopher, Lindsey with 197 species</span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Garfield County: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">RJ Baltierra, with 186 species</span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Jefferson County: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Steve Hampton, with 225 species (tied w/ his 2024 record)</span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Okanogan County: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Matthew Danielson, with 258 species</span></li></ul></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>The highest ever state big day record was recorded, </b>with <span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">210 species was achieved on 17 May 2025 by </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Liam Hutcheson, Louis Kreemer, Jacob Miller and Alex Sowers.</span></font><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Arial Narrow" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Highest ever county big days were reported for three counties</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><ul class="MailOutline"><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Okanogan County</span></b><span style="text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> by Eric Heisey and DJ Jones [in 2024]</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"><b>Mason County </b>by<b> </b></span></span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Liam Hutcheson and Jacob Miller</span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;">Klickitat County</span></b><span style="text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> by Liam Hutcheson and Samuel Holman</span></li></ul></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 32, 96); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial Narrow"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif;"> </span></p></div><div>All that and more is compiled in this year’s report.</div><div><br></div><div>A direct link to the list report with all the state & county life and year list totals can be found here: <a href="http://www.wabirder.com/docs/listreport2025.pdf">http://www.wabirder.com/docs/listreport2025.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2025 is here: <a href="http://www.wabirder.com/docs/2025BigDayReport.pdf">http://www.wabirder.com/docs/2025BigDayReport.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who sent in your totals, and here’s to many more updates and surprises in 2026.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Washington Birder</div></div></body></html>