2025

The date is December 31st, and the website is moments away from being published! With all of the kinks hopefully being ironed out and the website looking clean and ready to go, Markus and I are very excited to officially launch the home base of the Vertebrate Big Year. I figured before the year starts, I would share a couple of photos from 2025 of species that really helped to inspire this big year, so here they are:

Markus and I went and chased this Crested Caracara early in the year down in southern Ontario

Picture of the successful crew that chased the Grace's Warbler in Algonquin

Stonecat from a trip to the Sydenham River with my family and Markus

Rainbow Darter from a trip to the Eramosa River with Ava

Iowa Darter from the East side of Algonquin

An American Brook Lamprey I caught while I was in Brighton visiting Ava

Made a great outing of looking for this Four-toed Salamander with a bunch of my classmates

Spawning White Suckers in Algonquin

Catching Brook Trout with Liam Thorne right before leaving Algonquin for the year

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch up north in Matachewan seen with my family, Max and Jude

Blackside Darter from a trip to the Eramosa River with Ava

The first experience with electrofishing at Fleming College yielded this Central Mudminnow

Spiny Softshell seen with Ava and my grandparents in Southern Ontario

A herd of Logperch on Lake Travers at Algonquin

Sharp-tailed Grouse from a trip up to Cochrane in the winter