Man travels more than 90k kilometres to set Ontario birding record
A 27-year-old Ontario man has become the province’s top birder after travelling more than 90,000 kilometres since Jan. 1.
Jeremy Bensette of Leamington has spotted 344 species of birds in his travels across Ontario and said he was hoping to make it 345 Monday afternoon chasing a sighting of a yellow-throated warbler in Waterloo, Ont.
It was first seen in the area about two weeks ago, Bensette said.
“I went and bought a bunch of bird feeders and bird seed and hung it on the trails there in hope that the birds would be attracted to it and it would come back and two weeks later, after not hearing a word about it, it’s back,” he said.