20 years! I started birding in the winter of 1999/2000. It wasn't until May of 2020 that I got my first really good photos of Blackburnian Warblers in South Dakota. First of all, they're a species that's pretty uncommon as a migrant here. Some years, I don't see any. Secondly, they're generally up in the canopy, most often out of camera range. And finally, they're warblers! But if you bird long enough, serendipity leads to a photo op .
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