My Favorite : If you've been birding in a state for 20 years, how often do you get two new life birds, in one location, in the span of 10 minutes? The spring of 2020 was absolutely spectacular for warbler migration in eastern South Dakota. I recorded over 20 warbler species in the span of a week. Towards the end of migration in late May, however, birders at Newton Hills State Park heard an unfamiliar song, and soon found the source, a Hooded Warbler male singing his heart out from the top of a dead tree. Within a day or so they also started reporting a Kentucky Warbler, with both birds less than 100 yards apart! Both are very rare migrants in South Dakota.
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