This post has been approved by Ontbird Moderators. Hi Everyone, After the first week of December, the 2021-2022 Ontario winter bird list stands at 184. Last year at this time we had recorded 174 species. I started the list this year by having to add a new species right away at top of the list: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, never recorded before, being seen at Dufferin Islands since August 20, found by Sid Wood (0/14, zero seen in the last 14 years, Niagara County). Other rare species include Glaucous-winged Gull (1/14) found by Justin Peter in Barrie (Simcoe County), Rufous Hummingbird (3/14) first found by The Patel family in Oakville (Halton County), Razorbill (2/14) at Niagara-on-the-Lake found by Gina Turone (Niagara County), Say's Phoebe (0/14) found by Eric Heisey and Brandon Edwards (Ottawa County), and Blackpoll Warbler (1/14) found by Barb Charlotn in Sedgewick Forest (Halton county). As usual after one week there are several holes to be filled in this winter list. These include Varied Thrush, House Wren, American Three-toed Woodpecker, and Gyrfalcon. We just need some more effort and we will pick these up. With the Christmas Bird Counts starting soon we will hopefully be filling in some of these gaps. The abnormally warm weather we are supposed to get might also sweep up some rare birds in the next week. If you haven't heard, the Ontario Field Ornithologists are running a Winter Birding Challenge. This challenge involves eBirding <https://ebird.org/> a local area during the winter. More information about how to get involved can be found here <http://www.ofo.ca/content/winter-birding>. Winter Listers can also keep track of what's being seen in the Ontario Birds Discord Server which can be found here: Discord <https://discord.gg/jQZtg4CwpR>. The winter list can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/myyulvs. I try to update the spreadsheet every couple of days or whenever I hear of a new addition. I just rearranged the species order to be more in line with eBird so let me know if I made any mistakes while doing that. Please let me know if you hear of a new addition or any other correction to the spreadsheet. Enjoy the warm weather this weekend, Todd Hagedorn