Was the winter of 08/09. We had 13 major snow and ice events. It snowed on New years Day, froze and stayed for 2 months! Lowest temperature was -22c. The hairs in my nostrils froze on my way to the bus stop! It started as fun but as the winter progressed it became a bore. The ground was solid ice, the sea was frozen, you could not walk anywhere. But, the birding was excellent.
Amongst the goodies; varied thrush, snowy owls, ivory gull, red bellied woodpecker (not so scarce), brown thrasher, pine warbler (overwintering in Halifax in continual sub zero temps!!), loads of harlequin ducks, buffleheads, scoters, shore larks etc. We had waxwings feeding in the garden g n divers in the hundreds, thousands of iceland gulls and hundreds of bald eagles.
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