These guillemots nest each year under the car ramp on the ferry from Queen Charlotte City to Moresby Island. One member of the pair would forage while the ferry went across and back, then they would switch off (they don't start incubating for another couple of weeks, so in these photos they are together). It was an innovative approach to a lack of nesting locations on that part of the coast!
A mediocre photo of the rarest bird I've ever photographed. According to a recent paper (http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1675/063.035.0310), the population has declined precipitously and this subspecies only remains in a single, small marsh the size of a couple of football fields.
After a morning searching for the woodpecker, this one showed up right by the side of the trail at Llao Llao Park, near Bariloche. My external flash was broken so I had to rely on natural light.
We got lost trying to find a Saffron-cowled Blackbird a few hundred kilometres north of Buenos Aires. No luck with the blackbird, but a pair of grosbeaks flew into a hedgerow by the side of the road. The unexpected finds are often the best!