Success and a New Month

As I write this, the last minute of February fades away.  Thanks to this leap day, I was able to reach and exceed my goal of 40 birds.  A short trip up to Blue Mountain gave me American Goldfinch, bird number 40 on the month, as well as Townsend's Solitaire and Pine Siskin.  The Solitaire was also year bird number 58.  Seeing the Solitaire was a fun as well, as there were two of them chasing each other through and around the trees for the better part of two minutes.  So in total, I finished February with 42 birds.  Now, time to start back at 0 and get ready to find birds this month!

Leap Day!

So it's the Leap Day, an extra day this month for those of us who are behind on our month lists to go out and bird and get that one(or two, or three, or four...) extra bird(s) to bring our month lists up to our goal.  Well, I added American Coot to my month list yesterday but that still has left me one bird short of my 40 birds a month goal.  So I am taking advantage of this extra day to do two short stops on my way to work to fight against this wind a tease out my 40th bird for the month.

What birding are you all up to on this Leap Day?

Happy birding!
-Daniel-