2013  A Year in Review, Tooting My Horn

Jersey Birdline posters ran a thread in January  First seen / Last seen which because of work I missed posting about.

Shortly there after a blogger posted how he likes to go find his own birds and not just chase other's sightings.

Well, I am not much of a chaser either but I do strive to find my "own" birds and contribute to the birding community.

Below is a review of the birds I found last year thru my own efforts: FOY is First of Year reported.

18 Northern Saw-whet Owls

 Orange-crowned warbler(s)

 42 Marbled Godwits

 Wilson's Phalarope - FOY at Heislerville and another in August at the Higbee dikes

 Western Willets FOY May

 Silver-phase Turkey's

 Hybrid Canada/ Something warbler. I'm still in the Townsend's warbler state of mind

 Olive-sided Fly...with lots of help from Linda Widdop

 Bell's Vireo - not eBird confirmed

European Golden Plover- not yet confirmed by the Records committee

Bairds sandpiper FOY

Buff-breasted sandpiper FOY

Lawrence's warbler

Golden-winged warbler

Philadelphia Vireo FOY

2 Rufous Hummingbirds

Selasphorus Hummingbird

White-crowned Sparrow juvenal Gambel's race

Clay-colored sparrow (2) not reported by others

Western Grebe  Dec - Sandy Hook first of the 2013-2014 winter season

Smith's Longspur. actually 2014 but hey

It was a great year for me and 2014 started w/ a BanG!

Many thanks to my friends who travelled parts of the journey w/ me