I totally lucked out this year. I was standing in the kitchen at my in-law's house in Mona, UT, on New Year's Day morning (still in my pajamas) when I looked out and saw a mature bald eagle cruising past the window. Pretty good for the first bird of the year!
Later that afternoon, I went out with my sister-in-law, Cindy, and we drove around looking for birds. We didn't see as many hawks as she expected (no rough-legged, ferruginous, or Swainsons), but we had a nice little list: Five kestrels, 36 horned larks, a raven, juncos, mourning doves, American robins, two red-tailed hawks, a Northern harrier, starlings, cedar waxwings, mountain bluebirds, red-winged blackbirds, Western meadowlarks, a rock dove, a Northern flicker, another bald eagle, and a cow elk.
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My name is Tiffany and I love to bird. I do almost all of my birding at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in southern Nevada near Las Vegas. (If you are coming to Las Vegas this is a great place to bird; check out their page on the city of Henderson's web site. There is a link way down at the bottom.) I've been birding there since 2001 and have seen lots of really cool birds. But new birds have gotten fewer and farther in between. So this year, in an effort to inject some excitement into my birding, I thought I'd see how many birds I can count at the HBVP. (I have to say, first, this wasn't an original idea, I stole it from one of my birding friends, and second, I hesitate to call it a "big year" because I'm sure there have been people with bigger lists than what I will end up with -- I have little kids and can only get so crazy and still be a responsible mommy.) Anyway, the birding sounded like fun, but birding and blogging sounded like even more fun. Happy birding!
P.S. So how many birds can I see in a year? Well, I figure that if I bird once a week throughout the year, I should see at minimum, 123 species. If I got crazy lucky at least once a month, and hit good migrations in spring and fall, I might break 160, maybe 165. I guess we'll see.
P.S. So how many birds can I see in a year? Well, I figure that if I bird once a week throughout the year, I should see at minimum, 123 species. If I got crazy lucky at least once a month, and hit good migrations in spring and fall, I might break 160, maybe 165. I guess we'll see.
Birds I've Seen in 2010
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