We were at a beach resort in Florida. I knew what I was doing. I knew if I opened the door, I?d hear House Sparrows, so I only opened the curtain, then looked out to the beach, skipping over the gulls that were too far away to ID. In about 5 seconds, a BROWN PELICAN flew into view for my first of 2012.

It would be wrong to say that I waited for a quality bird, but I did put thought into engineering a quality bird, and I suspect that?s true for several people.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.marymoor.org/birding.htm
== http://www.marymoor.org/BirdBlog.htm
== birdmarymoor at frontier.com

From: Cricket
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:12 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] FOY

Good Question. I did, truthfully, have a White Breasted Nuthatch as my first a few years ago but this year - House Finch!

On 1/1/12 1:57 PM, Mechejmch wrote:
I can only wonder....how many of us wait for a "quality bird" to list as our FOY?

Always curious,
Joe Meche



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