>>830736Okay sure here goes
>ride out to a local beach with spotting scope to look for seabirds>see some loons, common murres, scoters>no white winged scoter, still haven't found one reee >decide to ride back home, passing some lake with some marsh by it>see a big crowd of birders >stop and ask what they've found >there are phone lines you can call into where people report rare bird sightings, mainly they have been replaced by online reporting >for something really good a duck ton of people show up>there's a rusty blackbird that got reported and a swamp sparrow is there too, both of these are not crazy rare but certainly far from their normal fall migration routes>fall is when a lot of birds end up far off course>get a great view of both birds which are first time sightings for meI'll come up with more but I'm on mobile so slow.