Dreams of an Obsessive Birder on a Big Year

Ever wonder what it’s like for us birders who can’t get enough watching, studying, and reading about our avian creatures? 
We occasionally dream in bird.

AmericanAvocetAmericanBitternAmericanKestrelAmericanGoldfinchAmericanWhiePelicanBrewer’sBlackbird
BushtitBuffleheadBobolinkRedBlueBrownMaskedBOOBIEIndigoPaintedSnowVariedLarkBUNTING
YellowbreastedChatBlackcappedChickadeeChestnutbackedChickadeeCrestedCaracaraChukarCanvasback
BrantBluewigedGreenwingedCinnamonTEALNorthernCardinalMockingbirdBlueJayYellowheadRedwinged
TricoloredBLACKBIRDCaliforniaCondorCaliforniaQuailCaliforniaGnatcatcherCaliforniaGullArizonaWoodpecker
TennesseeWarblerKentuckyWarblerGreatBlueLittleBlueTricoloredGreenHeronBoardwingedRedwingedRedshoulder
RoughleggedSharpShinnerHawkBlackheadedRosebreastedYellowBlueEveningPingGrosbeakEgyptianChineseCanada
BarnyardGooseYellowfootedLesserBlackbackGreaterBlackbackedBlackheadedBonaparte’sHeermann’sLittleMew
LaughingIvoryHerringSlatybackedRoss’sRingedbillWesternThayer’sIcelandSabineGULLBalitmoreBullock’sOrchard
Scott’sStreakbackedORIOLESPurpleMartinRedbreastedCommonHoodedMERGANSERGreathornedLongeared
ShortearedSpottedBurrowingSnowyGreatGrayNorthernSawWhetFlammulatedElfBarneBarredSpottedOWLPygmy
RedbreastedWhitebreastedNuthatchCommonThickbilledMoorhenMerlinAmericanTreeBaird’sBlackthroated
Botteri’sBrewer’sCassin’sChipingClaycoloredFieldFivestrippedFoxGoldencrownedGrasshopperHarrisHouseJava
LeConte’sLincoln’sNelson’sSharptailedRufouscrownedSafeSavannahSongSwampVesperWhitecrowned
WhitethroatedSPARROWTurnsThrasherThrushesTitmiceTanagersTowheeTurnstoneTurkeyTattlerLittleRednecked
StiltBankBarnCaveCliffVioletgreenNorthernRoughwingedTreeSwallowBewickHouseMarshSedgeRockCactus
CarolinaWrenSummerTanagerWinterWrenWhoopingCraneSandhillCraneRedbelliedRedheadedWhiteheaded
BlackbackedLadderbackedHairyDownyPileatedThreetoedLewi’sNuttailAcornWOODPECKERWormeating
RedfacedGoldenwingedChestnutsidedBluewingerBlackthroatedGrayBlackthroatedGreenBaybreatedBlackandwhite
BlackthroatedBlueWarblerGreaterLesserYellowlegsCurlewLeastSemipalmatedSharttailedSolitarySpottedStilt
UplandWesternWhiterunpedPectoralBaird’sBuffbreatedSandpipersPipingPloverSnowyPloverCommonRinged
Plover.

Purple Gallinule in the Everglades

Oh, and the Purple Gallinule.  Promise to myself: Find more birds tomorrow!