Homeward to a Package (Thank You Donors!)

I stopped in College Station on my route home, to look for Red-headed Woodpecker and LeConte's Sparrow. The Red-headed Woodpecker was right along a country road edge. After walking through several wet fields in hopes of finding a long-staying LeConte's, it was decided that they most likely have begun their migration north for the spring. There had been no reports for over a month, and this likely means I'll need to wait until fall to see this bird...I've been trying to frontload things as much as possible, so I'm not overloaded on birds I need in the fall and racing against time. I'm actually sitting pretty right now, I think, about 100 birds ahead of where current Lower 48 record holder Jeremy Dominguez was at this time last year. 

Red-headed Woodpecker near College Station, Texas 

Next was a sod farm, trying for Buff-breasted Sandpiper, but it was around 3 pm and not a very great time to be looking. Dipped on the sandpiper as well - I'll have plenty of other places to try for this bird in spring migration as they continue to move through Texas. Consolation prize, though, was a beautiful light morph Swainson's Hawk flying low over the fields at the sod farm, my first for the year. 

Year List: 492

I arrived home to Mission, Texas to the first batch of 100 Birdie alarms on my doorstep! 

Thank you so, so much to the following individuals for making the first batch of alarms possible. These will be gifted to women I meet along the trails throughout my travels. 

Charlie Bostwick

Vjera Thompson 

Jennifer Scranton 

Marion Mason 

Stephanie Seymour 

Mason Sieges

Marie Adams 

John McCoppin III

Kenneth Bader 

Shelly Plante 

Philip Chaon

Robert Cowan 

Paula Aschim 

Christian Hagenlocher

Kori Gasaway 

Butch Ukura

Mark Otnes 

Julie Markham

MaryG Zell 

Anonymous Donor 

I am hoping to gift 200 additional alarms throughout the year. If you're inspired to donate, you may do so here: https://gofund.me/a8fbe56a

If you'd like to purchase an alarm for yourself or a loved one, you can go to shesbirdie.com and use my code TIFFANYKERSTEN10 for 10% off. One big plus for us birder / travelers, is that alarms can be taken on airplanes and pepper spray cannot.