A Day Late And A Dollar Short
I'm not sure where that saying originated but it pretty much perfectly sums up my birding year so far. I started the year off a little more patiently than in previous years not trying to get em all in one day. While working on getting my Orange County up to 100 species and Jefferson to 200, I stopped at Anahuac in late January and picked up Short-eared Owl for Texas Life Bird 442. Good start for 2019 I thought so attempting to keep up the pace I headed out to Uvalde the following weekend for a quick 10 hour round trip. A Rufous-backed Robin was being seen in the area for a solid month so I needed to go see it before it split. Well, it split. I hung out at the place where it had been seen just about every day, including the day before, for 5 hours but it was a no show. And it had not been seen again. So I missed it by ONE day. A couple of weekends later I invited my good friend Dirk with me to chase another rare bird that had been steadily...