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 seen in Brazoria County since the end of December. The Fork-tailed Flycatcher was seen on February 15th and we went to go see it on the 16th. We did not see it and it was not seen again. So I missed it by ONE day... Again
I didn't do much hard core birding for the rest of the month and had a trip planned to West Texas the weekend before spring break, which is where I should be right now instead of writing about it. An unexpected vet visit, three unexpected doctor visits, one emergency room visit, one big orthodontist bill, and all the stuff that went with those pretty much wiped me out financially. Not to mention the million other quandries and conundrums "A Dollar Short" is an understatement. I was packed and ready to head out west but had to cancel everything at the last minute. whamp whamp. I guess the nail in the coffin was realizing I didn't have enough clean underwear to pack meaning I was gonna have to do a load of laundry.
Hopefully I can retire this blog title and continue to make new friends along the way while turning normal people into obsessed birders.
A couple of weekends later I invited my good friend Dirk with me to chase another rare bird that had been steadily seen in Brazoria County since the end of December. The Fork-tailed Flycatcher was seen on February 15th and we went to go see it on the 16th. We did not see it and it was not seen again. So I missed it by ONE day... Again
I didn't do much hard core birding for the rest of the month and had a trip planned to West Texas the weekend before spring break, which is where I should be right now instead of writing about it. An unexpected vet visit, three unexpected doctor visits, one emergency room visit, one big orthodontist bill, and all the stuff that went with those pretty much wiped me out financially. Not to mention the million other quandries and conundrums "A Dollar Short" is an understatement. I was packed and ready to head out west but had to cancel everything at the last minute. whamp whamp. I guess the nail in the coffin was realizing I didn't have enough clean underwear to pack meaning I was gonna have to do a load of laundry.
Hopefully I can retire this blog title and continue to make new friends along the way while turning normal people into obsessed birders.
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