Well my 2006 count is up to 19, I added one today, a good 'un. It was a hermit thrush. [big grin] This is only the second one I've ever seen. Both were in my back yard.

I got a few (rather fuzzy) pictures and will try to post them tomorrow. This one was smaller than the one I saw last year, it was about the size of a song sparrow, and it was farther from the house. Hard to photograph because it blended into the fallen leaves so well (guess we should have raked up that last batch of oak leaves, huh?) I didn't see the red/russet tail but it shows up in the photos.

Over the weekend we had flocks of migrants passing through, I think. I saw members of 16 of the 18 species I listed earlier, lots and lots of them. Fun.