Know what you mean, Eliza and Hillary. I can spend a lot of time googling the birds you name in your posts.

leeneia, I live in a southern temperate zone. Most of the birds on my list are very common here and are here year round. There will maybe be another 5-10 species that get added by spring, but that will be it. I envy those of you who live along major fly-ways who observe, if only briefly, many more species during spring and fall migrations. (That trip to the Everglades and So. Florida must have been grand. Used to spend the winters there, and loved seeing so many species of birds that are absolutely exotic to me in my own natural habitat.)