Recent tours to CA and NJ after low key summer. Manx Shearwater and Yellow-green Vireo in CA. Whirlwind start to this year covering southern CA, AZ, NM, and TX. Nutting's Fly, Rufous-capped Warbler and Sinaloa Wren (all AZ), Scripp's Murrelet (CA), Rose-throated Becard (TX) among many others. Many pictured at http://pioneerbirding.blogspot.com/

Most Recent:Tundra Bean-Goose (Oregon), Red-throated Loon, Snow Goose.

European Storm Petrel, Bermuda Petrel, Fea's Petrel, Tree Pipit, Eurasian Hobby, Little Bunting, Rustic Bunting

1/26/14: Baird's Sparrow, San Rafael Grasslands, AZ; 1/27/14: Rusty Blackbird, O.C. CA; 2/07/14: Northern Waterthrush, O.C. CA; 2/13/14: Little Blue Heron, O.C. CA; 3/19/13: Prairie Warbler, San Bndo. Co. CA; 4/1/14: Varied Bunting, L.A. Co.; 4/5/14: East Mojave Trip - Bendire's Thrasher, Gilded Flicker, Juniper Titmouse, Zone-tailed Hawk...best bird of the year: 11/01/14: OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT, Orange Co. CA, followed by 12/16/14: RUSTIC BUNTING, San Francisco, CA

updated 3/31/14

West Virginia so far: Ross's Goose, Trumpeter Swan, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Northern Bobwhite, Ring-necked Pheasant, Red-throated Loon, Golden Eagle, Dunlin, Great Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Collared Dove, Rufous Hummingbird, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Lapland Longspur, Orange-crowned Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, Harris's Sparrow

Hermit Warbler, 2/14, last updated 2/14

Long-tailed Duck, Northern Gannet, Eastern Phoebe, Pine Warbler, Double-crested Cormorant, Tree Swallow, Laughing Gull, Black Scoter, Fish Crow, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Roseate Tern, Great Blue Heron, Barn Swallow, Chimney Swift, Baltimore Oriole, Ovenbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Common Tern, Northern Parula, Chipping Sparrow, Solitary Sandpiper, Great Egret, Bank Swallow, Gray Catbird, Blackpoll Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Kingbird, Willet, Eastern Screech-Owl, Rufous Hummingbird, Red-breasted Nuthatch 4/4/14 - 10/13/14