April Roundup

 Heck yeah, April.

The Willet was a lifer, but the Yellow-throated Warbler is the one I want to talk about, because it's an extremely ironic bird. When talking about my goal of 200 species for the year, Yellow-throated Warbler is the example I used multiple times for a bird that I would specifically not get in 2022. "Oh, I'm going to have to get really lucky in order to beat my previous record, because there are birds I saw in 2021 that I just have no chance of getting in 2022, like that random Yellow-throated Warbler in Burlington in the fall." (For context, I previously had to travel to West Virginia to see one; they are a bird that stays south of here.)

Not only did one show up right in my home city this month, there was apparently another one the next city over that was found just a few days later. Typical migration weirdness, or expanding ranges? Only time will tell.

• 81. American Woodcock
• 82. Wood Duck
• 83. Blue-winged Teal
• 84. Turkey Vulture
• 85. Willet
• 86. Bonaparte's Gull
• 87. Northern Mockingbird
• 88. Double-crested Cormorant
• 89. Green-winged Teal
• 90. American Wigeon
• 91. Common Loon
• 92. Eastern Phoebe
• 93. Brown-headed Cowbird
• 94. Eastern Towhee
• 95. Sandhill Crane
• 96. Eastern Meadowlark
• 97. Cooper's Hawk
• 98. Pileated Woodpecker
• 99. Hermit Thrush
• 100. Belted Kingfisher
• 101. Tree Swallow
• 102. Chipping Sparrow
• 103. Winter Wren
• 104. Osprey
• 105. Yellow-rumped Warbler
• 106. Pied-billed Grebe
• 107. Yellow-throated Warbler
• 108. Virginia Rail
• 109. Sora
• 110. Swamp Sparrow
• 111. Ruffed Grouse
• 112. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• 113. House Wren
• 114. Savannah Sparrow
• 115. Pine Warbler
• 116. Northern Harrier
• 117. Broad-winged Hawk
• 118. Brown Thrasher
• 119. Palm Warbler
• 120. Barn Swallow
• 121. Tufted Titmouse
• 122. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• 123. Cliff Swallow
• 124. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• 125. Yellow Warbler