LOW HANGING FRUIT Well, January has come and gone and it was the usual mixed bag of weather. I don’t think I had a particular highlight so far. I guess the only so called failure would be spending over 4 hours scoping for the Northern Mockingbird. A couple hours in, I got excited.. small grey bird, long tail, then dang.. it had a black mask and no white on the wings, it’s a Northern Shrike. Some of the birds like the Tundra Swan and Prairie Falcon are only here for a short time, but most of the ones I have seen are here year round and common ( easy pickings). I was checking my list and couldn’t believe I hadn’t picked up a Cedar Waxwing yet. It’s just an example of some low hanging fruit yet to be had. I like to play around with numbers and was curious about how much time it took to see new birds. This rate of new birds/ hour will likely decrease as the year progresses as “new” birds will be fewer and I move from birding just to see what I find to mo...