This weekend is the Spring Wings Festival, annual celebration of the migrating birds that make the stop at the Lahontan Valley. There's several activities one can do, like a scavenger hunt or a Big Day or, if you're a kid, a passport book that gets you an airboat ride across one of the reservoirs in the refuge.
Last year, my Big Day was 50 species recorded. This year, I tried to keep better track and ended up with 55 species!
I already updated my eBird and iNaturalist profiles with a majority of the pictures I took (really, you aren't missing out on some of those barely focused snaps) but wanted to share the pictures I like the best.
One of the niftier pictures I took was while walking around near the river. I kept hearing this chirp above me and when I looked up, there was the brown-headed cowbird that would make a single chirp and completely fluff up his body and spread out his wings and tail. I have no idea what or why this display, but he looked cool!
Part of the ACDSee program I use is it maps out all the locations when photos have geodata. I like how it just shows I wandered all over kingdom come today.