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ABA-Area Bird Number 500!

10,000 Birds

I could try for a Painted Redstart showing up at Lacy Park in San Marino. The drive from Yorba Linda to San Marino in the pre-dawn darkness on the day after Christmas was drizzly. Neither of those obstacles were obstacles I was willing to try to surmount. This option seemed perfect.

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Painted Redstart at Irvine Lake

10,000 Birds

In 2012 I got my 500th bird in the ABA area when I twitched a Painted Redstart at Lacy Park in San Marino, California. I got brief, unsatisfying looks in the drizzlymist and, though I saw enough to put a satisfying check-mark on my checklist the bird was still a BVD – Better View Desired.