I might as well throw my (rather small) list in here as well.
bold = lifer
italics = Preble County lifer
* = heard only
My year started in Virginia with relatives:
1. Canada Goose
2. Mallard
3. Rock Pigeon
4. Mourning Dove
5. Turkey Vulture
6. Red-bellied Woodpecker
7. Northern Flicker
8. American Kestrel
9. Blue Jay
10. American Crow
11. Tufted Titmouse
12. Carolina Wren
13. European Starling
14. Northern Mockingbird
15. Eastern Bluebird
16. House Sparrow
17. House Finch
18. American Goldfinch
19. Field Sparrow
20. White-crowned Sparrow
21. Song Sparrow
22. Yellow-rumped Warbler
23. Northern Cardinal
24. Great Blue Heron
25. Black Vulture
26. American Black Duck
27. Downy Woodpecker
28. Pileated Woodpecker
29. Eastern Phoebe
30. Pied-billed Grebe
31. Bald Eagle
32. Carolina Chickadee
33. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
34. Golden-crowned Kinglet
35. Red-breasted Nuthatch
36. White-breasted Nuthatch
37. Brown-headed Nuthatch*
38. Brown Creeper
39. Winter Wren
40. Dark-eyed Junco
41. Red-tailed Hawk
42. Killdeer
43. Belted Kingfisher
44. American Robin
45. White-throated Sparrow
46. Eastern Meadowlark
47. Hairy Woodpecker
The rest of January was spent at home in Preble County, OH, without much excitement.
48. Cooper's Hawk
49. Sandhill Crane
50. Ring-billed Gull
51. Herring Gull
52. Northern Harrier
53. Great Horned Owl
54. American Tree Sparrow
55. Swamp Sparrow
56. Red-winged Blackbird
57. Horned Lark
58. Red-shouldered Hawk
59. Ring-necked Duck
60. Common Loon
61. Common Goldeneye
62. Gadwall
63. Eastern Towhee
The month of February started out with a bang, with a huge variety of ducks (for this area) on the 5th. The rest of the month was fairly quiet.
64. Cackling Goose
65. Green-winged Teal
66. Redhead
67. American Wigeon
68. Hooded Merganser
69. Canvasback
70. Lesser Scaup
71. Common Merganser
72. Ruddy Duck
73. Merlin
74. Northern Shoveler
75. Northern Pintail
76. Common Grackle
77. Brown-headed Cowbird
78. Tree Swallow
79. Cedar Waxwing
80. Wild Turkey
March pretty much finished my waterfowl list (except for some of the geese), along with a nice number of passerines.
81. Wood Duck
82. Greater Scaup
83. Horned Grebe
84. American Pipit
85. Bufflehead
86. Bonaparte's Gull
87. Pine Warbler
88. Red-breasted Merganser
89. American Coot
90. Double-crested Cormorant
91. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
92. American Woodcock
93. Rusty Blackbird
94. Brown Thrasher
95. Hermit Thrush
96. Fox Sparrow
97. Blue-winged Teal
98. Purple Finch
99. Fish Crow
100. Great Egret
April was a decent month, getting me a lot of the earlier migrants.
101. Barn Swallow
102. Chipping Sparrow
103. Purple Martin
104. Wilson's Snipe
105. Sora
106. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
107. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
108. Louisiana Waterthrush
109. Pectoral Sandpiper
110. Savannah Sparrow
111. Broad-winged Hawk
112. Yellow-throated Warbler
113. Yellow Warbler
114. Osprey
115. House Wren
116. Solitary Sandpiper
117. Red-headed Woodpecker
118. Wood Thrush
119. Bank Swallow
120. Cliff Swallow
121. Orchard Oriole
122. Barred Owl
123. Warbling Vireo
124. Swainson's Thrush
125. Prothonotary Warbler
126. Northern Parula
127. Palm Warbler
128. Indigo Bunting
129. Greater Yellowlegs
130. Lesser Yellowlegs
131. Virginia Rail
132. Chimney Swift
133. Gray Catbird
134. Snow Goose
135. Spotted Sandpiper
136. Least Sandpiper
137. Common Yellowthroat
May was a dissapointing month. My birding was limited, and I had only one day with good migrant activity. Anyway, I ended up missing several migrants that I should have gotten.
138. Green Heron
139. Northern Waterthrush
140. Yellow-throated Vireo
141. Red-eyed Vireo
142. Baltimore Oriole
143. Black-and-white Warbler
144. Kentucky Warbler
145. Black-throated Green Warbler
146. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
147. White-eyed Vireo
148. American Bittern
149. Yellow-breasted Chat
150. Eastern Kingbird
151. Caspian Tern
152. Forster's Tern
153. Great Crested Flycatcher
154. Ovenbird
155. Cerulean Warbler
156. Magnolia Warbler
157. Blackpoll Warbler
158. Black-throated Blue Warbler
159. Summer Tanager
160. Scarlet Tanager
161. Prairie Warbler
162. Bobolink
163. Dickcissel
164. Common Nighthawk
165. Eastern Wood-pewee
166. Tennessee Warbler
167. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
168. Common Tern
169. Acadian Flycatcher
170. Gray-cheeked Thrush
171. Nashville Warbler
172. Bay-breasted Warbler
173. Semipalmated Plover
174. Semipalmated Sandpiper
175. Northern Bobwhite
176. Vesper Sparrow
177. Blue-headed Vireo
178. American Redstart
179. Blue Grosbeak
180. Willow Flycatcher
181. Henslow's Sparrow
182. Common Gallinule
I spent June and July looking for breeding species I still needed, and got a few of them.
183. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
184. Hooded Warbler
185. Grasshopper Sparrow
In late July I went on a camping trip in the northeast with my (non-birding) family. I got quite a few lifers, and missed quite a few...
186. Eurasian Collared-Dove
187. Great Black-backed Gull
188. Laughing Gull
189. Willet
190. Royal Tern
191. Brown Pelican
192. Sanderling
193. Boat-tailed Grackle
194. Lesser Black-backed Gull
195. White Ibis
196. Snowy Egret (I got this and the next species in my home county within a week after returning home)
197. Little Blue Heron
198. Cattle Egret
199. Peregrine Falcon
200. Mute Swan
201. Black-capped Chickadee
202. Common Eider
203. Black Guillemot
204. Atlantic Puffin
205. Arctic Tern
206. Wilson's Storm Petrel
207. Northern Gannet
208. Razorbill
209. Ruddy Turnstone
210. Sooty Shearwater
211. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
212. Common Raven
213. Blackburnian Warbler
214. Sharp-shinned Hawk
215. Marsh Wren
After getting home, I found a few new birds in August.
216. Limpkin
217. Cape May Warbler
218. Stilt Sandpiper
On August 26, I left home and drove to Washington for a temporary job. I managed to get five lifers while driving through Wyoming, with just a very brief stop in Medicine Bow National Forest.
219. Swainson's Hawk
220. Clark's Nutcracker
221. Mountain Chickadee*
222. Black-billed Magpie
223. Sage Thrasher
224. Brewer's Blackbird
225. American White Pelican
226. Steller's Jay