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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ovenbird43" data-source="post: 3217944" data-attributes="member: 64478">Well so far a big fail on all counts!  Puerto Rico and Brazil aren't happening, didn't go for Boreal Owl in late winter/early spring as planned, didn't go for Purple Sandpiper, and my summer is filling up with work travel that will likely not leave time for a trip to see Kirtland's Warbler.But a last-minute work trip to the UK netted me quite a few good lifers, Red Grouse, Little Owl, Brambling, Golden Plover among others.New goals: Leach's Storm-petrel and maybe Manx Shearwater when I visit Maine for a conference this August.  Still time to try for Purple Sandpiper next winter, there's a place on Lake Ontario an hour from my home where they regularly appear in late fall.  Also some chance I can work out a pelagic from Cape Hatteras this fall, I'm going to Virginia in September for a meeting, maybe I can take a few extra days to head further south for a pelagic before returning home.  Haven't done much pelagic birding on the east coast.Otherwise I'm just happy to be enjoying my first spring in New York, netting lots of eastern warblers for my state list, some of which I hadn't seen in years, having moved out to Arkansas and then Arizona.</blockquote>