Trip Awards:

• MOST BEAUTIFUL TEXAS BIRD: Roseate Spoonbill
• MOST BEAUTIFUL MIGRATORY BIRD: Blackburnian Warbler
• RAREST BIRD: Ringed Kingfisher
• LONGEST TIME TO FIND (AND MOST FUN): Red-faced Warbler
• BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT (NOT FOUND): Green Kingfisher
• BIRD MOST TIRED OF SEEING: Great-tailed Grackle
• BIGGEST SURPRISE: Warblers stuck at Sabal Palm Grove by the storm
• MOST INCREDIBLE BIRD: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• MOST UNUSUALLY COLORED BIRD: Painted Bunting and Green Jay
• NOISIEST BIRD: Chachalaca
• BEST SPECIALTY BIRD: Spotted Owl
• BEST NON-LIFER: Elegant Trogon at Garden Canyon Picnic Area 3
• BEST BIRD ALMOST GOT: Brown Jay
• BEST BIRD FIGHT: Two Peregrine Falcons vs. Two Red-tailed Hawks
• SPOOKIEST SCENE: Snake Coiling Around Gray Hawk's Leg
• BEST VOODOO BIRD MASK: Montezuma Quail
• POOREST CLAIM ON A NEW BIRD: Cave Swallow
• WORST DECISION: Not Going to Bottom of Falcon Dam
• BEST DECISION: Birding Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary in the Storm and Mud
• MOST EMBARRASING ID: Thinking a Female Red-Winged Blackbird was a Louisiana Waterthrush

Final New Bird Breakdown by State:

• Colorado 1
• Texas 64
• Arizona 7

• Total Trip Lifers 72

Total Birds Seen & Identified on Trip: 224

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