2012 took a year of me with it.

2012 is done.  It was a strange year for birds, starting with the tail end of last winter's unprecedented surge of rarities.  There were a lot of nice birds out there to be seen.

From my end it was a piecemeal year, with gaps in my birding at key times of the birding year. In the end, I tallied 314 species (although I may have forgotten to count 2 or 3 along the way--I didn't really start worrying about counting until David Muth challenged me in late April)(and he smoked me by something like 20 species, by the way).  

It was a fun year.  Here are some of the birds I saw--without captions, because I'm tired.