A Collection of Incidental Birds Encounters and Challenge Progress Check In

Checking in about a quarter of the way through the year on the progress for my Utah Birding Challenge along with sharing some great stories about a few incidental lifers! Explanation of my 2024 Birding Challenge - https://youtu.be/OkQz0qhOBgo Birds of Utah is by Stan Tekiela and all credit goes for that goes to him and Adventure Publications for the book. I am just trying to see every bird in it! ————————— Check out my other pages! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hawkinthelens/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HawkInTheLens/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkinthelens?lang=en Other YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQzleRvtUNuAdbSF95p-4w If you are looking for a great service for licensed music on YouTube, I recommend you check out Artlist. This is a referral link and will give you and I both two extra months at no additional cost! https://artlist.io/referral/4701367/H. Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction 0:58 Quick Challenge Explanation 1:40 Birds in Utah earlier in March 2:11 Birds on the spring break trip 4:32 A few more species in Utah 5:38 Conclusion and final tally for the challenge Photo Credit Belted Kingfisher by MarshBunny (CC BY-SA 4.0) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belted_kingfisher#/media/File:BeltedKingfisherJG_Male.jpg American Tree Sparrow by Mdf (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_tree_sparrow#/media/File:Spizella-arborea-002_edit2.jpg