Revisiting my Wish List

As some of you may recall, in mid-July of last year I made a list of birds I wanted to try to see before the end of 2016, hopefully getting my life list up to 250. That hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure that soon I'll hit the 250 mark. The birds I observed are in bold print and the birds I tried for are marked with an asterisk.

1. Red-throated Loon
2. American White Pelican
3. Least Bittern
4. Black-crowned Night-Heron
5.White-winged Scoter
6. Surf Scoter
7. Black Scoter
8. Black Vulture
9. Red-shouldered Hawk*
10. Golden Eagle*
11. Spruce Grouse
12.Common Gallinule*
13. Ruddy Turnstone*
14. Sanderling
15. Red Knot
16. White-rumped Sandpiper*
17. Baird's Sandpiper
18. Stilt Sandpiper
19. Short-billed Dowitcher
20. Wilson's Phalarope
21. Red-necked Phalarope*
22. Little Gull
23. Thayer's Gull
24. Lesser Black-backed Gull
25. Northern Mockingbird*
26. Black-billed Cuckoo*
27. Long-eared Owl
28. Short-eared Owl
29. Northern Saw-whet Owl
30. Olive-sided Flycatcher
31. Gray Jay*
32. Boreal Chickadee
33. Gray-cheeked Thrush*
34. American Pipit
35. Tennessee Warbler
36. Common Redpoll*
37. Vesper Sparrow
38. Lapland Longspur
39. Yellow-headed Blackbird*
40. Rusty Blackbird
41. Evening Grosbeak*
42. Purple Finch
43. Eared Grebe
44. Ross's Goose
45. King Eider
46. Piping Plover
47. Willet
48. Purple Sandpiper
49. Long-billed Dowitcher
50. Parasitic Jaeger
51. Black-legged Kittiwake
52. Sabine's Gull
53. Franklin's Gull
54. White-winged Dove
55. Eurasian Collared-Dove
56. Black-backed Woodpecker
57. Fish Crow
58. Cave Swallow
59. Bohemian Waxwing
60. Prothonotary Warbler
61. Pine Grosbeak
62. White-winged Crossbill*

Not that bad considering I didn't get out as often as I would have liked and that the weather wasn't the greatest for when I did get out. A number of these species, if not all of them, I'm sure I'll be able to see this year! I'm looking forward to it!