new birds

At the Mendenhall River Trail we saw Golden-Crowned Kinglets. This is a first for us so we're please to add it to our lifelist. We heard their buzzing first but they were very fast and flitting around between the tree branches so it was hard to get an id on them. We saw the black and white head first and then Tim saw the orange and yellow marks on their forehead. We haven't had a chance to see many small song birds since we've mostly been hanging out at the beach. I miss seeing the chickadees and even the voracious redpolls.