Last week one of the Vineyard’s many wintering snowy owls was found dead at Harthaven.

Feb. 28, Flip Harrington and I flew from the Vineyard to Santiago, Chile, arriving, after an overnight flight, at 6:50 a.m. for a birding adventure.

A greeting of red-winged blackbirds and American goldfinches that are a darker shade of yellow was a treat prior to the storm earlier this week.

It appears that Vineyard bird watchers have a raging case of spring fever. The “bug” began on Feb. 23.

One of the first birds we saw in Hawaii was the rare akiapola’au, a honeycreeper whose bill is weird.

We were off to another adventure, this time to our 50th state, Hawaii.