By Alex Lamoreaux: "Last week I was sitting around campus with my friends Mark Mizak and Josh Lefever, thinking about the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. We knew we would have four days free and we knew we wanted to go birding. Four days gave us a lot of time, we could really do something pretty awesome if we wanted to. So, we started checking out on eBird and the various state listserves nearby, to see where the rarities were. A few things jumped out immediately - Common Chaffinch in New Jersey, Barnacle Goose in Maryland, various cool species in eastern PA and NJ, etc. We ended up coming up with a list of 20 species we were interested in chasing."