Sometimes it's just that easy

You can really make birding into a difficult task, making lists, traveling all over the place at all times of the day, getting frustrated at near misses when you've put hours into planning, traveling, and searching. Then again, birding can be simple.  Take yesterday morning for example: my wife, son, and I sat on our porch, Tiff and I drinking coffee.  This has become a nice routine for us before Tiff goes off to work.  I've seen some nice birds in the county (and yard) just by doing this very ritual.  Yesterday the new bird turned out to be one that has frustrated me for awhile because they breed in good numbers just 30 miles south: Mississippi Kite.  We were sitting on the porch, drinking our coffee, conversing with our neighbor Shellie, when a flock of songbirds got really agitated.  I noticed a medium/small raptor soaring and new what it was almost instantly.  I raced into the house to get my binocs and was lucky that the bird decided to perch on a nearby telephone wire.  So here it is, a new county bird the easy way: