I saw my first Hutton’s Vireo on Aug 31 2008 near my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which was about 5 miles north of Boulder Creek, California. The Hutton’s Vireo is a common resident along the Pacific Coast and western Sierras so I had seen many each spring; however, it is a rare bird for Washoe County in northwest Nevada. This individual was first seen on the Truckee Meadows CBC a few days before I found it. Virginia Lake is located very near downtown Reno and it took 2 tries to find it. What makes this bird special, to me, is that it is very familiar but I haven’t seen one since I moved to the Reno area in 2016. It was hard to photograph because it was constantly on the move. This was my favorite capture even though I was using a 1/640s shutter speed with my 700mm focal length but that allow a fairly low ISO250 and an f/5.6 and still was able to get a very sharp image.