--it makes it easier to ID birds...
So I did the count for 15 minutes this morning. Saw a lot of the usual birds at the feeder out in the yard. Good to use binoculars or a zoom lens of some kind. You might try photographing as a way of identifying.
Probably the most unusual three birds I saw were blue jays. When I live blue jays are not common in woods--I have only ever seen them in snow or ice conditions, when they range more widely.
So for this microcosm, Blue Jays are odd.
Keep your eyes open for unusual birds not on your local list. Sometimes in winter you may see some odd ones dropping in.
At the end of my viewing a fluffed up juvenile hawk showed up--sat on a limb right over the feeder. If a hawk comes in you will see the smaller birds head for the bushes. The hawk is doing its own bird count 
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