Originally Posted by bmj420420

Hmm... well, I can't do whale stuff yet so I don't have any sun medals (maybe I'm going too far for where I'm currently at...?), although I can afford one bird if I spend all of my honor medals on getting sun medals, would that be a stupid idea?

If you can't do whale right now, then that's probably your best bet. You can do the 'Concept' missions to farm for honor medals and at the same time possibly get bloom birds from the missions themselves.