Last 3 ticks whats yours?

[Bananafishbones]

A slight twist on a recent post....... So what are your latest 3 ticks.

As I am new mine are somewhat "non exotic" but still everyones got to start at the bottom!!

Little Grebe (Bottoms reservoir Macclesfield)
Knot (New Brighton)
Turnstone (New Brighton)

[JWN Andrewes]

Last three world

Black-necked Stilt
Blue Bunting
Northern Potoo

Last three UK

Pacific Diver
Black Kite
Long-billed Murrelet

Last three garden

Oystercatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Curlew

[dan pointon]

Cleaned up some tarty birds in the last week:

Tawny Pip (Portland)
Subalp (Trow Quarry)
Icterine Warbler (Whitburn)

[Pete Mella]

Year -
Greenshank
Pied Fly
Marsh Harrier

Life-
Bearded Tit
Spotted Redshank
Woodcock

Patch-
Pied Flycatcher
Buzzard
Kingfisher

(Yes, I know...)

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

I think;

Black Stork
Little Swift
White Tailed Eagle

[BobTag]

British List; Brown Flycatcher (Flamborough, not yet accepted), White-crowned Sparrow (Cley) and 'armchair' Caspian Gull.

World; Island Srcub Jay, Xantus's Murrelet (California) and Lucy's Warbler (Nevada)

[Patrick_L]

British -

Long-billed Murrelet - Dawlish (November 2006)
Blyth's Pipit - Tresco (last October)
Hume's Warbler - Beachy Head (New Years' Eve)

Must get out more.

[Keith Dickinson]

Life ticks

Black Stork Yorkshire UK
African Collared Dove Tenerife Spain
Black Kite Yorkshire

Year Ticks
Manx Shearwater Spurn Yorkshire
Little Tern Spurn
Shore Lark Spurn

[canadagurl123]

From Canada but here are mine
Life
Alder Flycatcher
Pacific Golden Plover
Little Stint

Year
Rose breasted Grossbeak
Alder Flycatcher
Ruddy Turnstone

[MLoyko]

Is this a twist on my "Top 3 most wanted" Thread lol?

My last three:

Black-throated Blue Warbler
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Wood Duck

-Matt

[Hotspur]

Last three are
Great Snipe
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Wryneck

[DaveN]

Last three are

Red Footed Falcon
Shag
Wryneck

Off to Norfolk on monday for a few days so hopefully I can post three more next week.

[Mike C]

Pacific Diver
Blyth's Reed Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow

[Larry Lade]

Atlantic Puffin
Black Guillemot
Roseate Tern

All seen in Maine (USA) in May of this year.

[veagle]

Townsend's Solitaire
Say's Phoebe
Ruddy Duck

[Thing]

Ruddy Duck (Brent Res)
Common Scoter (Walcott)
Blyth's Reed Warbler (Runton)

[Jon Turner]

UK:
Hume's Leaf Warbler
Little Crake
Alder Flycatcher

World:
Streaked Cuckoo
Long-billed Gnatwren
Alder Flycatcher

[Stranger]

Grey Phalarope,Cheddar Reservoir yesterday
Common Gull,Cheddar Reservoir yesterday
Red Necked Phalarope, Weston-Super-Mare Sewage works Aug

[durham giant]

Stilt sandpiper
err...
terek sand
corncrake

[Dog]

UK
Lanceolated Warbler
Brown Flycatcher
Siberian Thrush

Mike.

[Bananafishbones]

Update on mine:

American Robin (New Jersey)
Turkey Vulture (Kansas)
Tree creeper (Back Garden) :)

[markgrubb]

Wallcreeper(Spain)
Ring necked duck(Lothian)
Greater sand plover(Lothian)

[Moraybirdlover]

Last three are:
Little grebe Moray
Female Scaup " "
Pale-bellied Brent " "

[Larry Lade]

World List (last three from Sacha Lodge area, Ecuador)

Black-capped Donacobius
Gray-capped Flycatcher

and the last:

Roadside Hawk

[Edward]

Long-billed Curlew: 3 June, Rhame Prairie, North Dakota
Rock Wren: 3 June, Rhame Prairie, North Dakota
McCown's Longspur: 3 June, Rhame Prairie, North Dakota

[Tero]

forget the oldest..possibly a crossbill in spring
Scissor tailed flycatcher
Black-throated Blue Warbler

[ovenbird43]

Just got Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow this weekend in coastal Mississippi. Before that, I believe it was Pomarine Jaeger.

[Busby]

Short Eared Owl (Aylesbury)
Hen Harrier (Aylesbury)
Pintail (Wilstone Reservoir) - a relatively common bird I know, but proven really elusive for me this year,

[Sean F]

Life:
American Wigeon
Rough-legged Buzzard
Long-tailed Duck

Year:
Yellow-browed Warbler
Waxwing
Bewick's Swan

[MacGee]

Bittern
Velvet Scoter
Red-necked Grebe

Michael

[Pagan Birder]

Lifers in 2008:
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck

Last 3 year ticks 2008:
Cattle Egret
Bewick's Swan
Hawfinch

Jan

[shrikebirder]

Yellow legged gull (Hampstead Heath)

Ptarmigan (Skye)

Slavonian grebe (Skye)
:t:

[dwallace]

Caspian Gull
American Wigeon
Green Heron

[veagle]

Last 3 Lifers:

Yellow Billed Loon
Common Redpoll
Evening Grosbeak

Last 3 yr. ticks 2009

Ferruginous Hawk
Varied Thrush
Sharp-tailed Grouse

[Alex47]

Last 3 lifers

Upland Sandpiper
Greater Sand Plover
Ring-billed Gull (yesterday)

[Kev Rylands]

Glaucous-winged Gull
Sardinian Warbler
Alder Flycatcher

[Fozzybear]

My last three are Little Grebe, Tawny Owl and Fieldfare. The first two I saw last Saturday and the Fieldfares I saw first over Christmas (lots and lots of them!), and have seen them quite a lot since!


Pretty regular birds I think... interesting that I'd seen birds like bittern, avocet, bearded tit and chough before I saw redwings, fieldfares and goldcrests. But since I only started actually looking for birds during the summer of last year its probably not entirely a surprise - non-birdwatchers have a tendency to ignore birds when out and about, even if they actually like birds.

[oncebittern]

Workington Harbour on Sunday gave me a Rock pipit

Grune Point later the same day supplied a Snow Bunting and 3 Little Stint

[tyrannulet]

Slaty-backed Gull
Rough-legged Hawk
Northern Saw-Whet Owl

[Birdbrain]

Year List 09
1. Nuthatch: 14 February, Londonthorpe Woods, Lincolnshire
2. Raven: 14 February, Londonthorpe Woods, Lincolnshire
3. Little Owl: 16 February, Belton House Gardens, Lincolnshire

[Doncaster_birder]

last 3 year ticks:

Dunlin
Skylark
Black tailed Godwit

Last 3 lifers:

Hawfinch
Caspian Gull
Red Crested Pochard

[davercox]

Can't remember, they were so long ago (sobs quietly).

[oncebittern]

3 latest 2009 ticks:

Marsh Tit
Avocet
Long-Eared Owl

[Enji]

Latest lifers:

Dark-throated Thrush
Hawk Owl
Snow Bunting


Latest ticks this year:

Greylag Goose
Siberian Jay
Willow Tit

[Bananafishbones]

Latest lifers are:

Dipper
Willow Tit
Reed Bunting Male

[vanellus]

I used to be out birdwatching most days and then life's realities took over. Married, house and garden, kids, work etc. Add to this the fact that I have never been much of a twitcher.

So my last three UK ticks:
Little Auk - Blyth Harbour (Northumbs) 2008.
Ring-Necked Parakeet - Reading ca 1995.
Cetti's Warbler - Medway Marshes circa 1985.


Overseas - White Stork and Common Crane - Germany 2001. Littel Egret - Brittany 1992.

Will be having a go at Roseatte this year - they are just up the road.

[Repoman]

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Broad-winged Hawk
Wood Thrush

[oncebittern]

Common Tern

Sandwich tern

Little Tern - lifer :t:

[Birdbrain]

Latest 09

Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat
Crossbill

Latest Lifers

Jack Snipe
Yellow-browed Warbler
Ring Ouzel

[Enji]

Latest 2009:

House Martin
Water Rail
Ortolan Bunting

Latest Lifers:

Stonechat
Black Tern
Ring-necked Duck

[Bananafishbones]

Whitethroat (Leasowe)
White Wagtail (Leasowe)
Sedge Warbler (Leasowe)

[Gill Osborne]

Can't remember, they were so long ago (sobs quietly).

There, there now - pats Dave consolingly on shoulder :smoke:




1: 21st March 2008 ~ Common Crane ~ Lifer No. 194
2: 13th March 2009 ~ Slavonian Grebe ~ Lifer No. 195
3: 5th April 2009 ~ Mediterranean Gull ~ Lifer No. 196

Really going to push for the 200 this year which *fingers crossed* shouldn't be TOO hard as I have a few 'simple' ones to catch up with - Ring Ouzel, Red Grouse, Avocet and ANY petrel or shearwater ;)

[CactusD]

Masked Shrike (Cyprus)
Stock Dove (local patch)
Grasshopper Warbler (Otmoor)

[Nightjar61]

Aplomado Falcon
Mangrove Warbler
Black-capped Vireo

Dave

[MCspudd]

Latest lifers:

red-nacked grebe
black guillemot
eider

[napamatt]

Caspian Tern
Swainson's Hawk
Brant

[Birdbrain]

Latest 2009:

Tawny Owl
Wood Sandpiper
Mandarin

[oncebittern]

Common Sandpiper

Pied Flycatcher

Wood Warbler

[derekg]

Black Tern

Red Legged Partridge

Red Necked Grebe

[Enji]

Latest 2009:

Pectoral Sandpiper
Grasshopper Warbler
Great Reed Warbler

[derekg]

Artic Tern

Honey Buzzard

Little Gull

[MCspudd]

Pied flycatcher

goshawk

osprey

[Gill Osborne]

Almost at the magic 200 in my Life List after today's cracking views of Reed Warbler :t:

Therefore....last three ticks are.....

197: Slavonian Grebe
198: Mediterranean Gull
199: Reed Warbler

[Hotspur]

my last 3 uk lifers have been

293) Collared Pratincole
294) Squacco Heron
295) Whiskered Tern

[derekg]

Redstart

Whinchat

Goshawk

[terry jz]

last 3 in uk
tawney owl
black winged pratincole
common crane

last 3 abroad
tricolored heron
ovenbird
american redstart

[stu_white]

Japanese Green Woodpecker (Mt Takao - Japan)
Blue & White Flycatcher (Mt Takao - Japan)
Black WInged Pratincole (Kent & Norfolk - UK)

[cheersm8]

After a return to birding after 20 years I've added three 'lifers' to my list, and all are reflective of climate change since the 80's as well as more conservation awareness.
1. Hobby
2. Peregrine.
3. Spoonbill

If I am allowed to bend the rules and add a fourth it's
4. Little Egret

ps: I've also gone out and heard our 'local' corncrakes and common quails, birds that I didn't even consider a chance of hearing back in my old birding days.

[Birdbrain]

Last 3 UK
Common Scoter
Montagu's Harrier
Great-spotted Cuckoo

Last 3 World
Red-fronted Serin
Nightjar
Bonelli's Eagle (all turkey)

[Angnix]

Golden-winged Warbler, WI
Red Crossbill, WI
Gray Jay, WI

[Amurfalcon]

Double-banded Plover
New Zealand Pipit
Wrybill

All in New Zealand (in the past two weeks I got 54 lifers)

[MKBirder]

Latest thanks to a fortnight in Massachusetts,
Saltmarsh sharp-tailed Sparrow
Purple Martin
Pied Billed Grebe

[Birdbrain]

Last 3 UK

Arctic Skua (Flamborough Head)
Long-tailed Skua (FH)
Bonxie (Spurn)

Last 3 World

Red-fronted Serin
Nightjar
Bonelli's Eagle (all turkey)

[Enji]

Latest 2009 (in Sweden)

227: Black Kite (a first in Sweden for me as well, yay!)
228: Common Crossbill
229: Bluethroat

[John P]

Last three year ticks (2009)

Spotted Crake
Red-necked Phalarope
Cattle Egret

[lulubelle]

ABA:
326: N. Bobwhite - S. Llano State Park, Texas
327: Bullock's Oriole - Junction, Texas - nesting, saw male & female feeding young!
328: Acadian Flycatcher - S. Llano State Park, Texas

Village Creek Drying Bed Life List:
178: Chuck-will's-widow
179: Inca Dove
180: Whitewing Dove

[Joseph N]

My last 3 lifers have in recent times have been the following (starting with the lifer I saw most recently):

1. White-winged Black Tern
2. White-tailed Eagle
3. Eurasian Bittern

All of which make me delighted considering they are hard to see!

[thenorthernmonkey]

Citrine Wagatail (Marazion)
Bonxie (P'gwarra)
Balearic Shearwater (P'gwarra)

[fbeeldens]

last 3 for this year (ecuador)

black-chinned mountain tanager
hoary puffleg
sunbittern

[GalwayBirder]

96. Tree Sparrow
97. Mediterranean Gull
98. Turtle Dove

[Jonny721]

Life:
Yellow Legged Gull (237)
Montagu's Harrier (238)
Wilson's Phalarope (239)

[Birdbrain]

178. Bonxie (Flamborough Head) 17/08/09
179. Barnacle Goose (Freiston Shore) 08/09/09
180. Pink-footed Goose (Freiston Shore) 08/09/09

[swiss7]

Striped-headed antpitta (1732)
Diademed Sandpiper-plover (1733)
White-bellied Cinclodes (1734)

[Pete Mella]

197. Spotted Crake
196. Osprey
195. Barred Warbler

[Mike Cross]

Life: Collared Flycatcher
Black Winged Pratincole
Brown Shrike

[Mark Harper]

Flame Robin
Black Currawong
Beautiful Firetail

[derekg]

UK Life

187 Shorelark - Southport
186 Twite - Southport
186 Water Pipit - Staines Moor