canadagurl's 2009 list

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I moved my list over to this forum now.This is my year list for 2009. Birds well be mostly from Victoria but others well be from elsewhere on Vancouver Island, Vancouver, and the Okanogan. Maybe even a trip out to Saskatchewan. My parents are also discussing going to california for a trip this year. I also plan on getting my "N" drivers license so I can I can go birding without public transport.
Well I did 7 hours of birding today at Clover Point, Bleikensop Lake and Swan Lake. Here's the list so far:
1. Pacific Loon
2. Common Loon
3. Pied billed Grebe
4. Brandt's Cormorant
5. Pelagic Cormorant
6. Double crested Cormorant
7. Great Blue Heron
8. Canada Goose
9. Cacklin goose
10. Trumpeter swan
11. American Wigeon
12. Mallard
13. Green winged teal
14. Ring necked Duck
15. Lesser Scaup
16. Surf Scoter
17. White winged scoter
18. Long tailed duck
19. Bufflehead
20. Common Goldeneye
21. Hooded Merganser
22. Common Merganser
23. Red breasted Merganser
24. Bald Eagle
25. Cooper's Hawk
26. Red tailed Hawk
27. Merlin
28. Peregrine Falcon
29. Black bellied plover
30. Killdeer
31. Black Turnstone
32. Surfbird
33. Sanderling
34. Dunlin
35. Black Oystercatcher
36. Mew Gull
37. Ring billed gull
38. Glaucous winged Gull
39. Rock Pigeon
40. Barred Owl
41. Anna's Hummingbird
42. Downy Woodpecker
43. Northern Flicker
44. Steller's Jay
45. Common Raven
46. North western Crow
47. Chestnut backed Chickadee
48. Bushtit
49. Red breasted Nuthatch
50. Brown creeper
51. Bewick's Wren
52. Winter Wren
53. Marsh Wren
54. Golden crowned Kinglet
55. Ruby crowned Kinglet
56. American Robin
57. Varied Thrush
58. European Starling
59. American Pipit
60. Yellow rumped Warbler
61. Spotted Towhee
62. Savannah Sparrow
63. Fox Sparrow
64. Song Sparrow
65. Lincoln's Sparrow
66. White crowned Sparrrow
67. Golden crowned Sparrow
68. Dark eyed Junco
69. Red winged blackbird
70. Western Meadowlark
71. Brewer's Blackbird
72. Purple Finch
73. House Finch
74. Pine Siskin
75. American Goldfinch
76. House Sparrow

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77. Wood Duck
78. Hairy Woodpecker
79. Pileated Woodpecker
80. Eurasian Wigeon
81. Hutton's Vireo
Birding spots near my house

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three rarities to add to my list and one regular:
82. Rough legged Hawk
83. Tundra Swan
84. American Bittern
85. Northern Harrier

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Added two more to my year list.
86. Orange crowned Warbler
87 Cedar Waxwing

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Three new birds:
88. American Kestrel
89. Barred Owl
90. Virginia Rail
91. House Wren
At Swan Lake which with all the flooding has nearly doubled in size in about three weeks.

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92. Red throated Loon
93. Common Murre
94. Pigeon Guillemot
95. Marbled Murrelet
96. Rhinoceros Auklet

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97. Horned Grebe
98. Western Gull
99. Thayer's Gull
100. Long eared Owl
101. Barrow's Goldeneye
Long eared was lifer!!

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102. Slaty backed Gull
103. Savannah Sparrow
104. Lapland Longspur
The gull was a lifer. Already 2 lifers for the year which isn't to bad for me.

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105. Red necked Grebe
106. Ancient Murrelet
107. Eared Grebe

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108. Northern Pintail
109. American Coot
110. Barn Swallow
111. Sharp shinned Hawk
Very ealy for a Barn Swallow. First one I've seen in January

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112. Northern Shoveller
113. Canvasback
114. Snow Bunting

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115. Western Bluebird
Near same spot I got one last year!!

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Well I went to central Saanich bulb fields which is the best place in Victoria for the Skylark( not sure about the San Juans.) It's a specialty in Victoria since only it and the San Juans have them established in North America. Saw three briefly today and in a nearby pond there was a Greater Scaup.
116. Skylark
117.Greater Scaup

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118. Herring Gull

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119. Common Teal

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120. Bandtailed Pigeon
121. Tree Swallow
122. Hermit Thrush

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123 Hutton's Vireo