Napamatt's 2007 List

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This will be mainly Northern California with hopefully some other US areas, a week in England, and three weeks in South Africa and Botswana. My target for the year is 500.

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My House
1. American Crow
2. Red tailed Hawk
3. Merlin
4. Lesser Goldfinch
5. House Finch
6. Cedar Waxwing
7. European Starling
8. American Robin
9. White-crowned Sparrow
10. Golden-crowned Sparrow
11. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
12. Annas Hummingbird
13. Yellow-rumped Warbler
14. Mourning Dove
15. California Towhee
16. Northern Flicker
17. Nuttalls Woodpecker
18. Western Scrub Jay
19. Northern Mockingbird

Commuting
20. Black Phoebe
21. American Kestrel
22. Turkey Vulture
23. Red-shouldered Hawk
24. Rock Dove
25. Ring-billed Gull
26. Red Winged Blackbird
27. Brewers Blackbird

House
28. Oak Titmouse
29. Bewicks Wren

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Just took off from work and headed up to Lake Hennessy, feeling guilty for being so far behind.

30. Acorn Woodpecker
31. Mallard
32. Great-blue Heron
33. Great White Egret
34. Clarks Grebe
35. Bufflehead
36. American Coot
37. Ruddy Duck
38. Lesser Scaup
39. Canada Goose

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Alston Park on Saturday to walk the hounds.

40. White-tailed Kite
41. Common Raven
42. Western Bluebird
43. Say's Phoebe

Outside our house yesterday
44. Pileated Woodpecker - super tame, we got great video of him chewing a utility pole
45. Bushtit

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Target
46. House Sparrow

Grizzly Island Trip
47. Northern Harrier
48. Snowy Owl (L)
49. Snowy Egret
50. Black-crowned Night Heron
51. Eared Grebe
52. Pied Billed Grebe
53. Peregrine Falcon (L)
54. Tundra Swan (L)
55. Northern Pintail (L)
56. Herring Gull (L)
57. Belted Kingfisher

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Grizzly Island
58. American White Pelican

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Grizzly Island
59. Double Crested Cromorant

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A couple I forgot at Grizzly Island
60. Black-necked Stilt
61. Forsters Tern
62. Tree Swallow

Alston Park
63. Downy Woodpecker

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Alston Park
64. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

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Commuting
65. Killdeer

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Mala Mala Game Reserve, South Africa

66. Arrowmarked Babbler
67. Blakcollared Barbet
68. Crested Barbet
69. European Bee-eater
70. Carmine Bee-Eater
71. Little Bee-Eater
72. Red Bishop
73. Blackeyed Bulbul
74. Sombre Bulbul
75. Goldenbreasted Bunting
76. Rock Bunting
77. Steppe Buzzard
78. Yelloweyed Canary
79. Yellow Canary (L)
80. Mocking Chat
81. Fantailed Cisticola
82. Rattling Cisticola
83. Redfaced Cisticola
84. Temmincks Courser (L)
85. Bronzewinged Courser
86. Black crake
87. African Cuckoo
88. Redchested Cuckoo
89. Black Cuckoo
90. Greatspotted Cuckoo (L)
91. Striped Cuckoo
92. Jacobin Cuckoo
93. Diederik Cuckoo
94. Burchell's Coucal
95. Water Dikkop
96. Cape Turtle Dove
97. Laughing Dove
98. Greenspotted Dove
99. Green Pigeon
100. Forktailed Drongo
101. Whitefaced Duck
102. African Black Duck
103. Knobbilled Duck
104. Egyptian Goose
105. Tawny Eagle
106. Lesser Spotted Eagle
107. Wahlbergs Eagle
108. African Hawk Eagle
109. Martial Eagle
110. African Fish Eagle
111. Brown Snake Eagle
112. Bateleur
113. Redbilled Firefinch
114. Jamesons Firefinch
115. Blue Waxbill
116. Common Waxbill
117. Bronze Mannikin (L)
118. Black Widowfinch
119. Spotted Flycatcher
120. Dusky Flycatcher
121. Black Flycatcher
122. Pallid Flycatcher
123. Chinspot Batis
124. Paradise Flycatcher
125. Crested Francolin
126. Shelley's Francolin
127. Natal Francolin
128. Swainson's Francolin
129. Helmeted Guineafowl
130. Eastern Redfooted Kestrel
131. Hamerkop
132. Grey heron
133. Whitebacked Night Heron
134. Greenbacked Heron
135. Dwarf Bittern
136. Greater Honeyguide
137. Hoopoe
138. Redbilled Woodhoopoe
139. Scimitarbilled Woodhoopoe
140. Grey Hornbill
141. Redbilled Hornbill
142. Yellowbilled Hornbill
143. Ground Hornbill
144. Hadeda Ibis
145. African Jacana
146. Pied Kingfisher
147. Giant Kingfisher
148. Woodland Kingfisher
149. Brownhooded Kingfisher
150. Striped Kingfisher
151. Yellowbilled Kite
152. Blackbellied Korhaan
153. Flappet Lark (L)
154. Sabota Lark
155. Purplecrested Lourie
156. Grey Lourie
157. Yellowthroated Longclaw
158. Redfaced Mousebird
159. Speckled Mousebird
160. Fierynecked Nightjar
161. Blackheaded Oriole
162. Pearlspotted Owl
163. Spotted Eagle Owl
164. Giant Eagle Owl
165. Redbilled Oxpecker
166. Yellowbilled Oxpecker
167. Brownheaded Parrot
168. African Pipit
169. Threebanded Plover
170. Crowned Plover
171. Lesser Blackwinged Plover
172. Blacksmith Plover
173. Tawnyflanked Prinia
174. Redbilled Quelea
175. Heuglin's Robin
176. Whitebrowed Robin
177. Bearded Robin
178. Lilacbreasted Roller
179. Purple Roller
180. European Roller
181. Redbacked Shrike
182. Longtailed Shrike
183. Southern Boubou
184. Puffback Shrike
185. Threestreaked Tchagra
186. Orangebreasted Bush Shrike
187. Greyheaded Bush Shrike
188. White Helmetshrike
189. Redbilled Helmetshrike
190. Little Sparrowhawk
191. Gabar Goshawk
192. House Sparrow
193. Greyheaded Sparrow
194. Wattled Starling
195. Plumcoloured Starling
196. Burchell's Starling
197. Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling
198. Black Stork
199. Woolynecked Stork
200. Saddlebill Stork
201. Marabou Stork
202. Whitebellied Sunbird
203. Scarletchested Sunbird
204. Collared Sunbird
205. European Swallow
206. Lesserstriped Swallow
207. Whitethroated Swallow
208. Whiterumped Swift
209. Little Swift
210. Groundscraper Thrush
211. Southern Black Tit
212. Whitebacked Vulture
213. Common Sandpiper
214. Wood Sandpiper
215. African Pied Wagtail
216. Willow Warbler
217. Yellowbreasted Apalis
218. Longbilled Crombec
219. Greenbacked Bleating Warbler
220. Redbilled Buffaloweaver
221. Masked Weaver
222. Thickbilled Weaver
223. Cape White-eye
224. Pintailed Wydah
225. Paradise Wydah
226. Bennett's Woodpecker
227. Goldentailed Woodpecker
228. Cardinal Woodpecker
229. Bearded Woodpecker

Seen at Johannesburg airport
230. Cape Sparrow
231. Cape Wagtail

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Layover in London
232. Black-billed Magpie (Pica Pica )

Alston Park, back in Napa, bright sunny morning.
233. Song Sparrow
234. Hooded Merganser

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Back yard
235. Hermit Thrush

Commuting
236. Varied Thrush (L)
237. Coopers Hawk

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Alston Park
238. Western Meadowlark

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Bodega Bay
239. Snowy Plover (L)
240. Marbled Godwit
241. Willet
242. Semipalmated Sandpiper
243. Black Turnstone
244. Brant (L)
245. Red-breasted Merganser
246. Western Gull
247. Common Loon (L)
248. Surf Scoter (L)
249. Western Grebe
250. Greater Scaup
251. California Gull
252. American Pipit
253. California Quail

Huichica
254. Lesser Yellowlegs
255. Cinnamon Teal
256. Avocet
257. Marsh Wren

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Bodega Bay
258. Pelagic Cormorant

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Commuting
259. Stellers Jay
260. Wild Turkey

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Lake Tahoe and Washoe Lake Area
261. Mountain Chickadee (L-#500)
262. Bald Eagle (L)
263. Black-billed Magpie (Pica Hudsonia)
264. White-headed Woodpecker (L)
265. Clarks Nutcracker (L)
266. Golden-crowned Kinglet
267. Loggerhead Shrike (L)
268. Canvasback (L)

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Oakville Reservoir
269. Common Moorhen

Huichica
270. American Wigeon
271. Northern Shoveller (L)

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Hennessey
272. Osprey

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Commuting
273. Sharpshinned Hawk (L)

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Alston Park
274. Violet-green Swallow

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Alston Park
275. Western Wood-pewee

Napa Wetlands (Flood Control Project adj. Hwy 29)
276. Barn Swallow
277. Savannah Sparrow
278. Gadwall
279. Long-billed Curlew
280. American Golden Plover (L)
281. Green-winged Teal

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Napa River Trail
282. Common Merganser
283. Cliff Swallow

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Big excitement this morning. We've been getting occasional audio of distant owls, this morning it seemed closer, so out on to my deck and there in the tree next to our garden was a pair of Great Horned Owls.

Home
284. Great Horned Owl (L)

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Bodega Bay
285. Glaucous Winged Gull (L)
286. Bonapartes Gull (L)

Schollenberger Park
287. Greater Yellowlegs
288. Green Heron

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Dog walking in the neighborhood
289. Hooded Oriole

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A business trip to Niagara on the Lake
290. Black-capped Chickadee (L)
291. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (L)
292. Northern Cardinal
293. Common Grackle
294. Rusty Blackbird (L)
295. White-throated Sparrow (L)
296. Fox Sparrow
297. Long-tailed Duck (L)
298. White-winged Scoter (L)

A couple of interesting sightings
Northern Flicker (yellow shafted)
Dark eyed Junco (slate-colored)
Red-winged Blackbird (bi-colored form)
Fox Sparrow (red)

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House
299. Brown-headed Cowbird (L)

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House
300. Rufous Hummingbird (L)

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Alston Park
301. Bullock's Oriole

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Napa River Preserve
302. Brown Creeper
303. Black-headed Grosbeak

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Schollenberger Park, Petaluma
304. Western Sandpiper

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Otmoor, Oxfordshire UK
305. Common Kestrel (L)
306. Red Kite
307. Carrion Crow
308. Wood Pigeon (L)
309. Lapwing (L)
310. Sedge Warbler (L)
311. Hobby (L)
312. Little Egret
313. Mute Swan (L)
314. Tufted Duck (L)
315. Reed Bunting (L)
316. Great Tit (L)
317. Long-tailed Tit (L)
318. Redshank (L)
319. Great Cormorant (L)
320. Black-headed Gull (L)
321. Eurasian Coot (L)
322. Eurasian Swift (L)

Cheshire, various locations, Tong Ness, Red Bank. Hoylake
323. Great-crested Grebe (L)
324. Chaffinch (L)
325. Pied Wagtail (L)
326. Pied Flycatcher (L)
327. Nuthatch (L)
328. Rook (L)
329. Jackdaw (L)
330. Robin (L)
331. Blackbird (L)
332. Chiffchaff (L)
333. Dunnock (L)
334. Song Thrush (L)
335. Coal Tit (L)
336. Blue Tit (L)
337. Great Spotted Woodpecker (L)
338. Sparrowhawk (L)
339. Whitethroat (L)
340. Great Black-backed Gull (L)
341. Lesser Black-backed Gull (L)
342. Reed Warbler (L)
343. Meadow Pipit (L)
344. Winter Wren (L)
345. Linnet (L)
346. Goldcrest (L)
347. Eurasian Oystecatcher (L)
348. White-throated Dipper (L)
349. Eurasian Curlew (L)
350. Black-tailed Godwit (L)
351. Sandwich Tern (L)
352. Common Tern
353. Whimbrel
354. Dunlin (L)
355. Ringed Plover (L)
356. Jay (L)
357. Collared Dove (L)
358. Greylag Goose (L)
359. Shelduck (L)
360. Pheasant (L)
361. Skylark (L)
362. Stock Dove (L)
363. House Martin (L)
364. Grey Wagtail (L)
365. Mistle Thrush (L)
366. Garden Warbler (L)
367. Greenfinch (L)
368. Eurasian Goldfinch (L)

Fairburn Ings
369. Cuckoo (L)
370. Pochard (L)
371. Yellowhammer (L)
372. Garganey (L)
373. Lesser Whitethroat (L)

Flamborough / Bempton
374. Red-legged Partridge (L)
375. Wheatear (L)
376. Common Gull (L)
377. Guilemot (L)
378. Gannet (L)
379. Fulmar (L)
380. Puffin (L)
381. Razorbill (L)
382. Kittiwake (L)

Other potential splits
Herring Gull
Whimbrel
Dunlin

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Napa County Iris Garden, nr. Lake Berryessa
383. Western Tanager (L)
384. Western Kingbird
385. Lark Sparrow (L)

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Henry Road NVLT Hike
386. House Wren
387. Lazuli Bunting
388. Golden Eagle

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Alston Park
389. Ash-throated Flycatcher

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Hwy 113 between Winters and Davis
390. Yellow-billed Magpie (L)

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Bodega Bay
391. Pigeon Guillemot (L)

Lake Nicasio
392. Caspian Tern

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North Point State Park, Baltimore
393. Carolina Chickadee
394. Cattle Egret
395. Eastern Kingbird (L)
396. Red-bellied Woodpecker (L)
397. Carolina Wren
398. Tufted Titmouse
399. Gray Catbird (L)
400. Indigo Bunting (L - #600)
401. Red-eyed Vireo (L)
402. Black Vulture (L)

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Highway 99, south of Marysville, CA
403. White-faced Ibis (L)

Sleep Train Amphitheatre (waiting for start of Kenny Chesney concert)
404. Barn Owl

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Horsell Common, Woking, Surrey UK - a fleeting visit with no birding
405. Green Woodpecker (L)
406. Ring-necked Parakeet (L)

San Francisco Bay
407. Brown Pelican

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Pt. Isabel, Richmond
408. Black-bellied Plover (L)
409. Black Oystercatcher

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Mt. St Helena
410. Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (L)
411. California Thrasher (L)

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Albany Mudflats
412. Sanderling

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Finally Labor Day provides a small birding opportunity. Given reports of Baird's Sandpipers in CC county, I decide it might be worth checking out Sandpiper Point and the Napa Solano Marshes.

Sandpiper Point
413. Baird's Sandpiper (L)
414. Red-necked Phalarope (L)

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Off to Lake Tahoe for the weekend, with non-briding friends, but there's always a chance of something good at the cabin, or whilst out hiking. Well this weekend did not disappoint.

Family Cabin, Lake Tahoe
415. Red-breasted Sapsucker
416. Pygmy Nuthatch

Trail to Martlette Lake
417. Orange-crowned Warbler (L)
418. Hairy Woodpecker

Heavenly Ski Resort
419. Townsend's Solitaire (L)
420. Williamson's Sapsucker (L)

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Mala Mala Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa
421. Wire-tailed Swallow
422. Kurrichane Thrush
423. Neddicky
424. Melba Finch
425. Brubru
426. Greater Honeyguide
427. Red-crested Korhaan
428. White-crowned Shrike
429. Spectacled Weaver

Mombo Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana
430. Goliath Heron
431. Yellow-billed Egret
432. Black Egret
433. Slaty Egret
434. Squacco Heron
435. African Openbill
436. Yellow-billed Stork
437. Sacred Ibis
438. Glossy Ibis
439. African Spoonbill
440. Pink-backed Pelican
441. Yellow-billed Duck
442. Red-billed Teal
443. African Pygmy-goose
444. Spur-winged Goose
445. Hooded Vulture
446. White-headed Vulture
447. Lappet-faced Vulture
448. Pale Chanting Goshawk
449. African Marsh Harrier
450. Red-necked Falcon
451. Dickinsons Kestrel
452. Red-billed Francolin
453. Wattled Crane
454. Lesser Jacana
455. Long-toed Lapwing
456. Marsh Sandpiper (L)
457. Ruff
458. Black-winged Stilt
459. Collared Pratincole (L)
460. Whiskered Tern
461. Double-banded Sandgrouse
462. Red-eyed Dove
463. Meyer's Parrot
464. Coppery-tailed Coucal
465. White-browed Coucal
466. African Palm Swift
467. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
468. Rufous-naped Lark
469. Pearl-breasted Swallow
470. Grey-rumped Swallow
471. Banded Martin
472. Hartlaub's Babbler
473. Pied Babbler
474. Yellow-bellied Greenbul (L)
475. Chestnut-vented Tit-babbler
476. Yellow-bellied Eremomela
477. Burnt-necked Eremomela
478. Grey-backed Camaroptera
479. Blue-grey Flycatcher
480. Marico Flycatcher
481. Buffy Pipit
482. Reed Cormorant
483. Swamp Boubou
484. Crimson-breasted Shrike
485. Black-crowned Tchagra
486. Meves's Starling
487. Marico Sunbird
488. White-browed Sparrow-weaver
489. African Darter
490. Lesser Masked-weaver
491. Golden Weaver
492. Brown Firefinch
493. Violet-eared Waxbill
494. Black-cheeked Waxbill

Kings Pool Camp, Linyanti River, Botswana
495. Purple Heron
496. Rufous-bellied Heron
497. Black-shouldered Kite
498. Shikra
499. African Wattled Lapwing
500. African Wood Owl
501. African Barred Owlet
502. Broad-billed Roller
503. Bradfields Hornbill
504. Arnot's Chat
505. African Stonechat
506. Yellow-throated Petronia
507. Red-headed Weaver
508. Scaly-feathered Finch

Also seen Rock Kestrel (Falco Rupicolis) race of Common Kestrel

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Weekend visit to Charlotte, NC
509. Brown-headed Nuthatch (L)
510. Red-breasted Nuthatch (L)
511. Blue Jay

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Anna Springs Close SC
512. American Tree Sparrow (L)

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Montpellier, France for a work conference, no time to bird but...
513. Yellow-legged Gull (L)
514. Greater Flamingo (L)
515. Sardinian Warbler (L)

In London at the Barnes Wetlands, what a great spot, and very handy for long layovers at Heathrow.
516. Little Grebe
517. Eurasian Wigeon

And of interest
Hybrid Ring Necked x Tufted Duck

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Weekend in Carmel, with birding at Point Lobos, Carmel River State Beach, and along 17 mile drive.
518. Hutton's Vireo
519. Townsend's Warbler
520. Brandt's Cormorant
521. Spotted Sandpiper (L)
522. Surfbird (L)
523. Heermann's Gull

Also seen Mew Gull (Larus Canus)

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I read a report on Surfbirds of Lewis's Woodpeckers at the northern end of Lake Berryessa in Napa county, so I resolved to head up there before work. As promised there were lots of them flitting around a small stand of oak trees just along Eastside Road. A lifer and also #12 of 20 woodpeckers in Sibley. Lifer #143 for the year.

524. Lewis's Woodpecker (L)

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The day before Thanksgving, I take the day off work and after buying a new TV (LONG STORY) I head down to the Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate and San Francisco to visit Hawk Hill, where the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory and its volunteers do such great work. An amazing morning produces a life Rough-legged Hawk and unbelievable visual of two Peregrine's, talons locked, plummeting towards the earth, only to disengage at the last moment - wow! From there I visited Bolinas, and the PRBO. A great day. Forgot to mention Bobcat near Olema!

525. Rough-legged Hawk (L)

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In reviewing my records I saw the following at Bodega Bay in April, but failed to note it at the time, here.

526. Semipalmated Plover (L)

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Further review produced records from my Disneyland trip earlier in the year.

527. Allen's Hummingbird (L)
528. Wood Duck

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And from our second Africa trip we also saw.

529. White-winged Widowbird

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Discovery Park, Seattle

530. Northwestern Crow (L)
531. Barrow's Goldeneye (L)

And my first US Winter Wren, seen in England in May.

This has been a really good year, I've had amazing help from some terrific birders and I am thrilled to have passed the 500 target I set, particularly because I saw many more birds than I expected in the States without help, always satisfying.
Particular thanks go to Jane Turner who spent a very long morning with me driving from one side of Cheshire to the other and back, showing me birds I would never have got alone. And in Botswana, Grant Atkinson of Wilderness Safari's who made sure we got a terrific list including some new lifers in an area I've visited a number of times previously.

Roll on 2008.

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One last bird, while walking at Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe
532. Red-naped Sapsucker (L)

And what looked like a hybrid Glaucous*Western Gull.

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In reviewing my spreadsheet record, my final total was 540. So for the sake of completeness I have a series of edits.

Some birds were missed originally, and some have already been included twice.
But here's the list I missed originally.


Short-billed Dowitcher - Corte Madera
European Herring Gull - UK
Rock Dove - Bempton
Mourning-Collared Dove - Mala Mala
Red-eyed Bulbul - Mombo
White-breasted Nuthatch - Napa
American Goldfinch - Napa
Purple Finch - Napa
Spotted Towhee - Napa
Dark-eyed Junco - Napa (noted in Canada trip in April, assumed already recorded, Project Feederwatch confimed seen in January)

Birds counted twice - Barn Swallow, House Sparrow