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  1. Tero

    How's Your 2024 List Going?

    Pretty slow start. Unknown travel plans at this point, but could go out of state June or Aug. 1 Canada Goose 2 Mallard 3 Ring-billed Gull 4 Great Horned Owl 5 Belted Kingfisher 6 Downy Woodpecker 7 Horned Lark 8 American Goldfinch 9 American Tree Sparrow 10 Harris's Sparrow 11 Snow...
  2. Tero

    What was your best found “patch bird”this year?

    Short-eared owl. Flushed from prairie.
  3. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    It was a good year with the Finland points but still did not get to 300 273 Hooded Merganser 272 Short-eared Owl
  4. Tero

    Swedish Lapland - where should I go?

    ( I may be late to the thread since the eBird list I found probably IS Meg herself) Rather sparsly populted area. The Siberian Jay last appeared at a place East of Kiruna. At least https://ebird.org/hotspot/L8184786?yr=all&m=&rank=mrec It appears to be some kind of science outfit with a little...
  5. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    I have this in a Word document and somehow tacked an all the Latin names. 263 Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria 264 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris 265 Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla 266 Sedge Wren Cistothorus stellaris 267 Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica 268...
  6. Tero

    What souvenirs do you keep from foreign trips?

    I only listed some 6 birds in downtown Tallinn. But I do have a kids' bird book from there. I bought it on the Finland ferry.
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    Magnolia Warbler
    • Tero
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    • Category: North America
  8. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Nothing for almost a week. Some Colorado August birds here before the last few (sandpiper and grebe) 247 Upland Sandpiper 248 Semipalmated Sandpiper 249 Willow Flycatcher 250 Stilt Sandpiper 251 Red-necked Phalarope 252 Broad-tailed Hummingbird 253 Lewis's Woodpecker 254 Clark's...
  9. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    I've beeb looking for that olive-sided flycatcher a few weeks, since warblers are not quite here yet. No luck this year. Several have seen it at my most visited hot spot. Year list is at 262. Will post details later.
  10. Tero

    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    Pro-tho-no-tary. Accent on tho.
  11. Tero

    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    I used to think of Prothonotary as a type of notary. If we have secretary birds, why not a notrary?
  12. Tero

    Glasses wearers - most comfortable 10x42 you have found?

    I only have one pair of Bushnells, 10x42, left. I rarely use them in summer. In the fall and spring I will use them for shorebirds and sparrows. I see the entire field of view with those. They are the cheapest ED glass ones, from 10-15 years ago.
  13. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Catching up on local birds and a few on the E coast such as fish crow 229 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 230 Bell's Vireo 231 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 232 Eastern Wood-Pewee 233 Cliff Swallow 234 Summer Tanager 235 Scarlet Tanager 236 Wood Duck 237 Cedar Waxwing 238 Red-headed Woodpecker 239...
  14. Tero

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Common reed warbler in Finland. My friend hears everything so we found it looking for shorebirds. had to paly song on my one still working Europe app. Merlin has it too but I took out all of Europe as it was cluttering all of my phone.
  15. Tero

    Monarch M7

    I've had these a few months but used my Monarch 5s on my recent travel. I've taken them out a few times. The strap on my Nikon Monarch 5s has been replaced, so I don't know the length originally. It is now about 40 inches on the 5s. I'm 6 foot tall and these M7s were hanging over my belt. I cut...
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    Carolina Wren
    • Tero
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  17. Tero

    Best tripod head for spotting scope?

    I typically use a cheap one piece tripod, as my 65mm scope is not that heavy. But one leg broke off and I could not find that tripod on line anymore. So back to a 20 year old Manfrotto tripod and standard panning manfrotto head. I got it at Amazon as shipping was free. But I would not rate it as...
  18. Tero

    Carrying tripod/scope

    I used to have a cheap tripod for a 60mm scope. In some areas I would ditch the scope under a tree and pick it up at the end. It broke. I now have a manfrotto head on a manfrotto. I put the scope away in my pack but have to carry the tripod around. I will use binoculars one handed and then put...
  19. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Not a professional birding trip but my friend from years ago helped me add 50 Finnish species, to 116 in Finland now. For the year: 102 Horned Grebe 103 Osprey 104 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 105 Barn Swallow 106 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 107 Cattle Egret 108 American Avocet...
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    Little Ringed Plover
    • Tero
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    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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    Comon tern off Helsinki coasts
    • Tero
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    • Category: Britain & Europe
  22. Tero

    Raptor, Southern Finland coast

    Thanks! I have no laptop on this trip, just the cheap camera and phone.
  23. Tero

    Raptor, Southern Finland coast

    A raptor with rather large beak on an island just a mile or two off the Helsinki coast
  24. Tero

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Probably the latest in the past 8 springs it took me to get to 100 61 Franklin's Gull 62 Eastern Meadowlark 63 Western Meadowlark 64 Sandhill Crane 65 Great-tailed Grackle 66 Pied-billed Grebe 67 Common Grackle 68 Green-winged Teal 69 Wilson's Snipe 70 Eastern...
  25. Tero

    Disappearing Into Finnair: Finland 2022, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and big predators

    A friend from town is going to Finland next year. She is planning on doing all the East Finland stuff you did. My trip will be much less organized and no great expense. I won't have a car. My friend has done all her husband's Finnish genealogy and is looking up some of his distant cousins on the...
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