Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.
Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
I'm suffering from the flu today, so I didn't have the opportunity to go birding. However, while soaking up the warm sun on my deck, a new bird for the year flew over.
So in the last week I had:
77. Common Swift - downtown city center (my friend saw them few days prior so I knew where to look for them; I missed them that first day by few hours)
78. Little Egret (E.garzetta) - they were all over the riverbank
79. Wood Warbler
80. Lesser Whitethroat (both in the same park)
x. I saw some flycatcher-y bird but it was very elusive so I couldn't identify it.
81. Scops Owl - tonight I woke up early as I planned to go birding up the local mountain and see buntings and warblers and whatnot
82. Cirl Bunting - the only new species for 2014 I found on said mountain, in gardens just below the tree line (here the tree line is upside down - forest on top, open space below, because it is how it was cultivated). There were many birds I already saw, a nice assemblage.
It is so silly that I still miss Whitethroat and Yellowhammer
Birding around the oxbow lakes area south of Saint Joseph, Missouri, this morning, I added three species to this year's Missouri List:
115. Yellow-rumped Warbler
116. Stilt Sandpiper
117. Lark Sparrow
Coming back to the office from lunch, finally got great close-up views of perched: 238. Mitred Parakeet (lifer)
I hear them flying over every day, but for my first sighting didn't want to make any assumptions. These are not ABA countable currently, but they're established in LA enough for my purposes. 235 ABA official year list (sans Mitred/Yellow-chevroned/Rose-ringed Parakeets).
Finally got time to do my whole patch this morning. :t: There were at least 5 male Grasshopper Warbler reeling away, 7 Northern Wheatear and 2 Lesser Whitethroat with 4 Willow Warbler, 3 Common Chiffchaff and 3 Blackcap in song. Hirundines were mainly Barn Swallow but a single House Martin in among 20+ Sand Martin was good. I rounded off by calling into Red Rocks, hoping for a Ring Ouzel, where there were more Groppers and my first Reed Warbler of the year. Having a bacon butty and cup of coffee now and debating whether to nip over to Leasowe, just in case something has dropped in there.