How Is Your 2017 List Going? (3 Viewers)

Among a mixed-species flock in my yard this evening, I picked out one new bird for the year.

199. Orange-crowned Warbler

This is an early date for this species, which tends to migrate through this area in late September and October.

Dave

299. Bearded Tit

A big family group today at Hjälstaviken, Sweden. This had been a bit of a bogey bird for me in Sweden, so it was nice to finally scratch it off the list!

I hit the 200 mark today with a nice fall migrant.

200. Philadelphia Vireo

Dave

Aug. 27,
Waterloo, Ontario

76) Green-winged Teal

Went out to Björn, a small island of the Uppland coast today and picked up three year ticks. The Owl was a Swedish lifer, a surprising one too at such a location.

300. Eurasian Eagle-Owl
301. Arctic Skua
302. Yellow-browed Warbler

A poor August:

256 Tree Sparrow

September has started better, looking like it started in the USA!:

257 Pectoral Sandpiper
258 Least Sandpiper
259 Stilt Sandpiper
260 Buff-breasted Sandpiper
261 Wryneck
262 Grey Phalarope

I forgot to add Ring-necked Parakeet that I found whilst walking my dog a couple of weeks ago.

211. R.N Parakeet.

I have been away for a couple of days working my way down to Dorset and back. Birds added:

212. Sabine's Gull
213. Woodchat Shrike
214. Yellow Wagtail
215. Least Sandpiper
216. Wryneck
217. Grey Phalarope
218. Glossy Ibis

One new bird this morning brings me up to 201 for the year.

201. Swainson's Thrush

Dave

I have had a couple of days in Norfolk. One lifer out of it and over seven hours over two days trying to find another (Pallas' Grasshopper Warbler) without success.

219. Arctic Warbler (Lifer)

I arrived home from a 3 week trip to South Afica and Swaziland today, so my list is long. All birds already confirmed, but there will probably be more once I look at the photos on my PC.

198 Abdim's Stork L
199 Acacia Pied Barbet
200 African Black Duck L
201 African Black Headed Oriole
202 African Broadbill L
203 African Darter
204 African Dusky Flycatcher L
205 African Firefinch L
206 African Fish Eagle
207 African Grey Hornbill
208 African Harrier Hawk
209 African Hoopoe L
210 African Jacana
211 African Mourning Dove
212 African Olive Pigeon L
213 African Oystercatcher
214 African Palm Swift
215 African Paradise Flycatcher L
216 African Penguin L
217 African Pied Wagtail
218 African Pygmy Goose
219 African Red Eyed Bulbul
220 African Sacred Ibis
221 African Snipe L
222 African Spoonbill
223 African Stonechat L
224 African Yellow Warbler L
225 Amethyst Sunbird
226 Ant Eating Chat
227 Bar-throated Apalis L
228 Bateleur
229 Bearded Woodpecker
230 Bennet's Woodpecker
231 Black Backed Puffback
232 Black bellied Starling L
233 Black bellied Storm-Petrel L
234 Black browed Albatross L
235 Black Collared Barbet
236 Black crowned Night Heron
237 Black Crowned Tchagra
238 Black Harrier L
239 Black headed Canary L
240 Black headed Heron L
241 Black Kite
242 Black Saw Wing L
243 Black Shouldered Kite
244 Black Stork
245 Black winged Lapwing L
246 Black winged Stilt
247 Blacksmith Lapwing
248 Blue Crane L
249 Blue mantled Crested Flycatcher L
250 Blue Spotted Wood Dove L
251 Blue Swallow L
252 Blue Waxbill
253 Böhm's Spinetail L
254 Booted Eagle
255 Brimstone Canary L
256 Bronze Mannikin
257 Brown backed Mannikin L
258 Southern Brown throated Weaver
259 Brown Hooded Kingfisher
260 Brown Snake Eagle
261 Brown Throated Martin
262 Buffy Pipit L
263 Burchell's Coucal L
264 Cape Batis L
265 Cape Bulbul L
266 Cape Bunting
267 Cape Canary L
268 Cape Clapper Lark L
269 Cape Cormorant
270 Cape Crow
271 Cape Eagle Owl L
272 Cape Francolin L
273 Cape Gannet
274 Cape Glossy Starling
275 Cape Grassbird L
276 Cape Gull
277 Cape Longclaw L
278 Cape Penduline Tit
279 Cape Robin-Chat L
280 Cape Rock-Thrush L
281 Cape Shoveler L
282 Cape Sparrow
283 Cape Sugarbird L
284 Cape Teal
285 Cape Vulture
286 Cape Wagtail
287 Cape Weaver L
288 Cape White-eye L
289 Cattle Egret
290 Chestnut Banded Plover
291 Chinspot Batis
292 Chorister Robin-Chat L
293 Cinnamon Breasted Bunting
294 Cloud Cisticola L
295 Collared Pratincole
296 Collared Sunbird
297 Common Myna
298 Common Ostrich
299 Common Waxbill
300 Coqui Francolin L
301 Crested Barbet L
302 Crested Francolin
303 Crested Guineafowl L
304 Crowned Hornbill
305 Crowned Lapwing
306 Damara Canary
307 Dark backed Weaver L
308 Dark Capped Bulbul
309 Drakensburg Rock Jumper L
310 Dusky Indigobird L
311 Dusky Lark L
312 Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon L
313 Emerald Spotted Wood Dove
314 European Bee-eater L
315 Familiar Chat
316 Fiery necked Nightjar L
317 Fiscal Flycatcher L
318 Forest Canary L
319 Forked Tailed Drongo
320 Gabar Goshawk
321 Giant Kingfisher
322 Glossy Ibis
323 Golden Breasted Bunting
324 Goliath Heron L
325 Greater Blue Eared Starling
326 Greater Crested Tern
327 Greater Double-collared Sunbird L
328 Greater Striped Swallow
329 Green Winged Pytilia
330 Grey backed Gisticola L
331 Grey Backed Sparrow Lark
332 Grey crowned Crane L
333 Grey headed Gull
334 Grey Rumped Swallow
335 Grey Sunbird L
336 Grey winged Francolin L
337 Hadeda Ibis
338 Half collared Kingfisher L
339 Hamerkop
340 Hartlaub's Gull
341 Helmeted Guineafowl
342 Hooded Vulture
343 Horus Swift L
344 House Crow L
345 Indian Peafowl
346 Intermediate Egret
347 Jackal Buzzard
348 Karoo Scrub Robin
349 Karoo Thrush
350 Kittlitz's Plover
351 Knysna Turaco L
352 Knysna Warbler L
353 Lanner Falcon
354 Lappet Faced Vulture
355 Large billed Lark L
356 Laughing Dove
357 Lazy Cisticola L
358 Lemon Dove L
359 Lesser crested Tern L
360 Lesser Flamingo
361 Lesser Masked Weaver
362 Lesser Striped Swallow
363 Levaillant's Cisticola L
364 Lilac Breasted Roller
365 Little Bee Eater
366 Little Egret
367 Little Rush Warbler L
368 Little Swift
369 Livingstone's Turaco L
370 Long Billed Crombec
371 Long Tailed Paradise Whydah
372 Long tailed Widowbird L
373 Maccoa Duck L
374 Magpie Mannikin L
375 Magpie Shrike
376 Malachite Kingfisher
377 Malachite Sunbird L
378 Marsh Sandpiper L
379 Martial Eagle
380 Mocking Cliff Chat L
381 Mountain Wheatear
382 Muscovy Duck (feral)
383 Namaqua Dove
384 Natal Francolin
385 Neddicky L
386 Olive Bushshrike L
387 Olive Sunbird L
388 Olive Thrush L
389 Olive Woodpecker L
390 Orange Breasted Sunbird L
391 Pale Chanting Goshawk
392 Pale Flycatcher
393 Pale Winged Starling
394 Palm Nut Vulture L
395 Pearl Breasted Swallow
396 Pied Crow
397 Pied Kingfisher
398 Pied Starling L
399 Pin Tailed Whydah
400 Pink backed Pelican L
401 Pink throated Twinspot L
402 Purple crested Turaco L
403 Rattling Cisticola
404 Red billed Oxpecker
405 Red billed Quelea
406 Red Billed Teal
407 Red breasted Swallow L
408 Red capped Robin-Chat L
409 Red collared Widowbird L
410 Red crested Korhaan
411 Red eyed Dove
412 Red faced Mousebird
413 Red headed Weaver L
414 Red knobbed Coot
415 Red necked Francolin L
416 Red throated Wryneck L
417 Red winged Starling
418 Reed Cormorant
419 Ring Necked Dove
420 Rock Kestrel No longer a lifer, I already had it under South African Kestrel in 2013
421 Rock Martin
422 Roseate Tern L
423 Rudd's Apalis L
424 Rufous Naped Lark
425 Saddle Billed Stork
426 Scarlet Chested Sunbird
427 Secretarybird
428 Sentinel Rock Thrush L
429 Short Toed Rock Thrush
430 Sickle Winged Chat L
431 Sombre Greenbul L
432 South African Cliff Swallow L
433 South African Shelduck
434 Southern Bald Ibis L
435 Southern Banded Snake Eagle L
436 Southern Black Tit L
437 Southern Boubou L
438 Southern Doubled-collared Sunbird L
439 Southern Fiscal
440 Southern Fulmar L
441 Southern Giant Petrel L
442 Southern Ground Hornbill
443 Southern Masked Weaver
444 Southern Red Billed Hornbill
445 Southern Red Bishop L
446 Southern Yellow Billed Hornbill
447 Speckled Mousebird L
448 Speckled Pigeon
449 Spectacled Weaver
450 Spike Heeled Lark
451 Spur Winged Goose
452 Square-tailed Drongo L
453 Streaky headed Seedeater L
454 Striated Heron
455 Striped Kingfisher L
456 Swainson's Spurfowl
457 Swee Waxbill L
458 Tambourine Dove L
459 Tawny Flanked Prinia
460 Thick Billed Weaver
461 Three Banded Plover
462 Trumpeter Hornbill
463 Verreaux's Eagle
464 Village Indigobird
465 Village Weaver
466 Wailing Cisticola L
467 Water Thick Knee
468 Wattled Starling
469 Wahlberg's Eagle L
470 Whiskered Tern L
471 White backed Duck L
472 White Backed Mousebird
473 White Backed Vulture
474 White Breasted Cormorant
475 White Browed Robin Chat
476 White Browed Sparrow Weaver
477 White chinned Petrel L
478 White Faced Whistling Duck
479 White fronted Bee Eater
480 White Fronted Plover
481 White Headed Vulture
482 White Necked Raven L
483 White rumped Swift L
484 White Throated Canary
485 White throated Robin-Chat L
486 White throated Swallow L
487 White winged Widowbird L
488 Wing snapping Cisticola L
489 Wire Tailed Swallow
490 Woolly necked Stork L
491 Yellow billed Duck L
492 Yellow billed Kite L
493 Yellow Billed Stork
494 Yellow Bishop L
495 Yellow Breasted Apalis
496 Yellow Fronted Canary
497 Yellow rumped Tinkerbird L
498 Yellow streaked Greenbul L
499 Yellow Throated Petronia
500 Yellow Weaver L

L = Lifer

237 American woodcock state lifer.
Picture here
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S39402566

Some more from South Africa

501 African Pipit
502 Orange Ground Thrush L
503 Grey Go Away Bird
504 Tawny Eagle
505 Meves's Starling
506 African Green Pigeon L
507 African Openbill
508 Kurrichane Thrush L
509 Mariqua Sunbird
510 Southern Grey headed Sparrow
511 White bellied Sunbird
512 Sabota Lark

238 Nelson's sparrow
239 Henslow’s sparrow
had a Savannah too, will see if it is new

241 Blue-winged teal
242 osprey

Early this evening, just before dark, I heard a pair of Great Horned Owls in the woods behind the house. I went into the woods and got a brief glimpse of one as it flew off.

202. Great Horned Owl

Dave

September 29,
Waterloo, Ontario.

77.) Red-breasted Nuthatch

Today I added three birds to my Year List, the first time since mid-May that I've added so many in one day.

203. Nashville Warbler
204. Connecticut Warbler
205. Lincoln's Sparrow

Dave

303. Red-flanked Bluetail
304. Dusky Warbler
305. Black Guillemot

A fun morning today on Björn. Lots of common migrants today, plus the fantastic Bluetail and the very skulky Dusky Warbler. The Bluetail was a Swedish tick and the Warbler a world tick.

More from South Africa in September:
Thankfully I take lots of photos, as I can't recall a lot of what I've seen otherwise. See 7 different species in short order but only remember 3 or 4!
513 White eared Barbet L
514 Zitting Cisticola
515 Black-chested Snake Eagle
516 Pale crowned Cisticola
517 Rufous winged Cisticola L

243 mute swan, Illinois