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How Is Your 2017 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Migration is really in full swing now after a slow start. Seen some good birds in the past couple of days on Öland, including one self-found lifer, Little Bunting, which is a very rare bird at this time of year.

244. Red Kite
245. Icterine Warbler
246. Thrush Nightingale
247. Temminck's Stint
248. Common Swift
249. Whinchat
250. Garden Warbler
251. Little Bunting
252. Short-eared Owl
253. Sedge Warbler
254. Common Rosefinch
 
On my way home from work, I made a quick stop in some deciduous woods and picked up a new bird for the year.

182. Eastern Wood Pewee

Dave
 
From the last couple of days, including a nice twitching session this afternoon for a Lesser Grey Shrike and a few other good birds.

256. Woodlark
257. European Nightjar
258. Lesser Grey Shrike
259. Broad-billed Sandpiper
260. Little Stint
261. Grey Plover
262. Tawny Pipit
 
213 Yellow-billed cuckoo
214 Ovenbird
215 Northern parula
216 Wood thrush
217 Scarlet tanager
218 alder flycatcher
 
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Another good day's birding on the island got me a few more including a couple of Swedish lifers (Falcon and Warbler)

264. Red-footed Falcon
265. Red-backed Shrike
266. Red-breasted Flycatcher
267. Barred Warbler
268. Black Tern
269. Garganey
270. Sand Martin
 
Thursday, May 11

Just catching up on some birds from earlier this month. Two week-ends ago, I spent four glorious days on Pelee Island, Ontario - here's what I got in one single run (in the afternoon!) around the north-west corner of the island:

33) Great Egret
34) Double-crested Cormorant
35) Purple Martin
36) Barn Swallow
37) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
38) Black-and-white Warbler
39) Tree Swallow
40) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
41) Eastern Towhee
42) Common Yellowthroat
43) White-crowned Sparrow
44) Spotted Sandpiper
45) Brown-headed Cowbird
46) Horned Lark

Peter C.
 
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Two new birds yesterday morning, so I'm up to 186 for the year.

185. Veery
186. Golden-winged Warbler

Dave
 
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Thursday, May 18

Waterloo, Ontario:

47) American Redstart
48) Yellow Warbler
49) Swainson's Thrush
50) Red-eyed Vireo
 
Back from Spain where it was mostly hot. Migration was pretty much over so no Bird of Prey movement to speak of. Have added the following:

Honey Buzzard
White Stork
Griffon Vulture
Bee-eater
Nightingale
Booted Eagle
Sardinian Warbler (nesting in our garden)
Serin
Corn Bunting
Tawny Pipit
Crested Lark
Woodchat Shrike
Melodious Warbler
Short-toed Eagle
Rufous Bushchat
Spotted Flycatcher
Lesser Kestrel
Black Kite
Zitting Cisticola
Crag Martin
Blue Rock Thrush
Golden Oriole
Iberian Chiffchaff
Spanish Sparrow
Turtle Dove
Western Bonelli's Warbler
Hawfinch
Black-eared Wheatear
Crested Tit
Egyptian Vulture
Red-rumped Swallow
Wryneck
Black Wheatear
Rock Sparrow
Red-billed Chough
Alpine Swift
Western Orphean Warbler
Thekla Lark
Short-toed Treecreeper
Western Olivaceous Warbler
Woodlark
Kentish Plover
Pallid Swift
Cory's Shearwater
Northern Bald Ibis (ok I may not count this but they were young in the nest!)
Audouin's Gull
Red-necked Nightjar
Monk Parakeet
Short-toed Lark
Purple Swamphen
Hoopoe
Black-winged Stilt
Black-crowned Night Heron
Golden Eagle
Long-legged Buzzard
Black-shouldered Kite
237 Great Reed Warbler
 
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