How Is Your 2017 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Reader · Feb 7, 2017

A few hours local birding brought me three more birds for the year.

146. Iceland Gull
147. Bearded Tit
148. Tree Sparrow.

Below are a few photos of the Iceland Gull seen in Swanhurst Park, Birmingham.

martinboer · Feb 7, 2017

Catching up on my January birding... Was happy to go to Zurich and the Netherlands for work and see lots of old friends.

And a few more in the neighborhood. But, no lifers yet so far...

15 January

Seefeldquai, Zurich, Switzerland
21. Mute Swan
22. Gadwall
23. Red-crested Pochard
24. Common Pochard
25. Tufted Duck
26. Little Grebe
27. Great Crested Grebe
28. Great Cormorant
29. Red Kite
30. Eurasian Coot
31. Black-headed Gull
32. Mew Gull
33. Yellow-legged Gull
34. Carrion Crow
35. Great Tit
36. Eurasian Blackbird
37. Song Thrush
38. White Wagtail
39. Eurasian Tree Sparrow

19-22 January

Blijdorpse Polder, The Netherlands
40. Gray Heron
41. Eurasian Magpie

PGGM, Zeist, The Netherlands
42. Common Wood-Pigeon
43. European Robin

Vinkeveen, The Netherlands
44. Graylag Goose
45. Smew

The Hague, The Netherlands
46. Eurasian Jackdaw

Bussum, The Netherlands
47. Common Buzzard
48. Northern Lapwing
49. Rose-ringed Parakeet

Frankendael, The Netherlands
50. White Stork

Chevy Chase, MD, USA
51. Great Blue Heron
52. Black Vulture
53. Red-tailed Hawk
54. Northern Mockingbird

Latest Lifer: 569 : Black-billed Magpie (Park City Ski Resort, Park City, UT, USA; December 2016)

Nightjar61 · Feb 7, 2017

Two species of waterfowl today, so I'm up to 94 for the year.

93. American Wigeon
94. Ross's Goose

Dave

Tero · Feb 8, 2017

81 redhead
82 ring-necked duck

martinboer · Feb 8, 2017

Visiting family in Portland, Oregon - and happy to be adding to my year list, including two new lifers.

2 February

Chevy Chase, MD, USA
55. Red-bellied Woodpecker

6-8 February

Berrydale Park, Portland, OR, USA
56. Anna's Hummingbird
57. Steller's Jay
58. Common Raven
59. Varied Thrush
60. Fox Sparrow
61. Spotted Towhee

Mt. Tabor Park, Portland, OR, USA
62. Glaucous-winged Gull
63. Northern Flicker
64. California Scrub-Jay

Latest Lifer: 571 : Fox Sparrow (Berrydale Park, Portland, OR, USA; February 2017)

Jon Turner · Feb 8, 2017

Mostly local additions:
Fulmar
Red-throated Diver
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Goosander
Dartford Warbler
Mediterranean Gull
Water Rail
Common Sandpiper
Barnacle Goose
Firecrest
And at Chew Valley Lake yesterday:
Bewick's Swan
Scaup
Black-necked Grebe
Ring-billed Gull
124 Green Sandpiper

martinboer · Feb 9, 2017

I almost wasn't going to go out this evening, in the pouring rain but I ventured out to Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, near Reed College, in search of West Coast waterfowl. I nearly backed out, not because of the rain but because the website also said the garden is temporarily closed. Fortunately that meant I could just enter without having to pay the customary admission price ($5 or so.)

It paid off and I was very happy to see 19 species of birds while becoming increasingly soaked. After almost two hours I had 12 new year birds, and 4 new lifers, including two types of goose, the Bushtit and an amazing ruby-crowned Kinglet, with a stripe of red, that landed inches from me in all its splendor and waited around for a good 15 seconds before flying off again.

8 February

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, Portland, OR, USA
65. Greater White-fronted Goose
66. Cackling Goose
67. Wood Duck
68. Ring-necked Duck
69. Lesser Scaup
70. Bufflehead
71. Hooded Merganser
72. Pied-billed Grebe
73. American Coot
74. Belted Kingfisher
75. Bushtit
76. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Latest Lifer: 575 : Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, Portland, OR, USA; February 2017)

Nightjar61 · Feb 10, 2017

Today I had a two-owl day. I can't remember having seen two species of owl in one day before. Along with the owls, a new duck brought me up to 97 for the year.

95. Barred Owl
96. Northern Shoveler
97. Eastern Screech Owl

Dave

Tero · Feb 11, 2017

83 Bobwhite
84 Eastern meadowlark
85 Lesser scaup
86 American wigeon

Tero · Feb 11, 2017

87 golden-crowned kinglet
88 brown creeper

Tero · Feb 12, 2017

89 common goldeneye
90 snow goose

Peter C. · Feb 13, 2017

Saturday, Feb 11:

7) Downy Woodpecker
8) Red-tailed Hawk
9) Dark-eyed Junco
10)House Finch
11)European Starling
12)Northern Cardinal
13)Rock Pigeon

Nightjar61 · Feb 13, 2017

One new bird today puts me at 98 for the year.

98. Red-winged Blackbird

Dave

Nightjar61 · Feb 14, 2017

Now up to 99 for the year.

99. Ruffed Grouse

Dave

Jon Turner · Feb 14, 2017

Around Exeter:
Kittiwake
Yellow-browed Warbler
Brambling
And nearer to home:
128 Mistle Thrush

Andy Hurley · Feb 15, 2017

77 Common Chiffchaff (heard only) Paderborn
78 Northern Goshawk from Autobahn near Dissen
79 Grey Partridge at the Steinhorster Becken

Reader · Feb 15, 2017

4 more on my tour around Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

149. Bluethroat
150. Great Grey Shrike
151. Long-eared Owl
152. Hen Harrier

Reader · Feb 16, 2017

A few more from Norfolk today.

153. Meadow Pipit
154. Water Pipit
155. Slavonian Grebe
156. Greenshank
157. Golden Pheasant
158. Hawfinch

Tero · Feb 17, 2017

91 merlin

Reader · Feb 17, 2017

Today I missed out on a couple but managed two of my target birds. Yesterday I parked up in Thetford, after spending two hours trying to find a Juv Glaucose Gul there, so I was up early in the hope of finding the bird. It took from 7.30am until nearly 11am to find it and when I did I also found an adult Caspian gull almost by the side of it. New birds today were:-

159. Glaucose Gull
160. Smew

I'm back home now so will probably slow down on new birds, although I am yet to see Goldcrest and Grey Wagtail.

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