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How Is Your 2017 List Going? (2 Viewers)

Today I went over to the Ohio River Valley in western West Virginia with a couple of birding buddies. I found four new birds for the year.

100. Wood Duck
101. Eastern Phoebe
102. Palm Warbler
103. Peregrine Falcon

Dave
 
Before jumping into a new show, took a few hours for myself on a pelagic last weekend:
223. Red-breasted Merganser
224. Brandt’s Cormorant
225. Pelagic Cormorant
226. Brown Pelican
227. Great Blue Heron
228. Common Loon
229. Horned Grebe
230. Heermann’s Gull
231. Black Oystercatcher
232. Sanderling
233. Black Turnstone
234. Surfbird
235. Parasitic Jaeger
236. Black-vented Shearwater
237. Rhinoceros Auklet
238. Bonaparte’s Gull

Followed by a brief marsh walk:
239. Tree Swallow
240. Song Sparrow
241. Marsh Wren
242. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
243. Red-winged Blackbird
 
Went out this evening to look for displaying woodcocks. I quickly found my target, although I dipped on owls.

104. American Woodcock

Dave
 
94 Killdeer
95 Northern shoveler
96 Herring gull (yes, I had the Vega before)
97 Eurasian collared dove
98 bufflehead
99 white-throated sparrow
 
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Thanks to the storm there were several Greater Scaup blown in and now settled in a flock of Tufties on the Lippesee, near Paderborn, Germany

80 Greater Scaup
 
I've been in Italy for a conference for the past week. I didn't get much opportunity to go birding, but I picked up a few birds around the conference site in Tuscany and in Rome.

104. Western Cattle Egret
105. Common Kestrel
106. Italian Sparrow
107. Eurasian Crag Martin
108. Eurasian Blackcap
109. Black Redstart
110. Common Firecrest
111. Yellow-legged Gull
112. European Serin
113. Ring-necked Parakeet
114. Common Chiffchaff
115. Monk Parakeet
 
I just realised that I missed out two birds. One from 15th Feb & one from the 16th Feb.

161. Brent Goose
162. Spotted Redshank
 
A leisurely “big day” after a crazy two weeks! 117 species yesterday, all staying within the LA basin:
244. White-breasted Nuthatch
245. American Robin
246. Western Bluebird
247. Williamson’s Sapsucker
248. Great-tailed Grackle
249. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
250. Snow Goose
251. Savannah Sparrow
252. Hooded Merganser
253. American Kestrel
254. Wood Duck
255. Red-whiskered Bulbul
256. Gadwall
257. Ring-billed Gull
258. Ross’s Goose
259. Greater White-fronted Goose
260. Cliff Swallow
261. Western Meadowlark
262. Rock Wren
263. American Pipit
264. Mitred Parakeet
265. Purple Finch
266. American White Pelican
267. Barn Swallow
268. Green-winged Teal
269. Canvasback
270. Willet
271. Surf Scoter
272. Marbled Godwit
273. Least Sandpiper
274. Rose-ringed Parakeet
 
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Went to the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia today and picked up five new birds for the year.

109. Savannah Sparrow
110. Fish Crow
111. Wilson's Snipe
112. Tundra Swan
113. Tree Swallow

Dave
 
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