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Finally saw a pair of American Black Ducks this weekend...

Off to Paraguay on Monday for work and will take a day to go birding, and will do another day on Friday in Panama. Really looking forward to it!

11 November

C&O Canal Lock 7, Glen Echo, Maryland, USA
174. American Black Duck

Latest Lifer: 600 : Yellow-rumped Warbler (Hughes Hollow, McKee-Beshers, Maryland, USA; October 2017)
 
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433. Scaly-breasted Munia

Also mini-chase in my neighborhood snagged a Eurasian Teal, ssp. crecca/nimia of Green-winged Teal - so not a true year tick (on this side of the pond, anyway).
 
South Africa concluded

535 Spotted Eagle Owl
536 Lesser Kestrel
537 Crowned Cormorant

I have at long last finished checking photos!
 
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263 Little Stint
264 American Golden Plover
265 Wilson's Snipe
266 Eastern Orphean Warbler
267 Hawfinch
268 Little Bunting
269 Red-breasted Flycatcher
270 Lapland Bunting
271 Golden Pheasant
272 Pink-footed Goose
273 Corncrake
274 Jack Snipe
275 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
276 Short-toed Lark
277 Willow Tit
278 Pacific Diver
279 Surf Scoter
280 Ring-necked Duck

So Scilly and Cornwall fairly productive these last few weeks.
 
Short layover at Panama's Tocumen Airport. Will be back on Thursday to go birding properly.

12 November

Tocumen International Airport, Panama
175. Cattle Egret
176. Shiny Cowbird

Latest Lifer: 600 : Yellow-rumped Warbler (Hughes Hollow, McKee-Beshers, Maryland, USA; October 2017)
 
Had a fantastic day birding in Arroyos y Esteros in Paraguay today. We were looking for the Strange-Tailed Tyrant and were able to spot it and 16 other lifers. A very nice day. Thanks so much to Silvia and Condrado for showing me around today!

14 November

Arroyos y Esteros, Paraguay
177. White-faced Whistling-Duck
178. Fulvous Whistling-Duck
179. Brazilian Teal
180. Maguari Stork
181. Wood Stork
182. Neotropic Cormorant
183. Cocoi Heron
184. Striated Heron
185. Bare-faced Ibis
186. Black-collared Hawk
187. Snail Kite
188. Limpkin
189. Southern Lapwing
190. Wattled Jacana
191. Picui Ground-Dove
192. Eared Dove
193. Guira Cuckoo
194. Smooth-billed Ani
195. Ringed Kingfisher
196. Southern Caracara
197. American Kestrel
198. Barred Antshrike
199. Rufous Hornero
200. White-headed Marsh Tyrant
201. Strange-tailed Tyrant
202. Cattle Tyrant
203. Great Kiskadee
204. Tropical Kingbird
205. Fork-tailed Flycatcher
206. Brown-chested Martin
207. Black-capped Donacobius
208. Chalk-browed Mockingbird
209. Red-crested Cardinal
210. Yellow-billed Cardinal
211. Saffron Finch
212. Great Pampa-Finch
213. Rusty-collared Seedeater
214. Screaming Cowbird
215. Scarlet-headed Blackbird
216. Unicolored Blackbird
217. Yellow-rumped Marshbird

Latest Lifer: 617 : Yellow-rumped Marshbird (Arroyos y Esteros, Paraguay; November 2017)
 
This afternoon after work I chased a mega rarity for West Virginia that had been spotted very early in the morning and then refound in the afternoon. Conveniently, the bird was refound about a half an hour before I got out of work at a site that is just a couple of miles from where I work.

210. Snowy Owl

Dave
 
Had an excellent day birding around Panama City yesterday with Gonzalo.

We birded mainly in the Metropolitan Park and then the Panama Viejo mudflats.

It was a great day out with 51 species, and 28 of them life birds.

16 November

Old Panama City, Panama City, Panama
218. Magnificent Frigatebird
219. Brown Pelican
220. Pale-vented Pigeon
221. Ruddy Ground-Dove
222. Great-tailed Grackle

Panamá Viejo, Panama
223. American White Pelican
224. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
225. Black-necked Stilt
226. Spotted Sandpiper
227. Solitary Sandpiper
228. Greater Yellowlegs
229. Willet
230. Gull-billed Tern
231. Royal Tern

Parque Natural Metropolitano, Panama
232. Gray-lined Hawk
233. Squirrel Cuckoo
234. Violet-bellied Hummingbird
235. Slaty-tailed Trogon
236. Keel-billed Toucan
237. Red-crowned Woodpecker
238. Lineated Woodpecker
239. Orange-chinned Parakeet
240. Black-crowned Antshrike
241. Dot-winged Antwren
242. Cocoa Woodcreeper
243. Tropical Pewee
244. Golden-collared Manakin
245. Lesser Greenlet
246. House Wren
247. Black-bellied Wren
248. Rufous-and-white Wren
249. Isthmian Wren
250. Yellow Warbler
251. Chestnut-sided Warbler
252. White-shouldered Tanager
253. Blue Dacnis
254. Variable Seedeater
255. Red-throated Ant-Tanager
256. Scarlet-rumped Cacique

Latest Lifer: 645 : Scarlet-rumped Cacique (Parque Natural Metropolitano, Panama; November 2017)
 
313. Pine Grosbeak

5 female types feeding on Rowan berries in Uppsala. The invasion year for this species continues, hopefully they will be the first of many this winter.
 
A week east for the Thanksgiving holiday:

435. Dunlin
436. King Eider (lifer)
437. American Black Duck
438. American Tree Sparrow
439. Swamp Sparrow
 
Today I drove over to Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., to twitch a Shiny Cowbird that has been coming to a feeder for about a month or so. I saw my target within a fairly short period of time. Not only was it a year bird, it was also an ABA Area lifer.

212. Shiny Cowbird

Shiny Cowbirds established a toehold in extreme southern Florida in the mid-1980s and individual birds occasionally range far to the north.

Dave
 
Only partially intentional woodpecker sweep today:
440. Lewis’s Woodpecker
441. Red-naped Sapsucker
442. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
 
’Tis the CBC season! Two from Saturday at Tejon Ranch. Last state-side birds of the year…
443. Barn Owl
444. Townsend’s Solitaire
 
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