100th lifer! (1 Viewer)

lassa8

Well-known member

• May 5, 2004

• #1

Today is Reading Day, which means no classes are held in preparation for the start of finals tomorrow. Needless to say, we went birding instead of studying. My girlfriend and I visited Fox Lake and Rose Pond Conservation Areas in extreme NE Missouri. It was definitely a great time, as I saw many birds I'd only seen once before, as well as twelve new species (and my first warblers!) to bump my life list up to 101. New species were: tree swallow, orchard oriole, spotted sandpiper, prothonotary warbler, cooper's hawk, field sparrow, grasshopper sparrow (almost stepped on the poor thing), black-and-white warbler, common yellowthroat, blue-winged warbler, cerulean warbler (number 100!), and the palm warbler.

 

Last edited: May 6, 2004

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very boring banned member

New member

• May 6, 2004

• #2

Congratulations! My nr 100 was Aythya ferina in Finland when I was 12 years old. How about others? Do You remember where You were when You broke one hundred?

 

Charles Harper

Régisseur

• May 6, 2004

• #3

Congratulations, Lassa! A significant benchmark.

I have no recollection at all of my 100th lifer. Never thought to number them, though I suppose I could figure it out by the dates if I had the time and patience. It must have been in Florida, though, about 1961 or 1962-- just out of high school--, and I hope it was the Roseate Spoonbill, a memorable sighting, that.

 

John N

Well-known member

• May 6, 2004

• #4

Congratulations Lassa. I still remember my 100th lifer. It was a Kittiwake.

 

Edward

Umimmak

• May 6, 2004

• #5

Excellent, Lassa. You know all of those birds you mentioed would have been lifers for me too.

I have no idea what my 100th lifer was but my 100th bird on my Iceland list was Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra). The very same bird was a friend's 200th bird in Iceland.

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gillian

Well-known member

• May 7, 2004

• #6

Hope the finals are going well, still the important thing is you got your 100th any guess as to what your 200th will be?
Gillian

 

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Bluetail

Senior Moment

• May 7, 2004

• #7

What a great way to celebrate 100! When... if... I reach my next landmark I can think of few birds that I'd prefer to a Cerulean Warbler.

 

lassa8

Well-known member

• May 7, 2004

• #8

The way things are going now, I won't see my first cedar waxwing (common you say? HA! anything but common if I'm around) until I'm right about species 200

 

gthang

Ford Focus Fanatic: mmmmmm... 3.1415926535.....

• May 8, 2004

• #9

Yeah, I agree with Lassa on that last post. At the rate I'm going, probably will see a Cedar Waxwing around 150. I still have 87 birds to go....

 

V

very boring banned member

New member

• May 8, 2004

• #10

My daughter's nr 100 was Branta leucopsis (in Finland) at the age of three months
-This far I have kept diary for her. Her first, in maternal hospital, was a pair of Parus majors

 

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Dave B Smith

Well-known member

• May 8, 2004

• #11

Lassa,
Congratulations on your 100th. And it just keeps getting better. I hope you get your Cedar Waxwings soon. I was just in S.E. Arizona for a few days and did see a large flock of them and I think they were headed towards Mo.!

 

prairiemerlin

registered guy

• May 10, 2004

• #12

I have no idea what my 100th species was, but my 200th species was Snowy Owl.