• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

How Is Your 2017 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Fantastic week in Maine and upstate NY, the former of which treated me to a mini-pelagic for puffins etc. - a boat trip which included my 400th year bird upon departure from the harbor - Bald Eagle on the 4th of July! Also I have officially broken my year record of 411 from 2016, and it’s only July! Starting the year in South America didn’t hurt, and I still have plenty of catching up to do with my ABA year list which is only 287 overall / 277 ABA accepted / 269 non-introduced. More to come:

393. Pileated Woodpecker
394. Ovenbird
395. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
396. Black-throated Green Warbler
397. Blackburnian Warbler
398. Winter Wren
399. Black Guillemot
400. Bald Eagle (2015 year total)
401. Laughing Gull
402. Northern Gannet
403. Arctic Tern
404. Atlantic Puffin
405. Razorbill
406. Common Tern
407. Common Eider
408. Great Shearwater
409. Northern Fulmar
410. Chestnut-sided Warbler
411. Eastern Wood-Pewee (2016 year total)
412. Great Crested Flycatcher
413. Blue-headed Vireo
414. Eastern Kingbird
415. Barred Owl
416. Scarlet Tanager
417. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
 
Last edited:
Did a 10k race about two weeks ago, it was a terrible day (really humid, reeeeeeeeeealy slow), but at least t I heard:

56) Savannah Sparrow

... on the course.

Peter C.
 
This afternoon I saw an unexpected bird in my yard.

191. Pine Warbler

This is an uncommon bird in this area, and I thought I had missed it for the year.

Dave
 
Went back to Hjälstaviken this evening and had a more leisurely time

275. Bar-tailed Godwit
276. Lesser White-fronted Goose

The latter was a Swedish lifer, there's been a small flock here for the past week or so, those, plus high numbers of Arctic waders this early in the season suggest that it might have been a bad breeding season up north.
 
Monday, July 17

Kitchener, Ontario

57) Caspian Tern

A young bird begging from an adult as they flew overhead in the dark!
 
I am down in Cornwall for a few days starting at Pendeen on Sundsay before moving onto Porthgwarra in the afternoon.

Over the next two days I stayed at Pendeen and the new birds added so far were:

192. Manx Shearwater
193. Sooty Shearwater
194. Cory's Shearwater
195. Shag
196. Puffin
197. Arctic Skua
 
277. Common Grasshopper Warbler

This afternoon in Uppsala

[278. Lesser Redpoll] (armchair tick from January in the UK)
 
I'm back home now. Wednesday saw me once again at Pendeen where I added:

198. Great Shearwater
199. Balearic Shearwater
200. Great Skua

Thursday I called into Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham and added

201. Wood Sandpiper
 
249 Arctic Skua
250 Pomarine Skua
251 Balearic Shearwater
252 Wood Sandpiper
253 Sooty Shearwater
254 Cory's Shearwater
255 Chough (No 200 in UK this year)
 
279. Mediterranean Gull

In Gijon, Spain. I'm off to Picos de Europa tomorrow, so I hope to pick up a few lifers and year ticks there!
 
Two more recent pick-ups, including a lifer in Portland...

28 June
148. Common Swift (Hilton Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

22 July
149. Swainson's Thrush (Portland, OR, USA)

Latest Lifer: 593 : Swainson's Thrush (Portland, OR, USA; July 2017)
 
Last edited:
Kicking off our summer holidays in Norway, which is always a wonderful place, and have managed to get in some birding as well, with 23 so far, including a lifer that I didn't realize I didn't have yet...

5 August

Rådhuskaia, Oslo
150. Barnacle Goose
151. Common Eider
152. Hooded Crow

6 August

Frognerparken, Oslo
153. Common Goldeneye

7 August

Vatnahalsen Høyfjellshotell AS
154. Northern Wheatear
155. Willow Tit

Latest Lifer: 594 : Common Eider (Rådhuskaia, Oslo, Norway; August 2017)
 
In and around Picos de Europa over the past few days:

280. Griffon Vulture
281. Red-billed Chough
282. Water Pipit
283. Alpine Chough
284. Iberian Chiffchaff
285. Black Kite
286. Egyptian Vulture
287. Western Barn Owl
288. Alpine Accentor
289. White-winged Snowfinch

290. Short-toed Snake Eagle
291. Melodious Warbler
292. Sardinian Warbler
293. Rock Bunting
294. Spotless Starling
295. Zitting Cisticola

A good haul considering the weather wasn't on side in some of the most important places like Fuente De and Lagos de Covadonga. Wallcreeper still eludes me...
 
Warning! This thread is more than 6 years ago old.
It's likely that no further discussion is required, in which case we recommend starting a new thread. If however you feel your response is required you can still do so.

Users who are viewing this thread

Back
Top