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How Is Your 2017 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Great birds, Alex! (Wish I were back in the "southern cone" again :storm:)

And you're there in high summer too - best time to visit. How long are you going to be in Chile?

Thanks! Yeah it's been a fun trip - we're doing some hiking in the lake district this week before our final South America leg in Buenos Aires. Long layovers in Lima and Bogotá may also bag me a few birds if I'm lucky! Primary focus isn't birding, but it's hard not to keep eyes as open as possible.

One more from the Santiago airport:
31. Austral Blackbird

Now in Puerto Montt / lake district for a bit:
32. Kelp Gull
33. Chilean Swallow
34. Black-faced Ibis (lifer)
35. Brown-hooded Gull
36. Franklin's Gull
37. Snowy Egret
38. Imperial Cormorant (lifer)
39. Peruvian Pelican
40. Whimbrel
41. Black Vulture
42. Grassland Yellow-Finch (lifer)
43. White-crested Elaenia
44. Southern Caracara (lifer)
 
Jan 3 added
Dipper (singing too)
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Cetti's Warbler
And today:
Kingfisher
Peregrine
Spoonbill
Little Owl
Eider
Tawny Owl
Sanderling and
81 Long-tailed Duck
 
Went to Ellesmere today:

53. Canada Goose
54. Great Crested Grebe
55. Goosander
56. Mute Swan
57. Tufted Duck
58. European Herring Gull
59. Great Black-backed Gull
60. Northern Pintail
61. Common Goldeneye
62. Common Gull
63. Eurasian Treecreeper
64. Common Redpoll
65. Rock Dove
66. Little Grebe
67. Grey Heron
 
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Seven new birds this afternoon bring my Year List up to 54.

48. Greater White-fronted Goose
49. Horned Grebe
50. Bufflehead
51. Carolina Chickadee
52. Black Vulture
53. Turkey Vulture
54. Killdeer

Dave
 
A couple hikes yesterday around Chile's lake district:
45. Black-chinned Siskin (lifer)
46. Blue-and-white Swallow
47. Yellow-billed Teal
48. Chilean Pigeon
49. Green-backed Firecrown (lifer)
50. Dark-bellied Cinclodes (lifer)
51. Thorn-tailed Rayadito
52. Slender-billed Parakeet (lifer)
53. Patagonian Sierra-Finch (lifer)
54. Fire-eyed Diucon
 
After failing to beat my UK target of 182 (my 1972 year list, when I was 14) last year with 160, I decided to accept work and other commitments mean this will remain an unrealistic target. So I aim to beat my more modest 2016 total of 160, but try and see species I didn't connect with last year...with the emphasis on regularly occurring UK species rather than rarities.
Jan 1st total (Northumberland, UK): 47, including 1 not seen last year (merlin)
Jan 2nd (Northumberland): 6 including marsh tit (seen last year, but still good to see!), total 53
Jan 3rd (back at work, Durham): 2, total 55
Jan 4th (out and about with work, Northumberland / Durham): 7, total 62
Jan 5th (travel to work, Durham): 2, total 64
Ahead so far on 2016 (49 by Jan 5th), but its early days yet...I'll try and post the full lists in the 'members lists' section.
 
The sky cleared up today for gorgeous views of all three local volcanos - Volcán Osorno, Calbuco, y Puntiagudo - during a hike through Chile's Parque Nacional Vicente Pérez Rosales:
55. Chilean Mockingbird
56. Chucao Tapaculo (lifer)
57. Magellanic Tapaculo (lifer)
58. Peregrine Falcon
59. White-throated Treerunner (lifer)
 
All from Paderborn, Germany today

10 Feral Pigeon
11 House Sparrow
12 Rook
13 Common Kestrel
14 Common Linnet
15 Common Chaffinch
16 European Tree Sparrow
17 Dunnock
18 Mallard
19 Eurasian Coot
20 Common Moorhen
21 Eurasian Wren
22 Eurasian Bullfinch
23 Yellowhammer
24 Song Thrush
25 Mistle Thrush
26 Mute Swan
27 Gadwall
28 Great Crested Grebe
29 Little Grebe
30 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
31 Eurasian Teal
32 Great Cormorant
33 Black-headed Gull
34 Water Rail
35 Common Kingfisher
36 Great Spotted Woodpecker
37 Fieldfare
38 Long-tailed Tit
39 Western Jackdaw
40 White Wagtail
41 Crested Tit
42 Eurasian Treecreeper
43 Tufted Duck
44 European Robin
45 Marsh Tit
 
Three new birds this morning, so I'm now up to 57 for the year.

55. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
56. American Robin
57. Red-breasted Merganser

Dave
 
An ambitious 16 mile day hike to-and-back from Chile's majestic La Junta (Cochamó Valley) turned into crazy rainy mud slog. Fortunately got a couple more for the year before the weather turned:
60. Ringed Kingfisher
61. Austral Parakeet (lifer)
 
More in the neighborhood...

3 January

Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
18. Blue Jay
19. Dark-eyed Junco
20. Hermit Thrush

Latest Lifer: 569 : Black-billed Magpie (Park City Ski Resort, Park City, UT, USA; December 2016)
 
Yesterday on the way to the airport:

69. Northern Lapwing
70. Lesser Black-backed Gull

Today in Prague

71. Common Pochard

The next couple of weeks will be spent in Cesky Krumlov, in the southern Czech Republic
 
Winter weather had kept me from birding over the last few days, but today it was warm and I was finally able to get out. I added nine species to my Year List.

58. American Coot
59. Green-winged Teal
60. Redhead
61. Northern Pintail
62. Merlin
63. Common Merganser
64. Pied-billed Grebe
65. White-winged Scoter
66. American Black Duck

Dave
 
I just finished posting the list of new birds I saw today when I checked my bird feeder and saw another new bird for the year.

67. Cooper's Hawk

Needless to say, there were no other birds to be seen while he was perched on a post near the feeder.

Dave
 
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