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How Is Your 2017 List Going? (2 Viewers)

My list is total rubbish. I have been down with a bad cold, cough etc since boxing day. Went to docs today to find I had a chest infection and am now on antibiotics.
My garden list is :-
1 Red Kite
2 Wood pigeon
3 Collared dove
4 Carrion Crow
5 Black Headed Gull
6 Lesser Black Backed Gull
7 Herring Gull
8 Starling
9 Goldfinch
10 Blue Tit
11 Great Tit
12 Blackbird
13 Wren
14 Greenfinch
15 Dunnock
16 Fieldfare
 
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Before leaving Chile:
62. Great Egret
63. Yellow-winged Blackbird

And this past week in Buenos Aires, Argentina:
64. Brown-chested Martin (lifer)
65. Picazuro Pigeon (lifer)
66. European Starling
67. Gray-breasted Martin (lifer)
68. Chalk-browed Mockingbird
69. Red-crested Cardinal (lifer)
70. Screaming Cowbird (lifer)
71. Giant Wood-Rail (lifer)
72. Roadside Hawk (lifer)
73. Gilded Hummingbird (lifer)
74. Nanday Parakeet
75. Brazilian Teal (lifer)
76. White-faced Whistling-Duck (lifer)
77. Pied-billed Grebe
78. Southern Screamer (lifer)
79. Roseate Spoonbill
80. Silver Teal (lifer)
81. Coscoroba Swan
82. Cocoi Heron
83. Red-fronted Coot
84. White-rumped Swallow (lifer)
85. Wattled Jacana (lifer)
86. White-tufted Grebe
87. Red-gartered Coot
88. Common Gallinule
89. Great Grebe
90. Rosy-billed Pochard (lifer)
91. Harris’s Hawk
92. Black-crowned Night-Heron
93. Rufescent Tiger-Heron (lifer)
94. Yellow-billed Cardinal (lifer)
95. Guira Cuckoo (lifer)
96. Striated Heron
97. Wren-like Rushbird
98. Limpkin
99. Stripe-backed Bittern (lifer)
100. Cattle Tyrant (lifer)
101. Ringed Teal (lifer)
102. Glittering-bellied Emerald (lifer)
103. Masked Gnatcatcher (lifer)
104. Hooded Siskin (lifer - #800 overall!)
105. Variable Oriole (lifer)
106. Red-eyed Vireo
107. Narrow-billed Woodcreeper (lifer)
108. Swainson’s Flycatcher (lifer)
109. Masked Yellowthroat (lifer)
110. Golden-billed Saltator (lifer)
111. Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch (lifer)
112. White-winged Becard (lifer)
113. Streaked Flycatcher (lifer)
114. Double-collared Seedeater (lifer)
115. Blue-and-yellow Tanager (lifer)
116. Whistling Heron (lifer)
117. Black-capped Warbling-Finch (lifer)
118. Spot-flanked Gallinule (lifer)
119. Black-necked Swan (lifer)
 
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I'm now at 73 species after adding six birds to my Year List today.

68. Golden-crowned Kinglet
69. Winter Wren
70. Yellow-rumped Warbler
71. Field Sparrow
72. Snow Goose
73. Common Grackle

Dave
 
All from this morning at the Steinhorster Becken, Germany

46 European Herring Gull
47 Greylag Goose
48 Canada Goose
49 Egyptian Goose
50 Eurasian Siskin
51 Eurasian Jay
52 Bar-headed Goose
53 Greater White-fronted Goose
54 European Green Woodpecker
55 Goldcrest
56 Goosander
57 Northern Lapwing
58 Common Starling
59 Ruddy Shelduck
60 Common Pheasant
61 Common Goldeneye
62 Hen Harrier
 
38 canada goose
39 red-tailed hawk
40 hairy woodpecker
41 blue jay
42 black capped chickadee
43 american goldfinch
 
Finally home! But first, birding updates from my layover cities:

A couple hours in Lima’s La Punta District - concluding with excellent ceviche:
120. West Peruvian Dove
121. Belcher’s Gull
122. Scrub Blackbird (lifer)
123. Peruvian Booby
124. Long-tailed Mockingbird
125. Guanay Cormorant (lifer)
126. Red-legged Cormorant (lifer)
127. American Oystercatcher
128. Semipalmated Plover
129. Semipalmated Sandpiper
130. Gray-hooded Gull
131. Spotted Sandpiper
132. Gull-billed Tern
133. Royal Tern
134. Sandwich Tern
135. Elegant Tern
136. Blue-gray Tanager

A great morning in Bogotá’s Parque La Florida a stone’s throw from the airport - I would recommend going with a local as I did, it’s not that accessible otherwise:
137. Great Thrush
138. Bare-faced Ibis (lifer)
139. Blue-winged Teal
140. Bogota Rail (lifer)
141. Solitary Sandpiper
142. American Coot
143. Yellow-hooded Blackbird (lifer)
144. Cattle Egret
145. Apolinar’s Wren (lifer)
146. Broad-winged Hawk
147. Ruddy Duck
148. Lesser Scaup
149. Sora
150. Andean Siskin (lifer)
151. Black Flowerpiercer (lifer)
152. Tennessee Warbler
153. Mountain Elaenia (lifer)
154. Yellow-backed Oriole (lifer)
155. Sparkling Violetear (lifer)
156. Rufous-browed Conebill (lifer)
157. Silvery-throated Spinetail (lifer)

And now back in sunny LA, just a lazy day getting our house back in order and doing laundry today:
158. American Crow
159. Northern Mockingbird
160. Yellow-rumped Warbler

Truly one of my best vacations ever, birds and otherwise!
 
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On Sunday I managed a long-awaited lifer in Cesky Krumlov

75. Red Crossbill
76. Middle Spotted Woodpecker

And today I had a surprise bird beside the river in the middle of town. I'm not sure if there are any Czech birders following this thread, I'd welcome some comments if so.

77. Great Egret
 
A few more in recent days which have included trips to Exeter, Yarner Wood and Somerset, followed by a look in at Topsham and Dawlish.
Tufted Duck
Marsh Harrier
Chiffchaff
Treecreeper
Sparrowhawk
Marsh Tit
Nuthatch
Siskin
American Wigeon
Fieldfare
Great White Egret
Bearded Tit - While finding two of these sparklers at Westhay, our car was broken into and luggage stolen :(
Pochard
Whooper Swan
Greylag Goose
Raven
Yellow-legged Gull
Red-breasted Merganser
Avocet
Rock Pipit
Slavonian Grebe
Goldeneye
Common Scoter
Gannet
106 Waxwing - at Darts Farm
 
Brief walk in my local patch that I'm developing as a growing eBird hotspot:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S33748949
http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L5125499
161. Californlia Towhee
162. Common Raven
163. Red-tailed Hawk
164. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
165. California Scrub-Jay
166. Bewick’s Wren
167. Allen’s Hummingbird
168. Bushtit
169. Lesser Goldfinch
170. Wrentit
171. Black Phoebe
172. Spotted Towhee
173. White-crowned Sparrow
174. California Thrasher
175. Anna’s Hummingbird
 
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44 Rock pigeon
45 Belted kingfisher
46 Red-bellied woodpecker
47 Downy woodpecker
48 American kestrel
49 Eastern bluebird
50 American tree sparrow
51 Dark-eyed junco
52 Northern cardinal
53 House finch
54 House sparrow
55 peregrine falcon
 
Re: post #52.

Wow, congratulations on the Rail and the Wren at La Florida, those are tough birds to get! (dipped on both when I was in Bogotá - different wetland though).

What was difficult about access to La Florida, if I may ask? Was it tricky to get to from the airport? I looked into this a bit before my Colombia trip, and it did not appear that there was any easy way to do this, so we didn't even try...
 
Re: post #52.

Wow, congratulations on the Rail and the Wren at La Florida, those are tough birds to get! (dipped on both when I was in Bogotá - different wetland though).

What was difficult about access to La Florida, if I may ask? Was it tricky to get to from the airport? I looked into this a bit before my Colombia trip, and it did not appear that there was any easy way to do this, so we didn't even try...

Thanks, Peter! Yeah we arrived before 6am at the wetlands and posted up in a spot where Diana (http://www.birdingbogotaandcolombia.com/birding-bogota/) knows both Bogota Rail and Apolinar's Wren to be seen and heard regularly. She was very knowledgable and helpful - also affordable for what I was looking for, just a few hours in the morning birding before my flight. We dipped on Subtropical Doradito (near endemic I believe?), but nabbed pretty much every other target bird of the day.

The rails were going crazy! Calling all over the place, and we got incredible looks (and photos). Conservative count estimate was 8 individuals. The wren sadly was alone, started his morning calling to us and came close briefly for a minimal photo shoot. But Diana confirmed that they only ever see one bird here ("Last of the Mohicans" as she called it), and it's been that way for a while in these wetlands. Pretty devastating.

La Florida itself is quite isolated from the city - despite how much park activity there is by 9am (guards, staff, bicycles, park-goers, etc.). It's only accessible by one road that crosses the Bogota River, and this entry road is terribly maintained. Four wheel drive is almost mandatory to traverse the endless potholes and divots - and excess rainfall further amplifies it as a muddy, aquatic driving experience (this is where having a local / guide who brings the right vehicle helps). Not that I know Bogotá by any means, but a taxi would never take you there, and you'd never get one back. Upon arrival, the wetlands area where the rail and the wren both reside is closed off to the general public, access only for "Aviturismo" thankfully, but entry is only granted after 8/9/10am unless you know the guards - which Diana of course does. I'm all about discovering birding locales on my own, but I couldn't imagine accessing this location any other way - particularly with my tight timeframe.
 
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56 mallard
57 cackling goose
58 wild turkey
59 yellow-rumped warbler
60 starling
61 American robin
62 american crow
62 barred owl
63 eurasian collared dove
 
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