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How Is Your 2017 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Friday, April 21

On a run through my neighbourhood in Kitchener-Waterloo:

30) Chipping Sparrow
31) White-throated Sparrow
 
My last full day in Canada, so I went down to Long Point with a friend of mine. Picked up a few nice birds including 6 lifers:

198. Broad-winged Hawk
199. Purple Martin
200. Carolina Wren
201. Cedar Waxwing
202. Ruffed Grouse
203. Myrtle Warbler
204. Hermit Thrush
205. House Wren
206. Bonaparte's Gull
207. Bald Eagle
208. Tufted Titmouse
209. Red-bellied Woodpecker
210. Forster's Tern
211. Sandhill Crane
212. Northern Harrier

213. Common Gallinule
 
Three colorful birds added to my Year List this morning, so I'm now up to 160.

158. Baltimore Oriole
159. Northern Parula
160. Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Dave
 
Such a big change over the past week as the flowers and plants are all in full bloom with spring nicely turning into summer - and very happy to welcome two year birds back.

April 27

Chevy Chase, MD, USA
134. House Finch
135. Brown Creeper

Latest Lifer: 587 : Chestnut-shouldered Petronia (Grand Hyatt Muscat, Muscat, Oman; April 2017)
 
In NYC and CT the past couple weeks, very lucky of my work trip to coincide with the start of spring migration:
336. White-throated Sparrow
337. Blue Jay
338. Common Grackle
339. Red-bellied Woodpecker
340. Eastern Towhee
341. Brown Creeper
342. Black-and-white Warbler
343. Tufted Titmouse
344. Northern Cardinal
345. Great Black-backed Gull
346. Herring Gull
347. Carolina Wren
348. Black-capped Chickadee
349. Hairy Woodpecker
350. Eastern Phoebe
351. Field Sparrow
352. Fish Crow
353. Brant
354. Palm Warbler
355. Wild Turkey
356. Northern Parula
357. Chimney Swift
358. Baltimore Oriole
359. Black-throated Blue Warbler
360. American Redstart
361. Gray Catbird
 
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This afternoon on my way home from work, I stopped to bird for an hour and a half and added two new birds to my Year List.

162. Indigo Bunting
163. American Redstart

Dave
 
I'm back on Öland now for field work and picked up the first few birds today:

214. Northern Wheatear
215. Common Redstart
216. Collared Flycatcher
217. Wood Warbler
218. Willow Warbler
219. Eurasian Wryneck
 
April was a bit of a disaster - cold and too much wind from a mostly northerly sector didn't help with the migrants. However:
145 Mandarin
Yellowhammer
Ringed Plover
Whimbrel
Sandwich Tern
House Martin
Reed Warbler
Garganey
Whitethroat
Red-legged Partridge
Crossbill
Redpoll
TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL it's not a new bird but worth the capitals!
Tree Pipit
Swift (22nd April - quite early)
Whinchat
Ring Ouzel
Sedge Warbler
Pied Flycatcher
Lesser Whitethroat
Ruff
And on a trip to Lundy on first of May:
Razorbill
Guillemot
Manx Shearwater
Common Tern
Black Tern
Puffin
Short-eared Owl
Redstart
Grasshopper Warbler
Red-necked Grebe
176 Garden Warbler

Also heard the Common Rosefinch singing, but although it was heard by a few, I don't think anyone saw it.
 
Monday, May 01:

Lakeside Park, Kitchener.

At last, something like spring! A few new birds are around (but weather continues rainy and cold, blech!)

33) Baltimore Oriole
34) Belted Kingfisher
 
Got creative with some birding after a work drive down to the OC, which turned up a surprise Baltimore Oriole! First for the state (but I already have it for the year from my east coast trip):
362. Black Skimmer
363. Long-billed Dowitcher
 
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