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Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (9 Viewers)
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avesjohn
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Took a family road trip to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico for a wedding last week, driving through northern Arizona along I-40 to get there, thus allowing me to see two new states...and four new life birds. In order...
#472: Broad-tailed Hummingbird - 8/7/14, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ
#473: Canyon Towhee - 8/9/14, Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe, NM
#474: Chihuahuan Raven - 8/12/14, Kings Highway (NM 472), NM
#475: Juniper Titmouse - 8/12/14, Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM
I dipped on a few other potential lifers I was hoping to see (most notably Common Nighthawk and Scaled Quail), but I did get to see a few species I hadn't seen in years (Virginia's Warbler and Curve-billed Thrasher, as well as "Gray-headed" Dark-eyed Junco), as well two likely future splits (the interior forms of White-breasted Nuthatch and Western Scrub-Jay), so overall, still a success.
#472: Broad-tailed Hummingbird - 8/7/14, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ
#473: Canyon Towhee - 8/9/14, Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe, NM
#474: Chihuahuan Raven - 8/12/14, Kings Highway (NM 472), NM
#475: Juniper Titmouse - 8/12/14, Wildlife West Nature Park, Edgewood, NM
I dipped on a few other potential lifers I was hoping to see (most notably Common Nighthawk and Scaled Quail), but I did get to see a few species I hadn't seen in years (Virginia's Warbler and Curve-billed Thrasher, as well as "Gray-headed" Dark-eyed Junco), as well two likely future splits (the interior forms of White-breasted Nuthatch and Western Scrub-Jay), so overall, still a success.
Andouins Gull.
Rich
Rich
Samuel Ewing
Warbler Fanatic
I was recently on a large trip that took us through 16 states in the midwest and a little out west. (SD, WY, CO, NM, TX) I racked up 48 life birds! My latest was a Neotropic Cormorant in San Antonio.
Ratal
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solarrobor
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Karoo Long-billed Lark on 24 August during a bird atlassing long-weekend in Hardap Game Park here in Namibia.
Welsh Peregrine
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Last of over 450 lifers in a three week trip to Peru - Junin Grebe. Also Spatuletail, Long-whiskered Owlet, White-winged Guan, both Crescentchests, 2 Tinamous, 5 Antpittas including Pale-billed - bird of the trip......
Mayo Corncrake
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Stilt Sandpiper, Broadmeadows, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
avesjohn
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Carpooled with two other birders from L.A. up to Arroyo Grande in San Luis Obispo County (a 3-hour trip one way) on Friday to chase a male Ruby-throated Hummingbird hanging out at Brad Schram's feeders. As it happens, Schram is the author of ABA's A Birder's Guide to Southern California, so naturally I had him sign my copy for me while we were there. In any case, we lucked out, since the bird disappeared after Saturday morning.
Little Stint - great birds
Latest lifers from California
David - Yellow-breasted Chat (3 seen at Big Morongo)
Sarah - also saw YB Chats but then finally connected with Ladder-backed Woodpecker just before leaving the reserve
David - Yellow-breasted Chat (3 seen at Big Morongo)
Sarah - also saw YB Chats but then finally connected with Ladder-backed Woodpecker just before leaving the reserve
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
Latest ABA bird: the whiskered tern that was found in Cape May on Friday. Only the 3rd N. American record. Interestingly, the other two records were also at Cape May.
avesjohn
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Yesterday, while on a wale-watching cruise out of Long Beach ("hijacked" by about a dozen birders, including myself), I saw several Black Storm-Petrels (#477), my first time seeing storm-petrels since 3 years ago when I saw my lifer Leach's and Fork-tailed on a pelagic trip out of Humboldt County.
That's cool enough by itself, but as the boat was pulling back into the harbor, our birder group found out about a pair of rare eastern warblers (Blackburnian and Bay-breasted) discovered at a nearby park along the L.A. River. Naturally, we set out to find them, and after about an hour's worth of searching (easy to do when there are a dozen birders all looking for the same thing), we picked up both, with Bay-breasted giving me a second, and most unexpected, lifer for the day.
That's cool enough by itself, but as the boat was pulling back into the harbor, our birder group found out about a pair of rare eastern warblers (Blackburnian and Bay-breasted) discovered at a nearby park along the L.A. River. Naturally, we set out to find them, and after about an hour's worth of searching (easy to do when there are a dozen birders all looking for the same thing), we picked up both, with Bay-breasted giving me a second, and most unexpected, lifer for the day.
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