Piè's 2015 list (1 Viewer)

I hope this will help me to remember and enjoy this year of feathers,
to look for all the common birds (that's actually the way to find the rare ones).
Maybe I'll drop half way, maybe I will forget some species, does it matter?
It won't be a Big Year and, unfortunately, I am not going to be able to be "green" http://www.greenbirding.ca/, but I won't waste gas...just usual birding o, crazy enough as it is...

I will follow the IOC list.

It all started in Italy (1st to 6th of January), Matelica (MC), just hanging out in my garden between Lasagne e Tortellini...not serious stuff. Lost in the hills of Marche a little bit like the Tolkien's shire but with some mountains.
For sure I was lazy as most Hobbit!

1)Phalacrocorax carbo
2)Accipiter nisus
3)Buteo buteo
4)Columba palumbus
5)Streptopelia decaocto
6)Tyto alba
7)Strix aluco
8)Picus viridis
9)Dendrocopos major
10)Motacilla cinerea
11)Motacilla alba
12)Troglodytes troglodytes
13)Prunella modularis
14)Erithacus rubecula
15)Phoenicurus ochruros
16)Saxicola torquatus
17)Turdus merula
18)Turdus philomelos
19)Sylvia atricapilla
20)Regulus regulus
21)Aegithalos caudatus
22)Poecile palustris
23)Cyanistes caeruleus
24)Parus major
25)Sitta europaea
26)Certhia brachydactyla
27)Garrulus glandarius
28)Pica pica
29)Corvus monedula
30)Corvus cornix
31)Passer montanus
32)Fringilla coelebs
33)Carduelis chloris
34)Carduelis carduelis
35)Carduelis cannabina

I continued travelling back to Germany, Starnberg, in Bayern.

36) kestrel
37) grey heron
38) great egret
39) cattle egret
40) common starling
41) italian sparrow

Today I went for a quick pre-work bw session in south Ammersee. That's my local patch. The river Ammer flows into the lake Ammer (german humor?), there are small ponds and fields all around. A nice place (albeit too crowdy in sunny sundays ).

42) Mute Swans
43) Greylag Geese
44) Gadwalls
45) Common Pochards
46) Tufted Ducks
47) Velvet Scoters
48) Common Goldeneyes
49) Little Grebes
50) Great Crested Grebes
51) Northern Goshawk
52) Eurasian Coots
53) Black-headed Gulls
54) Yellow-legged Gulls
55) Common Kingfishers
56) Carrion Crows
57) Hawfinches


Then walking around my work place:
58) Raven
59) Common crossbils

that's it so far, a calm start :cat:
Enjoy birding

Sunny and quite warm day in southern Germany...
I drove to the lake (Ammersee) for lunch break,
Eye in the scope while chewing a KaeseBrezen, despite the haze:

60) Eurasian Wigeon
61) Red-necked grebe
62) Goosander

Morning with no wind, worth a 20 minuts stop to the pond on the way to work.
First rays of sun hitting the frozen fields, puffs of fog on the hills. Quite pritty, damn cold.
Unfortunately the pond is totally frozen:

63) Eurasian Bittern
64) Brambling
65) House sparrow
66) Bullfinch
67) Yellowammer

Today white.
5-10cm of wet snow everywhere.
I spent the "warm" hours of the the day at south Ammersee.
Nothing special but the the need for birding is calmed for some hours

68) common gull
69) caspian gull
70) fieldfare
71) canada goose
72) red-crested pochard
73) greater scoup
74) Northern shoveler

Busy week at work and cold weather limited birding a lot,
Only:

75) Crested tit

A little better during the weekend in Radolfzell on the Constance lake,
Saturday in Reichenau quite some waterbirds...
Always impressive to see the lagoon dotted with hundreds and hundreds of swans, and pointed with as many feeding pintails

76) Common Shelducks
77) Eurasian Curlews
78) Red Kite
79) Water pipit
80) Whooper Swans
81) Bewick's Swans
82) Northern Pintails
83) Peregrine Falcon

After one month and an half is time to update the list.

mostly working...not that much birding, anyhow:

around my workplace:

84) willow tit

08.02 along the bavarian part of the Danube:

85) eurasian teal
86) eurasian sparrowhawk
87) white tailed eagle
88) goldcrest
89) eurasian siskin

15.02 following the river ammer from the lake

90) dipper
91) mistle thrush

17.02 again at work

92) grey headed woodpecker

21.02 Lake Costance, Bodmann and Moos

93) Ruddy shelduck
94) reed bunting
95) common snipes
96) common moorhens
97) water rails
98) common shelduck
99) white stork
100) ruff
101) black necked grebes
102) grey wagtail
103) ferruginous duck

26.02 afternoon spent in my local patch

104) black-throated divers

28.02 Rheindelta, in Austria (Bregenz and surroundings)
105) Eagle-Owl
106) Lesser Black-backed Gull
107) smew


03.03 owling around
108) Long-eared Owl

This morning I stopped at the little pond on the way to work
109) Redwing
110) Northern Lapwing

That's it so far...
Next trip: 3 days in Israel for Easter...looking forward

enjoy birding!!

This morning I stopped again at the little pond on the way to work, still cold, and as usual tons of people around...but something is moving!

111) Hen harrier
112) Meadow pipit

have fun

Finally a long morning of birding with gf in the local patch, south Ammersee.
Quite rewarding mix of wintering species and new arrivals...

113) Chiffchaff
114) Garganey
115) Merlin
116) Great grey shrike
117) Middle spotted woodpecker
118) Egyptian goose
119) Lesser spotted woodpecker

I love migration