Best Bird of 2011 So Far (1 Viewer)

[JohnnyH]

Waxwings on new years day & Great Grey Shrike this morning.

John.

 

[adiekate]

pair greenfinches - week earlier than last year

 

[Enji]

Scratch silly eagles and Merlins and stuff... saw a brilliant flock of ten Long-tailed Tits today! Last year I didn't see any here until autumn, so to have seen them so early in the year... mindblowing! They also happens to be my favorite birds, so I was very very happy indeed. o

 

[pstraughan]

Pair of snipe at our local reservoir yesterday.

Pat

 

[Motmot]

2 White storks found this morning, very early for my local patch.

 

[claire78]

Toss up between three Scaup or a water rail (water rail was about 8ft away from me!) - both at local patch this afternoon B

 

[Espen]

Lesser Scaup!!!!!!

 

[Clive A]

Smew, just a readhead, but the buggers have eluded me for ages.

 

[steveo]

Glaucous Gull at wollaston Beach. Great bird shockingly white.

 

[TR3K]

Kingfisher

 

[pstraughan]

More Waxwings! Until last Thursday I had never seen one. This morning I was advised of a group on a local housing estate. The residents must be fed-up with people using bins and cameras outside their houses.

Pat

 

[Hotspur]

Merlin yesterday sat staring at me from a fencepost in Somerset.

 

[chowchilla]

Pacific Baza from my bedroom window; a first for my house list!

 

[kirbycaner]

Water Rail at RSPB Strumpshaw - stayed out for about 10 minutes. Fantastic. One of those birds I've always wanted to see and haven't till now. Couldn't have had a better view. Sunday 2nd Jan about 3pm.

 

[Birdingcraft]

Highland Tinamou at the amazingly low elevation of 500 meters at Quebrada Gonzalez, Costa Rica. Too much rain at high elevations appears to have delayed flowering and fruiting of many trees which has in turn resulted in unprecendented movements of frugivores to lower elevations.

 

[Alex_HJ]

Alex, 10+ is a great number to see - were you at Caerhun?

I was a Llanbedr-y-Cenin, which is about a mile further on from Caerhun. Its a good place to see them and more so reliable. I remember there being 18+ last year from there during the harsh weather.

Cheers, Alex

 

[Monahawk]

Red Kite. Possibly the first to be seen in Co. Monaghan. Flew over the main N2 by-pass near Castleblayney at midday.

Si.

 

[borealowl47]

Northern Cardinal so far,very uncommon here ,only a few are spotted every
year in Manitoba.

 

[Aracari]

Streamer-tailed Tyrant today, at a wetland near home. Not particularly rare but well, the best so far. Haven't been out much.

 

[JD Roth]

6 Bald Eagles congregating together in a wide open field. They weren't gathering around food.