How's Your 2023 List Going? (3 Viewers)

[Jacana]

205. Red Crossbill

Again on Öland.

 

[Jacana]

206. European Nightjar
207. Tawny Owl
208. Icterine Warbler

Over the last couple of days on Öland

 

[la_ravachol]

Two ticks from the couple of days I got out this week. Curlew Sandpiper is again new for my Spain list and it's also the first time I've seen one in breeding plumage, which was nice.

226. Eurasian Nightjar
227. Curlew Sandpiper

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got back from a week in Ghana, where I saw 229 species, of which 227 were new for the year (including two species in transit) and 122 were lifers (in bold). I went with Kwame Brown, owner and operator of Adventure Birding Tours. Kwame arranged a private trip covering all of the major sites in southern Ghana and arranged all of the transportation, lodging, etc. Kwame knows his birds and where to find them, and his rates are very reasonable, so I would highly recommend contacting him, especially if this is your first trip to this area.

At Dulles International Airport:

162. Fish Crow

In Ghana:

163. Yellow-billed Kite
164. Pied Crow
165. Laughing Dove
166. Senegal Coucal
167. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
168. Piapiac
169. Splendid Starling
170. Gray-backed Camaroptera
171. Rose-ringed Parakeet
172. Shikra
173. Common Bulbul
174. Long-tailed Cormorant
175. Black-winged Kite
176. Great Egret
177. Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
178. Green Woodhoopoe
179. Pied Kingfisher
180. Spur-winged Lapwing
181. Winding Cisticola
182. Village Weaver
183. African Jacana
184. Senegal Thick-knee
185. Wattled Lapwing
186. Purple Heron
187. Little Bittern
188. Squacco Heron
189. Yellow-crowned Bishop
190. Purple Starling
191. Little Bee-eater
192. Ethiopian Swallow
193. Northern Red Bishop
194. Western Cattle Egret
195. Zitting Cisticola
196. Orange-cheeked Waxbill
197. Black Kite
198. Red-eyed Dove
199. Double-spurred Spurfowl
200. Senegal Eremomela
201. Copper Sunbird
202. Little Egret
203. White-faced Whistling Duck
204. White-throated Bee-eater
205. Yellow-throated Longclaw
206. Woodland Kingfisher
207. Mottled Spinetail
208. Diederik Cuckoo
209. Yellow-crowned Gonolek
210. African Gray Woodpecker
211. Levaillant's Cuckoo
212. Red-billed Firefinch
213. Blue-spotted Wood Dove
214. Western Plantain-eater
215. African Thrush
216. Yellow-throated Greenbul
217. African Pygmy Kingfisher
218. Senegal Parrot
219. Mosque Swallow
220. Blackcap Babbler
221. Brown-throated Wattle-eye
222. Oriole Warbler
223. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
224. Guinea Turaco
225. Siffling Cisticola
226. Vinaceous Dove
227. Splendid Sunbird
228. Northern Puffback
229. Red-winged Prinia
230. Brown Babbler
231. Puvel's Illadopsis
232. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
233. Blue Malkoha
234. Stone Partridge
235. Glossy-backed Drongo
236. Violet Turaco
237. Black Scimitarbill
238. White-crowned Cliff Chat
239. Blue-breasted Kingfisher
240. Double-toothed Barbet
241. Village Indigobird
242. Vieillot's Barbet
243. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
244. Variable Sunbird
245. Red-necked Buzzard
246. Croaking Cisticola
247. Bronze Mannikin
248. African Gray Hornbill
249. Northern Black Flycatcher
250. Little Swift
251. Broad-billed Roller
252. Northern Fiscal
253. Lizard Buzzard
254. Striated Heron
255. Orange Weaver
256. Intermediate Egret
257. Chestnut-and-black Weaver
258. African Pied Wagtail
259. Preuss's Swallow
260. Blue-headed Coucal
261. Black-winged Bishop
262. African Pied Hornbill
263. African Green Pigeon
264. Fanti Drongo
265. Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
266. Bristle-nosed Barbet
267. Naked-faced Barbet
268. Black Bee-eater
269. Yellow-billed Barbet
270. Golden Greenbul
271. Melancholy Woodpecker
272. Yellow-billed Turaco
273. Western Oriole
274. Black-headed Oriole
275. Ussher's Flycatcher
276. Preuss's Weaver
277. Yellow-casqued Hornbill
278. Willcock's Honeyguide
279. Collared Sunbird
280. Brown-cheeked Hornbill
281. Piping Hornbill
282. Tiny Sunbird
283. Slender-billed Greenbul
284. Superb Sunbird
285. Black-casqued Hornbill
286. Yellow-chinned Sunbird
287. White-breasted Nigrita
288. Fire-bellied Woodpecker
289. Klaas's Cuckoo
290. Gray-headed Nigrita
291. Yellow-mantled Weaver
292. Tit Hylia
293. Gray Greenbul
294. Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
295. Rufous-crowned Eremomela
296. Speckled Tinkerbird
297. Narrow-tailed Starling
298. Lemon-bellied Crombec
299. Yellow-browed Camaroptera
300. Blue Cuckooshrike
301. African Emerald Cuckoo
302. White-tailed Alethe
303. Lanner Falcon
304. Olive-bellied Sunbird
305. Buff-throated Sunbird
306. Plain Greenbul
307. Little Green Sunbird
308. African Harrier-Hawk
309. Yellow-spotted Barbet
310. Hairy-breasted Barbet
311. African Palm Swift
312. Black-and-white Mannikin
313. Lesser Striped Swallow
314. Simple Greenbul
315. Bar-breasted Firefinch
316. Red-headed Quelea
317. Red-faced Cisticola
318. Tawny-flanked Prinia
319. Green-headed Sunbird
320. Tambourine Dove
321. Green Hylia
322. Swamp Greenbul
323. Green Crombec
324. Gray Longbill
325. Whistling Cisticola
326. Pin-tailed Wydah
327. Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
328. Western Bluebill
329. Pale Flycatcher
330. Brown-crowned Tchagra
331. Lowland Sooty Boubou
332. Dusky-blue Flycatcher
333. Olive Sunbird
334. Northern Yellow White-eye
335. Red-vented Malimbe
336. Blue-billed Malimbe
337. African Hobby
338. Olive-naped Weaver
339. Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
340. Spotted Greenbul
341. Icterine Greenbul
342. Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
343. Yellow-fronted Canary
344. Red-fronted Parrot
345. White-rumped Swift
346. West African Wattle-eye
347. Buff-spotted Woodpecker
348. Red-cheeked Wattle-eye
349. Olive-green Camaroptera
350. Black-throated Coucal
351. African Cuckoo-Hawk
352. Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
353. Singing Cisticola
354. White-spotted Flufftail
355. Common Swift
356. Comon Kestrel
357. Hooded Vulture
358. Rock Pratincole
359. Rufous-sided Broadbill
360. White-necked Rockfowl
361. Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
362. Western Bearded Greenbul
363. Red-billed Helmetshrike
364. Red-headed Malimbe
365. Johanna's Sunbird
366. Least Honeyguide
367. Chestnut-capped Flycatcher
368. Fraser's Forest Flycatcher
369. Black Cuckoo
370. Compact Weaver
371. Thick-billed Weaver
372. Plain-backed Pipit
373. Finsch's Rufous Thrush
374. Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
375. Square-tailed Sawwing
376. Yellow-throated Cuckoo
377. Cassin's Hawk-Eagle
378. Red-rumped Tinkerbird
379. White-crested Hornbill
380. Western Nicator
381. Sharpe's Apalis
382. Blue-headed Wood Dove
383. Shining Drongo
384. Honeyguide Greenbul
385. Little Gray Flycatcher
386. Crested Malimbe
387. Maxwell's Black Weaver

At Brussels International Airport:

388. Carrion Crow

Dave

 

[Jacana]

209. Brant Goose

Small flocks are heading north now

 

[Nightjar61]

Now back on home turf, I added five new birds to my Year List this morning, four flycatchers and a warbler.

389. Acadian Flycatcher
390. Least Flycatcher
391. Canada Warbler
392. Alder Flycatcher
393. Eastern Wood Pewee

Dave

 

[Tero]

Not a professional birding trip but my friend from years ago helped me add 50 Finnish species, to 116 in Finland now.
For the year:

102	Horned Grebe
103	Osprey
104	Northern Rough-winged Swallow
105	Barn Swallow
106	Ruby-crowned Kinglet
107	Cattle Egret
108	American Avocet
109	Wilson's Phalarope
110	Piping Plover
111	Peregrine Falcon
112	Broad-winged Hawk
113	Yellow-rumped Warbler
114	Yellow Warbler
115	Northern Mockingbird
116	Warbling Vireo
117	Great Horned Owl
118	Clay-colored Sparrow
119	Western Kingbird
120	Baltimore Oriole
121	Semipalmated Plover
122	White-rumped Sandpiper
123	Greater Yellowlegs
124	Least Flycatcher
125	Eastern Kingbird
126	Lark Sparrow
127	Spotted Towhee
128	Yellow-headed Blackbird
129	Common Yellowthroat
130	Dickcissel
131	Spotted Sandpiper
132	Yellow-throated Vireo
133	Red-eyed Vireo
134	Indigo Bunting
135	Great Crested Flycatcher
136	Gray Catbird
137	Swainson's Thrush
138	White-crowned Sparrow
139	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
140	Common Gull
141	Black-headed Gull
142	Lesser Black-backed Gull
143	Barnacle Goose
144	Eurasian Oystercatcher
145	Common Tern
146	Eurasian Magpie
147	Hooded Crow
148	Eurasian Blackbird
149	House Sparrow
150	Common Eider
151	Mute Swan
152	Great Crested Grebe
153	Great Tit
154	Fieldfare
155	Common Chaffinch
156	Eurasian Siskin
157	Greater Scaup
158	Gray Heron
159	Common Cuckoo
160	Common Sandpiper
161	Common Wood-Pigeon
162	Great Cormorant
163	White-tailed Eagle
164	Great Spotted Woodpecker
165	Eurasian Blue Tit
166	Wood Warbler
167	Rook
168	Eurasian Coot
169	Whooper Swan
170	Common Shelduck
171	Tufted Duck
172	Common Crane
173	Ruff
174	Common Greenshank
175	Wood Sandpiper
176	Arctic Tern
177	Greater Whitethroat
178	European Starling
179	Spotted Flycatcher
180	Reed Bunting
181	Red-breasted Merganser
182	Common Redshank
183	Caspian Tern
184	Common Raven
185	Common Rosefinch
186	Eurasian Bullfinch
187	Graylag Goose
188	Velvet Scoter
189	Common Scoter
190	Great Black-backed Gull
191	Lesser Whitethroat
192	White Wagtail
193	Northern Lapwing
194	Common Chiffchaff
195	Little Ringed Plover
196	Tree Pipit
197	Willow Warbler
198	European Greenfinch
199	Eurasian Jackdaw
200	Northern Wheatear
201	Eurasian Blackcap
202	European Pied Flycatcher
203	Taiga Bean-Goose
204	Common Pochard
205	Smew
206	Little Gull
207	Great Bittern
208	Northern Goshawk
209	Common House-Martin
210	European Robin
211	Eurasian Wigeon
212	Eurasian Jay
213	Coal Tit
214	Sedge Warbler
215	Eurasian Wren
216	Red-breasted Flycatcher
217	Common Swift
218	Gray-headed Woodpecker
219	Common Redpoll
220	Garganey
221	Water Rail
222	Black-bellied Plover
224	Brant
225	Eurasian Moorhen
226	Common Ringed Plover
227	Temminck's Stint
228	Common Reed Warbler

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening while relaxing on my deck a new bird for the year flew over.

394. Purple Martin

Dave

 

[martinboer]

Ended May with 244 birds, up from 174 a month earlier...
And with 6 new lifers, to 929 from 923.

May 1
Enjoyed a fantastic two hours out on a RIB boat today, seeing lots of whales, porpoises, and tons of birds - including two new lifers for me: hundreds of Atlantic Puffins and several Razorbills. Had a great four days in Iceland, and spotted 39 species, including many lifers.

Iceland
175. Brant (+)
176. Razorbill
177. Atlantic Puffin
178. Great Black-backed Gull
179. European Shag

May 5

Went birding this morning to look for a continuing Clay-colored Sparrow and ended up seeing 46 species today with two other local birders, including two lifers - both the Clay-colored Sparrow and a Virginia Rail.

Gude Trail, Derwood, Maryland, USA
180. Chimney Swift
181. Solitary Sandpiper (+)
182. Great Crested Flycatcher
183. Yellow-throated Vireo
184. Barn Swallow
185. House Wren
186. Gray Catbird
187. Brown Thrasher
188. Chipping Sparrow (+)
189. Clay-colored Sparrow
190. Savannah Sparrow (+)
191. Yellow Warbler
192. Palm Warbler (+)

Crabbs Branch Pond, Derwood, Maryland, USA
193. Virginia Rail
194. Green Heron
195. Eastern Phoebe
196. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
197. Baltimore Oriole
198. Prairie Warbler

May 6
A lot of birds are back, and enjoyed spotting a few new ones in a local patch.

4-H Forest, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
199. Red-eyed Vireo
200. Wood Thrush (+)
201. Black-and-white Warbler
202. American Redstart
203. Northern Parula

May 14
Nice morning out with the Montgomery Birding Club, seeing 53 species together.

Woodstock Equestrian Park, Dickerson, Maryland, USA
204. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
205. Eastern Wood-Pewee
206. Eastern Kingbird
207. White-eyed Vireo
208. Orchard Oriole
209. Northern Waterthrush
210. Magnolia Warbler
211. Scarlet Tanager (+)
212. Blue Grosbeak (+)
213. Indigo Bunting

May 17
Cycled the long way into work this morning, and visited the tidepool outside the Jefferson Memorial, looking for shorebirds, which was a success. But also spotted a lifer : a lovely Blackpoll Warbler.

West Potomac Park, Tidal Basin, Washington, DC, USA
214. Semipalmated Plover (+)
215. Least Sandpiper (+)
216. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
217. Blackpoll Warbler

May 22

In Brussels for meetings, and got out of the hotel briefly. Looking forward to having more time to bird tomorrow, and over the weekend.

Brussels, Belgium
218. Mistle Thrush (+)
219. Common Kingfisher (+)

May 25
Two days in Madrid for work and managed to get out and see some birds!

Parque El Retiro, Madrid, Spain
220. Stock Dove
221. Common Swift
222. Monk Parakeet (+)
223. Coal Tit (+)
224. Eurasian Blackcap
225. Spotless Starling
226. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
227. European Greenfinch
228. European Serin

Banco Santander HQ, Boadilla Del Monte, Spain
229. Black Kite (+)

Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain
230. Eurasian Collared-Dove
231. Hawfinch

Parque El Retiro, Madrid, Spain
232. Eurasian Kestrel
233. Long-tailed Tit (+)

May 27

Walked around my old favorite haunts in Brussels on a lovely Saturday morning, and spotted a lot of birds for the year list.

Red Cloister, Brussels, Belgium
234. Mandarin Duck (+)
235. Common Pochard
236. Great Crested Grebe
237. Marsh Tit (+)
238. Common Reed Warbler
239. Common Chiffchaff
240. Spotted Flycatcher
241. Black Redstart
242. Gray Wagtail (+)

Watermaal-Bosvoorde Ponds, Brussels, Belgium
243. Marsh Warbler
244. Dunnock (+)

Places birded in 2023 - January to May:

• Belgium - Brussels
• Germany - Karlsruhe
• Iceland
• The Netherlands - Amsterdam
• Spain - Boadilla Del Monte, Madrid
• Switzerland - Basel
• USA - California, Maryland, Washington DC

Latest lifer: #929 - Spotless Starling (Paruqe El Retiro, Madrid, Spain)

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning I concentrated on trying to mop up some birds I missed earlier in May. Not a bad day's effort, finding three of my targets.

395. Henslow's Sparrow
396. Yellow-breasted Chat
397. Blue-winged Warbler

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Two more birds seen this morning.

398. Veery
399. Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Dave

 

[Jacana]

Yesterday:
210. Common Rosefinch

Today:
211. European Honey Buzzard

Again on Öland

 

[la_ravachol]

Trying to mop up as many summer migrants as I can locally before I leave for three months, which means lots of time in the sierra - the best place to be anyway! Little Tern is new for my Spain list - it's rare in Madrid. Also pleased to find Honey-buzzard, as it was glaringly absent from last year's list.

228. Red-necked Nightjar
229. Little Tern
230. Mandarin Duck
231. European Honey-buzzard
232. European Pied Flycatcher
233. Red-backed Shrike

 

[la_ravachol]

This will be it for Spain for the next few months as I flee the summer heat.

234. Ortolan Bunting
235. Garden Warbler
236. Common Rock Thrush
237. Tawny Pipit

 

[Nightjar61]

I seem to have forgotten two birds I saw last weekend.

400. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
401. Black-throated Blue Warbler

And then tonight I went out looking for whip-poor-wills.

402. Eastern Whip-poor-will

Dave

 

[la_ravachol]

First week back in England. One lifer.

238. Eurasian Treecreeper
239. Eurasian Bullfinch
240. Marsh Tit
241. Tree Pipit
242. Eurasian Green Woodpecker
243. Yellowhammer
244. Canada Goose
245. Rock Pipit
246. Common Guillemot
247. Barn Owl
248. Grey Partridge
249. Atlantic Puffin
250. Northern Fulmar

 

[Jacana]

212. Parrot Crossbill

Possibly my last year tick before leaving Sweden

 

[la_ravachol]

Wareham and Weymouth

251. Common Quail
252. Eurasian Hobby
253. Black-tailed Godwit

 

[Nightjar61]

Today I went after a bird that was found a couple of days ago, and I easily found my target. This is the first record of this species for Preston County and was the 250th species I've seen in the county.

403. Clay-colored Sparrow

Dave

 

[martinboer]

Ended June with 247, just three species up from a month earlier...
And with 1 new lifer, to 930 from 929...

June 3

Brighton Dam, Brookeville, Maryland, USA
245. Spotted Sandpiper (+)
246. Warbling Vireo
247. Cliff Swallow (+)

Places birded in 2023 - January to June:

• Belgium - Brussels
• Germany - Karlsruhe
• Iceland
• The Netherlands - Amsterdam
• Spain - Boadilla Del Monte, Madrid
• Switzerland - Basel
• USA - California, Maryland, Washington DC

Latest lifer: #930 - Warbling Vireo (Brighton Dam, Brookeville, Maryland, USA)