How Was Your January? (1 Viewer)

I got off to a good start for the year by seeing a total of 90 birds. My Year List was boosted by a four-day trip to Duluth, Minnesota to experience the unprecedented irruption of northern owls. I added a total of 21 species to my Year List, including four lifers: Northern Hawk Owl, Great Gray Owl, Boreal Owl, and Black-backed Woodpecker. Although the Boreal Owl was the rarest bird, and one I wasn't expecting to see, I was more excited at seeing the woodpecker, since it was the last of the North American woodpeckers I needed for my Life List.

My Year List as it stood at the end of January was as follows:

01. Cackling Goose
02. Canada Goose
03. American Black Duck
04. Mallard
05. Northern Shoveler
06. Northern Pintail
07. Canvasback
08. Redhead
09. Greater Scaup
10. Lesser Scaup
11. Bufflehead
12. Common Goldeneye
13. Hooded Merganser
14. Common Merganser
15. Ruffed Grouse
16. Wild Turkey
17. Pied-billed Grebe
18. Great Blue Heron
19. Turkey Vulture
20. Bald Eagle
21. Northern Harrier
22. Sharp-shinned Hawk
23. Cooper's Hawk
24. Red-tailed Hawk
25. Rough-legged Hawk
26. American Kestrel
27. American Coot
28. Sandhill Crane
29. Ring-billed Gull
30. Rock Pigeon
31. Mourning Dove
32. Eastern Screech-Owl
33. Snowy Owl
34. Northern Hawk Owl
35. Great Gray Owl
36. Boreal Owl
37. Belted Kingfisher
38. Red-bellied Woodpecker
39. Downy Woodpecker
40. Hairy Woodpecker
41. American Three-toed Woodpecker
42. Black-backed Woodpecker
43. Northern Flicker
44. Pileated Woodpecker
45. Northern Shrike
46. Gray Jay
47. Blue Jay
48. American Crow
49. Common Raven
50. Horned Lark
51. Carolina Chickadee
52. Black-capped Chickadee
53. Boreal Chickadee
54. Tufted Titmouse
55. Red-breasted Nuthatch
56. White-breasted Nuthatch
57. Carolina Wren
58. Golden-crowned Kinglet
59. Eastern Bluebird
60. Townsend's Solitaire
61. American Robin
62. Northern Mockingbird
63. European Starling
64. Bohemian Waxwing
65. Cedar Waxwing
66. Yellow-rumped Warbler
67. Eastern Towhee
68. American Tree Sparrow
69. Field Sparrow
70. Savannah Sparrow
71. Song Sparrow
72. White-throated Sparrow
73. White-crowned Sparrow
74. Dark-eyed Junco
75. Northern Cardinal
76. Red-winged Blackbird
77. Eastern Meadowlark
78. Rusty Blackbird
79. Common Grackle
80. Brown-headed Cowbird
81. Pine Grosbeak
82. Purple Finch
83. House Finch
84. Red Crossbill
85. White-winged Crossbill
86. Common Redpoll
87. Hoary Redpoll
88. Pine Siskin
89. American Goldfinch
90. House Sparrow

So how did your January go?

Dave

HI,
I had the best January so far in my 6 short years Birding. I had a totol of 130 species.
Highlights..
Rough Legged Buzzard
All 3 Diver SP
Slavonian Grebe 8


Impressive list you've got there..

107, which is pretty good for me

no lifers but hope to add a few in Norfolk tomorrow.

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