How is your 2013 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Larry Lade]

Both crossbills were reported here on New Year's Day at a local cemetery here in Saint Joseph. They have been here every day since. Lots of people have come here to see them. One lady drove up from Fayetteville, Arkansas to get her "lifer" White-winged Crossbill. I asked her, "You drove all the way up here for that?". She said, "We yes, it was a lifer and Missouri is closer than Canada!" I am glad she got to see it.

* It is right at 300 miles from Fayetteville, AR to Saint Joseph, MO!

 

[Nightjar61]

Three new birds today put my Year List at 73.

71. Common Grackle
72. Ring-billed Gull
73. Eastern Towhee

Dave

 

[Brian2]

124 after todays trip to Kent including Crane and Great White Egret.

 

[borealowl47]

Patch

First walk in my patch this year.Which has just recently become on Ebird Hotspot!Now I won't have the area to myself anymore.:C

21.Black-billed Magpie
22.Merlin
23.Great Horned Owl
24.Gray Partridge

 

[borealowl47]

Both crossbills were reported here on New Year's Day at a local cemetery here in Saint Joseph. They have been here every day since. Lots of people have come here to see them. One lady drove up from Fayetteville, Arkansas to get her "lifer" White-winged Crossbill. I asked her, "You drove all the way up here for that?". She said, "We yes, it was a lifer and Missouri is closer than Canada!" I am glad she got to see it.

* It is right at 300 miles from Fayetteville, AR to Saint Joseph, MO!

Moving south looking for a nice cone crop!

 

[Nightjar61]

One more new bird for the Year List this evening as a flock of nine turkeys came out of the woods behind my house and walked across an open field.

74. Wild Turkey

Dave

 

[ovenbird43]

Both crossbills were reported here on New Year's Day at a local cemetery here in Saint Joseph. They have been here every day since. Lots of people have come here to see them. One lady drove up from Fayetteville, Arkansas to get her "lifer" White-winged Crossbill. I asked her, "You drove all the way up here for that?". She said, "We yes, it was a lifer and Missouri is closer than Canada!" I am glad she got to see it.

* It is right at 300 miles from Fayetteville, AR to Saint Joseph, MO!

:t: It was nice to meet you! Quite a long day of driving, but it was worth it. I've missed that species every time I've been to the North Woods.

I'm at 70 for the year.

 

[Brian2]

5 more today from Rainham and Epping Forest....129 and counting. B

Rock Pipit
Ring Necked Parakeet
Stonechat
Goldcrest
Mandarin Duck

Also saw the plastic Ross's on the reserve at Rainham

 

[jimmmer]

1 Antillean Crested Hummingbird

2 Bananaquit

3 Barbados Bullfinch

4 Black-faced Grassquit

5 Blue-winged Teal

6 Carib Grackle

7 Caribbean Elaenia

8 Cattle Egret

9 Common Gallinule

10 Common Ground-Dove

11 Grassland Yellow-Finch

12 Gray Kingbird

13 Great Blue Heron

14 Green Heron

15 Green-throated Carib

16 Pied-billed Grebe

17 Scaly-naped Pigeon

18 Shiny Cowbird

19 Zenaida Dove

slow start for me

 

[Jacana]

70. Shelduck
71. Pintail
72. Siskin
73. Stonechat
74. Short-eared Owl
75. Merlin
76. Goldeneye

Most of those were on Whixall Moss. 3 Owls already and the first week of they year isn't over yet!

 

[Larry Lade]

57. Rock Pigeon

 

[Larry Lade]

I had no idea that you were a BirdForum member, Abby. I will have to check on some of your other posts, especially the ones concerning Ecuador. A couple of years ago I went on a birding trip down there. I was there for two weeks and got a lot of lifers. Had a great time there. Ted Vawter (Saint Joseph native) now living in the Baltimore, MD area is going down in February, mostly in the Rio Napo area, I believe. Perhaps you could give him a few pointers on how to find and ant swarms and all those antbirds!

Larry

:t: It was nice to meet you! Quite a long day of driving, but it was worth it. I've missed that species every time I've been to the North Woods.

I'm at 70 for the year.

 

[Nightjar61]

Went birding this morning and it was absolutely slow--almost no birds wherever I went. It wasn't until I got home that I got a year bird at my feeders, putting me up to 75 for the year.

75. White-crowned Sparrow

Dave

 

[Jacana]

And yet another Owl!

77. Tawny Owl

3 of them calling in the trees by the house, managed to catch a glimpse of one of them.

 

[JeffMoh]

Didn't manage to get out birding this weekend. However, our yards were busy and added:
73 Pine Siskin
74 Brown-headed Nuthatch

Jeff

 

[JeffMoh]

Two more at work this morning. Both should have appeared in early December!

75. American Robin
76. Cedar Waxwing

Jeff

 

[JeffMoh]

Lunchtime additions:
77 Snowy Egret
78 Ring-necked Duck
79 Northern Pintail
80 Brown-headed Cowbird

Jeff

 

[Nightjar61]

Went to a nearby park for the second time in three days to look for a Merlin that had been found there. I found my target, which was on top of a wooden light pole at a ballpark plucking what looked like a House Sparrow.

76. Merlin

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

Lake Contrary area, Saint Joseph, Missouri
58. Eurasian Collared-Dove
59. Common Goldeneye
60. Great Blue Heron
61. Ring-billed Gull

Lewis & Clark State Park, 16 miles south of Saint Joseph, Missouri
62. Snow Goose
63. Ross's Goose
64. Herring Gull
65. Ruddy Duck
66. American White Pelican

 

[borealowl47]

Boreal Owl

25.American Black Duck
26.Pine Grosbeak
27.Boreal Owl