How Is Your 2015 List Going? (4 Viewers)

[martinboer]

20 May

In Sacramento for work...

CalPERS, Sacramento, CA
142. House Finch

21 May

Had a nice couple of hours birding in one of America's premier birding hot-spots and bagged 6 newer lifers...

Balboa Pier, CA
143. Western Grebe

Newport Harbor Jetties, CA
144. Pied-billed Grebe (New Lifer)
145. Red Knot (New Lifer)

Upper Newport Bay, CA
146. Snowy Egret
147. Rufous Hummingbird (New Lifer)
148. Barn Swallow
149. Marsh Wren (New Lifer)
150. Common Yellowthroat (New Lifer)
151. Savannah Sparrow (New Lifer)

World life list: 415 (Savannah Sparrow, Newport Beach, CA, USA; May 2015)
USA life list: 131 (Savannah Sparrow, Newport Beach, CA, USA; May 2015)
2015 year list: 151 (Savannah Sparrow, Newport Beach, CA, USA; May 2015)

 

[Andy Hurley]

At the Emsquelle in OWL, Germany today

187 Wood Warbler
188 Common Redstart
189 Tawny Owl

 

[Tero]

122 dickcissel

 

[martinboer]

22 May

Visited University of British Columbia and went to Wreck Beach for about an hour...

Wreck Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada
152. Glaucous-winged Gull (New Lifer)
153. Northwestern Crow (New Lifer)

23 May

Went biking around Stanley Park for around 2 hours.

Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada

154. Wood Duck
155. Red-breasted Sapsucker (New Lifer)


World life list: 418 (Red-breasted Sapsucker, Vancouver, BC, Canada; May 2015)
Canada life list: 15 (Red-breasted Sapsucker, Vancouver, BC, Canada; May 2015)
2015 year list: 155 (Red-breasted Sapsucker, Vancouver, BC, Canada; May 2015)

 

[Jacana]

12 new birds since my last update including two lifers. All on Öland, Sweden:

171. Woodlark
172. Common Cuckoo
173. Common Swift
174. Red-backed Shrike
175. Garden Warbler
176. Common Whitethroat
177. Spotted Flycatcher
178. Icterine Warbler
179. Garganey
180. Eurasian Penduline Tit
181. Great Egret
182. Corn Crake

 

[Nightjar61]

Today my birding buddy and I went to south-central West Virginia to an area that is one of the best places in the state, if not the country, to see Swainson's Warbler. We found our target within a matter of minutes in the same place we saw one last year.

208. Swainson's Warbler

Dave

 

[Tero]

123. Eastern towhee
124. Alder flycatcher
125. Eastern Wood-Pewee
126. Northern Parula

 

[Nightjar61]

Today I targeted the last wood warbler that I have any reasonable chance of seeing this spring in this part of the state. (There are a handful of others that will require a road trip, or that are more easily found in the fall). If I didn't get it within the next week or so, then I would have probably missed it for the year, since it will stop singing soon, and I've never seen one during fall migration.

Fortunately I located one intermittently singing bird, and it took over two hours to get a brief, unsatisfying glimpse, but at least I can now add it to the Year List.

209. Cerulean Warbler

Dave

 

[Tero]

127. willow flycatcher
128. hooded merganser

 

[Peter C.]

Monday, May25:

60) Peregrine

Location: Kitchener, Ontario. Finally located a recognizable individual at a nearby nesting site (microwave tower of the local television station). I had seen a raptor-shaped lump at the site once before, but without bins, so it could have been practically anything.
There are four chicks at the moment; nest cam images here:
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/bird-s-eye-view-ctv-peregrine-falcon-cam-streaming-live-1.2313835

Conditions: Quite the turnaround since I was last out, locally: a bit too warm, a bit too humid.

 

[Swindon Addick]

Saturday 23rd saw the morning spent in & around Goring looking for dragonflies (which I didn't see, although several other people did), then the afternoon at Otmoor looking for birds and seeing mainly dragonflies.
115 Egyptian goose
116 Garden warbler
117 Willow warbler (heard only)
118 Turtle dove
119 Reed warbler
Also got my best ever view of a cuckoo, and increased the dragons & damsels year-list to 9, so pretty happy overall, despite dipping the target dragonflies (common clubtail, if you're interested).

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning my birding buddy and I chased a very rare bird for this state. It would be a state lifer for both of us. After about an hour, the bird made an appearance and we got excellent looks.

210. Common Gallinule

Despite its rarity, there seems to be a mini invasion of gallinules this spring, as this was the fourth reported so far.

Dave

 

[AlexC]

Got a new car and decided to take it for a late night spin up in the mountains - owling!

299. Common Poorwill
300. Western Screech-Owl

 

[avesjohn]

This morning I carpooled with some other birders in pursuit of two local rarities, and found both.

At Cabora Rd. (overlooking Ballona Freshwater Marsh):
247. Cliff Swallow (long, long overdue for my year list)
248. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (a beautiful male bird present for the last 3 days at this location, and new for my L.A. County list)

At Castaic Sports Complex:
249. Cassin's Sparrow (the other local rarity, and a lifer!)
250. Blue Grosbeak

 

[Andy Hurley]

Got a new car and decided to take it for a late night spin up in the mountains - owling!

299. Common Poorwill
300. Western Screech-Owl

Well done Alex, that's the first 300 sortedB

 

[peter hill]

189 4ed necked phalarope 190 cuckoo 191 peregrine 192 stone curlew 193 white rumped sand piper 194 little stint minsmere ,Suffolk,,frampton marsh

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Closing in on the 200 but still need some sitters!! Added Corncrake, Red-necked Phalarope and Red Kite in the last few days, so not too bad weekend!!

CB

 

[Peter C.]

Tuesday, June 02:

61) Red-eyed Vireo

Location: Kitchener, Ontario. Singing in a small clump of trees in a schoolyard, of all places, which shows just how adaptable these birds are.

Conditions: Just perfect.

 

[Nightjar61]

An example of the "Patagonia Picnic Table Effect" occurred at a local hotspot today. Last week I chased a Common Gallinule, a very rare bird in West Virginia. Today, another birder looking for the gallinule found an even rarer bird within 100 yards of where the gallinule was being seen. I chased this bird as well, my second state lifer in less than a week.

211. Red-necked Phalarope

Dave

 

[chris butterworth]

20 May, BMW, Burton, Cheshire, UK.

668 Garganey

04 June, Losiny Ostrov, Moscow, Russia.

A superb morning ( from first light ) around this reserve in the southern suburbs of Moscow.

669 Ferruginous Duck. It makes a change to see "real" ones.
670 Spotted Crake.
671 Corn Crake. Heard only.
672 Terek Sandpiper.
673 Black Tern.
674 Whiskered Tern. There are a few White-winged Tern present, but no luck on getting onto them.
675 Black Kite.
676 W. Honey-buzzard. Probably a late migrant as there is no suitable habitat on the reserve.
677 Eur. Roller. "Rolling" :t:
678 Eur. Golden Oriole. Quite a few singing males and a couple of barely satisfactory glimpses of an ad. male and a couple of females.
679 Red-backed Shrike. Mainly on the fences that border the railway line through the reserve.
680 Eur. Penduline-tit.
681 Wood Lark.
682 Marsh Warbler.
683 Gt. Reed Warbler.
684 Icterine Warbler.
685 Savi's Warbler.
686 Barred Warbler.
687 Less. Whitethroat.
688 Red-breasted Flycatcher.
689 Scarlet Rosefinch.