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How's Your 2025 List Going? (1 Viewer)

hookem2010 said:
No time for actual birding on a quick trip to Houston, but I did notice a pair of
#122 Tufted titmice while taking the kids to the arboretum.
Unfortunately, I couldn't swing a trip 90 miles farther east to go after Texas' first Amur stonechat!
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I've been vicariously salivating over that stonechat on the TX Discord...

2 consolation year birds on Sunday while targeting a more exciting one that didn't show up for me:
163. Clark's Grebe
164. Marsh Wren
 
A few days ago...
413 Swainson's Thrush
414 Middle American Leaftosser
415 Spotted Woodcreeper
416 Northern Schiffornis
417 Dot-winged Antwren

Today
418 Great Tinamou
419 Great Potoo
420 Rufous-winged Woodpecker
421 Chestnut-backed Antbird
422 Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
423 Yellow Tyrannulet
424 Canebrake Wren
425 Blue-black Grosbeak
426 Shining Honeycreeper
427 Swainson's Hawk
428 Tiny Hawk (lifer)
 
Just arrived in Uganda this afternoon for a one-week birding trip (my first time in East Africa). I haven’t started birding seriously yet, but as is usually the case in a new country, I got a few new birds at the airport and on the hotel grounds. Lifers are in bold.

87. Pied Crow
88. Piapiac
89. Hadada Ibis
90. Common Bulbul
91. Black-headed Gonolek
92. Green-headed Sunbird
93. Eastern Plantain-eater
94. White-browed Robin-Chat
95. Black-headed Heron

Dave
 
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I went out to Ballona Freshwater Marsh today. I took over 700 photos but sadly when I tried to retrieve my photos I lost most of them. Really sad about it because I had a bunch of new lifers I couldn't identify and really nice shots that I lost. Only 9 (edit: 10) lifers but I would have gotten way more if I hadn't lost my photos.

35. Great-Tailed Grackle
36. Common Raven (Surprised I haven't tracked ravens on my Ebird until now.)
37. Black Phoebe
38. Sharp-Shinned Hawk
39. Osprey
40. Neotropical cormorant (Apparently "rare", I added description notes and a photo for review. Glad I didn't lose that photo!)
41. Ruddy Duck
42. Hooded Merganser
43. Gadwall
44. Cinnamon Teal

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Big errors on this post. I totally messed up the order of everything. Sorry about that. I also went through my notes I forgot about and was able to identify hooded mergansers. Sorry!
 
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hookem2010 said:
#131 Solitary sandpiper- one if the few shorebirds I can get close to home
#132 Great horned owl- seen in daylight on a red-shouldered hawk nest of unknown activity
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Congrats on the owl lifer! I've never seen an owl myself. I saw some shorebirds at Ballona Freshwater Marsh a few days ago but lost the photos of them so I couldn't identify them. I suck at shorebird identification.
 
Because of sketchy internet service, I was not able to update my Year List while I was in Uganda. Now that I’m back in the US, I have some time to do so. Lifers are in bold.

096. Marabou Stork
097. Village Weaver
098. Great Blue Turaco
099. African Green Pigeon
100. Broad-billed Roller
101. Ruppell’s Starling
102. Splendid Starling
103. Red-eyed Dove
104. African Openbill
105. Woodland Kingfisher
106. White-browed Coucal
107. Western Cattle Egret
108. Lizard Buzzard
109. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
110. Scarlet-chested Sunbird
111. Brown-backed Scrub Robin
112. Long-crested Eagle
113. Yellow-billed Stork
114. Yellow-throated Longclaw
115. Reed Cormorant
116. Northern Brown-throated Weaver
117. Vieillot’s Black Weaver
118. Pied Kingfisher
119. Speckled Mousebird
120. Red-chested Sunbird
121. Gray Crowned Crane
122. Congo Pied Hornbill
123. Striped Kingfisher
124. Tawny-flanked Prinia
125. Double-toothed Barbet
126. Northern Black Flycatcher
127. Lesser Striped Swallow
128. Black-and-white Shrike-flycatcher
129. Wahlberg’s Eagle
130. Diderick Cuckoo
131. Barn Swallow
132. Angola Swallow
133. Eurasian Hobby
134. Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
135. African Pied Wagtail
136. African Jacana
137. Yellow-billed Duck
138. Purple Heron
139. Long-toed Lapwing
140. African Marsh Harrier
141. Squacco Heron
142. African Swamphen
143. Fan-tailed Widowbird
144. Gray-hooded Gull
145. Common Ringed Plover
146. Western Yellow Wagtail
147. Bank Swallow
148. Gray Parrot
149. Winding Cisticola
150. Shoebill
151. Black Crake
152. Rufous-bellied Heron
153. Malachite Kingfisher
154. White-headed Sawwing
155. African Palm Swift
156. Mottled Swift
157. Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
158. Hooded Vulture
159. Yellow-billed Kite
160. African Harrier-Hawk
161. Little Swift
162. Laughing Dove
163. Lilac-breasted Roller
164. Yellow-billed Egret
165. White-faced Whistling Duck
166. Speckled Pigeon
167. African Woolly-necked Stork
168. African Sacred Ibis
169. Glossy Ibis
170. Blue-billed Teal
171. Common Greenshank
172. African Fish Eagle
173. Crimson-rumped Waxbill
174. Little Egret
175. Great Egret
176. Papyrus Gonolek
177. Lesser Kestrel
178. Gray Kestrel
179. African Gray Hornbill
180. European Bee-eater
181. Mosque Swallow
182. Red-necked Spurfowl
183. Trilling Cisticola
184. Variable Sunbird
185. Singing Cisticola
186. Whinchat
187. Red-billed Quelea
188. Brimstone Canary
189. Isabelline Shrike
190. Moustached Grass Warbler
191. Crowned Lapwing
192. Southern Red Bishop
193. Helmeted Guineafowl
194. Striped Pipit
195. African Pipit
196. Golden-breasted Bunting
197. Golden-backed Weaver
198. Purple-banded Sunbird
199. Spectacled Weaver
200. Lesser Masked Weaver
201. Green Sandpiper
202. Little Bee-eater
203. Pin-tailed Wydah
204. Plain-backed Pipit
205. Wood Sandpiper
206. Wattled Lapwing
207. Arrow-marked Babbler
208. Holub’s Golden Weaver
209. Crested Francolin
210. Black-necked Weaver
211. Common Scimitarbill
212. Chinspot Batis
213. Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
214. Meyer’s Parrot
215. African Gray Woodpecker
216. Ross’s Turaco
217. Tropical Boubou
218. African Pygmy Kingfisher
219. Fiery-necked Nightjar
220. Baglafecht Weaver
221. Northern Crombec
222. Fork-tailed Drongo
223. Brown-crowned Tchagra
224. Gray-backed Fiscal
225. Egyptian Goose
226. Ring-necked Dove
227. Black-lored Babbler
228. Red-headed Weaver
229. Black-bellied Bustard
230. White-headed Barbet
231. Violet-backed Starling
232. Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
233. Blue-naped Mousebird
234. White-winged Black Tit
235. Yellow-fronted Canary
236. Olive Sunbird
237. Yellow-breasted Apalis
238. Marico Sunbird
239. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
240. Hamerkop
241. African Hawk-Eagle
242. Water Thick-knee
243. Greater Blue-eared Starling
244. Common Sandpiper
245. Three-banded Plover
246. Rufous-chested Swallow
247. White-backed Vulture
248. Bateleur
249. Pearl-spotted Owlet
250. Tawny Eagle
251. Little Weaver
252. Spot-flanked Barbet
253. African Thrush
254. Crested Barbet
255. Bare-faced Go-away-bird
256. Sooty Chat
257. Green-capped Eremomela
258. Green-backed Cameroptera
259. White-rumped Swift
260. Striated Heron
261. African Finfoot
262. Swamp Flycatcher
263. Black-crowned Night Heron
264. White-backed Night Heron
265. Greater Honeyguide
266. Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher
267. Brubru
268. Nubian Woodpecker
269. Pale Flycatcher
270. Red-headed Lovebird
271. Klaas’s Cuckoo
272. Gabar Goshawk
273. Northern Fiscal
274. African Red-rumped Swallow
275. Eurasian Kestrel
276. African Stonechat
277. Carruthers’s Cisticola
278. Augur Buzzard
279. Village Indigobird
280. Black Goshawk
281. White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
282. African Blue Flycatcher
283. Streaky Seedeater
284. African Dusky Flycatcher
285. Gray-throated Barbet
286. Rameron Pigeon
287. Tambourine Dove
288. Kandt’s Waxbill
289. Sharpe’s Starling
290. Chubb’s Cisticola
291. Cinnamon-breasted Bee-eater
292.Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
293. Rwenzori Batis
294. Black Sawwing
295. Slender-billed Greenbul
296. Red-faced Woodland Warbler
297. Gray Cuckooshrike
298. Green White-eye
299. Regal Sunbird
300. Banded Prinia
301. Mountain Buzzard
302. Rwenzori Hill Babbler
303. Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet
304. Black-billed Turaco
305. Northern Double-collared Sunbird
306. White-browed Crombec
307. Dusky Crimsonwing
308. Brown-capped Weaver
309. Black-faced Rufous Warbler
310. Blue-headed Sunbird
311. Thick-billed Seedeater
312. Rwenzori Apalis
313. Mackinnon’s Shrike
314. Waller’s Starling
315. Black-tailed Oriole
316. Dwarf Honeyguide
317. Albertine Boubou
318. White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
319. Archer’s Robin-Chat
320. White-headed Woodhoopoe
321. Northern Puffbird
322. Strange Weaver
323. Grauer’s Warbler
324. Black-faced Apalis
325. Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher
326. Black-throated Apalis
327. Dusky Tit
328. Kikuyu Mountain Greenbul
329. Stripe-breasted Tit
330. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
331. Equatorial Akalat
332. Cardinal Woodpecker
333. Grauer’s Broadbill
334. Yellow-streaked Greenbul
335. African Cuckoo
336. Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
337. White-chinned Prinia
338. Levaillant’s Cuckoo
339. White-bellied Crested Flycatcher
340. Ludher’s Bushshrike
341. Narina Trogon
342. Red-throated Crag Martin
343. Common Waxbill
344. Western Citril
345. Bronze Mannikin
346. Black-and-white Mannikin
347. Cassin’s Flycatcher
348. Mountain Wagtail
349. Slender-billed Starling
350. Speckled Tinkerbird
351. Gray-headed Sunbird
352. Narrow-tailed Starling
353. Plain Greenbul
354. African Shrike-flycatcher
355. Buff-throated Apalis
356. Bar-tailed Trogon
357. Stuhlmann’s Starling
358. Blue Malkoha
359. Black Bee-eater
360. Ansorge’s Greenbul
361. Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
362. Brown Snake Eagle
363. Red-billed Firefinch
364. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
365. Red-collared Widowbird
366. Croaking Cisticola
367. Palm-nut Vulture
368. Blue-spotted Wood Dove
369. Black-winged Bishop
370. Fawn-breasted Waxbill
371. Siffling Cisticola
372. Common Quail
373. Copper Sunbird
374. Ruppell’s Vulture
375. Slender-billed Weaver
376. Pink-backed Pelican
377. Black-chested Snake Eagle
378. Zitting Cisticola
379. Rufous-naped Lark
380. Mourning Collared Dove
381. Wing-snapping Cisticola
382. African Crake
383. Senegal Lapwing
384. White-tailed Lark
385. Black-winged Pratincole
386. Flappet Lark
387. Kittlitz’s Plover
388. Montagu’s Harrier
389. Gray-capped Warbler
390. Beaudoin’s Snake Eagle
391. Black-winged Kite
392. Lappet-faced Vulture
393. White-headed Vulture
394. Lesser Flamingo
395. Black-winged Stilt
396. Lesser Gray Shrike
397. Western Marsh Harrier
398. Buff-bellied Warbler
399. Western Black-headed Batis
400. Lesser Swamp Warbler
401. Gray-headed Kingfisher
402. African Skimmer
403. White-winged Tern
404. Spur-winged Lapwing
405. Gray Heron
406. Black-headed Weaver
407. Ruff
408. Great White Pelican
409. Great Cormorant
410. Goliath Heron
411. Crowned Hornbill
412. Wattled Starling
413. Western Banded Snake Eagle
414. White-backed Duck
415. Eurasian Moorhen
416. Abdim’s Stork

Dave
 
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A couple more today in Gijón:

131. Barn Swallow
132. Iberian Green Woodpecker

I can't believe it's taken this long to actually see the woodpecker. I've heard them plenty of times before today!

I'm in Portugal for the next week and a half for work, so I expect quite a few new ones.
 

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