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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    A week in Dorset to finish the year provided four final ticks, including one lifer. Perhaps if the weather had been better I might have found more and though it's kind of a shame not to make 500, it's still a lot more than I thought I'd get this year. 489. Slavonian Grebe 490. Common Goldeneye...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    An easy local twitch today. 488. Little Gull
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    How are Athlon Midas 8 x 42 ED & Midas G2 8 x 42 UHD?

    I've read in a couple of places, including from one retailer, that the glass in the Midas ED and G2 are the same and actually only the body is upgraded.
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    This would have been easy to tick off when I'm in England next month, but much nicer to get it here in Madrid where it's uncommon (unless you count the escaped that's been living in the city centre for a couple of years!). 487. Eurasian Wigeon
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    Poll - Do you agree or disagree with the AOS's recent decision to abandon the use of eponymous bird names?

    I'm not sure if you mean as default, but Merlin bird packs do use scientific names alongside vernacular names if you switch it on in settings.
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    I had a bit of a dry spell but finally had a great day this week and was able to add a couple of species I hadn't seen locally since March 2022. 485. Little Bustard 486. European Golden Plover
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Didn't go out at all for a few weeks, but I did twitch a Yellow-browed Warbler on Sunday making 483 for the year.
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    Hummingbird, San Diego

    Reviewing photos and came across this hummingbird from early September in San Diego. Obligatory apologies for poor quality etc.
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Two year ticks since arriving home to Madrid a week ago. 481. Bluethroat 482. Ruff
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    One from Rosarito, Baja. 475. Grey Phalarope San Diego 476. Leach's Storm-Petrel 477. Burrowing Owl 478. Vermilion Flycatcher 479. Cactus Wren In England for a few days again now. 480. Bar-tailed Godwit
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    Storm-petrel ID, San Diego

    I lightened up the photo and removed the automatic settings in the raw file which I think helps to view some details clearer. Even after brightening, the carpal bar on the upper side of its left wing is still barely visible and (hopefully I'm not on my own with this one!) is that not a wedge...
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    Storm-petrel ID, San Diego

    That may be the most likely candidate as there were a good number of them out that day. But that may also be the reason I can't remember the flight style of this particular bird (not aided by the fact whale watching boats obviously don't slow down for birds). I wondered if, based on this photo...
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    Storm-petrel ID, San Diego

    Apologies for blurry picture, but I wondered what people make of this storm-petrel because I’m not sure. From a whale watcher off San Diego yesterday.
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Tahoe. I'm usually based in San Diego whenever I'm over here but left for a week or two at the exact wrong time (from a birding perspective!). I understand some interesting things did turn up, but predictably gone before I got back. Having said that, there are still very big numbers of seabirds...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    (I've just noticed I misnumbered my previous post - oops!) Lake Tahoe 440. Ring-necked Duck 441. Baird's Sandpiper 442. Steller's Jay 443. Violet-green Swallow 444. White-headed Woodpecker 445. Mountain Chickadee 446. Pygmy Nuthatch 447. Hairy Woodpecker 448. Dark-eyed Junco 449. Brown Creeper...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    San Diego 416. Western Meadowlark 417. Lilac-crowned Parrot 418. Yellow-headed Parrot 419. Wilson's Warbler Sacramento & Yolo 420. Cackling Goose 421. American Wigeon 422. Redhead 423. Lesser Scaup 424. American White Pelican 435. White-faced Ibis 436. Swainson's Hawk 437. Loggerhead Shrike...
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    Feather id

    Looks like peafowl to me.
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    More from San Diego. Got out on to the ocean for the first time - will have to do that again while I'm in California! 405. Greater Roadrunner 406. Surfbird 407. Craveri's Murrelet 408. Sabine's Gull 409. Black Storm-Petrel 410. Pink-footed Shearwater 411. Sooty Shearwater 412. Brown Booby 413...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    End of another week in San Diego. Passed 400. 389. Red-masked Parakeet 390. Black Oystercatcher 391. Black Turnstone 392. Red-necked Phalarope 393. Wandering Tattler 394. Pomarine Skua 395. Black-vented Shearwater 396. Spotted Sandpiper 397. Swinhoe's White-eye 398. Blue-crowned Parakeet 399...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Second week in San Diego. One lifer. 374. California Gull 375. Brewer's Blackbird 376. Cinnamon Teal 377. Northern Mockingbird 378. Western Bluebird 379. Lesser Nighthawk 380. Little Blue Heron 381. Wilson's Phalarope 382. Ruddy Turnstone 383. Rock Wren 384. White-throated Swift 385...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    First week in San Diego. 295. Anna's Hummingbird 296. Allen's Hummingbird 297. Western Gull 298. White-tailed Kite 299. Cooper's Hawk 300. Red-shouldered Hawk 301. Red-tailed Hawk 302. Pacific-slope Flycatcher 303. Black Phoebe 304. Say's Phoebe 305. Ash-throated Flycatcher 306. Bell's Vireo...
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    Vocal ID - San Diego, California

    Is mockingbird a possibility?
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    Vocal ID - San Diego, California

    I heard this by the Bird & Butterfly Garden in Tijuana River Valley yesterday. I'm stumped by it, which is unsurprising given my limited experience of American species. But what surprises me is Merlin and BirdNET are also stumped (the recording seems clean and clear enough). The recording is...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    A two hour layover turned into four days stuck in Montreal due to crazy weather and general Air Canada nonsense. But on the bright side it gave me a couple of small opportunities to do some birding in a completely new region. 260. Wood Duck 261. Pied-billed Grebe 262. Mourning Dove 263...
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    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    This rounds off Dorset (and England) for now. Will be stateside for the next couple of months. 255. White-tailed Eagle 256. Manx Shearwater 257. Sandwich Tern 258. Balearic Shearwater 259. Arctic Skua
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