Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)

Lisa W

I really need to get out and bird more

Staff member

Supporter

• Oct 15, 2019

• #4,101

On October 14th I saw a Clark’s Nutcracker for the first time. A bird I’ve been wanting to see for a long time! Not a great photo, but nice for a record shot.

 

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hookem2010

Well-known member

• Oct 19, 2019

• #4,102

#381(all new ABA area)- Clay colored sparrow, which pretty much wraps up all the sparrows I can expect to find in my region

 

Reader

Well-known member

• Oct 20, 2019

• #4,103

I have done virtually no birding since the 1st of May. Thankfully I have just managed a few days between Spurn and Flamborough picking up a Lifer on my first day with a 1st winter Red-eyed Vireo.

 

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Nightjar61

David Daniels

• Oct 27, 2019

• #4,104

Today I went to north-central Ohio and saw my latest lifer, a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper.

Dave

 

Tom Mc85

Well-known member

• Oct 28, 2019

• #4,105

Saw a Black Redstart for the first time, from my bedroom window! Glanced out at just the right time.

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Oct 30, 2019

• #4,106

Clay-colored Sparrow, found not too far from home.

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Oct 30, 2019

• #4,107

Common Nighthawk, a long way from home!

 

hookem2010

Well-known member

• Oct 30, 2019

• #4,108

#382, greater scaup. Almost didn't pull my scope out because it was freezing, but these two struck me as quite possibly not the more common lesser scaup.

 

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thesetter11

Active member

• Oct 31, 2019

• #4,109

Velvet Scoter at Draycote Water, Warwickshire on the 30th

 

Xenospiza

Distracted

• Nov 2, 2019

• #4,110

Upcher's Warbler in the Netherlands on 13/10. Always nice to get a Dutch tick that's a lifer!

 

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in vitrio

Well-known member

• Nov 10, 2019

• #4,111

With some new spots, it can be one of those where you squint into the distance, wonder what it is, take a better look, perhaps pursue it a little if it hops away, and finally you realize it's something you've never seen before.

Less expected is when a flock of half-a-dozen basically hops about at your feet looking for bits of spilt food.

Turnstone, Mevagissey Harbour in Cornwall.

 

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Ries

Well-known member

• Nov 10, 2019

• #4,112

Crested lark

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Nov 10, 2019

• #4,113

Northern Bald Ibis + Spanish Imperial Eagle in Andalucia. Also my first European Common Bulbul!

 

Jon Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 10, 2019

• #4,114

aeshna5 said:

Northern Bald Ibis + Spanish Imperial Eagle in Andalucia. Also my first European Common Bulbul!

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Northern Bald Ibis complete with radio transmitters?

 

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aeshna5

Well-known member

• Nov 11, 2019

• #4,115

Jon Turner said:

Northern Bald Ibis complete with radio transmitters?

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Certainly didn't see one- just a ring on the leg.

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Nov 27, 2019

• #4,116

120 lifers so far on a trip to Southern India and Sri Lanka. One one today - Indian Stone-curlew - near Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

 

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in vitrio

Well-known member

• Nov 27, 2019

• #4,117

Grey plover, very distantly, on the rocks of Casablanca. Last of a dozen or so on an historical trip to Morocco.

 

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avesjohn

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• Nov 28, 2019

• #4,118

Red-footed Booby seen at Corona del Mar State Beach in Orange County, California (about an hour from home) this past Sunday.

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Nov 30, 2019

• #4,119

Lapland Longspur for me.

 

Euan Buchan

The Edinburgh Birdwatcher

Supporter

• Dec 3, 2019

• #4,120

Yesterday I saw my first Egyptian Goose at a pond whilst on a Bus Tour in Brussels. Sadly I didn't bring my Binoculars or notebook but I will write it down when I get back.