Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
Eastern Bonellis Warbler in Turkey
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- Thread starter Larry Lade
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I got as far as last weekend without a single lifer, due largely to not spending enough time in interesting parts of the country. Things have been livened up with 3 lifer butterflies and completing the set of long-established UK Odonata.
Last weekend was MigFest, the excellent event organised by the BTO and Spurn Bird Observatory. I didn't see the sooty shearwater or the marsh warbler, and the white-rumped sandpiper was my second, but eventually a pomerine skua graced us with a fly-by so I finally have my first lifer of the year.
If any of our UK forumites want to have a go at seawatching but aren't confident, I strongly recommend this event - the seawatching sessions are accompanied by the regular migrant-counters from the Obs, who call out what they see as a matter of course and can give directions in terms of which offshore wind turbine to look at.
Last weekend was MigFest, the excellent event organised by the BTO and Spurn Bird Observatory. I didn't see the sooty shearwater or the marsh warbler, and the white-rumped sandpiper was my second, but eventually a pomerine skua graced us with a fly-by so I finally have my first lifer of the year.
If any of our UK forumites want to have a go at seawatching but aren't confident, I strongly recommend this event - the seawatching sessions are accompanied by the regular migrant-counters from the Obs, who call out what they see as a matter of course and can give directions in terms of which offshore wind turbine to look at.
hookem2010
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I was able to squeeze in a very small amount of birding on a trip up to Colorado for a wedding. On the way back to CO Springs on the Ptarmigan Lake Trail along Cottonwood Pass, I was able to get ABA #'s...
379) American three-toed woodpecker
380) Canada Jay
It's not listed as a hotspot on EBird, but appears to be a reliable spot for this relatively uncommon woodpecker, based on other reports listing ptarmigan lake trail as the personal location. Creeping ever closer to 400...
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379) American three-toed woodpecker
380) Canada Jay
It's not listed as a hotspot on EBird, but appears to be a reliable spot for this relatively uncommon woodpecker, based on other reports listing ptarmigan lake trail as the personal location. Creeping ever closer to 400...
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Gaz Shilton
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Long Billed Dowitcher, Fairburn Ings.
Andy Adcock
Worst person on Birdforum
Olive-bellied Sunbird.
The last of the trip to Uganda / Rwanda which gave me 160 new birds from a total of almost 350 species seen in about ten days birding.
The last of the trip to Uganda / Rwanda which gave me 160 new birds from a total of almost 350 species seen in about ten days birding.
Richard Prior
Halfway up an Alp
Persian Wheatear at Meghri, Armenia last Wednesday, one of three lifers on our latest humanitarian/cultural/ birding and fig eating trip:t:
Bananafishbones
Incoherently Rambling .....
weird weather this morning in East Cheshire, serious tropical downpour with thunder and lightening..... good for garden lifers.
Two Garden lifers this morning:
Little Egret flying over fairly low, presume this had been grounded in the weather somewhere nearby.
Spotted Flycatcher.
Two Garden lifers this morning:
Little Egret flying over fairly low, presume this had been grounded in the weather somewhere nearby.
Spotted Flycatcher.
Pectoral Sandpiper at Clifton Pits Worcestershire. Very nice scope views, quite strange to see a pair of transatlantic visitors with one constantly trying to chase and bully the other away from feeding.
My fifth American wader lifer of the year, good to finally get the most common one.
My fifth American wader lifer of the year, good to finally get the most common one.
Mysticete
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Technically not a lifer (seen in native range), and not even countable yet, but seeing 3 separate Great Tits today at Kohler-Andrae State Park and later Sheyboygan Indian Mounds Park in Wisconsin was pretty neat. Introduced and expanding in the last 4 years, so we will see if and when they get added to the state checklist.
Ian Lewis
aka Gryllo
Why would anyone want to release Great Tits in North America, they will compete and probably out-compete with native tits/chickadees for food and nesting sites.
Releasing non native species without a licence is illegal herein the UK is it not so in the USA?
Ian
Ian Lewis
aka Gryllo
Why would anyone want to release Great Tits in North America, they will compete and probably out-compete with native tits/chickadees for food and nesting sites.
Releasing non native species without a licence is illegal here in the UK is it not so in the USA?
Ian
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Yep - they're bold and aggressive towards Poecile species and other small hole-nesting species (e.g. Downy Woodpecker at high risk), will dominate them and evict them from nest sites, and are more efficient at using bird feeder resources. Serious trouble ahead if they're allowed to establish. This is a potentially very bad invasive species problem for the future; needs dealing with now, before there's too many.
Mysticete
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A bird distributor in the Chicago area...a decade or so ago? went out of business and decided to just release all of his stock. That was illegal of course, but it happened. In the years following that, a lot of very odd European songbirds were seen now and then in the Midwest, including Chaffinch, Eurasian Siskin, Eurasian Jay, Blue Tit, etc. I even, with a bunch of other birders, found a Linnet at Tawas Point some years back.
Most of those birds do not seem to have established breeding populations, the exception being European Goldfinch (which can be found further south along the Great Lakes shoreline) and Great Tit
Mysticete
Well-known member
Probably impossible...removing a cute songbird in suburban areas is...difficult. Plus, the republican legislature has massacred the budget of the Department of Natural Resources, and they already have there hands full with much much worse invasives...
Mark Burgess
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UK life list
Little Bustard - Methley
Little Bustard - Methley
birdmeister
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Western Sandpiper on the Avalon jetty in New Jersey.
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