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How Is Your 2015 List Going? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Penny Clarke
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Nightjar61
David Daniels
Driving home from work, I added three new birds to my Year List, bringing me up to 53.
54. Black Vulture
55. Northern Harrier
56. Sharp-shinned Hawk
Dave
54. Black Vulture
55. Northern Harrier
56. Sharp-shinned Hawk
Dave
Larry Lade
Moderator
One new 2015 Missouri Bird today at our bird feeders.
47. Hairy Woodpecker
47. Hairy Woodpecker
Nightjar61
David Daniels
Heavy snow today kept me at home, watching my feeders. Despite many birds of numerous species coming to the feeders, there was only one new bird today.
57. Cooper's Hawk
The hawk had caught a bird at the feeders, and it was eating its kill on the ground just inside the woods behind the house.
Dave
57. Cooper's Hawk
The hawk had caught a bird at the feeders, and it was eating its kill on the ground just inside the woods behind the house.
Dave
Larry Lade
Moderator
My 48th "year bird" in Missouri, was also a "lifer": IVORY GULL. I viewed it yesterday (along with a group of some 30 birders). The arctic visitor was found sitting on the ice on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River at Quincy, Illinois.
Jon Turner
Well-known member
So far, this year sucks - been stuck indoors for 5 days now with a real belter of a cold.... so 35 species only. Glad this didn't happen last year!
Ivory Gull - Larry that's really rubbing salt in the wounds.....
Ivory Gull - Larry that's really rubbing salt in the wounds.....
Larry Lade
Moderator
Hope you get to feeling better soon Jon.
Jon Turner
Well-known member
Thanks, I've been hoping for that every morning! Will post when I'm back on the move!
chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
Adding Grey Phalarope and Common Guillemot on 5th and Black-necked Grebe, Spotted Redshank, Reed Bunting, Song Thrush ( The last two are really embarrassing. I should have had them New Years Day :C ) and Common Raven, today, takes me up to 169.
Ivory Gull is a cracking bird Larry. Was it a pristine adult ....... or one of those 'grubby' 1st winters?
Ivory Gull is a cracking bird Larry. Was it a pristine adult ....... or one of those 'grubby' 1st winters?
Larry Lade
Moderator
Pristine adult bird, awesome! Nice "lifer" for me! And in Missouri, no less!
peter hill
Well-known member
My 85th uk 2015 was a grey wagtail yesterday :-O
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
5th January
McDonald's (outskirts of Derby)
1. Magpie
Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre
2. Chaffinch
3. Blackbird
4. Robin
5. Great Tit
6. Treecreeper (tick)
7. Stock Dove (tick)
8. Nuthatch
9. Blue Tit
10. Dunnock
11. Coal Tit (tick)
12. Woodpigeon
13. Carrion Crow
Sherwood CenterParcs
14. Mallard
15. Moorhen
16. Mute Swan
17. Coot
18. Canada Goose
19. Black-headed Gull
20. Greylag Goose
Because of family commitments and bad weather, I've just done bits and pieces of birding, so have reached only 72 species. I hope I can do some real birding on Saturday.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Egyptian Goose
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Am White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
N Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Am Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Red Knot
Sanderling
Dunlin
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
N Flicker
Crested Caracara
Am Kestrel
E Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
Am Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
E Bluebird
Am Robin
N Mockingbird
European Starling
Am Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
N Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
E Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
72. House Sparrow
Jeff
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Egyptian Goose
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Am White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
N Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Am Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Red Knot
Sanderling
Dunlin
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
N Flicker
Crested Caracara
Am Kestrel
E Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
Am Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
E Bluebird
Am Robin
N Mockingbird
European Starling
Am Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
N Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
E Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
72. House Sparrow
Jeff
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
7th January
Sherwood CenterParcs
21. Tufted Duck
22. Goldfinch
23. Long-tailed Tit
24. Greenfinch
25. Mistle Thrush
Gill Osborne
Well-known member
Thursday 8th January
Low Newton
Today's trip was an afternoon walk with the Alnwick & District Natural History Society to look for wintering wildfowl and waders. Lovely sunny day but a fairly strong wind which perhaps had a lot of stuff staying hidden in cover. Still a very pleasant couple of hours outside :t:
56: Purple Sandpiper
57: Rock Pipit
58: Dunlin
59: Merlin o
Back out this evening with the same group as there's a slide show & talk about the Farne Islands at 7.30pm.
Low Newton
Today's trip was an afternoon walk with the Alnwick & District Natural History Society to look for wintering wildfowl and waders. Lovely sunny day but a fairly strong wind which perhaps had a lot of stuff staying hidden in cover. Still a very pleasant couple of hours outside :t:
56: Purple Sandpiper
57: Rock Pipit
58: Dunlin
59: Merlin o
Back out this evening with the same group as there's a slide show & talk about the Farne Islands at 7.30pm.
A miserable start due to appalling weather. Just the 6
1 Carrion Crow
2 European Blue Tit
3 Great Tit
4 House Sparrow
5 Common Wood Pigeon
6 Feral Pigeon
But I got an armchair tick today for the Cape Gulls that I had down as Kelp Gulls in Namibia in 2013. Thanks Chris Butterworth
1 Carrion Crow
2 European Blue Tit
3 Great Tit
4 House Sparrow
5 Common Wood Pigeon
6 Feral Pigeon
But I got an armchair tick today for the Cape Gulls that I had down as Kelp Gulls in Namibia in 2013. Thanks Chris Butterworth
Still sick. Some from the past few days heard/seen from the window:
43. House Finch
44. California Towhee
45. Bushtit
46. Western Gull
Forced myself outside yesterday down to the water - this, was a mistake health-wise, but successful bird-wise:
47. American Wigeon
48. American Coot
49. Eared Grebe
51. Lesser Scaup
51. Heermann's Gull
52. Ring-billed Gull
53. Bufflehead
54. Ruddy Duck
55. Willet
56. Snowy Egret
57. Brown Pelican
58. Royal Tern
59. Western Grebe
60. Surf Scoter
61. Red-throated Loon
62. Marbled Godwit
63. Red-breasted Merganser
64. Double-crested Cormorant
65. Killdeer
66. Least Sandpiper
67. Pacific Loon
68. Brant
69. Common Loon
70. Black-vented Shearwater
71. Brandt's Cormorant
43. House Finch
44. California Towhee
45. Bushtit
46. Western Gull
Forced myself outside yesterday down to the water - this, was a mistake health-wise, but successful bird-wise:
47. American Wigeon
48. American Coot
49. Eared Grebe
51. Lesser Scaup
51. Heermann's Gull
52. Ring-billed Gull
53. Bufflehead
54. Ruddy Duck
55. Willet
56. Snowy Egret
57. Brown Pelican
58. Royal Tern
59. Western Grebe
60. Surf Scoter
61. Red-throated Loon
62. Marbled Godwit
63. Red-breasted Merganser
64. Double-crested Cormorant
65. Killdeer
66. Least Sandpiper
67. Pacific Loon
68. Brant
69. Common Loon
70. Black-vented Shearwater
71. Brandt's Cormorant
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peter hill
Well-known member
Goyt valley today 86 mistle thrush 87coal tit 88goldcreast 89nuthatch ,very windy
