Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (3 Viewers)

B

bronze sunbird

Well-known member

• Jul 13, 2020

• #4,221

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris). A fairly scarce passage migrant in these parts. I'm happy to have caught up with this one on May 26 in Price Edward County - it saved me from having to search for them on their massively buggy breeding grounds.

 

Warixenjalka

Birdwitcher

• Jul 26, 2020

• #4,222

June 27th Lanceolated Warbler in Lemi, Finland (heard only)
July 6th Pied Bushchat in Eurajoki, Finland (3rd in Finland - and Western Europe) :king:

 

Attachments

• 
  dbdbP1510019.jpg

  247.5 KB · Views: 14

Euan Buchan

The Edinburgh Birdwatcher

Supporter

• Jul 29, 2020

• #4,223

Today saw my first Yellowhammer.

 

Jacana

Will Jones

• Jul 30, 2020

• #4,224

After a dry spell of 14 months I finally got 2 more lifers today, at Hortobagy, Hungary.

2076. Pygmy Cormorant
2077. Little Bittern

 

I

in vitrio

Well-known member

• Aug 1, 2020

• #4,225

Alpine swifts in Berne. Dozens of them flocking around a bridge in the old city centre, and a few of them swooping around in the centre itself.

Damn difficult to photograph though...

 

Attachments

• 
  50176193302_9dd858f33f_c.jpg

  26.7 KB · Views: 36

I

in vitrio

Well-known member

• Oct 1, 2020

• #4,226

I don't know if this is a common rock thrush or a blue rock thrush, but, either way, it is a first for me...spotted gazing over the sea at Catalan Bay, Gibraltar, this morning.

 

Attachments

• 
  50405752407_f22fbd4eec_c.jpg

  123.4 KB · Views: 58

Farnboro John

Well-known member

• Oct 1, 2020

• #4,227

in vitrio said:

I don't know if this is a common rock thrush or a blue rock thrush, but, either way, it is a first for me...spotted gazing over the sea at Catalan Bay, Gibraltar, this morning.

Click to expand...

Looks like Blue to me!

And for myself, Tennessee Warbler! B

John

 

A

andyb39

Well-known member

• Oct 2, 2020

• #4,228

Yes, Blue.

 

B

bronze sunbird

Well-known member

• Oct 2, 2020

• #4,229

For me: Nelson's Sparrow near Pembroke on Saturday, and then icing on the cake with a Pomarine Skua in Ottawa on Sunday.

 

kevinsl06

Well-known member

• Oct 5, 2020

• #4,230

I got a Brown Thrasher yesterday morning.

 

ClarkWGriswold

Carpe Carpum

Supporter

• Oct 5, 2020

• #4,231

Before we went back in to lockdown I picked up a Buff breasted Sandpiper in Pembrokeshire.

 

Attachments

• 
  BD1E2B24-5FEB-4C70-AEA3-904181F9ABA2.jpg

  465.3 KB · Views: 13

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Oct 6, 2020

• #4,232

Nice to see some people adding to their lists.

The only non-ABA rarity that showed up in the northeastern US were birds I'd already seen (Wood Sand and YG Vireo in NJ). And I'm not heading anywhere else in the US that would make me quarantine for 2 weeks when I came home.

Ugh.

 

D

dwallace

Well-known member

• Oct 6, 2020

• #4,233

Subject to acceptance, Eastern Yellow Wagtail on my local patch at Brownwich, Hampshire.

Dave W

 

YuShan

Well-known member

• Oct 10, 2020

• #4,234

The Wilsons Phalarope today at Keyhaven Marshes was a lifer for me. It will probably remain the only lifer for me this year thanks to Covid-19 (no foreign travel in 2020).

 

S

StephenHampshire

Well-known member

• Oct 10, 2020

• #4,235

Not the most exciting one, but saw my first Spoonbill this evening at my local pond (Hampshire UK)

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Oct 10, 2020

• #4,236

StephenHampshire said:

Not the most exciting one, but saw my first Spoonbill this evening at my local pond (Hampshire UK)

Click to expand...

If your first Spoonbill isn't exciting . . . :eek!:

 

S

StephenHampshire

Well-known member

• Oct 10, 2020

• #4,237

Nutcracker said:

If your first Spoonbill isn't exciting . . . :eek!:

Click to expand...

I musty say a little oath slipped my lips when I realised what was flying in front of me!

 

B

birdmeister

Well-known member

• Oct 11, 2020

• #4,238

Imagine my shock when I arrived at my local reservoir and I got on a juvenile Sabine's Gull while the car was still moving! It appeared with several Lesser Black-backs that really dwarfed it. Sabine's is a big rarity in these parts, and it stayed for barely 3 minutes before heading south.

 

S

sirto

Member

• Oct 15, 2020

• #4,239

Florida Scrub Jay

 

Farnboro John

Well-known member

• Oct 17, 2020

• #4,240

Two tick day!!!! My first in Britain since 1989. Up until today Ron Johns had had a two tick day more recently than I had (which is ridiculous) but not any longer.....

Taiga Flycatcher first winter at Trow Quarry South Shields

Rufous Bushchat on the saltmarsh at Stiffkey

760 mile round trip from Farnborough. Absolutely awesome day out, this was a once in a generation day in the field. Great to see so many friends and fellow-twitchers (including some that were at both sites....). Two great birds, one long anticipated (and a grudge match after a previous dip), one beyond dreams.

John