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How is your 2019 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Two quick stops on the way home from work this afternoon produced two new birds for the year.

286. Merlin
287. Lesser Scaup

Dave
 
Total crap weeks for any outdoors. i will be shoveling snow today and put seed at feeder.
54 Harris's sparrow
 
Steinhorster Becken Germany 17th Feb.

35 Eurasian Teal
36 White Stork
37 Canada Goose
38 Common Linnet
39 Peregrine Falcon
40 Eurasian Jay
41 Gadwall
42 Mute Swan
43 Common Pheasant
44 Eurasian Wren
45 Eurasian Nuthatch
46 European Tree Sparrow
47 Egyptian Goose
48 Yellowhammer
49 Common Shelduck
50 Common Moorhen
51 Green Sandpiper
52 Great Cormorant
53 White Wagtail
54 Great Crested Grebe
55 Common Pochard
56 Northern Shoveler
57 Eurasian Wigeon
58 Smew
59 Marsh Tit

plus 1 hybrid Canada x Barnacle Goose
 
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Early this morning I drove over to the Ohio River Valley to look for a pelican that showed up a couple of days ago. I quickly found my target, plus another new bird for the year.

290. American White Pelican
291. Northern Shoveler

The pelican was a West Virginia lifer, number 277.

Dave
 
Stopped by an LA city park this weekend today that was new to me:
246. American Wigeon
247. Ring-necked Duck
248. Plumbeous Vireo
 
I had to go over to my daughters in Birmingham today and on the way called into Stirchley where a long staying Black Redstart was being regularly reported.

124. Black Redstart
 
Picked up some local targets today:
249. Northern Shoveler
250. Egyptian Goose
251. Hermit Thrush
252. Black-throated Gray Warbler
253. Blue-winged Warbler (CA lifer)
254. Mew Gull
255. Caspian Tern
256. Horned Grebe
257. Red-throated Loon
258. Clark’s Grebe
 
Today at the Dummersee, Germany

60 Barn Owl
61 Northern Lapwing
62 White tailed Eagle
63 Common Crane
64 Northern Pintail
65 Caspian Gull
66 European Goldfinch
67 Common Raven
68 Eurasian Siskin
69 Tundra Bean Goose
70 Taiga Bean Goose
 
Picked up a few more local birds in the past weeks...

Chevy Chase, MD
46. Chipping Sparrow
47. Northern Shoveler
48. Tufted Titmouse
49. Ring-necked Duck

Latest Lifer: 785 : Muscovy Duck (Hotel Los Lagos, Arenal, Costa Rica, August 2018)
 
This morning I drove to a neighboring county to chase a report of a scoter that was found a few days ago. After a little searching, I found my target.

293. White-winged Scoter

Dave
 
118. Eurasian Treecreeper

Surprisingly late bird for me, but I have been closeted away for a while now while I finish up my thesis.
 
This evening after supper I heard a pair of owls duetting in the woods behind my house. I eased into the woods and got a glimpse of one in flight.

295. Great Horned Owl

Dave
 
This evening I went out to see if woodcocks were calling and displaying yet. I saw two in flight and got some of my best looks ever as I had a third one at close range in my spotlight.

296. American Woodcock

Dave
 
An approaching snow storm brought a nice fallout of waterfowl this morning. Among the many species of ducks, I added one to my Year List.

297. Red-breasted Merganser

Dave
 
Around town this past week:
259. Townsend’s Warbler
260. Mitred Parakeet
261. Scaly-breasted Munia
262. Lawrence’s Goldfinch
263. Lark Sparrow
264. Chipping Sparrow
265. Green-winged Teal
266. Cinnamon Teal
267. Least Sandpiper
268. Long-billed Dowitcher
269. American Pipit
270. Wood Duck
271. Great Horned Owl
272. Painted Redstart (local rarity)
273. Savannah Sparrow
274. Tree Swallow
275. Ruff (local rarity)
 
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Some target birds on a day off:
276. Cactus Wren
277. California Gnatcatcher
278. American Goldfinch
279. Zone-tailed Hawk (local rarity - CA lifer)
 
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