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Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Larry Lade
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Red-footed Falcon(553), Atlantic Canary (554) and Cory's Shearwater (555), all in the Azores (Sao Miguel) last week. My species count there was only 31, no wintering ducks yet but I got 9 new subspecies. The day I tried for the Azores Bullfinch proved unfruitful, too cloudy (low cloud base) and wet up in the mountains. It gives me an excuse to go back again though!
The Kerreran
Has hat, will stand in the rain
Franklin's Gull at Blashford on Sunday; cracking bird! :t: Even better, it came hot on the heels of the Portland Dusky Warbler - two Lifers in a day!!
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Same bird, same place, a week later.
I keep telling myself to stop going for rarities, given that there's so many relatively common species I haven't seen. And I particularly shouldn't go for yet another species of gull. I probably need to face up to being addicted.
Great Grey Shrike at Blackpool airport approach on Thursday the 20th of this month.
Boro Birder
Well-known member
Issy Wheatear, Seaton Snook, Teeside. A stunning confiding little beauty and was also a county first.
Damian
Damian
punkskaphil
Well-known member
Two lifers for me in Norfolk at the weekend:
#408: Surf Scoter
#409: Snow Bunting
I would've had Twite as well but the weather was so bad on Sunday morning and my glasses and bins were so covered in water that I couldn't see them. They were on my 5 species wishlist for the year too.
#408: Surf Scoter
#409: Snow Bunting
I would've had Twite as well but the weather was so bad on Sunday morning and my glasses and bins were so covered in water that I couldn't see them. They were on my 5 species wishlist for the year too.
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
Multicolored Tanager at Otun-Quimbaya in Colombia on Tuesday was the last of 130 lifers on a trip to Colombia.
Yesterday was a good example of the highs and lows of birding. Dropped in to Thornham to try to find the twite flock. Saw a flock of birds of the right size and shape take off from the saltmarsh just as I was arriving. They headed off and didn't come back. Of course they may have been linnets, but deep down I'm pretty sure that I missed the twite by a matter of minutes.
And then, shortly before sunset, a hen harrier drifted slowly overhead, giving cracking views. The number of times I've gone looking for them...
And then, shortly before sunset, a hen harrier drifted slowly overhead, giving cracking views. The number of times I've gone looking for them...
punkskaphil
Well-known member
That's exactly where I saw the flock of Twite in my earlier post. That's why I couldn't tick them off: the weather was so bad and my glasses and bins so covered in rainwater that all I saw was a flock of Linnet-like birds fly past and I couldn't see anything diagnostic. Our guide had a clearer view and confirmed them as Twite, but we lost sight of them. We returned later in the afternoon when the weather was slightly better but we couldn't find them again.
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Ruby-cheeked Sunbird at Kaeang Krachan yesterday morning.
James
James
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
No new life bird to report, I just wanted to say .... love James' new avatar!
(A bird I really wish were my "most recent"...)
Peter
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