Chris's 2014 list. (2 Viewers)

January 1, Haute Marne, France

Just setting out on my "New Years Day Bash". Got my first bird for the year before I was out of bed with a Robin singing outside the window and my first mammal, a Red Fox, crossing the lane while i was getting the car out. Hopefully they'll be good omens for the year.

1. Eur. Robin

The weather was a bit grim today which meant I had to work for quite a few species ( and I dipped on some that I should really have picked up. Bit upset that I didn't make 100 though.

2. Mute Swan
3. Grtr. Whitefronted Goose
4. Taiga Bean Goose
5. Tundra Bean Goose
6. Greylag Goose
7. Canada Goose
8. Mallard
9. Gadwall
10. Nth Shoveler
11. Eur Wigeon
12. Common Teal
13. Red-crested Pochard
14. Common Pochard
15. Tufted Duck
16. Comm Goldeneye
17. Goosander
18. Comm Pheasant
19. Reeves Pheasant
20. Grey Partridge
21. White-billed Diver
22. Gt Crested Grebe
23. Little Grebe
24. Gt Cormorant
25. Grey Heron
26. White-tailed Eagle
27. Red Kite
28. Hen Harrier
29. Common Buzzard
30. Rough-legged Buzzard
31. Eur Sparrowhawk
32. Comm Kestrel
33. Comm Moorhen
34. Eur Coot
35. Comm Crane
36. Nthn Lapwing
37. Green Sandpiper
38. Eur Woodstock
39. Comm Snipe
40. Black-headed Gull
41. Comm Gull
42. Feral Pigeon
43. Stock Dove
44. Comm Wood Pigeon
45. Eur Collared Dove
46. Tawny Owl
47. Tengmalms Owl
48. Long-eared Owl
49. Little Owl
50. River Kingfisher
51. Eur Green Woodpecker
52. Grey-headed Woodpecker
53. Gt Spotted Woodpecker
54. Mid Spotted Woodpecker
55. Less Spotted Woodpecker
56. Sky Lark
57. Crested Lark
58. Water Pipit
59. Meadow Pipit
60. Grey Wagtail
61. White-throated Dipper
62. Eur Wren
63. Bohemian Waxwing
64. Hedge Accentor
65. Black Redstart
66. Song Thrush
67. Mistle Thrush
68. Redwing
69. Fieldfare
70. Common Blackbird
71. Gt Tit
72. Blue Tit
73. Coal Tit
74. Crested Tit
75. Marsh Tit
76. Longtailed-tit
77. Eur Nuthatch
78. Short-toed Treecreeper
79. Gt Grey Shrike
80. Black-billed Magpie
81. Eur Jay
82. Western Jackdaw
83. Hooded Crow
84. Carrion Crow
85. Rook
86. Comm Starling
87. House Sparrow
88. Tree Sparrow
89. Comm Chaffinch
90. Brambling
91. Comm Linnet
92. Less Redpoll
93. Mealy Redpoll
94. Eur Goldfinch
95. Eur Greenfinch
96. Eur Bullfinch
97. Hawfinch


Chris
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03/01/14. Belgian coast and Het Zwin/ North Sea Ferry

98 Whooper Swan
99 Tundra Swan
100 Less Whitefronted Goose
101 Pinkfooted Goose
102 Barnacle Goose
103 Dark-bellied Brent Goose
104 Red-breasted Goose
105 Nthn Shelduck
106 Egyptian Goose
107 Nthn Pintail
108 Gtr Scaup
109 Comm Scoter
110 Velvet Scoter
111 Long-tailed Duck
112 Smew
113 Red-breasted Merganser
114 Red-throated Diver
115 Gt Nthn Diver
116 Red-necked Grebe
117 Atlantic Fulmar
118 Nthn Gannet
119 Little Egret
120 Gt Egret
121 Marsh Harrier
122 Merlin
123 Peregrine
124 Water Rail
125 Eur Oystercatcher
126 Pied Avocet
127 Ringed Plover
128 Grey Plover
129 Eur Golden Plover
130 Red Knot
131 Sanderling
132 Purple Sandpiper
133 Dunlin
134 Ruff
135 Common Redshank
136 Spotted Redshank
137 Bar-tailed Godwit
138 Black-tailed Godwit
139 Eur Curlew
140 Jack Snipe
141 Ruddy Turnstone
142 Mediterranean Gull
143 Eur Herring Gull
144 Yellow-legged Gull
145 Less Black-backed Gull
146 Gt Black-backed Gull
147 Glaucous Gull
148 Short-eared Owl
149 Horned Lark
150 Pied Wagtail
151 Eur Stonechat
152 Cetti's Warbler
153 Blackcap
154 Firecrest
155 Bearded-tit
156 Twite
157 Snow Bunting
158 Lapland Longspur
159 Corn Bunting
160 Reed Bunting

Chris

04 / 01 / 14, Gilroy NP / Hoylake Langfields, Wirral, UK

161 Eur Siskin
162 Goldcrest
163 Eur Treecreeper
164 Comm Chiffchaff

Chris

05/01/14, Denholm Lane to Parkgate, Sth. Wirr. UK

165 Am. Wigeon
166 Nthn. Wheatear
167 Siberian Chiffchaff
168 Rock Pipit
and one missed off from yesterday

169 Pale-bellied Brent Goose ( Yes, I split them )

Chris

This is amazing Chris ! You have more birds in a handful of days
than I have on my life list.

Annabeth2 said:

This is amazing Chris ! You have more birds in a handful of days
than I have on my life list.

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It just takes patience, Beth ( actually, it's more like a large helping of certifiable lunacy ). I'm cramming in as much as I can before I have to return to the daily grind. :C I should pick up a 'few' more species in Japan and trips to Vancouver and Arizona should add a 'couple' more. :t:

Chris

chris butterworth said:

It just takes patience, Beth ( actually, it's more like a large helping of certifiable lunacy ). I'm cramming in as much as I can before I have to return to the daily grind. :C I should pick up a 'few' more species in Japan and trips to Vancouver and Arizona should add a 'couple' more. :t:

Chris

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Nice...enjoy your trips and be safe.

07 / 01 / 14, North Wales

Nipped over to North Wales this morning to see relatives ( and catch up with some of the local 'specialities' ).

Llandegla

170 Red Grouse

Clogcaenog

171 Red Crossbill ( no rarer Crossbills though )
172 Common Raven

Beddmanerch Bay, Anglesey

173 Slavonian Grebe

South Stack, Anglesey

174 Red-billed Chough
175 Common Guillemot

I was going to go to Penmon, for Black Guillemot, but the weather turned grim. What with the wipers being unable to cope with the horizontal rain / sleet / hailstones and the car rocking like Elvis on amphetamines I decided wandering around trying to look for anything at sea didn't seem like the best plan in the world.

Chris

08 / 01 / 14. Leasowe, Nth Wirral. UK

176 Common Greenshank

Chris

11 / 01 / 14. Burton marshes, Sth. Wirral, UK

177 Buff-bellied ( American ) Pipit

The BbP, that vanished on New Years Eve, finally reappeared :t:

Chris

14 / 01 / 14. Meols, Nth Wirral, UK

178 Barn Owl

Picked up from the train!

Chris

21 / 01 / 14. Button Oak, Salop. UK

179 Two-barred Crossbill

After a lot of growling at people who just loooove the sound of their own voice :C today's meeting finished in plenty of time to call in and try for the Crossbills. After a couple of false alarms I got 1 gorgeous red male and 2 females. :t:

27 / 01 / 2014, Marine Lake, New Brighton, Wirral, U.K

180 Eur. Shag

I was hoping to reach 200 before the end of the month, but I've no chance now :-C

03-05 / 02 / 14. Nemuro-kaikyo, Hokkaido, Japan

181 Stejnegers Scoter
182 Black Scoter
183 Black-throated Diver
184 Pacific Diver
185 Pacific Fulmar
186 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
187 Pelagic Cormorant
( Common Gull - kamschtatschensis and heinei )
188 Slaty-backed Gull
189 Glaucous-winged Gull
190 Black-legged Kittiwake
191 Red-legged Kittiwake
192 Brunnich's Guillemot
193 Pigeon Guillemot
194 Long-billed Murrelet
195 Ancient Murrelet
196 Least Auklet
197 Crested Auklet
198 Rhinoceros Auklet
199 Tufted Puffin

I'm supervising students on a multi disciplinary survey in the Nemuro Strait ( ' supervising ' in its loosest sense, as most of them know far more about their subjects than I do ). Luckily this leaves me some time for birding between keeping an eye out for anyone falling overboard / getting vital bits of themselves caught in the gear / telling everyone to "Play nicely, you've had your turn with the winch. It's ****** time now. " I got to Sapporo in the dark, drove to Rausu in the dark and we cast off ......... in the dark, so there was no time for anything but work until we were almost at the northern end of the Shiritoko peninsula. There have been good numbers of duck, auks, and both species of diver, all the way southward ( only a single Tufted Puffin though ) and, as we neared the border between Kunashir ( Russia ) and Hokkaido, the gulls started to appear. The best were 7 ( at least ) Red-legged Kittiwake in a flock of a couple of hundred Black-legged Kittiwake. A 'lifer' for me, and what a stunning little gull it is. :t: We've a couple of more days at sea, so I'm hoping for at least a couple more species.

07 / 02 / 14. Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan

200 Steller's Sea Eagle

09-02-14, Kushiro-shitsugen, Hokkaido

201 Japanese ( Red-crowned ) Crane
202 Solitary Snipe
203 Ural Owl
204 Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
205 Japanese Crow
206 Varied Tit
207 Dusky Thrush
208 Brown-eared Bulbul
209 Japanese Wagtail

Private farm with its onsen flowing into Chitori-gawa

210 Blakistons Fish Owl
211 Crested Kingfisher
( Eur Jay - brandtii )
212 Japanese Tit
213 Willow Tit
214 Pallas' Rosefinch
( Eur Bullfinch - griseiventris )

Ural Owl was picked up, roosting in the open, while trying to get better views of Dusky Thrushes, just in case there was something else tucked in among them. Yet again the outflow stream from a friends parents onsen turned up Blakistons F.O. ( and I got a damned fine meal thrown in, as well :t: ).

10 + 12 - 02 - 14, Tokyo area ( Meiji-jingu, Shinobazu-no-ike, Tama-kawa, Kanto )

215 Chinese Bamboo Partridge
216 Green Pheasant
217 Middendorff's Bean Goose
218 Mandarin Duck
219 Falcated Duck
220 Chinese Spot-billed Duck
221 Baikal Teal
222 Black-crowned Night Heron
223 Pacific Reef Egret
224 Temmincks's Cormorant
225 Black-eared Kite
226 E. Marsh Harrier
227 Brown-eared Rail ( h )
228 Long-billed Plover
229 Kentish Plover
230 Black-tailed Gull
231 Vega Gull
232 Oriental Turtle Dove
233 White-bellied Green Pigeon
234 Alexandrine Parakeet
235 Ring-necked Parakeet
236 Japanese Scops Owl
237 Japanese Green Woodpecker
238 Bull-headed Shrike
239 Japanese Lark
240 Japanese Bush Warbler
241 Chinese Hwamei
242 Red-billed Leiothrix
243 Japanese White-eye
244 Common Myna
245 White-cheeked Starling
246 Whites Thrush
247 Pale Thrush
248 Brown-headed Thrush
249 Red-flanked Bluetail
250 Daurian Redstart
251 Blue ( Red-bellied ) Rock Thrush
252 Masked Weaver
253 White-backed Munia
254 Java Sparrow
255 Black-backed Wagtail
256 Olive-backed Pipit
Buff-bellied Pipit - japonicus
257 Oriental Greenfinch
258 Japanese Grosbeak
259 Long-tailed Rosefinch
260 Meadow Bunting
261 Chestnut-eared Bunting
262 Elegant Bunting
263 Black-faced ( Masked ) Bunting
264 Grey Bunting

I managed to squeeze in a few hours birding at Meiji-jingu on the morning of the 10th and had most of today 'free'. Apart from seeing the 'usual' birds, a detour into the Kanto gave me the opportunity to connect with more open country / farmland birds. I've also started including the ( many ) escapes that are breeding in southern Japan nowadays. Previously I've only included the Munia sspp. on Okinawa.

21 - 02 - 14. Vancouver, B.C., Canada

( Garden / Grouse Mountain )

265 Coopers Hawk
266 Nthn. Saw-whet Owl
267 Nthn. Flicker
268 Hairy Woodpecker
269 Black-capped Chickadee
270 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
271 Red-fronted Nuthatch
272 Pacific Wren - 1st since split.
273 American Robin
274 Spotted Towhee
275 American Tree Sparrow
276 Song Sparrow
277 Dark-eyed Junco - 'Oregon' group
278 House Finch
279 Purple Finch
280 Pine Siskin

( Lighthouse Park / Lower Howe Sound )

281 Western Grebe
282 Brandts Cormorant
283 Lesser Scaup
284 Canvasback
285 Harlequin Duck
286 Surf Scoter
287 Barrows Goldeneye
288 Bufflehead
289 Black Oystercatcher
290 Black Turnstone
291 Bonapartes Gull
( Common Gull - brachyrhynchus )
292 Ring-billed Gull
293 American Herring Gull
294 Stellers Jay
295 American Crow
296 Cedar Waxing
297 Golden-crowned Kinglet

( Stanley Park )

298 Black Brent Goose
299 Sharp-shinned Hawk
300 Double-crested Cormorant
301 American Coot
302 Spotted Sandpiper
303 Surfbird
304 California Gull
305 Western Gull
( "Olympic Gull" )
( "Neilsons Gull" )
306 Mourning Dove
307 Anna's Hummingbird
308 Downy Woodpecker
309 Huttons Vireo
310 White-crowned Sparrow
311 Brewers Blackbird

( Alaksen NWA )

312 Pied-billed Grebe
313 American Bittern
314 Gt Blue Heron
( Tundra Swan - nominate )
315 Trumpeter Swan
316 Snow Goose
317 Cackling Goose
318 Wood Duck
319 Green-winged Teal
320 Ring-necked Duck
321 White-winged Scoter
322 Ruddy Duck
323 Hooded Merganser
324 Nthn Harrier
325 Bald Eagle
326 Red-tailed Hawk
327 American Kestrel
328 Killdeer
329 Gtr Yellowlegs
330 Least Sandpiper
331 Wilson's Snipe
332 Red-breasted Sapsucker
333 Bushtit
334 Marsh Wren
335 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
336 Golden-crowned Sparrow
337 White-throated Sparrow ( 2 )
338 Red-winged Blackbird
339 Brown-headed Cowbird
340 American Goldfinch

Called into Vancouver to see family on my way back to Japan. As usual, my eldest grand-daughter 'dragged' me out for a days birding. Apart from the roosting Saw-whet, just along the road from their house, there seemed to be fewer birds, both in number and variety, around, particularly in Stanley Park, than previous times I've been there.

25-02-2014. Okinawa, Japan

341 White-breasted Waterhen
342 Lesser Sand Plover
343 Eur Whimbrel
344 Marsh Sandpiper
345 Wood Sandpiper
346 Red-necked Stint
347 Ryukyu Green Pigeon
( Japanese Scopes Owl - pryeri )
348 Ryukyu Minivet
349 Brown Shrike
350 Pacific Swallow
351 Barn Swallow
352 Zitting Cisticola

I just went for a wander through some recently drained rice paddi and down to the shore after work so these were just the birds I picked up on the way.

27-02-14. Yanbaru, Okinawa

353 Japanese Sparrowhawk
354 Grey-faced Buzzard
355 Okinawa Rail
356 Elegant Scops Owl ( Doing well for Owls so far, but this ones 'easy'. )
357 Nthn. Boobook - totogo
358 Ruddy Kingfisher
359 Okinawa Woodpecker
360 Asian Stubtail
361 Siberian Rubythroat
362 Ryukyu Robin - namyei
363 Ryukyu Flycatcher. ( My first winter record - and only my 3rd ever. )

Managed to get a whole day off, so shot off up north for a brilliant day. Apart from good views of the Flycatcher ( definitely up there with Red-legged Kittiwake as my ' bird of the year ' - so far ) a male Siberian Rubythroat, feeding alongside 2 Okinawa Rail, at the side of the road, was 'one of those special moments'.