How is your 2010 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Miserable weather here yesterday but had lunch at a friends' house which had good feeder activity:

37. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
38. Tufted Titmouse
39. House Sparrow
40. Lincoln’s Sparrow
41. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
42. House Wren
43. Orange-crowned Warbler

This morning managed a quick, cold walk around part of the campus where I work. This produced:
44. Snow Geese
45. Sedge Wren

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

Walking to work by lac Superieur in the Bois this morning produced:

31. Mute Swan
32. White Wagtail

Leaving the campus at lunchtime our retention ponds added a few more:
46. Snowy Egret
47. Little Blue Heron
48. American Coot
49. Laughing Gull
50. Black-bellied Whistling Duck.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

At work today
49 Jay

Up to 67 with a trip to Calder Wetlands today - highlights including ferruginous duck, smew and red-breasted merganser. Heron, greenfinch, lapwing, cormorant and greylag finally got too!

Birds on my 2010 Missouri List

January 1, 2010 (birds listed in order seen)

1. American Goldfinch (these first 5 seen in our yard)
2. Dark-eyed Junco
3. House Finch
4. European Starling
5. Carolina Wren
6. Rock Pigeon (in city of Saint Joseph, Missouri)
7. Eurasian Collared-Dove (at Saint Joseph Stockyards)
8. Red-tailed Hawk (at Saint Joseph Stockyards)
9. Great-tailed Grackle (# 9 - # 36, in Lake Contrary area, Saint Joseph)
10. American Kestrel
11. Northern Cardinal
12. American Tree Sparrow
13. Canada Goose
14. Bald Eagle
15. Northern Flicker
16. Downy Woodpecker
17. Yellow-rumped Warbler
18. Tufted Titmouse
19. White-breasted Nuthatch
20. Red-bellied Woodpecker
21. Song Sparrow
22. Harris's Sparrow
23. House Sparrow
24. White-throated Sparrow
25. Rough-legged Hawk
26. Blue Jay
27. American Crow
28. Horned Lark
29. Ring-necked Pheasant
30. Red-winged Blackbird
31. Rusty Blackbird
32. Black-capped Chickadee
33. Common Grackle
34. Mourning Dove
35. Western Meadowlark
36. Eastern Meadowlark
37. Northern Harrier (Mud Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri)
38. White-crowned Sparrow (Lake Contrary area)
39. Common Goldeneye ("Jentell Brees" Conservation Area, Saint Joseph)
40. Common Merganser (on Missouri River at "Jentell Brees" CA, St. Joe)
41. Eastern Bluebird (Lake Contrary area)
42. Wild Turkey (Stewardsville, Missouri)
43. Northern Bobwhite (Poosey Conservation Area, Missouri)
44. Short-eared Owl (Poosey Conservation Area, Missouri)

January 2, 2010
45. Red-headed Woodpecker (these birds seen at Swan Lake, Sumner, Missouri)
46. Cedar Waxwing
47. Barred Owl
48. Brown-headed Cowbird
49. Northern Mockingbird
50. Red-shouldered Hawk
51. Swamp Sparrow
52. Belted Kingfisher
53. American Robin

January 3, 2010
54. Red-breasted Nuthatch (in our yard, Saint Joseph, Missouri)

January 4, 2010
55. Black-throated Sparrow (these at feeders near Savannah, Missouri)
56. Spotted Towhee
57. Purple Finch

58. Merlin (at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri)
59. Great Blue Heron (at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri)

60. Mallard (actually seen on January 2nd, but I forgot to include it above)

Embarrassing addition. One of the N. Harriers I saw on Sunday was actually:
51. White-tailed Hawk.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

Paris - 16th arrondissement:

33. House Sparrow

JeffMoh said:

Embarrassing addition. One of the N. Harriers I saw on Sunday was actually:
51. White-tailed Hawk.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

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Jeff,

I saw those photos - wow, what a neat bird! Would love to be similarly embarrassed, by seeing one of those here ... :t:

Peter: It was a good bird but still an embarrassing mistake!

Two more birds on my way in to work today:
52. American Crow
53. Lesser Scaup

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

A very long trudge in deep snow gave me 2 more, but at the time, I wasn't sure that it was really worth the effort !!!

73) Red-Legged Partridge
74) Coal Tit

Late this afternoon after work, I went to a local lake to see what was around. Due to the extremely cold temperatures we've had lately, almost all of the lake was frozen, but there was enough open water for a few ducks. I added one bird to my Year List, which is now at 74.

74. Common Merganser

Dave

After struggling into work today, only to be told that they would be shutting early because of the snow, I decided to call in at Cheddar Reservoir to try for the Ring necked duck.
Turned out to be a good day after all.
50 Ruddy Duck
51 Red Crested Pochard (male and female)
52 Ring Necked Duck
53 Smew
54 Meadow Pipit

I've stalled in the snow on 39 species.

Bois de Boulogne today:

34. Woodcock (quite a good record for central Paris!)

I saw my first Bullfinch's back in the summer. Saw my first flock (about 20 of them) in the snow today, what an awesome sight!

Managed to squeeze in 30 minutes of birding in Bear Creek Park, a public park here in Houston.
54. Red-bellied Woodpecker
55. American Robin
56. Red-shouldered Hawk
57. Carolina Wren
58. Red-headed Woodpecker
59. Vermilion Flycatcher

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

On my drive back to Baltimore after the holidays:

48. Red-winged Blackbird (at NJ rest stop)
49. Fish Crow (MD)

Amazing our group missed those two on a CT CBC, right??? The wind was NUTS! Haven't gone birding yet since I got down here. I'll go out this weekend.

One from two days ago - been too busy of late :smoke:

34: Feral Pigeon

Getting a bit bored with being snowed in in Alnwick :C SO frustrating having the coast so close but not being able to reach it because there's no way my car will get through the untreated roads :-C

Just had another year tick by looking out the bedroom window :t:

35: Great Tit