[Nightjar61]

This afternoon after work I drove slowly through farmland with extensive fields and picked up two new birds for the year.

74. Red-winged Blackbird
75. Northern Harrier

Dave

[Nightjar61]

This afternoon I made a quick stop at a small pond and picked up a new bird for the year.

76. Redhead

Dave

[Andy Hurley]

30 Jan in and around Schloß Neuhaus/Elsen/Paderborn between physio and doctor's visits, mostly from the bus.
The rain stopped, its turned to snow

31 Eurasian Coot
32 Long tailed Tit
33 Common Wood Pigeon
34 Goosander

[jacana]

Successful morning just west of Uppsala today, despite the snow!

114. Twite
115. Grey Partridge
116. Northern Goshawk
117. Golden Eagle

[AlexC]

Sparse opportunities to bird between working / Ventura and LA:
166. American Crow
167. Cooper’s Hawk
168. Northern Harrier
169. Loggerhead Shrike
170. Mountain Bluebird
171. Greater Roadrunner
172. Western Bluebird
173. Western Meadowlark
174. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (CA state lifer)
175. Peregrine Falcon
176. Brewer’s Blackbird
177. Cedar Waxwing
178. Red-shouldered Hawk
179. Red-whiskered Bulbul
180. Anna’s Hummingbird
181. Spotted Towhee
182. Allen’s Hummingbird
183. Orange-crowned Warbler
184. White-throated Sparrow (local uncommon)

Brief weekend east coast to see some family:
185. Downy Woodpecker
186. Blue Jay
187. Black-capped Chickadee
188. Dark-eyed Junco
189. Mute Swan
190. Cackling Goose
191. Rusty Blackbird
192. Brown-headed Cowbird
193. Song Sparrow
194. Canada Goose
195. Great Black-backed Gull
196. Bufflehead
197. Greater Scaup
198. American Black Duck
199. Long-tailed Duck
200. Common Goldeneye
201. Red-breasted Merganser
202. White-breasted Nuthatch
203. American Tree Sparrow
204. Black-headed Gull (ABA lifer)
205. Mallard
206. Brant
207. Fish Crow
208. Hooded Merganser
209. Common Merganser
210. Canvasback
211. Dunlin
212. Iceland Gull
213. Glaucous Gull

[Nightjar61]

Just got back from a one-week birding trip to the Canopy Tower in Panama. I saw a total of 210 species, of which 206 were new for the year and 38 were lifers. Lifers are in bold.

‘077. Great-tailed Grackle
‘078. Yellow-throated Toucan
‘079. White-necked Jacobin
‘080. Palm Tanager
‘081. Scarlet-rumped Cacique
‘082. Gray-breasted Martin
‘083. Red-lored Parrot
‘084. Keel-billed Toucan
‘085. Band-rumped Swift
‘086. Short-tailed Swift
‘087. Vaux’s Swift
‘088. Red-capped Manakin
‘089. Great Jacamar
‘090. Collared Aracari
‘091. Black-bellied Wren
‘092. Plain Xenops
‘093. Black-and-white Warbler
‘094. Checker-throated Antwren
‘095. Slaty-tailed Trogon
‘096. Cocoa Woodcreeper
‘097. Yellow-margined Flycatcher
‘098. White-shouldered Tanager
‘099. Tropical Gnatcatcher
100. Bay-breasted Warbler
101. Masked Tityra
102. Yellow-throated Vireo
103. Squirrel Cuckoo
104. Double-toothed Kite
105. Rufous Motmot
106. Dusky Antbird
107. Black-crowned Antshrike
108. Dot-winged Antwren
109. Short-tailed Hawk
110. Crested Caracara
111. Long-billed Hermit
112. White-vented Plumeleteer
113. Brown-capped Tyrannulet
114. Blue Dacnis
115. Summer Tanager
116. Black-cheeked Woodpecker
117. Violet-bellied Hummingbird
118. Scaled Pigeon
119. Lesser Greenlet
120. Green Shrike-Vireo
121. Plain-colored Tanager
122. Cinnamon Woodpecker
123. Black-throated Trogon
124. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
125. Golden-hooded Tanager
126. Fulvous-vented Euphonia
127. Blue-crowned Manakin
128. Broad-billed Motmot
129. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
130. Chestnut-sided Warbler
131. White-breasted Wood Wren
132. Mistletoe Tyrannulet
133. Black Hawk-Eagle
134. Long-billed Gnatwren
135. Fasciated Antshrike
136. Crane Hawk
137. Speckled Mourner
138. Black-and-white Owl
139. Great Tinamou
140. Yellow-headed Caracara
141. House Wren
142. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
143. Orange-chinned Parakeet
144. Red-legged Honeycreeper
145. Social Flycatcher
146. Tropical Kingbird
147. Green Honeycreeper
148. Thick-billed Euphonia
149. Crimson-backed Tanager
150. Blue-gray Tanager
151. Clay-colored Thrush
152. Southern Rough-winged Swallow
153. Baltimore Oriole
154. Blue-black Grassquit
155. Indigo Bunting
156. Yellow-bellied Seedeater
157. Variable Seedeater
158. Ruddy Ground Dove
159. Magnificent Frigatebird
160. Rusty-margined Flycatcher
161. Wattled Jacana
162. Black-bellied Whistling Duck
163. Southern Lapwing
164. Green Heron
165. Yellow-tailed Oriole
166. Greater Ani
167. Purple Gallinule
168. Lesser Kiskadee
169. Pale-vented Pigeon
170. Smooth-billed Ani
171. Rufescent Tiger Heron
172. Yellow Warbler
173. Common Tody-Flycatcher
174. Tropical Mockingbird
175. Snowy Egret
176. Brown-hooded Parrot
177. Lineated Woodpecker
178. Blue-headed Parrot
179. Southern Mealy Parrot
180. Blue Cotinga
181. Yellow-backed Oriole
182. Purple-throated Fruitcrow
183. Slate-colored Grosbeak
184. Bat Falcon
185. Black-breasted Puffbird
186. Snail Kite
187. Piratic Flycatcher
188. Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
189. Blue-chested Hummingbird
190. Gartered Trogon
191. White-tailed Trogon
192. Golden-collared Manakin
193. Little Blue Heron
194. Least Grebe
195. Ringed Kingfisher
196. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
197. Red-throated Ant Tanager
198. Song Wren
199. Great Egret
200. Mangrove Swallow
201. Anhinga
202. Western Osprey
203. Streaked Flycatcher
204. Orchard Oriole
205. Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
206. Red-crowned Woodpecker
207. Tennessee Warbler
208. White-tipped Dove
209. Great Kiskadee
210. Yellow-rumped Cacique
211. Black-throated Mango
212. Lemon-rumped Tanager
213. Streaked Saltator
214. Isthmian Wren
215. Boat-billed Flycatcher
216. Golden-fronted Greenlet
217. Forest Elaenia
218. Yellow-olive Flycatcher
219. White-winged Becard
220. Black-chested Jay
221. Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
222. Lance-tailed Manakin
223. Whooping Motmot
224. Southern Beardless Tyrannulet
225. Gray-headed Kite
226. Southern Bentbill
227. Rufous-and-white Wren
228. Olivaceous Woodcreeper
229. Great Potoo
230. Common Potoo
231. Crimson-crested Woodpecker
232. Rufous-breasted Wren
233. Red-crowned Ant Tanager
234. Black-tailed Flycatcher
235. Rosy Thrush-tanager
236. Chestnut-headed Oropendula
237. White-bellied Antbird
238. Panama Flycatcher
239. Prothonotary Warbler
240. Boat-billed Heron
241. Northern Waterthrush
242. Giant Cowbird
243. Rufous-capped Warbler
244. Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant
245. Shining Honeycreeper
246. Painted Bunting
247. Gray-cowled Wood Rail
248. Thick-billed Seed Finch
249. Roadside Hawk
250. Scrub Greenlet
251. Least Bittern
252. Tricolored Heron
253. Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
254. Shiny Cowbird
255. Cinnamon Becard
256. Buff-throated Saltator
257. White-necked Puffbird
258. Gray-headed Tanager
259. White-flanked Antwren
260. White-whiskered Puffbird
261. Chestnut-backed Antbird
262. Common Gallinule
263. Striated Heron
264. Yellow-green Vireo
265. Brown Pelican
266. Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
267. Barred Antshrike
268. Gray-headed Chachalaca
269. Bright-rumped Attila
270. Russet-winged Schiffornis
271. Spot-crowned Antvireo
272. Kentucky Warbler
273. Streak-chested Antpitta
274. Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant
275. Acadian Flycatcher
276. Rufous Piha
277. Moustached Antwren
278. Crowned Woodnymph
279. Bay Wren
280. Black-striped Sparrow
281. Least Sandpiper
282. White-tailed Kite

Dave

[Nightjar61]

This afternoon I got back into cold-weather birding after a week in the tropics. I managed to find two new birds.

283. Winter Wren
284. Canvasback

Dave

[Reader]

One from the garden today.

123. Song Thrush

[Nightjar61]

This afternoon I found a new bird for the year in a pasture at a nearby farm.

285. Killdeer

Dave

[AlexC]

Back in LA:
214. California Thrasher
215. Bewick’s Wren
216. Wrentit

Local pelagic:
217. Black-crowned Night-Heron
218. Brandt’s Cormorant
219. Eared Grebe
220. Common Loon
221. Western Grebe
222. Surf Scoter
223. Black Oystercatcher
224. Heermann’s Gull
225. Black-vented Shearwater
226. Cassin’s Auklet
227. Common Murre
228. Bonaparte’s Gull
229. Rhinoceros Auklet
230. Red Phalarope
231. Pomarine Jaeger
232. Wandering Tattler
233. Black Turnstone

And more LA cleanup species:
234. Acorn Woodpecker
235. Harris’s Sparrow (local uncommon)
236. Lewis’s Woodpecker
237. Band-tailed Pigeon
238. Northern Flicker
239. Red-crowned Parrot
240. Ruddy Duck
241. American Robin
242. Red-breasted Sapsucker
243. Snow Goose
244. Greater White-fronted Goose
245. Ross’s Goose

[Nightjar61]

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

286. Merlin
287. Lesser Scaup

Dave

[Tero]

Total crap weeks for any outdoors. i will be shoveling snow today and put seed at feeder.
54 Harris's sparrow

[Nightjar61]

Two new birds today, so I’m now up to 289 for the year.

288. American Wigeon
289. Wood Duck

Dave

[Andy Hurley]

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

[Nightjar61]

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

[AlexC]

Stopped by an LA city park this weekend today that was new to me:
246. American Wigeon
247. Ring-necked Duck
248. Plumbeous Vireo