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Birds You're Embarrassed About Not Having On Your List (1 Viewer)
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polecat_ferret
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It is a funny thing to want to see a particular bird. You almost want to taste it. You have to have that look so bad that it it hurts, well almost hurts! Mine used to be Brolga. Now it is a Bustard, or Plains Turkey.
The one that I am really embarrassed about never seeing is the Barn Owl. I have been within 5 feet of a Powerful Owl, which is a hell of a lot scarcer than a Barn Owl, and yet the Barn Owl keeps coming up as the one I want too see.
Australian Birding is funny. You get what you get. Best bird to see is still a Wedge-tailed Eagle.
The one that I am really embarrassed about never seeing is the Barn Owl. I have been within 5 feet of a Powerful Owl, which is a hell of a lot scarcer than a Barn Owl, and yet the Barn Owl keeps coming up as the one I want too see.
Australian Birding is funny. You get what you get. Best bird to see is still a Wedge-tailed Eagle.
Sandra (Taylor)
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john barclay said:
Don't you wish you had been at Potteric Carr with the Yorkshire group the other week?! LSW were lifers for me.
Sandra
ghostrider
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Green Woodpecker and Little Owl are mine.
prairiemerlin
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Hmmm... I don't have too many left.
Both Crossbills - On a trip to the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, I saw several flocks of crossbills fly over (probably both species) but couldn't confirm. Argh!
Black-backed Woodpecker - Everyone except me finds them. Once I missed one by 2 seconds because I was sitting in the back seat.
Ivory Gull - I missed this darn bird by 2 minutes!! A few days later I tried for it again, but that day it never showed.
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - A rare migrant through Michigan. Hardly anyone ever sees them, since no one tramps through fields.... last year I flushed a sparrow that was probably either a Sharpie or a Leconte's, but it disappeared as soon as it dropped into the grass. Talk about frusterating.
--Neil G.
Both Crossbills - On a trip to the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, I saw several flocks of crossbills fly over (probably both species) but couldn't confirm. Argh!
Black-backed Woodpecker - Everyone except me finds them. Once I missed one by 2 seconds because I was sitting in the back seat.
Ivory Gull - I missed this darn bird by 2 minutes!! A few days later I tried for it again, but that day it never showed.
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - A rare migrant through Michigan. Hardly anyone ever sees them, since no one tramps through fields.... last year I flushed a sparrow that was probably either a Sharpie or a Leconte's, but it disappeared as soon as it dropped into the grass. Talk about frusterating.
--Neil G.
Farnboro John
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mini-colster said:Umm...Long-eared Owl, got the other 4 owls but i never get to see LEO
Did 5 in four hours once in Surrey, Middlesex and Berkshire. That included a roost of 17 LEOs......
I suppose my embarrassing one remains Lanceolated Warbler, but I'm way past going to Fair Isle just to nail that. Surely there must be another East Coast one this year?
John
tyrannulet
Deranged but fun...
Rough-legged hawk, white-eyed vireo (should have seen many times in texas, rest of the group did but not me)....more to be added later
I've seen damn near everything that occurs regularly in California (plus a bunch that have no business being here) and all but 4 of your list, but one of my more embarrassing life list holes is your talisman: Snow Bunting. Bohemian Waxwing is my nemesis, as I've chased it at least a half dozen times without success.
overworkedirish said:
I have a total of six birds left in my local patch (50 mile radius surrounding North Bay) that are listed as common. Four of them are warblers, the other two are Sedge Wren and Brewer's Blackbird. So I guess the most embarrassing is the Brewer's Blackbird, although it is only common (and occurs) in the far west side of my local patch.
