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One more whilst out walking my dog.

85. Bullfinch.

Rogue Birder said:

Haven't had much time to get out this year, and not doing any serious listing

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Almost a quarter of whats possible stateside, without trying there RB! Gotta leave some for the rest of the year! A trip to a coastal NP during the breeding season will advance that nicely

One this afternoon along the river south of Uppsala:

126. Water Rail

53. Ring-necked Pheasant Frank Shoemaker Marsh
54. Common Goldeneye
55. Ring-billed Gull
56. American Pipit
57. Canvasback
58. Ross's Goose
59. Herring Gull
60. Cooper's Hawk
61. Northern Pintail
62. Bufflehead

One new addition to the Year List this morning.

83. Common Grackle

Dave

Mid-January thru end of February here:

Back home, birding local spots throughout Los Angeles:
135. White-throated Swift
136. Vaux’s Swift
137. Chipping Sparrow
138. American Coot
139. Blue-winged Teal
140. Black-necked Stilt
141. Ring-billed Gull
142. Spotted Sandpiper
143. Least Sandpiper
144. Western Gull
145. Canada Goose
146. Double-crested Cormorant
147. Ring-necked Duck
148. Lesser Scaup
149. Egyptian Goose
150. Northern Shoveler
151. Ross’s Goose
152. Great Blue Heron
153. Hooded Merganser
154. Townsend’s Warbler
155. California Quail
156. Song Sparrow
157. White-breasted Nuthatch
158. Cassin’s Kingbird
159. Pied-billed Grebe
160. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
161. Greater Yellowlegs
162. Eastern Phoebe (local rarity)
163. Red-winged Blackbird
164. Golden-crowned Sparrow
165. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
166. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
167. Hermit Thrush
168. Canyon Wren
169. Hutton’s Vireo
170. Steller’s Jay
171. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
172. Indian Peafowl
173. Hairy Woodpecker
174. Eurasian Wigeon
175. Purple Finch

Errands in Orange County:
176. Swinhoe’s White-eye (CA lifer)

Back in LA:
177. Gadwall
178. Mandarin Duck
179. Green Heron
180. American Kestrel
181. White-winged Parakeet
182. Vermilion Flycatcher

Up to to Angeles Forest mountains of LA - crossbill/grosbeak invasion year!
183. Mountain Chickadee
184. Red Crossbill (CA lifer)
185. Pygmy Nuthatch
186. Evening Grosbeak (CA lifer)
187. White-headed Woodpecker
188. Mountain Quail
189. Cassin’s Finch

Checked out the parrot roost in Pasadena:
190. Lilac-crowned Parrot
191. Red-lored Parrot
192. Yellow-headed Parrot

More birding around LA:
193. Rock Wren

8-hr pelagic out of Marina del Rey with some surprise visitors:
194. Heermann’s Gull
195. Eared Grebe
196. Brown Pelican
197. Western Grebe
198. Caspian Tern
199. Brandt’s Cormorant
200. Surf Scoter
201. Black Turnstone
202. Glaucous-winged Gull
203. Horned Grebe
204. Masked Booby (lifer)
205. Rhinoceros Auklet
206. Pelagic Cormorant
207. Pacific Loon
208. Short-tailed Shearwater (lifer)
209. Black-vented Shearwater
210. Northern Fulmar
211. Bonaparte’s Gull
212. Red Phalarope
213. Scripps’s Murrelet
214. Black-legged Kittiwake (CA lifer)
215. Cassin’s Auklet
216. Royal Tern
217. Black Oystercatcher
218. Ruddy Turnstone
219. Wandering Tattler
220. Osprey
221. Belted Kingfisher

Chasing this bird in the San Gabriel canyons:
222. Pacific Wren (CA lifer)

Working in west LA, stumbled across:
223. Downy Woodpecker

Some well-earned weekend birding around LA after a tough work week:
224. American Goldfinch
225. American Pipit
226. Tree Swallow
227. Mountain Bluebird
228. Clay-colored Sparrow (local rarity)
229. Merlin
230. Palm Warbler (local rarity)
231. American White Pelican
232. Clark’s Grebe

A couple days in the mountains of Big Bear, CA:
233. Red-breasted Nuthatch
234. Redhead
235. Common Goldeneye
236. Pine Siskin
237. Common Merganser
238. Great Horned Owl

Another pelagic out of Marina del Rey this past weekend:
239. Marbled Godwit
240. Willet
241. Red-throated Loon
242. Red-necked Grebe
243. Red-breasted Merganser
244. Parasitic Jaeger
245. Herring Gull
246. Brown Booby
247. Sooty Shearwater
248. Surfbird
249. Whimbrel

And birding the area after the pelagic:
250. Common Yellowthroat
251. Marsh Wren
252. Sora
253. Northern Harrier
254. Lincoln’s Sparrow
255. House Wren
256. Greater Pewee (CA lifer)
257. Nanday Parakeet

I'm in Bordeaux for a week:

127. Short-toed Treecreeper
128. White Stork
129. Black Kite
130. Common Sandpiper

Had an enjoyable day at Réserve Ornithologique Du Teich, in the Arcachon Basin near Bordeaux.

131. Pied Avocet
132. Black-tailed Godwit
133. Eurasian Spoonbill
134. Common Redshank
135. Great Egret
136. Brent Goose
137. Common Ringed Plover
138. Eurasian Curlew
139. Dunlin
140. Grey Plover
141. Spotted Redshank
142. Black-crowned Night Heron

More from the Paderborn area 20200308
Along the R. Lippe at Marienloh:

36 European Greenfinch
37 White Wagtail
38 Eygptian Goose
39 Canada Goose
40 Willow Tit
41 Willow Warbler
42 Song Thrush
43 Grey Wagtail
44 Common Starling
45 Grey Heron
46 European Serin

Walking a local park last Friday:
258. Brown-headed Cowbird

And a Saturday trip with Pasadena Audubon with some targets in mind along some county borders north of LA:
259. Bell’s Sparrow
260. Ferruginous Hawk
261. Loggerhead Shrike
262. LeConte’s Thrasher (lifer)
263. Western Meadowlark
264. California Condor
265. Lawrence’s Goldfinch
266. Savannah Sparrow
267. Red-breasted Sapsucker
268. Lark Sparrow
269. Golden Eagle
270. Yellow-billed Magpie
271. Greater Scaup
272. Tricolored Blackbird

Back in Uppsala now. One new one on my morning commute

143. Northern Goshawk

One more seen in the garden.

86. Mistle Thrush.

63. Killdeer MoPac Trail--Lincoln to Walton US-NE
64. Ring-necked Duck Holmes Lake US-NE
65. American Wigeon Conestoga Lake US-NE
66. Green-winged Teal Conestoga Lake US-NE
67. Ruddy Duck Pawnee Lake SRA
68. Common Grackle
69. Turkey Vulture I-70 E, Blackwater US-MO
70. Eastern Meadowlark Holmes Lake US-NE 10 Mar 2020
71. Eastern Phoebe Wilderness Park--S. 14th St. west
72. Great Black-backed Gull Branched Oak SRA
also Nebraska bird 276 and North America ABA list 375
73. American White Pelican Branched Oak SRA
74. Red-breasted Merganser Pawnee Lake SRA
75. Double-crested Cormorant Pawnee Lake SRA
76. Northern Harrier

One more whilst out walking my dog.

87. Chiffchaff

Trip to Somerset, beset by flooding:
148 Red-legged Partridge
Garganey
Back into Devon:
Turnstone
Slavonian Grebe
Eider
Water Pipit
And a trip to Cornwall:
Whooper Swan
Snow Bunting
Lapland Bunting
Glaucous Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Iceland Gull
Long-tailed Duck
And back home, the first spring migrant (the Garganey was the probable over-wintering female at Greylake)
161 Sand Martin

Thursday AM in LA’s South Bay area:
273. Sanderling
274. Mitred Parakeet
275. Scaly-breasted Munia
276. Tropical Kingbird (local rarity)
277. American Oystercatcher (CA lifer)
278. Brant
279. Semipalmated Plover
280. Sharp-shinned Hawk
281. Long-billed Dowitcher
282. Cliff Swallow

And finished up a SoCal “big weekend” with a couple friends, we hit 150 species for Friday-Saturday - nice for March!:
283. White-faced Ibis
284. Yellow Warbler
285. Fox Sparrow
286. Hooded Oriole
287. Northern Pintail
288. Horned Lark
289. Long-billed Curlew
290. Black-bellied Plover
291. Red Knot
292. Dunlin
293. American Avocet
294. Wood Duck
295. Common Gallinule
296. Long-eared Owl
297. Barn Owl
298. Scott’s Oriole
299. Cactus Wren
300. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
301. Brewer’s Sparrow (CA lifer)
302. Gambel’s Quail
303. Black-throated Sparrow
304. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
305. Wilson’s Warbler
306. Greater Roadrunner
307. Western Tanager
308. Townsend’s Solitaire
309. Lewis’s Woodpecker

Just got back from a one-week birding trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. I saw a total of 185 species, of which 160 were new for the year and 45 were lifers. Lifers are in bold.

‘084. Great-tailed Grackle
‘085. Tropical Kingbird
‘086. Wilson’s Warbler
‘087. Audubon’s Warbler
‘088. White-winged Dove
‘089. Rufous-backed Thrush
‘090. Berylline Hummingbird
‘091. Warbling Vireo
‘092. White-throated Towhee
‘093. Bewick’s Wren
‘094. Nashville Warbler
‘095. Dusky Hummingbird
‘096. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
‘097. Western Tanager
‘098. Short-tailed Hawk
‘099. Cattle Egret
100. Snowy Egret
101. Vermilion Flycatcher
102. Inca Dove
103. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
104. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
105. Clay-colored Thrush
106. Yellow-throated Warbler
107. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
108. Orchard Oriole
109. Great Kiskadee
110. Summer Tanager
111. Crested Caracara
112. Boucard’s Wren
113. Cassin’s Kingbird
114. Blue Grosbeak
115. Loggerhead Shrike
116. Vesper Sparrow
117. Lark Sparrow
118. Grasshopper Sparrow
119. Merlin
120. Baltimore Oriole
121. Gray-breasted Woodpecker
122. Lesser Goldfinch
123. Indigo Bunting
124. American Coot
125. Ruddy Duck
126. Black-crowned Night Heron
127. Violet-green Swallow
128. Green Heron
129. Chipping Sparrow
130. Black-headed Grosbeak
131. Black Phoebe
132. Blue Mockingbird
133. Bridled Sparrow
134. Gray Silky-flycatcher
135. Rufous-capped Warbler
136. Blue-winged Teal
137. Least Sandpiper
138. Spotted Sandpiper
139. Least Grebe
140. Great Egret
141. Black-vented Oriole
142. Green Kingfisher
143. Curve-billed Thrasher
144. American Pipit
145. Little Blue Heron
146. Greenish Elaenia
147. Gray Catbird
148. Dusky Flycatcher
149. Social Flycatcher
150. Slate-throated Whitestart
151. Tufted Flycatcher
152. Bushtit
153. House Wren
154. Hepatic Tanager
155. Blue-throated Mountain-gem
156. Collared Towhee
157. Yellow-eyed Junco
158. White-striped Woodcreeper
159. Painted Whitestart
160. Bridled Titmouse
161. Acorn Woodpecker
162. Hermit Warbler
163. Olive-warbler
164. Red Warbler
165. Mountain Pygmy Owl
166. Hammond’s Flycatcher
167. Mexican Chickadee
168. Gray-barred Wren
169. Steller’s Jay
170. Strong-billed Woodcreeper
171. Greater Pewee
172. Elegant Euphonia
173. Golden Vireo
174. Red-headed Tanager
175. Cassin’s Vireo
176. Nutting’s Flycatcher
177. Lincoln’s Sparrow
178. Oaxaca Sparrow
179. Spotted Towhee
180. Russet Nightingale-Thrush
181. Hutton’s Vireo
182. Crescent-chested Warbler
183. Brown-backed Solitaire
184. Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
185. Townsend’s Warbler
186. White-eared Hummingbird
187. Zone-tailed Hawk
188. Pine Flycatcher
189. Gray-breasted Wood Wren
190. Golden-browed Warbler
191. Chestnut-capped Brushfinch
192. Rufous-capped Brushfinch
193. Streak-backed Oriole
194. Orange-breasted Bunting
195. Cinnamon-sided Hummingbird
196. Varied Bunting
197. Banded Wren
198. Sclater’s Wren
199. Russet-crowned Motmot
200. White-lored Gnatcatcher
201. Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
202. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
203. Common Ground Dove
204. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
205. White-throated Magpie-Jay
206. Plain-capped Starthroat
207. Virginia’s Warbler
208. Lesser Roadrunner
209. Slaty Vireo
210. Peregrine Falcon
211. MacGillivray’s Warbler
212. White-tailed Hawk
213. Black-and-white Warbler
214. Pileated Flycatcher
215. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
216. Ocellated Thrasher
217. Rock Wren
218. Barn Swallow
219. Band-tailed Pigeon
220. Dwarf Jay
221. Rose-throated Becard
222. Black Thrush
223. Fulvous Owl
224. Mexican Whip-poor-will
225. Whiskered Screech Owl
226. Thick-billed Kingbird
227. Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
228. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
229. Black-throated Gray Warbler
230. Plumbeous Vireo
231. Dwarf Vireo
232. Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo
233. Cordilleran Flycatcher
234. Red-faced Warbler
235. Mountain Trogon
236. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
237. Western Kingbird
238. Say’s Phoebe
239. Blue-headed Vireo
240. Red Crossbill
241. Scott’s Oriole
242. White-throated Thrush
243. Orange-crowned Warbler

And then during a layover at JFK Airport in New York on the way back, I picked up an additional new bird for the year.

244. American Herring Gull

Dave

144. Barnacle Goose

In the fields along the river, just south of Uppsala.

Went out this morning after getting back from Mexico last night and saw three new birds for the year.

245. Eastern Phoebe
246. Wood Duck
246. Red Fox Sparrow

Dave