How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

dbradnum · Jan 1, 2008

88 on a very murky day in Essex - showy BN Grebe, 2 BT Divers, 4 Smew, 40+ Goosander and a few Twite were the highlights.

r2didi2 · Jan 1, 2008

New Year's Day birding tick race in Sussex

Wow - what a day - we started at about midday just looking out into the garden, then went to West Wittering (accompanied by every family, their dogs and BBQs), then Church Norton, finally a frantic run around at Arundel WWT in the nearly pitch-black, which gave us an extra around 14 species!

So the total was....47! Last year was around 35, so very pleased. We got:

Bar-tailed Godwit
Blackbird
Black-headed Gull
Blue Tit
Brent Goose
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Cetti's Warbler
Chaffinch
Collared Dove
Coot
Cormorant
Curlew
Dunlin
Dunnock
Golden Plover
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Greenfinch
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
Jackdaw
Kestrel
Lapwing
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Oystercatcher
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Pochard
Redshank
Ringed Plover
Robin
Rook
Shelduck
Snipe
Starling
Teal
Tufted Duck
Turnstone
Wigeon
Woodpigeon

Yipee!

Best wishes to all for a fab birding 2008
Didi and Frank (hollis_f)

StevieEvans · Jan 1, 2008

70 odd close to home on a short miserable wet day, highlights inc:-

Tawny, Little, Long-eared & Short-eared Owls (2 of the latter trying repeatedly to catch a Stoat - he got sick of this & had a good go at jumping up back at the owls!)
3Stonechat 2Woodcock 1Corn Bunting(in terminal decline here...?) 3Water Rail(feeding out in the open together) White fronted Geese 1Ruddy Duck(very scarce here in winter) Great Crested Grebe etc.

Missed Jack Snipe & Barn Owl, but lots of regular birds to look forward to over the next couple of weeks.... like Pied Wagtail & Coal Tit !
also missed :- Barn owl, Heron, Jack Snipe, Golden Plover, Jay, Tree Sparrow, Gsw, Treecreeper, Greylag goose, Dipper, Redshank, Kingfisher, Green Sand, Goosander, Chiffchaff, Shoveller etc
Steve

robinm · Jan 1, 2008

Managed 87 species around East Kent. Staggeringly this list does not include Greenfinch or Goldfinch, only Kestrel and Marsh Harrier in the raptors and only Little Owl. So plenty of scope to improve this over the next few days.

Gill Osborne · Jan 1, 2008

Had family calling around so was restricted to what I could see out of the window :C Very wet and dark day - complete opposite of this time last week when it was clear blue skies and sunshine and a hard frost.

1: Blue Tit

Do I get the prize for the Most feeble January 1st List? :-O

Off out tomorrow afternoon and all day Thursday so planning to make amends!

james d · Jan 1, 2008

A very wet and windy start to the year so didn't venture out much. Saw 32 species, best of which was probably the female long-tailed duck and 4 purple sandpiper. Doesn't look like the weather will improve much tomorrow!

thenorthernmonkey · Jan 1, 2008

Gill Osborne said:
Had family calling around so was restricted to what I could see out of the window :C Very wet and dark day - complete opposite of this time last week when it was clear blue skies and sunshine and a hard frost.

1: Blue Tit

Do I get the prize for the Most feeble January 1st List? :-O

Off out tomorrow afternoon and all day Thursday so planning to make amends!

you dont get a prize for the most feeble effort but you do get one for having your priorities all wrong. family coming round on new years day? you need to put a stop to that gill

ChinaBirds · Jan 1, 2008

Crikey, thought me and my mate were doing well with 66, clearly need a bit more practice based on others above. Best birds were Iceland, Glaucous and Med Gull, while Dipper was nice for first day of the year.

Norfolk later in the week to try and get over a 100

Cheers
Nick

jtibbetts · Jan 1, 2008

78 today after a full day in the field along with it seemed almost every other local birder!
Best species being Firecrest, Water Pipit and Goosander.

Robert / Seattle · Jan 1, 2008

Not including the Holiday Capon in the oven ...

Limited to the backyard, and lines of sight from within, so far:

Steller's Jay
Anna's Hummingbird
House Finch
Northwest Crow
Cooper's Hawk
Black-capped Chickadee
Bewick's Wren
Oregon Junco
English Sparrow
Bald Eagle
European Starling
(unidentified) Gull
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Townsend's Warbler
Bushtits
Pine Siskin

... and, at 12:25 PM, still counting.

Tero · Jan 1, 2008

I am listing these on and off in two languages, so I settled on latin for all

1 passer domesticus
2 poecile atricapillus
3 Cyanocitta cristata
4 Thryothorus ludovicianus
5 Sitta carolinensis
6 Sphyrapicus varius
7 junco hyemnalis
8 Cardinalis cardinalis
9 Corvus brachyrhynchos

The sapsucker (6) was surprise, usually wait a few months to see one

canadagurl123 · Jan 1, 2008

Well mines kind of lame since I got the flu so can't bird watch other than my bird feeders
House Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Golden crowned Sparrow
White crowned Sparrow
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Anna's Hummingbird
Spotted Towhee
House Finch
Bewick's Wren
American Goldfinch
Not bad for having a fever at over a hundred this morning before I took a bunch of Tylenol!!

Penny Clarke · Jan 1, 2008

Managed 84 Species today - grey, merky, rainy horrible weather, compared to 92 last new year's day which was a lovely sunny day.

(Also see my write up on Norfolk thread)

In order of when I saw them:

Blackbird
Collard Dove
Common Gull
Starling
Jackdaw
Wood Pigeon
Robin
Rook
Pheasant
Wren
Blue Tit
Jay
Green Woodpecker
Hen Harrier
Great Great Shrike
Magpie
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Marsh Tit
Goldcrest
Redwing
Long Tailed Tit
Chaffinch
Kestrel
Curlew
Fulmar
Brent Goose
Turnstone
Cormorant
Herring Gull
Lesser Black backed Gull
Black Headed Gull
Oystercatcher
House Sparrow
Song Thrush
Pink Footed Goose
Goldfinch
Mallard
Moorhen
Hedge Sparrow
Greenfinch
Greylag Goose
Teal
Mistle Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Carrion Crow
Tree Sparrow
Linnet
Coot
Wigeon
Mute Swan
Pintail
Tufted Duck
Grey Heron
Peregrine
Shovelar
Merlin
Shelduck
Lapwing
Avocet
Golden Plover
Great Black Backed Gull
Dunlin
Grey Plover
Knot
Golden Eye
Ruff
Spotted Redshank
Gadwall
Little Grebe
Canada Goose
Redshank
Little Egret
Black Tailed Godwit
Bar Tailed Godwit
Sanderling
Ringed Plover
Common Scooter
Eider
Marsh Harrier
Barn Owl
Fieldfare
Pochard
Red Legged Partridge

Best Wishes Penny:girl:

Nightjar61 · Jan 2, 2008

On January 1, 2007 I set a personal record for the most species seen on New Year's day, with 46. I set out to break that record this year and was successful, having seen 58 species.

01. Dark-eyed Junco
02. Song Sparrow
03. Red-tailed Hawk
04. Mourning Dove
05. House Finch
06. American Crow
07. European Starling
08. American Kestrel
09. Canada Goose
10. Turkey Vulture
11. Ring-billed Gull
12. Mallard
13. Northern Cardinal
14. Hairy Woodpecker
15. Tufted Titmouse
16. Red-bellied Woodpecker
17. Blue Jay
18. White-breasted Nuthatch
19. American Tree Sparrow
20. White-throated Sparrow
21. Bonaparte's Gull
22. Eastern Towhee
23. Carolina Chickadee
24. Downy Woodpecker
25. Carolina Wren
26. Northern Flicker
27. Common Loon
28. Bald Eagle
29. Black Vulture
30. Rock Pigeon
31. Wild Turkey
32. Horned Lark
33. House Sparrow
34. American Goldfinch
35. Rough-legged Hawk
36. Lapland Longspur
37. American Harrier
38. Swamp Sparrow
39. Eastern Meadowlark
40. Common Grackle
41. Red-winged Blackbird
42. Mute Swan
43. Cooper's Hawk
44. Pied-billed Grebe
45. Green-winged Teal
46. Gadwall
47. Ring-necked Duck
48. Hooded Merganser
49. Cackling Goose
50. American Coot
51. Common Goldeneye
52. Belted Kingfisher
53. Brown-headed Cowbird
54. Myrtle Warbler
55. Golden-crowned Kinglet
56. Pileated Woodpecker
57. Merlin
58. Brewer's Blackbird

I completely dipped on the Merlin and Brewer's Blackbird in 2007, despite birding hard for them. And today, they were easy to find. That's birding for you.

Dave

prairiemerlin · Jan 2, 2008

I got eighty-one today. I spent the morning biking around, getting a start to my "Bigby" lists (see the post under the Lists forum), and found sixty-nine species. I added twelve more in the afternoon while birding with my dad at a couple spots. Birds in bold count on my "Bigby" list.

01. White-crowned Sparrow
02. Allen's Hummingbird
03. Anna's Hummingbird
04. Yellow-rumped Warbler
05. Lesser Goldfinch
06. American Crow
07. House Finch
08. Black Phoebe
09. Cedar Waxwing
10. Common Raven
11. California Towhee
12. Western Bluebird
13. Chipping Sparrow
14. Song Sparrow
15. Mourning Dove
16. Northern Mockingbird
17. Common Yellowthroat
18. Bushtit
19. Red-tailed Hawk
20. Red-shouldered Hawk
21. Northern Shoveler
22. Bufflehead
23. Ruddy Duck
24. American Coot
25. Ring-necked Duck
26. Eared Grebe
27. Double-crested Cormorant
28. Downy Woodpecker
29. Osprey
30. Ring-billed Gull
31. American Wigeon
32. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
33. Long-billed Dowitcher
34. Green-winged Teal
35. Golden-crowned Sparrow
36. Mallard
37. Wrentit
38. Spotted Towhee
39. Bewick's Wren
40. Lesser Scaup
41. Snowy Egret
42. Great Blue Heron
43. Pied-billed Grebe
44. California Gnatcatcher
45. Greater Roadrunner
46. Nuttall's Woodpecker
47. Fox Sparrow
48. Hermit Thrush
49. Say's Phoebe
50. Red-winged Blackbird
51. Gadwall
52. Northern Pintail
53. Turkey Vulture
54. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
55. Lark Sparrow
56. Acorn Woodpecker
57. Pine Siskin
58. Red-naped Sapsucker
59. Western Scrub-Jay
60. American Goldfinch
61. Dark-eyed Junco
62. Red-breasted Sapsucker
63. Wood Duck
64. Oak Titmouse
65. Belted Kingfisher
66. White-breasted Nuthatch
67. Orange-crowned Warbler
68. Savannah Sparrow
69. Great-tailed Grackle
70. American Kestrel
71. Rock Wren
72. Great Egret
73. Hooded Merganser
74. Rock Pigeon
75. Pine Warbler
76. White-faced Ibis
77. Brewer's Blackbird
78. Greater Yellowlegs
79. Spotted Sandpiper
80. Wilson's Snipe
81. European Starling

I missed a lot of easy birds, so the next few days should be productive as well...

Neil G.

FuzzyMonk · Jan 2, 2008

Alas, I feel like a little bit of an underachiever (with only 5) compared to several of the lists above. My first birds of the New Year: Common Raven, Black-Billed Magpie, Boreal Chickadee, Black Capped Chickadee, Bohemian Waxwings

Catherine3678 · Jan 2, 2008

Okay I'll slip in here and make everybody feel good about whatever they saw ... I saw NONE. It SNOWED and SNOWED and SNOWED. I called over to some friends who feed them and they also saw NONE, same reason. But a call out to a friend in the country ... first birds spotted = chickadees!

We can only go upwards from this day's count!

Michael W · Jan 2, 2008

Well I got off to a great start with my first bird, but the rest of the day I only saw 9 more species around the house. Here's what I've got.

1. Northern Saw-whet Owl
2. American Goldfinch
3. Dark-eyed Junco
4. House Finch
5. Pygmy Nuthatch
6. Black-billed Magpie
7. White-breasted Nuthatch
8. Mountain Chickadee
9. Northern Flicker
10. California Quail

Planning on doing some birding tomorrow that should put me near 50 if I'm lucky. ^_^

bittern · Jan 2, 2008

Am envious!

After seeing all those people with 80+ I feel a bit envious, I got to 48 yesterday but my waders were limited to just one wintering Turnstone so that made for more hard work on the other groups... Fortunately it is a good year for wintering duck.

Luckily it was bright and sunny here around Lake Geneva although cold.

Highlights were:-

Arctic Loon, Smew, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Brambling, Goldfinch, Firecrest, Red-breasted Merganser, Sparrowhawk, Greater Scaup, Ferruginous Duck, Red-crested Pochard, but I saw no House Sparrows and it was the first year in which I saw both Lesser Spotted and Green before Great Spotted Woodpecker...

Will have to go and find some Long-tailed Duck today!!!

Mike

Helenelizabeth2 · Jan 2, 2008

I got 87 in the Peterborough area yesterday. Highlights were Smew, Merlin, Peregrine, Goosander and Short-Eared Owl.

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