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How is your 2013 List Going? (1 Viewer)

After birding all morning, I was ready to call it quits and it looked like I wouldn't see any year birds. However, at the last minute I got lucky and saw two new birds for the year.

77. Hermit Thrush
78. Golden-crowned Kinglet

Dave
 
Larry Lade said:
Dave, I went to Bluff Woods hoping to see either or both of the kinglets. Nada! but I did get the thrush!
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Hi Larry. The thrush was a complete surprise and was a bird that's not even on my radar for something to look for this time of year. The kinglet was really beginning to aggravate me, as I should have seen plenty by now. I've been looking hard for them ever since the first of the year. Nice to finally get that one in the bag.

Dave
 
Two excellent birds today--both rare for West Virginia.

79. Cackling Goose
80. White-winged Crossbill

The goose was a milestone bird in that it was my 200th species seen in West Virginia. I had looked for it two other times before getting lucky and finding it today. And this was the fourth time this year I went to the crossbill site.

Dave
 
Check list 2013

jimmmer said:
1 Cattle Egret
2 Scaly-naped Pigeon
3 Zenaida Dove
4 Green-throated Carib
5 Antillean Crested Hummingbird
6 Caribbean Elaenia
7 Gray Kingbird
8 Bananaquit
9 Black-faced Grassquit
10 Barbados Bullfinch
11 Carib Grackle
12 Shiny Cowbird
13 Pied-billed Grebe
14 Great Blue Heron
15 Blue-winged Teal
16 Great Egret
17 Green Heron
18 Common Gallinule
19 Common Ground-Dove
20 Grassland Yellow-Finch
21 Sanderling
22 Little Egret
23 Snowy Egret
24 Greater Yellowlegs
25 Wilson's Snipe
26 Lesser Black-backed Gull
27 Black-bellied Plover
28 Semipalmated Plover
29 Stilt Sandpiper
30 Eurasian Collared Dove
31 Belted Kingfisher
32 Lesser Scaup
33 Least Sandpiper
34 Ruddy Turnstone
35 Spotted Sandpiper
36 Frigate Bird
36 Least Sandpiper
37 Magnificent Frigatebird
38 Northern Pintail
39 Lesser Yellowlegs
40 Barn Swallow
41 Masked Duck
42 Osprey
43 Southern Lapwing
44 Solitary Sandpiper
45 Yellow Warbler
46 Caribbean Martin
47 Pearly-eyed Thrasher
48 Little Blue Heron
49 Rock Pigeon
50 Peregrine Falcon
51 Sora
52 Merlin
53 Northern Waterthrush
54 Eared Dove
55 American Coot
56 Black-whiskered Vireo
57 Laughing Gull
58 American Golden-Plover
59 Pectoral Sandpiper
60 Common Greenshank
61 Semipalmated Sandpiper
62.Roseate Tern - Sterna dougallii
63.Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus
64.Willet - Tringa semipalmata
65.Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus
66.Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
67.Short-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus
68.Black Swift - Cypseloides niger
69.Buff-breasted Sandpiper - Calidris subruficollis
70.Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax
71.Striated Heron - Butorides striata (1st recorded in Barbados)
72.Royal Tern - Thalasseus maximus
73.Western Sandpiper - Calidris mauri
74.Common Tern - Sterna hirundo
75.Orange-winged Parrot - Amazona amazonica
76.Yellow-crowned Parrot - Amazona ochrocephala
77.White-rumped Sandpiper - Calidris fuscicollis
78.Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus
79.White-winged Tern - Chlidonias leucopterus
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Slow going this morning in the snow. I got my target bird (Twite) but not much in the way of a supporting cast at Årike Fyris on the outskirts of Uppsala.

79. Tree Sparrow
80. Twite (Sweden lifer)
81. Peregrine
 
This morning I drove over to the Ohio River which forms the border between West Virginia and Ohio. Some Canvasbacks were spotted there yesterday, and it's supposed to be a good place to find American Herring Gull, which is rare in my part of the state. I saw both birds, and both were state lifers, my third in two days.

81. American Herring Gull
82. Canvasback

Dave
 
At Lewis & Clark State Park, south of Saint Joseph, Missouri
68. Eastern Meadowlark
69. Lesser Scaup
70. Canvasback

Around Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri
71. Western Meadowlark
72. Gadwall
73. Northern Shoveler
74. Killdeer
75. Mourning Dove
 
Persuaded my wife to go out for a couple of hours on a cold, windy morning.
83 Double-crested Cormorant
84 American Bittern
85 Swamp Sparrow
86 Snow Geese
87 Anhinga
88 Laughing Gull
89 Common Goldeneye
90 Belted Kingfisher
91 Brown Pelican
92 Mallard
93 Ruddy Duck

Jeff
 
137 after adding Buff Breasted Pipit and Slavonian Grebe on Saturday followed by Bullfinch and Redpoll on Sunday and a Blackcap in the garden this morning B :)
 
This morning I found a pair of Surf Scoters on a nearby river that flows through the mountains and has heavily wooded shorelines. An unusual place to see scoters, as they're usually birds of the open ocean, or at least large lakes.

83. Surf Scoter

Dave
 
Hi Dave. 10 years ago we were within 10 feet of a Surf Scoter on Lac Le Jeune ( in a very small outboard jobby) Not a huge lake by any means. I must admit I found it quite pretty in an extremely ugly sort of way - if that makes sense?

Rich
Nightjar61 said:
This morning I found a pair of Surf Scoters on a nearby river that flows through the mountains and has heavily wooded shorelines. An unusual place to see scoters, as they're usually birds of the open ocean, or at least large lakes.

83. Surf Scoter

Dave
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jimmmer said:
jimmmer said:
1 Cattle Egret
2 Scaly-naped Pigeon
3 Zenaida Dove
4 Green-throated Carib
5 Antillean Crested Hummingbird
6 Caribbean Elaenia
7 Gray Kingbird
8 Bananaquit
9 Black-faced Grassquit
10 Barbados Bullfinch
11 Carib Grackle
12 Shiny Cowbird
13 Pied-billed Grebe
14 Great Blue Heron
15 Blue-winged Teal
16 Great Egret
17 Green Heron
18 Common Gallinule
19 Common Ground-Dove
20 Grassland Yellow-Finch
21 Sanderling
22 Little Egret
23 Snowy Egret
24 Greater Yellowlegs
25 Wilson's Snipe
26 Lesser Black-backed Gull
27 Black-bellied Plover
28 Semipalmated Plover
29 Stilt Sandpiper
30 Eurasian Collared Dove
31 Belted Kingfisher
32 Lesser Scaup
33 Least Sandpiper
34 Ruddy Turnstone
35 Spotted Sandpiper
36 Frigate Bird
36 Least Sandpiper
37 Magnificent Frigatebird
38 Northern Pintail
39 Lesser Yellowlegs
40 Barn Swallow
41 Masked Duck
42 Osprey
43 Southern Lapwing
44 Solitary Sandpiper
45 Yellow Warbler
46 Caribbean Martin
47 Pearly-eyed Thrasher
48 Little Blue Heron
49 Rock Pigeon
50 Peregrine Falcon
51 Sora
52 Merlin
53 Northern Waterthrush
54 Eared Dove
55 American Coot
56 Black-whiskered Vireo
57 Laughing Gull
58 American Golden-Plover
59 Pectoral Sandpiper
60 Common Greenshank
61 Semipalmated Sandpiper
62 Roseate Tern
63 Black-necked Stilt
64 Willet
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