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Had a fantastic day birding in the Entre Rios area of Argentina with the excellent Marcelo Gavensky of Birding Buenos Aires.

We saw 91 species, including 36 lifers, over a diverse range of beautiful birding locations. What a really impressive country with amazing birding.


21 March

Ceibas Area, Entre Rios, Argentina
129. Greater Rhea
130. Spotted Nothura

131. Yellow-billed Teal
132. Wood Stork
133. White-faced Ibis
134. Savanna Hawk
135. Roadside Hawk
136. White-tailed Hawk
137. Swainson's Hawk

138. Giant Wood-Rail
139. South American Snipe
140. Burrowing Owl

141. Nacunda Nighthawk
142. White Woodpecker
143. White-fronted Woodpecker
144. Southern Caracara
145. Chimango Caracara
146. American Kestrel
147. Firewood-gatherer
148. Brown Cacholote
149. Yellow-chinned Spinetail
150. Chotoy Spinetail
151. Vermilion Flycatcher
152. Austral Negrito
153. Spectacled Tyrant
154. Black-crowned Monjita

155. White Monjita
156. Tropical Kingbird
157. White-tipped Plantcutter
158. House Wren
159. Yellowish Pipit
160. Red-crested Cardinal
161. Black-and-rufous Warbling-Finch
162. Saffron Finch
163. Grassland Yellow-Finch
164. Great Pampa-Finch
165. White-browed Meadowlark
166. Screaming Cowbird
167. Shiny Cowbird
168. Grayish Baywing
169. Yellow-winged Blackbird
170. Brown-and-yellow Marshbird


Médanos Area, Entre Rios, Argentina
171. Black-necked Swan
172. Ringed Teal

173. Brazilian Teal
174. Red Shoveler
175. Yellow-billed Pintail

176. Rosy-billed Pochard
177. Black-headed Duck

178. Black-crowned Night-Heron
179. Bare-faced Ibis
180. Roseate Spoonbill
181. Cinereous Harrier

182. Plumbeous Rail
183. Pectoral Sandpiper
184. Lesser Yellowlegs
185. Brown-hooded Gull
186. Ringed Kingfisher
187. Sooty Tyrannulet
188. Masked Yellowthroat

189. Grayish Saltator


Latest Lifer: 703 : Masked Yellowthroat (Médanos, Entre Rios, Argentina; March 2018)
 
My first proper twitch for ages saw me driving over to Friskney, near Skegness for the female Snowy Owl, which was a lifer for me.

135. Snowy Owl
 
A trip to the Jadebusen in Northern Germany gave me 65 species for the day, a good haul for March, I think. Year birds wereas follows, with Twite being a first for Germany:

93 Common Redshank
94 Barnacle Gooose
95 Dunlin
96 Pied Avocet
97 Common Snipe
98 White Wagtail
99 Twite
100 Ruddy Turnstone
101 Common Redstart
102 Northern Wheatear
103 Black tailed Godwit
104 Marsh Harrier
105 Brent Goose
106 Water Pipit
107 Meadow Pipit
 
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94. Pied-billed grebe
95. Tree swallow
96. Blue-winged teal
97. Eastern phoebe
98. Great blue heron
99. Horned grebe
 
A walk along the Lippe, near Paderborn, gave the following additions:

108 White Throated Dipper
109 Eurasian Treecreeper
110 Grey Wagtail
111 Common Chiffchaff
 
Working all around town this week, both incidental flyovers:
201. Sharp-shinned Hawk
202. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
 
Have had a very nice and relaxing family Spring Break in Cancun, Mexico. Birding was not an official part of the trip but I was happy to spot some magnificent birds at our resort nonetheless.


26 March

Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún, Cancún, Mexico
190. Tropical Mockingbird

26-31 March

Iberostar Cancún, Cancún, Mexico
191. Magnificent Frigatebird
192. Brown Pelican
193. Great Blue Heron
194. White Ibis
195. Semipalmated Plover
196. Laughing Gull
197. Ruddy Ground-Dove
198. Yucatan Vireo
199. Palm Warbler
200. Yellow-rumped Warbler
201. Yellow-throated Warbler
202. Indigo Bunting
203. Melodious Blackbird

Latest Lifer: 709 : Melodious Blackbird (Iberostar Cancún, Cancún, Mexico; March 2018)
 
The beaches, parks and mountains of Malibu on a Saturday:
203. Western Sandpiper
204. Red-winged Blackbird
205. Great-tailed Grackle
206. Least Sandpiper
207. Whimbrel
208. Common Loon
209. Elegant Tern
210. Western Kingbird
211. Marsh Wren
212. Nanday Parakeet
213. Hooded Oriole
214. Bullock’s Oriole
215. Cliff Swallow
216. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
217. American Robin
218. House Wren
 
Still no birding for me. Haven't had the urge to go out, especially with some of the bad weather we are having. Did a very soggy walk this morning with my Dog and saw my first Chiffchaff of the year. I have heard a few over the last few weeks but they were always out of sight.

136. Chiffchaff.
 
The night before last we had a snowstorm which caused a massive fallout of ducks and cormorants yesterday. I didn’t see anything new yesterday, but today a few ducks remained, including a regional rarity which I found this afternoon at one of my local patches.

220. White-winged Scoter

Dave
 
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