Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (8 Viewers)

P

Phil Hill

Well-known member

• Oct 31, 2015

• #3,361

Just got back from a trip to Northern Peru where I managed to get around 277 lifers out of trip list of nearly 600. Favourites included Maranon and Elegant Crescentchests, Lulu's Tody-Tyrant, Black Necked Woodpecker, White Tailed Jay, Marvellous Spatuletail, Kopecke's Screech Owl, Many Coloured Rush Tyrant, Pearl Kite, Black Collared Hawk, Black Faced Ibis. The last tick of the trip however was the best Inca Tern probably the best looking tern around.

 

Last edited: Nov 1, 2015

NearlyNoviceBirder

Well-known member

• Nov 3, 2015

• #3,362

Richard's Pipit in Gloucestershire, at 3rd time of looking

 

timsg80

Gregor Tims

• Nov 5, 2015

• #3,363

Four today around the Kedron Brook/Nudgee area of Brisbane, with Golden-headed Cisticola, Red-necked Avocet (very nice!), Mangrove Honeyeater and Striped Honeyeater. A very good day!

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Nov 8, 2015

• #3,364

Grey Bunting in Karuizawa, Japan.

 

timsg80

Gregor Tims

• Nov 13, 2015

• #3,365

Pacific Koel this morning in Melbourne's Royal Botanical Gardens.

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Nov 14, 2015

• #3,366

Jeff hopkins said:

Grey Bunting in Karuizawa, Japan.

Click to expand...

Followed by Japanese grosbeak two days later.

 

B

Bokmakierie99

Well-known member

• Nov 15, 2015

• #3,367

Saw a Hudsonian Godwit last weekend --- a rarity in my area.

 

D

dwallace

Well-known member

• Nov 15, 2015

• #3,368

Crag Martin in Chesterfield.

Dave W

 

wheatearlp

Well-known member

• Nov 22, 2015

• #3,369

Crag Martin in Chesterfield as a British lifer

 

Swindon Addick

Registered User

Supporter

• Nov 22, 2015

• #3,370

Caspian Gull, at RSPB Minsmere on Friday 13th.

Every time I see another of the less common gulls, I tell myself I don't "do" gulls and I'm never going to do this again. Yet somehow there always seems to be one more that decides to show well, somewhere near me, offering a tick in exchange for learning yet more obscure plumage details. Time to admit that I have a problem. Is there a gull-aholics anonymous that I can contact?

 

avesjohn

Well-known member

• Nov 26, 2015

• #3,371

Returned home today after a several-day birding trip through southern Arizona with some friends. I saw 7 lifers over the course of the trip, with one of them being my milestone #500. They were as follows:

November 23
495. Sinaloa Wren (long-staying rarity)
496. Bridled Titmouse
497. Mexican Jay
498. Arizona Woodpecker (preceding 4 all in Huachuca Canyon)
499. Magnificent Hummingbird (Ramsey Canyon Preserve)
500. Yellow-eyed Junco (Miller Canyon)

November 25 (today)
501. Crissal Thrasher (Yuma West Wetlands)

 

timsg80

Gregor Tims

• Nov 26, 2015

• #3,372

Two around New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds today with the endemic Rough-faced Shag along with Yellow-crowned Parakeet, and yesterday Southern Royal Albatross off Kaikoura!

 

timsg80

Gregor Tims

• Nov 29, 2015

• #3,373

New Zealand Grebe today at Lake Taupo.

 

Swindon Addick

Registered User

Supporter

• Nov 29, 2015

• #3,374

Swindon Addick said:

Every time I see another of the less common gulls, I tell myself I don't "do" gulls and I'm never going to do this again. Yet somehow there always seems to be one more that decides to show well, somewhere near me, offering a tick in exchange for learning yet more obscure plumage details. Time to admit that I have a problem. Is there a gull-aholics anonymous that I can contact?

Click to expand...

Now that's more like it - grey phalarope yesterday, feeding right next to the causeway at Farmoor and completely unconcerned by the assembled photographers.

 

Jon Turner

Well-known member

• Nov 29, 2015

• #3,375

My recent trip to Botswana was not a dedicated birding trip, but I did record over 200 species.... The pick of the bunch were:
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Schalow's Turaco
Rock Pratincole
and Pel's Fishing Owl
The last lifer (of about 60) was a lone Cape Teal.

 

timsg80

Gregor Tims

• Dec 3, 2015

• #3,376

North Island Kokako and New Zealand Fernbird yesterday on Tiritiri Matangi Island.

 

timsg80

Gregor Tims

• Dec 8, 2015

• #3,377

Morepork at Waitangi in Northland, NZ.

 

avesjohn

Well-known member

• Dec 13, 2015

• #3,378

Yesterday I saw the Field Sparrow in Ojai, the 14th record of this species in California.

 

S

solarrobor

Well-known member

• Dec 16, 2015

• #3,379

Layard's Tit-babbler yesterday during a short stop-over at Spitzkoppe, Namibia

 

S

Steve Lister

Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.

• Dec 16, 2015

• #3,380

Ringed Teal: m and f at Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires, the last of 109 new birds during a great southern Argentina tour. #4725.

Steve