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Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (3 Viewers)
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GoldwingerTX
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Life birds
My "life" bird is getting a good picture of it, not just seeing it:
My first “life” bird was: Roadrunner, 1958, Tombstone, AZ
My #2 “life” bird was: Bald Eagle, 1960, Klamath Falls, OR
My #3 “life” bird was: Golden Eagle, 1968, Denali National Park, AK
My #4 “life” bird was: Black-billed Magpie, 1968, AK also
I have had so many life birds since then I cannot remember all of them.
Pileated Woodpecker, Black- vented Oriole, Painted Bunting, Green Jay,
Brown Jay and many others.
C M
My "life" bird is getting a good picture of it, not just seeing it:
My first “life” bird was: Roadrunner, 1958, Tombstone, AZ
My #2 “life” bird was: Bald Eagle, 1960, Klamath Falls, OR
My #3 “life” bird was: Golden Eagle, 1968, Denali National Park, AK
My #4 “life” bird was: Black-billed Magpie, 1968, AK also
I have had so many life birds since then I cannot remember all of them.
Pileated Woodpecker, Black- vented Oriole, Painted Bunting, Green Jay,
Brown Jay and many others.
C M
A couple of sort-of-lifers on my recent non-birding trip to Rome. Italian sparrow (does that count? I've lost track of who thinks it's a species and who thins it's a hybrid) and yellow-legged gull. Both had been seen before on holidays, but not since I started birding properly.
Yellow-legged gull is something I really should have seen in the UK by now, but St Peter's Square isn't a bad place for a lifer.
Yellow-legged gull is something I really should have seen in the UK by now, but St Peter's Square isn't a bad place for a lifer.
West End Birder
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Siberian Stonechat at Titchfield Haven last Saturday and with a bit of luck Franklin's Gull today at Blashford Lakes two lifers in a week in my home county!
Johann Sebastian Bach
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I'm intrigued to say that I've no idea what my last lifer was - or when it was.
I say "intrigued" because I was an obsessive twitcher twenty years ago and found missing any UK rarity really painful.
If I go away to new places, I'll certainly ensure that I look up the new birds I see - but the gripping need to add a tick to a list has left me - and I'm better for it!
Peter
I say "intrigued" because I was an obsessive twitcher twenty years ago and found missing any UK rarity really painful.
If I go away to new places, I'll certainly ensure that I look up the new birds I see - but the gripping need to add a tick to a list has left me - and I'm better for it!
Peter
West End Birder
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An awesome Franklin's Gull decided not to
avesjohn
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Speaking of rarity-chasing, yesterday (11/1/14), I - along with many other birders - successfully chased the Olive-backed Pipit found earlier in the day at Yorba Regional Park in Anaheim, Orange Co., CA.
This was only the second record of the species in California, and the first on mainland California (the state's first record was a bird banded on the Farallon Islands, present 9/26-9/29/1998).
On a personal level, this was almost certainly the quickest turnaround time for me between finding out about a high-caliber rarity and actually seeing it - first found about it around 12:30, when the info was first posted online, then only about 2 1/2 hours passed before saw I first saw the bird at around 14:55. The birders with whom I carpooled actually found out about it through me. It was certainly an exciting afternoon.
Only 20 species away from 500!
This was only the second record of the species in California, and the first on mainland California (the state's first record was a bird banded on the Farallon Islands, present 9/26-9/29/1998).
On a personal level, this was almost certainly the quickest turnaround time for me between finding out about a high-caliber rarity and actually seeing it - first found about it around 12:30, when the info was first posted online, then only about 2 1/2 hours passed before saw I first saw the bird at around 14:55. The birders with whom I carpooled actually found out about it through me. It was certainly an exciting afternoon.
Only 20 species away from 500!
West End Birder
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Franklin's Gull, get in!!!!
solarrobor
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Had 13 lifers during a 17-27 October 2014 tour of the Caprivi Strip in Namibia by the Namibia Bird Club:
- Shelley's Sunbird
- African Skimmer
- Purple-banded Sunbird
- Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
- African Marsh-Harrier
- African Snipe
- Banded Martin
- Angola Swallow
- Jameson's Firefinch
- African Wood-Owl
- Bearded Scrub-Robin
- Bradfield's Hornbill
- Black-faced Babbler
- Shelley's Sunbird
- African Skimmer
- Purple-banded Sunbird
- Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike
- African Marsh-Harrier
- African Snipe
- Banded Martin
- Angola Swallow
- Jameson's Firefinch
- African Wood-Owl
- Bearded Scrub-Robin
- Bradfield's Hornbill
- Black-faced Babbler
Telephoto Paul
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Dartford Warbler, about an hour ago.
foresttwitcher
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Surf Scoter, Holkham.
solarrobor
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Grey-backed Cisticola during outing to Avis Dam by the Namibia Bird Club on Sunday 9 November 2014
punkskaphil
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Ring Ouzel at Dagenham Chase a few weeks ago. #407 on the global lifelist.
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