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How Is Your 2015 List Going? (2 Viewers)

4-7 April


Have been enjoying some family quality time in Northfield, MA and seeing some good quality birds as well.

Northfield, MA, USA
81. Lesser Scaup
82. Great Blue Heron
83. Cooper's Hawk (Lifer)
84. Red-tailed Hawk
85. Downy Woodpecker
86. Eastern Phoebe
87. Blue Jay
88. American Crow
89. Tree Swallow
90. Black-capped Chickadee
91. Red-breasted Nuthatch (Lifer)
92. White-breasted Nuthatch
93. Eastern Bluebird
94. Hermit Thrush
95. American Robin
96. Northern Mockingbird
97. Song Sparrow
98. Dark-eyed Junco
99. Northern Cardinal
100. Pine Siskin (Lifer)
101. American Goldfinch

7 April

Turner's Falls--Barton's Cove, MA, USA
102. Turkey Vulture
103. Iceland Gull

World life list: 397 (Pine Siskin, Northfield, MA, USA; April 2015)
USA life list: 113 (Pine Siskin, Northfield, MA, USA; April 2015)
2015 year list: 103 (Iceland Gull, Turner's Falls, MA, USA; April 2015)
 
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Three at work this morning:
207 Swainson's Hawk
208 Chimney Swift
209 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Jeff
 
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After pouring hard all morning, the afternoon cleared beautifully, so I took a walk in the woods behind my house and picked up one new bird for the year.

135. Black-and-white Warbler

Dave
 
Took a walk at the local park this afternoon, picked up one (rather overdue) year bird:

198. Hutton's Vireo

If I were really making an effort (i.e., heading out most days), I'd probably be well over 200 by now, but I'm just not trying super hard this year. That being said, I'll still strive to reach my annual goal of 300+ species.
 
I finally got out early this morning and trudged over the sands to the tideline at Hoylake for Surf Scoter. I also managed to add Tree Pipit, my first Willow Warbler and Ring Ouzel on the Langfields, taking me up to 499 for the year. I'm working in Mumbai next week so, with a lot of luck, I'll be able to add a good few more ( including a mega - Forest Owlet :t: ).
 
LA round-up before a quick hop across the pond!

254. Gray Flycatcher
255. Black-headed Grosbeak
256. Bell's Vireo
257. Black-throated Gray Warbler
258. Egyptian Goose
 
New Jersey layover proved fruitful thanks to grabbing lunch with a friend by the Great Swamp NWR:

259. Black Vulture
260. Rusty Blackbird
 
Still more of a state list. From a week or two

Redhead
tree swallow
ruby-crowned kinglet
loggerhead shrike
bufflehead
pied-billed grebe
Wilson’s snipe (Pioneer’s Park)
Franklin’s Gull
Double-crested cormorant
horned grebe (Pawnee lake), already in summer plumage, mostly
I've only seen it.. a dozen!...in summer plumage in Finland
 
9-12 April

Been visiting Chevy Chase, MD, where I am moving to this summer and seeing there are tons of birds here.

Chevy Chase, MD, USA
104. Mourning Dove
105. Carolina Chickadee (Lifer)
106. White-throated Sparrow (Lifer)
107. Common Grackle

World life list: 399 (White-throated Sparrow, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; April 2015)
USA life list: 115 (White-throated Sparrow, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; April 2015)
2015 year list: 107 (Common Grackle, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; April 2015)
 
The birds welcome me to Copenhagen! Day 1 walking around the city:
261. Eurasian Magpie
262. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
263. Eurasian Jackdaw
264. Tufted Duck
265. Greylag Goose (lifer) - I've seen these for years in the US as farmyard geese, finally get to tick it officially!
266. Common Moorhen (lifer) - thanks for the split, AOU!
267. Common Chiffchaff
268. Goldcrest (lifer)
 
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Copenhagen Day 2: Morning walk around Amagerfælled Marsh.
269. Rook
270. Ring-necked Pheasant
271. Peregrine Falcon
272. Little Grebe (lifer - heard only) - I normally don't count life birds I've only heard (save owls, nightjars and rails), but I actually recorded this call, and I'm very confident on the ID.
 
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lesser yellowlegs
greater yellowlegs
pectoral sandpiper American wigeon
yellow-headed blackbird (Ceresco, 2015)
savannah sparrow

state list, half of it is this year, is now 80
 
Sunday, April 12

30) Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
31) Eastern Phoebe

Location: Kitchener, Ontario

Conditions: The first day this season that I've been able to run in shorts, which really says it all.
 
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Stopped by a local lake on my way home from work to chase a report of a winter duck that I thought I had missed for the year.

141. Long-tailed Duck

Dave
 
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