How Is Your 2015 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Back at Enbetsu-cho, Hokkaido, checking out an ongoing research project. Spring migration has started ( 7ºC yesterday :t: ) so yesterday was spent around the marshes, estuary of the Teshio and in the foothills of Teshio-sanchi. 20 new species for the year ( including Red-crowned Crane, Lathams Snipe, 6sp of warbler and Whites Thrush ) taking me up to 592.

orange-crowned warbler
wilson’s phalarope
black-crowned night heron
field sparrow
common loon
Caspian tern
Ross’s goose
swamp sparrow
cinnamon teal

Finally brings my state list to 101

chris butterworth said:

A trip out to Tansa WLS, 40 km outside Mumbai today takes me up to 571 for the year. It could have been higher if I had spent less time searching for Forest Owlet ( and then even more time just drooling over a species that has been 'extinct' for most of my birding life :t: ).
http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3204343&postcount=24

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Congratulations Chris on your Forest Owlet, you don't need an assistant by any chance?o

NSG Sauertal, Kleinenberg NRW Germany

149 Winchat
150 Ring Ouzel

The Ring Ouzel was a lifer and totally unexpected. I think it must be a returning migrant heading north.

My 2015 yearlist thus far
1 Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius
2 Sanderling - Calidris alba
3 Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
4 Green Heron - Butorides virescens
5 Common Gallinule - Gallinula galeata
6 Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria
7 Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata
8 Gray Kingbird - Tyrannus dominicensis
9 Carib Grackle - Quiscalus lugubris
10 Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus
11 Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
12 Zenaida Dove - Zenaida aurita
13 Grassland Yellow-Finch - Sicalis luteola
14 Black-faced Grassquit - Tiaris bicolor
15 Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
16 Scaly-naped Pigeon - Patagioenas squamosa
17 Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
18 Common Ground-Dove - Columbina passerina
19 Shiny Cowbird - Molothrus bonariensis
20 Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias
21 Great Egret - Ardea alba
22 Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
23 Osprey - Pandion haliaetus
24 Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus
25 Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga
26 Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon
27 Caribbean Elaenia - Elaenia martinica
28 Yellow Warbler - Setophaga petechia
29 Bananaquit - Coereba flaveola
30 Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Orthorhyncus cristatus
31 Black-whiskered Vireo - Vireo altiloquus
32 American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla
33 Barbados Bullfinch - Loxigilla barbadensis
34 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna autumnalis
35 Blue-winged Teal - Anas discors
36 Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea
37 Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax
38 Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
39 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
40 Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
41 Magnificent Frigatebird - Fregata magnificens
42 Royal Tern - Thalasseus maximus
43 Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
44 Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
45 Eared Dove - Zenaida auriculata
46 Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps
47 Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
48 Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla
49 West Indian Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna arborea
50 Green-throated Carib - Eulampis holosericeus
51 Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis
52 Masked Duck - Nomonyx dominicus
53 Sora - Porzana carolina
54 American Wigeon - Anas americana
55 Purple Heron - Ardea purpurea
56 Prothonotary Warbler - Protonotaria citrea
57 Caribbean Martin - Progne dominicensis
58 Stilt Sandpiper - Calidris himantopus
59 Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris
60 Caribbean Coot - Fulica caribaea
61 Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica
62 Red-billed Tropicbird - Phaethon aethereus
63 Cliff Swallow - Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
64 Laughing Gull - Leucophaeus atricilla
65 Sandwich Tern - Thalasseus sandvicensis
66 Lesser Antillean Bullfinch - Loxigilla noctis
67 Purple-throated Carib - Eulampis jugularis
68 Tropical Mockingbird - Mimus gilvus
69 Brown Booby - Sula leucogaster
70 Brown Pelican - Pelecanus occidentalis
71 Black Swift - Cypseloides niger
72 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - Nyctanassa violacea
73 Broad-winged Hawk - Buteo platypterus
74 Rufous-throated Solitaire - Myadestes genibarbis
75 Brown Trembler - Cinclocerthia ruficauda
76 Plumbeous Warbler - Setophaga plumbea
77 Smooth-billed Ani - Crotophaga ani
78 Scaly-breasted Munia - Lonchura punctulata
79 American Kestrel - Falco sparverius
80 Pearly-eyed Thrasher - Margarops fuscatus
81 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
82 White-cheeked Pintail - Anas bahamensis
83 Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus
84 Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus
85 White-winged Dove - Zenaida asiatica
86 Monk Parakeet - Myiopsitta monachus
87 Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos
88 Greater Antillean Grackle - Quiscalus niger
89 Sooty Tern - Onychoprion fuscatus
90 Bank Swallow - Riparia riparia
91 Scarlet Tanager - Piranga olivacea

World Lifers:136 (Sooty Tern)
Barbados Lifers:117 (Prothonotary Warbler) ---- http://100barbadosbirds.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_21.html

Three new birds today, so I'm now up to 159.

157. Bank Swallow
158. Spotted Sandpiper
159. Pine Warbler

The warbler was in a flowering deciduous tree in my yard, and was a new bird for my yard list. Although there is a big stand of white pines on the neighboring property (which it probably came from), there are only a couple of spruces in my yard. This was the first time I've ever seen a Pine Warbler that wasn't in pines.

Dave

Saturday, April 25:

33) Double-crested Cormorant
34) Blue-winged Teal
35) Greater Yellowlegs
36) Tree Swallow
37) Caspian Tern
38) Belted Kingfisher
39) Chipping Sparrow

Location - To Columbia Lake (N. Waterloo, Ontario) & home again.

Conditions - A little chilly (only +10C) but gorgeous - sunny and dry.

(Edit: plus beaver, and first Mourning Cloak of the year)

Andy Hurley said:

Congratulations Chris on your Forest Owlet, you don't need an assistant by any chance?o

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Thanks Andy. It was one of those ( many ) birds on my "I'm going to see one of them before I even think of dying " list. Regarding places other than Japan and UK, I've only got Beijing ( with a couple of days at Xiolangmen ) and Sydney ( probably try to sqeeze a day in at Royal NP ) left for this year - and you wouldn't like either of them. Honest :-O

swamp sparrow
ring-necked pheasant (female, Branched Oak)
cinnamon teal
Eurasian collared dove (Eagle)
White-based Ibis (Whitehead Saline Wetland Lincoln)...also lifer

Managed to get out of Uppsala for the day to the island of Gräsö. Picked up 9 new birds for the year.

136. Whooper Swan
137. Arctic Tern
138. Northern Wheatear
139. Common Redshank
140. Red-breasted Merganser
141. Common Tern
142. Common Eider
143. White-tailed Eagle
144. Black Woodpecker


Next week I'll be back doing field work on Öland, so my list will get a much needed boost. Things have been pretty stagnant thus far.

One new bird this morning puts me at 160 for the year.

160. Baltimore Oriole

Dave

Peter C. said:

Saturday, April 25:

33) Double-crested Cormorant
34) Blue-winged Teal
35) Greater Yellowlegs
36) Tree Swallow
37) Caspian Tern
38) Belted Kingfisher
39) Chipping Sparrow

Location - To Columbia Lake (N. Waterloo, Ontario) & home again.

Conditions - A little chilly (only +10C) but gorgeous - sunny and dry.

(Edit: plus beaver, and first Mourning Cloak of the year)

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Peter your type of list is so awesome! Really should be an inspiration for us all to do green lists.

This weekend, being the (somewhat defunct) competition of America's Birdiest County, LA birders, myself included, were out in force:

287. Black-chinned Hummingbird
288. Black Skimmer
289. Hammond's Flycatcher
290. Bell's Sparrow

chris butterworth said:

Thanks Andy. It was one of those ( many ) birds on my "I'm going to see one of them before I even think of dying " list. Regarding places other than Japan and UK, I've only got Beijing ( with a couple of days at Xiolangmen ) and Sydney ( probably try to sqeeze a day in at Royal NP ) left for this year - and you wouldn't like either of them. Honest :-O

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:t: I'm going to be far too busy, I have to go to Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, purely for fun My wife wants to see a family of elephants, nothing to do with the 296 possibles I've yet to tick there:-O

Up to 169 for the year so far. Still missing loads of "easy" ticks

CB

least sandpiper
dunlin
90 short-billed dowitcher

I was a little hesitant to call the dowitcher. It would be the first week the short billed is usually seen here. It's also the only dowitcher I've seen this spring.

The day started off with the first hummingbird of the year at my feeder.

161. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Then on my way home from work I stopped for a few minutes at a local hotspot and picked up a couple more new birds.

162. American Redstart
163. Green Heron

Dave

Unexpected year tick on my walk into work this morning.

145. Wood Warbler

This is usually last of the three common Phylloscopus Warblers to arrive. Yet I've not seen or heard a peep from Chiffchaffs or Willow Warblers yet!

Just a couple more, at work:
233 Cliff Swallow
234 Bay-breasted Warbler

Jeff

New birds for 2015 in Missouri:
Great Egret
American Bittern
American Avocet
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Great-tailed Grackle
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Double-crested Cormorant
Least Sandpiper

This puts me at 106 now for Missouri - 2015