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How is your 2018 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Two new birds this morning, which puts me at 244 for the year.

243. Short-billed Dowitcher
244. Baltimore Oriole

The dowitcher is very rare in this state, and was a West Virginia State lifer (number 269) and a Preston County lifer (number 228).

Dave
 
131. Brown thrasher
132. Semipalmated plover
133. Dunlin
134. Least sandpiper
135. Long-billed dowitcher
136. Great tailed grackle
137. Northern bobwhite
138. Caspian tern
139. Western kingbird
140. Palm warbler
141. Yellow warbler
142. White-throated sparrow
143. Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannusWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
144. House Wren - Troglodytes aedonWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
145. Nashville Warbler - Oreothlypis ruficapillaWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
146. Clay-colored Sparrow - Spizella pallidaWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
147. Lark Sparrow - Chondestes grammacusWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
148. Willet - Tringa semipalmataStagecoach Lake SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
149. Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbulaStagecoach Lake SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
picture of 35 willets

https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/97313741/1200
 
A week or so ago, some friends and I attempted an LA County Big Day mid-migration - topping our personal best and reaching 135 species on the day. Here were the year bird fruits of our labor:
221. Lazuli Bunting
222. Yellow Warbler
223. Nashville Warbler
224. Caspian Tern
225. Surfbird
226. Merlin
227. Tree Swallow
228. Semipalmated Plover
229. Green Heron
230. American White Pelican
231. Osprey
232. Bell’s Vireo
233. Mute Swan
234. Hermit Warbler (LA County lifer)
235. Hammond’s Flycatcher
236. Lawrence’s Goldfinch
237. Hermit Thrush
238. Ash-throated Flycatcher
239. Northern Harrier
240. Sora
241. Western Wood-Pewee
242. American Avocet
243. White-faced Ibis
244. Loggerhead Shrike
245. Wilson’s Snipe
246. Dunlin
247. Horned Lark
248. Great Horned Owl
249. Lesser Nighthawk (CA lifer)
250. Yellow-headed Blackbird
251. Hooded Merganser

And then on my first ever scuba certification outing to Santa Catalina Island:
252. Sooty Shearwater (LA County lifer)
253. Bald Eagle (LA County lifer)
254. Forster’s Tern
255. Pacific Loon
 
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A bird missing at 138 so
138. Solitary sandpiper
139. Caspian tern
140. Western kingbird
141. Palm warbler
142. Yellow warbler
143. White-throated sparrow
144. Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannusWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
145. House Wren - Troglodytes aedonWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
146. Nashville Warbler - Oreothlypis ruficapillaWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
147. Clay-colored Sparrow - Spizella pallidaWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
148. Lark Sparrow - Chondestes grammacusWagon Train SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
149. Willet - Tringa semipalmataStagecoach Lake SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
150. Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbulaStagecoach Lake SRAUS-NE30 Apr 2018
151. Least Flycatcher - Empidonax minimusWilderness Park--S. 14th St. west
152. Great Crested Flycatcher - Myiarchus crinitusWilderness Park--S. 14th St. west
153. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caeruleaWilderness Park--S. 14th St. west
154. Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensisWilderness Park--S. 14th St. west
155. Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichasWilderness Park--S. 14th St. west
156. Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatusWilderness Park
157. Wood Thrush - Hylocichla mustelina
 
Early this evening I took a walk in the woods behind my house and picked up two new birds for the year.

245. Scarlet Tanager
246. Yellow-throated Vireo

Dave
 
158 Wilson's Phalarope - Phalaropus tricolor Pawnee Lake SRA
159 Warbling Vireo - Vireo gilvus Pawnee Lake SRA
160 Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica Holmes Lake
161 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Stelgidopteryx serripennis Holmes Lake
162 Orange-crowned Warbler - Oreothlypis celata Holmes Lake
163 Orchard Oriole - Icterus spurius Holmes Lake
 
A walk in the woods behind my house this evening produced two new birds for the year.

247. Orchard Oriole
248. Eastern Kingbird

Dave
 
A productive early-evening walk in the woods behind my house produced five new birds for the year.

249. Gray Catbird
250. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
251. Swainson’s Thrush
252. Bay-breasted Warbler
253. Red-eyed Vireo

Dave
 
I managed to get a little birding in after work and picked up two new birds for the year.

254. Tennessee Warbler
255. Indigo Bunting

Dave
 
This morning I led a bird walk at the local botanic gardens, where I picked up two new birds for the year. Afterwards I struck out on my own, finding an additional six birds, bringing my year total to 263.

256. Blackburnian Warbler
257. Chestnut-sided Warbler
258. Cliff Swallow
259. Yellow-breasted Chat
260. Grasshopper Sparrow
261. Henslow’s Sparrow
262. Kentucky Warbler
263. Bank Swallow

Dave
 
Had a shore bird wrong, now removed. The orchard oriole is renumbered

162. Orchard Oriole - Icterus spuriusHolmes Lake
163. Cinnamon Teal - Spatula cyanoptera Pioneers Park
164. Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax Pawnee Lake
165. Dickcissel - Spiza americana Branched Oak SRA
166. American Bittern - Botaurus lentiginosus Marsh Wren Community Wetlands
167. Sora - Porzana carolina Marsh Wren Community Wetlands
 
This morning I made the six-hour round trip to the Ohio River Valley to chase the state’s first Purple Gallinule in over 30 years. In heavy rain I quickly found my target. It wasn’t a new bird for the year, as I saw the species in Jamaica in March. However, it was a state lifer (number 270), my second in a week. It was also the 182nd species on my West Virginia Year List.

When I got back, I made a quick stop and picked up a new bird for the year.

264. Willow Flycatcher

Dave
 
Back out to Catalina Island this past Sunday for my final scuba certification, en route by boat I got:
256. Pink-footed Shearwater (LA County lifer)

And on the drive home:
257. Vaux’s Swift

And at a city park on a lazy afternoon today:
258. Western Tanager
259. Warbling Vireo
 
168. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus Pioneers Park
169. Stilt Sandpiper - Calidris himantopus Pawnee Lake SRA
170. White-rumped Sandpiper - Calidris fuscicollis Pawnee Lake SRA
171. American Golden-Plover - Pluvialis dominica Tamora WPA
172. Northern Waterthrush - Parkesia noveboracensis (Nebraska lifer 253)
173. Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia Pawnee Lake
 
174. Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus Wilderness Park
175. Tennessee Warbler - Oreothlypis peregrina Wilderness Park
176. Wilson's Warbler - Cardellina pusilla Wilderness Park
177. Summer Tanager - Piranga rubra Wilderness Park
178. Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea Wilderness Park
179. Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus Conestoga Lake
180. Yellow-throated Vireo - Vireo flavifrons Conestoga Lake US-NE
181. Bell's Vireo - Vireo bellii Lincoln Saline Wetlands Nature Park
 
Some birding after work this afternoon produced one new bird for the year.

265. Wilson’s Warbler

Then this evening I went out looking for whip-poor-wills. I managed to get good looks at three and was even able to photograph two as they perched on a metal gate.

266. Eastern Whip-poor-will

Dave
 
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