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Paul Chapman · May 16, 2018

From a recent Georgia trip (5th-12th May), Caucasian Grouse, Caucasian Chiffchaff, Caucasian Snowcock, Saker & Demoiselle Crane. Particularly proud of the Snowcock photo. :king:

All the best

Paul

in vitrio · May 19, 2018

And from a lot less exotic a perspective...red-legged partridge. Driving past a field somewhere in Cambridgeshire and out of the side of my eye caught something grouse-y moving. Stopped, poked camera out of window, got one shot, then another car came and I had to move. But I don't go out of my way to see birds, they're an incidental bonus on trips. So there are loads of common birds I've never seen.

Also saw common tern and pochard on a flooded marsh plain, only the second time I've seen them.

in vitrio · May 20, 2018

And that didn't last long as my most recent life bird - I got two this lunchtime in the local park! Chiffchaff and reed bunting. Within two minutes of each other.

AidenD · May 20, 2018

Mourning Warbler, the other day in northern NJ.

Kel_Mt · May 20, 2018

A Lazuli Bunting. Seen June, 2017 in my backyard. Have not seen him since.

Jacana · May 24, 2018

2040. Red-necked Phalarope. 4 of them today on Öland, Sweden.

It was one of by biggest bogey birds having missed them on numerous occasions, the latest being on Sunday! It was also my biggest target according to Bubo. European Roller now takes that accolade.

hookem2010 · May 25, 2018

Hudsonian godwit. I was listening to a podcast about godwits in Great Britain on my way home from a Mother's Day get together, which prompted me to go chase the pair of Hudsonians seen at a reservoir near me in Houston, Texas. Fortunately, I was successful and nabbed another lifer county bird in the lesser yellowlegs. Hopeful to get a few more coastal type birds like Magnificent Frigatebird before I move a bit inland in the next month or two.

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in vitrio · May 27, 2018

Stock dove, near Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries & Galloway, south-west Scotland.

No traffic so I could stop and check birds on wires as I was driving.

in vitrio · May 28, 2018

Thanks to Andy Adcock's ID, I can now add corn bunting. On a trip to Essex to take a look at castles and cathedrals.

Warixenjalka · May 29, 2018

Last weekend our local birding clubs annual trip to island of Ulko-Tammio (Hamina, FIN) succeeded beyond expectations, two lifers!

The weather was good and the sea calm as the mirror's surface. Totally we saw 92 species.

The first lifer, we were informed on the trip to island, that it was seen there on the previous weekend. And it still was there with about dozen of Eiders and Golden-eyes.
The second one was seen on trip back to Hamina and was totally surprise for everyone! B

Farnboro John · Jun 2, 2018

Moltoni's Warbler at Duncansby Head: fair exchange for dipping Walrus (well, perhaps not but I choose to look on the bright side). Pix in the UK rarities gallery.

John

Swindon Addick · Jun 3, 2018

Last weekend, after getting this far into the year with no lifers at all, I got the opportunity to pick off two at once with Flamborough having an adult male rose-coloured starling and a dotterel. And when I got there I checked their Twitter feed and found a report of Temmink's stint having turned up. Two of the three needed a bit of luck with timing, but three lifers secured and still time to get in a couple of hours at Bempton where I'd been intending to go.

Then, after the rare sight of Charlton winning something on the Sunday, aka the Womens Premier League playoff final, plans for Monday were thrown out of the window in favour of an RSPB reserve that was getting occasional Montagu's Harrier sightings and was sufficiently sure there was no breeding pair to be willing to put out news.

birdmeister · Jun 4, 2018

Sora, seen in Maine last week. neat bird and a great spot (maybe 100 yards away) by another group member!

Warixenjalka · Jun 4, 2018

At last I saw one of my biggest bogey bird. And also my first Phalarope - Red-necked! B

And this happens in Pyhtaa, South-East Finland. There was 7 females resting in the middle of the migration.

Tero · Jun 17, 2018

American dipper, Barrow's goldeneye, then:
Brewer's Sparrow - Spizella breweri
Black-headed Grosbeak - Pheucticus melanocephalus
Cassin's Finch - Haemorhous cassinii

I have a poor sound recording of the Brewer's, a car goes by in the middle

Paul Chapman · Jul 6, 2018

Ignoring the Clevedon Pied Crow, my first ticks since Georgia following five days in Madiera were Zino's (two pics of different individuals) and Desertas Petrels, Madeiran Petrel and Trocaz Pigeon.

All the best

Paul

Farnboro John · Jul 7, 2018

I keep forgetting to celebrate on here....

Moltoni's Warbler (Duncansby Head) and American Royal Tern (Pagham Harbour) yaay!

(Marion saw both and as usual says "I'm not bovvered....")

John

MKinHK · Jul 7, 2018

The small matter of 155 lifers on my April visit to New York and Argentina. As it was my first visit it was hardly surprising that a full 150 of those were in Argentina!

Of these the first and one of the most memorable was an American Bittern in a bare tree in Central Park, and the last was a Rufescent Tiger Bittern in a fully-leaved tree at Costanera Sur nature reserve in Buenos Aires.

Other highlights included a dozen species of hummingbird, Andean Condor, Torrent Duck, Lesser Rhea and the amazingly wonderful Toco Toucan.

Lots more details and pix in my trip report here:

https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=359505

Cheers
Mike

Jeff Hopkins · Jul 7, 2018

Just got back from a trip to Abra Patricia, Peru. Last lifer of 93 was Musician Wren, but the best (most unexpected) bird was Maroon-chested Ground-dove, which was a bird that neither guide had ever seen other than in flight.

Also got the Marvelous Spatuletail (displaying!) and Long-whiskered Owlet.

in vitrio · Jul 17, 2018

One of those odd coincidences last Thursday. The bird in Radio 4's Tweet of the Day, which I heard while driving to the south coast of the UK, was the Sandwich tern. Which I had never seen.

Until I went on the Isle of Wight ferry that evening.

I heard its scream first, I doubt I would have noticed it otherwise as there was a plethora of black-headed gulls and a gannet.

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