So how is your 2007 list going? (1 Viewer)

Larry Lade · Jan 3, 2007

January 1, 2007, Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri
(in order seen)

1. American Crow (first bird of the new year)
2. Canada Goose
3. Red-tailed Hawk
4. European Starling
5. Bald Eagle (around 400 of them following the migrating Snow Geese)
6. Blue Jay
7. Northern Cardinal
8. Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored)
9. Northern Shoveler
10. Mallard
11. Snow Goose
12. Common Goldeneye
13. Common Merganser
14. Hooded Merganser
15. Ring-necked Duck
16. Canvasback
17. Redhead
18. Greater White-fronted Goose
19. Northern Harrier
20. Eastern Bluebird
21. Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted)
22. Trumpeter Swan
23. American Tree Sparrow
24. Great Blue Heron
25. Pied-billed Grebe
26. American Wigeon
27. Gadwall
28. Sharp-shinned Hawk
29. Black-capped Chickadee
30. Horned Lark
31. American Kestrel
32. Lapland Longspur

Additional birds seen at Big Lake State Park, Bigelow, Missouri
33. Mourning Dove
34. Ross's Goose

A couple more back in Saint Joseph, Missouri
35. Rock Pigeon
36. Downy Woodpecker

Larry Lade · Jan 3, 2007

January 2, 2007
New "year birds" birds seen on the Christmas Bird Count at Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Sumner, Missouri.

37. American Black Duck
38. Northern Pintail
39. Green-winged Teal
40. Bufflehead
41. Red-shouldered Hawk
42. Ring-billed Gull
43. Great Horned Owl
44. Barred Owl (we had seven individuals)
45. Short-eared Owl
46. Red-headed Woodpecker
47. Red-bellied Woodpecker
48. Tufted Titmouse
49. White-breasted Nuthatch
50. American Robin
51. Cedar Waxwing
52. Loggerhead Shrike
53. Field Sparrow (rare in northern Missouri in the winter months)
54. Song Sparrow
55. Swamp Sparrow
56. House Sparrow
57. White-throated Sparrow
58. White-crowned Sparrow
59. Red-winged Blackbird (somewhere around 10000 of these)
60. Eastern Meadowlark
61. Common Grackle
62. American Goldfinch

Near a grain elevator in Mendon, Missouri
63. Eurasian Collared-Dove

Darren Pearce · Jan 4, 2007

Kendon said:
After a week in Portugal UK list started yesterday at Bristol Airport and on the way home

1 Starling
2 House Sparrow
3 Rook
4 Blackbird
5 Magpie
6 Carrion Crow
7 Herring Gull
8 Buzzard
9 Black Headed Gull
10 Wood Pigeon

And locally this morning

11 Coot
12 Moorhen
13 Gadwall
14 Mallard
15 Collared Dove
16 Little Grebe
17 Pochard
18 Tufted Duck
19 Pied Wagtail
20 Mute Swan
21 Robin
22 Goldfinch
23 Greenfinch
24 Chaffinch
25 Bullfinch
26 Great Tit
27 Blue Tit
28 Long Tailed Tit
29 Jackdaw
30 Meadow Pipit
31 Lesser Black Backed Gull
32 Redwing
33 Dunnock
34 Jack Snipe

35 Mistle Thrush
36 Song Thrush
37 Wren
38 Grey Heron
39 Pheasant
40 Linnet
41 Feral Pigeon

JRE · Jan 4, 2007

55 Sparrowhawk

Gill Osborne · Jan 4, 2007

Oh joy of joys, great start to the New Year *not!!!* Hubby knocked binoculars over yesterday whilst we were getting ready to go out for an hour or two by the coast and, as if in slow motion, we watched them bounce down EVERY step to the bottom of the stairs!!!! Needless to say they are TOTALLY snookered and I'm going to have to take them in this weekend to Newcastle to get them sorted.
So I suppose I'm going to be using Neil's bins for a few days/weeks until mine are sorted :storm: I'll 'manage' but I don't find them as comfortable as my own *sigh*

Coulda been worse though.......could have happened in May during peak migration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek!:

So...relying on my naked eyes LOL

25: Feral Pigeon

marcus · Jan 4, 2007

So far, only:
1.Mourning Dove
2.Red-bellied Woodpecker
3.Blue Jay
4.Carolina Chickadee
5.Tufted Tutmouse
6.White-breasted Nuthatch
7.Eurasian Starling
8.Dark-eyed Junco
That's all I can think of.

JRE · Jan 4, 2007

56 Collared Dove
57 Bullfinch
58 Long-tailed Tit
59 Mistle Thrush
60 Fieldfare

Larry Lade · Jan 4, 2007

This morning I birded some areas around my home town, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

64. Great-tailed Grackle, at Saint Joseph's Stockyards
65. Lesser Scaup, on Lake Contrary
66. House Finch, around Lake Contrary
67. Western Meadowlark, around Lake Contrary
68. Winter Wren, at Bluff Woods Conservation Area
69. Golden-crowned Kinglet, at Bluff Woods Conservation Area
70. Hermit Thrush, at Bluff Woods Conservation Area
71. Northern Mockingbird, around Lake Contrary

lassa8 · Jan 4, 2007

I added one more owl last night around dusk:

35. Short-eared Owl

I watched a bird bander at the Lab of Ornithology this morning, and while doing so I picked up two new year birds:

36. Northern Flicker
37. Cedar Waxwing

Then this afternoon I took a walk around Beebe Lake on Cornell's campus and added three more:

38. Pileated Woodpecker
39. Red-breasted Nuthatch
40. Hairy Woodpecker.

J Jones · Jan 4, 2007

local late afternoon year ticks:

116: Goosander
117: Corn Bunting

Reader · Jan 4, 2007

After Norfolk my totals were 95 but I managed to add another 15 today around the local reserves.

The highlights of those I have seen include:

3 Hen Harrier and three Crane at Stubbs Mill.
4 Barn Owls in two days
5 Waxwings in Cromer
6 Shorelarks & 40 Snow Bunting in Caister.
Golden Pheasant
Water Rail (2 in two days)
Med Gull in Great Yarmouth
Guillemot at Salthouse
Cetti’s Warbler and Lesser and Mealy Redpoll at Brandon Marsh
5 Bearded Tit (3 male & 2 female) at Titchwell
Approx10 Brambling at Santon Downham and the next day about 80 just south of Wells, near Wighton.
40 Twite at Thornham
Hawfinch, Lesser Redpoll and Siskin at Lynford Arboretum
Black Brant at Holkham

The best has to be the 50 plus Woodlark seen at West Tofts, near Lynford Arboretum. They were amongst 100 plus Linnet and it was Lee Evans that put me onto them.

The first total to kick the year off is 110.

John

Marcus Lawson · Jan 5, 2007

flipper said:
I got the Ring Necked today, was showing very well from the path round the back of the oasts, however got rather covered in mud getting to it. I think i may have a go at the Fudge duck if this wind slows up a bit, as i have to rely on cycling there.

Hi Flipper,
Good to hear that there are a couple of young birders coming through in Kent, also good skills on cycling to sites - something I used to do when I was a similar age and couldn't get lifts.
Just in case you weren't aware there is a KOS walk around New Hythe tomorrow, see this thread: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=768036#post768036 I'm sure they'll be glad to see a new face and I don't think it will matter if you are not a member - yet

Good luck
Marcus

Birdbrain · Jan 5, 2007

1 Magpie
2 Starling
3 Woodpigeon
4 House Sparrow
5 Chaffinch
6 Blue Tit
7 Robin
8 Greenfinch
9 Black Headed Gull
10 Carrion Crow
11 Great Spotted Woodpecker
12 Blackbird
13 Dunnock
14 Great Tit
15 Collard Dove
16 Goldfinch
17 Song Thrush
18 Fieldfare
19 Moorhen
20 Redwing
21 Long Tailed Tit
22 Goldcrest
23 Kestrel
24 Jay
25 Pied Wagtail
26 Coal Tit
27 Jackdaw
28 Bullfinch
29 Yellowhammer
30 Common Buzzard
31 Red Legged Partridge
32 Meadow Pipit
33 Tree Sparrow
34 Mute Swan
35 Coot
36 Cormorant
37 Sky Lark
38 Green Woodpecker
39 Canada Goose
40 Tufted Duck
41 Pochard
42 Mallard
43 Black Swan
44 Greylag Goose
45 Lapwing
46 Great Crested Grebe
47 Heron
48 Little Grebe
49 Shovler
50 Sparrow Hawk
51 Barnacle Goose
52 Goldeneye
53 Ruddy Duck
54 Teal
55 Herring Gull

JRE · Jan 5, 2007

61 Yellowhammer
62 Canada Goose
63 LBB Gull
64 Goldeneye
65 Gadwall
66 Ruddy Duck
67 Firecrest
68 Linnet
69 Common Gull
70 Shoveler

Merg · Jan 5, 2007

Merg said:
1. bufflehead
2. peregrine falcon
3. great black backed gull
4. ring-billed gull
5. herring gull
6. mourning dove
7. european starling
8. american crow
9. rock pigeon
10. canadian goose

11. house finch
12. american goldfinch
13. sparrow of as-yet indeterminate species
I took pictures but won't have a chance to review them until tonight or tomorrow morning

Karl J · Jan 5, 2007

As i actually remembered to take a pen & paper today, so i now have a 2007 list ! The hope this year is for 175 which is by bicycle (and walking if i must) and maybe the occasional train if i am too knackered to ride back

.This afternoons couple hours ride around the east Norfolk countryside and a little way along the Norfolk / Suffolk border / nowhere in particular, and a quick look down the beach didn't turn up anything too unusuial i guess, but a nice round 40 did include 6 Cranes in flight (no clues needed as to the location

), 3 Marsh Harriers, 1 Greater-Spotted Woodpecker, a mixed tit flock that also included a few Goldcrest, 2 Little Egrets over Breydon bridge and later on down in the Waveney valley from Somerleyton village, c.2000 Pink-footed Geese overhead which was rather nice

No doubt i missed plenty of common ones too but, well, there you go....

Reader · Jan 5, 2007

Dropped down to Slimbridge today and added three more.

111. Eurasian White-fronted Gees
112. Little Stint
113. Bewick Swan.

Steve Lister · Jan 5, 2007

Resisted heading to the coast and did a fifth local day:

95 Siskin
96 Brambling
97 Tawny Owl
98 Curlew

Steve

Larry Lade · Jan 5, 2007

This morning I birded some local areas around Saint Joseph, Missouri. I went on the River Walk in north Saint Joseph to try for the Pileated Woodpecker which is sometimes present there (but not today!). But I did add:
72. Hairy Woodpecker
73. Carolina Wren

Then I went to Rosecrans Airport (Saint Joseph's airport) and saw nothing new.

Good ole Lake Contrary (south Saint Joseph) provided me with a couple more year birds.
74. Belted Kingfisher
75. Cackling Goose

napamatt · Jan 5, 2007

Wow, I'm way behind

My House
1. American Crow
2. Red tailed Hawk
3. Merlin
4. Lesser Goldfinch
5. House Finch
6. Cedar Waxwing
7. European Starling
8. American Robin
9. White-crowned Sparrow
10. Golden-cronwed Sparrow
11. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
12. Anna Hummingbird
13. Yellow-rumped Warbler
14. Mourning Dove
15. California Towhee
16. Northern Flicker
17. Nuttalls Woodpecker
18. Western Scrub Jay
19. Northern Mockingbird

Commuting
20. Black Phoebe
21. American Kestrel
22. Turkey Vulture
23. Red-shouldered Hawk
24. Rock Dove
25. Ring-billed Gull
26. Red Winger Blackbird
27. Brewers Blackbird

House
28. Oak Titmouse
29. Bewicks Wren

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