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Chris's 2014 list. (1 Viewer)

04-03-14 Naha-shi, Okinawa

364 Osprey
365 Black-winged Stilt

Both picked up on the way to work this morning.
 
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06-03-14. Itoman City, Okinawa

366 Black-footed Albatross
367 Streaked Shearwater
368 Bulwers Petrel
369 Brown Booby
370 Eastern Cattle Egret
371 Pacific Golden Plover

Got lumbered with helping with a field trip for 1st year Marine Biology students today. While they were searching partially exposed coral heads ( and trying not to get hospitalised :eek!: ) I managed to get a few minutes birding in. The Albatross was the best bird of the day as everything else was almost guaranteed. The PGP were a flock of c40 flying along the beach as we came back in, and Cattle Egret were 'common' all the way south from Naha-shi.
 
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16-03-14 Hoylake Langfields, Wirral, UK.

373 White Wagtail

I've got to be mental! I've only been back a couple of hours and I end up doing my WEBs survey on the way to buy a loaf and some milk. :t: I also picked up my first singing Chiffchaff and drumming Gt. Spotted Woodpecker.
 
26-03-14. Worlds End, Denb. North Wales

376 Black Grouse

Dragged myself out of bed before first light, and shot over for the lek. c 14 males seen I the general area. I got quite a good day list but, only the Grouse for the year.
 
01-04-14. West Kirby, Wirral, UK

378 Willow Warbler.

A couple of warm, sunny days and the migrants are starting to appear. 1 singing bird at Gilroy and another on Grange Hill. Other migrants included Northern Wheatear, White Wagtail and a definite rise in the number of singing Common Chiffchaff and Eur. Blackcap.
 
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03-04-14. North Wales

379 Black Guillemot
380 Razorbill
381 Ring Ouzel
382 Dartford Warbler

Had the chance to go to a secret site for Dartford Warbler today. When I first started birding you had to go to a couple of sites in Hampshire to see them but now, they're c.50 miles from my house. :t:
 
04-04-14. Gilroy NP, Wirral

383 House Martin

After missing an Osprey over my house earlier this morning I thought I'd better get out and see what's about on the fields at the back of the house. Apart from a few singing Common Chiffchaff, 1 singing Willow Warbler, 2 White Wagtail and 2 Sand Martin there was little in the way of incoming migrants. Black-tailed Godwit seem to be steadily moving through, on their way to Iceland and Common Teal numbers are still in double figures. What has been noticeable, so far, this spring, is the number of displaying pairs of Northern Shelduck on the fields. 5 pairs and at least another 7 lone birds where there are normally 4-5 birds in total.
 
10-04-14. Hoylake Langfields, Wirral

384 Sedge Warbler
385 Common Redstart

I managed to get out early this morning and check my patch. Fewer migrants, in the form of Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, hirundines etc, but a brief snatch of song from the reeds in Gilroy NP got me my first Sedgie and a nice male Restart was in the old Willows as I nipped across the fields themselves to Carr Lane.
 
11-04-14. New Brighton / Mersey mouth, Wirral.

386 Sandwich Tern

After yesterday's 'influx' of Sandwich Tern, and today's count of 92+ White Wagtail at Hoylake, I caught the New Brighton train from Liverpool ( let's hear it for old farts travel passes :t: ) instead of going straight home. There were 17 Sandwich Tern on the Wirral side, with 4 Wheatear and 9 White Wags in 'The Dips', plus a thin, but steady passage of Barn Swallow overhead. A passing ship put up a couple of hundred Common Scoter from the Liverpool side of the estuary and a few Northern Gannet were at the north end of the wind farm.
 
14-04-14. Wirral Way, Hooton, Sth Wirral

387 Common Grasshopper Warbler
388 Lesser Whitethroat

Burton Mere RSPB

389 Garganey

Can I get to 400 before I head off to Arizona?
 
26-04-14. Tucson, AZ, USA

Desert Museum

395 Swainsons Hawk
396 Gambels Quail - 'lifer'
397 Black-chinned Hummingbird
398 Gila Woodpecker - 'lifer'
399 Gilded Flicker - 'lifer'
400 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
401 Verdin
402 Cactus Wren
403 Northern Mockingbird
404 Curved-billed Thrasher
405 Phainopepla ( my actual 400th species for the year ).
406 Orange-crowned Warbler
407 Virginia's Warbler - 'lifer'
408 American Yellow Warbler
409 Northern Cardinal
410 Pyrrhuloxia
411 Canyon Towhee

Sweetwater Wetlands

412 Snowy Egret
413 Green Heron
414 Mexican Duck - lifer
415 Cinnamon Teal
416 Turkey Vulture
417 Black Vulture
418 Common Gallinule - first since split
419 Black-necked Stilt
420 American Avocet
421 Wilson's Phalarope
422 White-winged Dove
423 Gt Horned Owl
424 Black Phoebe
425 Violet-green Swallow
426 Purple Martin
427 Common Yellowthroat

Travelling between sites

428 Inca Dove
429 Common Ground Dove
430 American Cliff Swallow
431 Rufous-winged Sparrow - lifer
432 Lark Sparrow
433 Great-tailed Grackle
434 Hooded Oriole
 
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27-04-14. Santa Catalina Mts. AZ, USA

Molina Basin Campground and Bear Canyon

435 Scaled Quail
436 White-throated Swift
437 Broad-billed Hummingbird - lifer
438 Swainsons Thrush
439 Cordilleran Flycatcher - lifer
440 Mexican Jay
441 Bridled Titmouse - lifer
442 White-breasted Nuthatch
443 Pygmy Nuthatch
444 BewicksWren
445 Blue-gray Gnatchatcher
446 Black-headed Grosbeak
447 Yellow-eyed Junco - lifer
448 Hepatic Tanager
449 Rock Wren
 
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28-04-14. Tucson > Patagonia, AZ, USA

450 Phainopepla
451 Cassins Kingbird
452 Summer Tanager
453 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
454 Western Tanager
455 Bronzed Cowbird
456 Chipping Sparrow
457 Vermilion Flycatcher
458 Gray Hawk - lifer
459 Lillians Meadowlark - lifer
460 Western Meadowlark.
 
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