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Chris's 2014 list. (1 Viewer)

15-06-14. Magadan, Russia

580 Long-toed Stint
581 Grey-tailed Tattler
582 Red-necked Phalarope
583 Northern Hawk Owl
584 Dusky Warbler
585 Siberian Nuthatch - lifer. First since split from Eurasian Nuthatch.
586 Eyebrowed Thrush
587 Mealy Redpoll

I managed to get a lift for 10km, along the "Road of Bones", and spent the day wandering back to town. Taiga, like tropical forest, can be relatively birdless but when you come to boggy areas with pools it can all change. 11 species of waders, including breeding Blackwits, Long-toed Stintvand returning female Spotted Redshank, 7 species of wildfowl ( breeding Whooper Swan and Stejnegers Scoter being the best ) and Yellow-browed, Arctic, Dusky Warbler and Siberian Rubythroat, all in song, made for a brilliant day.
 
19-06-14. Magadan, Russia

588 Sooty Shearwater
589 Short-tailed Shearwater
590 Aleutian Tern -lifer.
591 Spectacled Guillemot
592 Parakeet Auklet
593 Horned Puffin

With the conference over 3 of us took a 10m boat west along the coast to Mys Ostrovroy, a small island joined to the mainland by an ephemeral sandy spit. Plenty of Auks in bukhta Nagaeva, as well as the first Aleutian Tern, but the main interest was the 10,000's of Shearwaters. Huge flocks of mainly Sooties, but good numbers of Short-tails streaming past, and over, the boat. The dozen or so pairs of Aleutian Tern breeding on the spit, as superb as they were, couldn't compete with that for sheer spectacle.
 
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20-06-14. Magadan, airport area

594 Middendorffs Warbler
595 Yellow-breasted Bunting

22-06-14. Teshio, Hokkaido, Japan

596 Hazel Grouse
597 Oriental Honey-buzzard
598 Oriental Cuckoo
599 White-throated Needletail
600 Stepanyans Warbler
601 Black-browed Reed Warbler
602 Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
603 Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
604 Eastern Crowned Warbler
605 Chestnut-eared Starling
606 Japanese Robin
607 Asian Brown Flycatcher
608 Narcissus Flycatcher
 
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24-06-14. Okinawa

609 Brown Booby
610 Japanese Wood Pigeon
611 Ruddy-breasted Crake
612 Little Cuckoo
613 Japanese Paradise-flycatcher

Conference over, Hokkaido project running 'flawlessly' (ish) and students getting on with doing their own work without constant supervision. Either I'm doing something right :king: - or I'm superfluous ;) . Spent the day dragging my laptop around the island, 'working', and finished off at a friends house in Yambaru, watching nesting Paradise-flys and Okinawa Rails from their veranda. Back to Blighty tomorrow. :-C
 
04-08-14. Boston > Falmouth; Mass. USA

615 Franklin's Gull
616 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
617 Red-bellied Woodpecker
618 E. Phoebe
619 Blue Jay
620 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
621 E. Towhee
622 Baltimore Oriole
623 Bobolink

Picked up travelling.
 
05-08-14. Falmouth, Mass. USA

624 Semi-palmated Plover
625 Less. Yellowlegs
626 Solitary Sandpiper
627 (E.) Willet
628 Semi-palmated Sandpiper
629 Short-billed Dowitcher
630 Forster's Tern
631 Acadian Flycatcher
632 Least Flycatcher
633 Gt. Crested Flycatcher
634 E. Kingbird
635 Red-eyed Vireo
636 Fish Crow
637 Carolina Wren
638 Gray Catbird
639 Black-throated Green Warbler
640 Am. Redstart
641 Blackburnian Warbler
642 Prairie Warbler
643 Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
644 Seaside Sparrow

A profitable 3 hours before 'work' this morning. :t:

645 Barred Owl
646 ( Common ) Whip-poor-will

Another two last night. The Whip-poor-will was picked up while driving back to the hotel and the Owl was nearly outside my bedroom window.
 
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06-08-14. Cape Cod ( various sites on the south side ), Mass. USA

647 Clapper Rail
648 Sora Crake
649 White-rumped Sandpiper
650 Roseate Tern
651 Least Tern
652 Nthn. ( Yellow-shafted ) Flicker
653 Blue-headed Vireo
654 Tufted Titmouse
655 Veery
656 Nthn. Parula
657 Black-throated Blue Warbler
658 Black + White Warbler
659 Scarlet Tanager
660 Field Sparrow

Roseate Tern has to be the bird of the day, particularly as there was a flock of 27 fishing in a small creek mouth less than 50ft away. Two species of Rail were good. Particularly the Clapper, which was behaving like a right tart, wandering around in the open and completely unconcerned. I'm surprised I've seen so few Warblers though and, apart from Am. Robin, Thrushes have been verging on the non-existent.
 
07-08-14. Falmouth > Boston, Mass. USA

661 Chimney Swift
662 Chestnut-sided Warbler
663 Ovenbird

After a rather late night, and an early morning I had to get myself to the airport ( with all the excitement and joy of checking in :C ) so I didn't stop off as frequently as I had getting to Falmouth. The Ovenbird, next to a McD's, ( years since I've had one - and it's going to be just as long 'til the next one ) was a pleasant surprise.
 
26-08-14. Hoylake, Wirral

664 Little Stint

I missed out on a record 2200 Blackwit at the back of the house today but managed 2 juvenile Little Stint.
 
13-09-14, Oku Nikko, Togichi-ken, Japan

665 Copper Pheasant
666 Mountain Hawk Eagle
667 Oriental Scops Owl
668 Grey Nightjar
669 Ashy Minivet
670 Red-rumped Swallow
( Eur. Wren. -fumigatus. Pers. 1st for Japan )
671 Brown Dipper
672 Azure-winged Magpie
673 Blue + White Flycatcher
674 Japanese Grosbeak

I finally got into the mountains today and picked up some good summer visitors before they migrate, and a couple of species I should really have got before. I knew fumigatus Eur. Wren was darker than other Eur. Wren - but not that dark. Possible split?
 
18-09-14. Naha, Okinawa, Japan

675 Chinese Sparrowhawk
658 Barred Buttonquail
659 Eur Wryneck
660 Grey-streaked Flycatcher


The first Chinese Sparrowhawk are starting to pass through the Nansei Shoto now. With a bit of luck I might pick up some large flocks.
 
07-10-14. Hoylake, Wirral, UK

664 Curlew Sandpiper

After getting drenched to the skin while wardening I was prepared to go home, dry out and slob out in front of the fire but, as there were still Curlew Sandpiper present off Hoylake yesterday I thought I'd squelch my way round - just in case. After searching through a few thousand Dunlin / Red Knot I managed to find two, and a Little Stint.
 
21-10-14, New Brighton, Wirral

665 Leach's Storm-Petrel
666 Sabine's Gull

After my list had stalled for far too long, and I'd ( almost ) given up on Leach's, for this year, a night of northerly gales promised a chance of some seawatching.
 
01 / 02 - 12 - 14. Kyoto, Honshu, Japan

A shark tagging trip added

668 Japanese Murrelet

and an early morning twitch produced 5 glorious

669 Japanese Waxwing
 
Looks like 669 species is going to be the final bird total of this year. With 47 "lifers", mainly in Arizona, I shouldn't complain, particularly as I managed to catch up with a couple of long awaited species ( Red-legged Kittiwake and Aleutian Tern ). Roll on 01-01-2015 so I can start a new year list. :t:
 

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