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How Is Your 2015 List Going? (1 Viewer)

57 Fieldfare
58 White throated Dipper
59 White Stork

I sat and watched the Dipper for about 15 mins. I had my D7000 with Sigma 150-500mm with me, so I decided to film it. The results are on Birdforum TV. The shorter clip shows it singing. It was filmed handheld fully out at 500mm. I sat down for more stabilty. I never tried making a vid with this lens on the camera before, so this worked out fairly well really.
 
Was busy working but got in 40 minutes at Central Park during my 2 day NYC layover:
145. Blue Jay
146. Tufted Titmouse
147. Red-bellied Woodpecker
148. Carolina Wren
149. Northern Cardinal
150. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
151. Brown Thrasher

Boarded for Switzerland as I type! Collins Guide locked and loaded.
 
Day 1 in Lugano - jet-lagged, but walked along the lake:
152. Hooded Crow
153. Great Cormorant
154. Great Crested Grebe
155. Grey Heron
156. Common Chaffinch
157. European Robin
158. Eurasian Blackbird
159. Black-headed Gull
160. Long-tailed Tit (lifer)
161. Eurasian Coot
162. White Wagtail
163. Grey Wagtail (lifer)
 
31 January 2015, Toyooka, Hyogo-ken, Honshu

315 Copper Pheasant
316 Green Pheasant
317 Oriental Stork. As the re-introduced birds have topped 100 I thought it was time to, finally, tick them off my list.
318 Temmincks Cormorant
319 Brown-eared Rail
320 Grey-headed Lapwing
321 Black-tailed Gull
322 Glaucous-winged Gull
323 Slaty-backed Gull
324 Bohemian Waxwing
325 Japanese Waxwing
326 Red-billed Leiothrix
327 Javan Myna.
328 Whites Thrush
329 Brown-headed Thrush
330 Red-flanked Bluetail
331 Russet Sparrow
332 Lesser Masked Weaver
333 Black-rumped Waxbill
334 Japanese Wagtail
335 Black-backed Wagtail
336 Oriental Greenfinch
337 Long-tailed Rosefinch
338 Japanese Grosbeak
339 Meadow Bunting
340 Chestnut-eared Bunting
341 Rustic Bunting
342 Grey Bunting
 
Yesterday was a day of gulls. Two birding buddies and I went to the northern panhandle of West Virginia to chase a report of two regionally rare gulls on the Ohio River. I had three targets and got all three (that doesn't happen very often), plus a completely unexpected bird that blew us out of the water.

85. Herring Gull
86. Great Black-backed Gull
87. Iceland Gull
88. Glaucous Gull

The Great Black-backed Gull and Iceland Gull had been reported, and both are very rare in West Virginia. What we didn't expect was the Glaucous Gull, a bird that I never even considered seeing in the state.

The Iceland Gull and Glaucous Gull were state lifers, numbers 236 and 237, respectively.

Dave
 
30 January 2015

Went for a nice run around Zurich Lake around sunrise and saw lots of birds.

Lake Zurich (Switzerland)
39. Common Gull
Great Cormorant (new Switzerland lifer)
Blue Tit (new Switzerland lifer)
40. Golden Eagle
41. Eurasian Tree Sparrow

31 January 2015

Went skiing at Davos-Klosters and saw:

Klosters (Switzerland)
42. White-winged Snowfinch
43. Alpine Chough

World life list: 395 (Eurasian Wren, Brussels, Belgium; January 2015)
Switzerland life list: 22 (Blue Tit, Zurich, Switzerland; January 2015)
2015 year list: 43 (Alpine Chough, Davos-Kloisters, Switzerland; January 2015)
 
Day 2 in Lugano - got my eyes on a kinglet... Goldcrest/Firecrest, but couldn't make out any more than that. Hopefully I'll add one to the list this trip.
164. Great Tit
165. Eurasian Wren (lifer)
166. Yellow-legged Gull
167. Eurasian Blackcap
168. Eurasian Blue Tit
169. Great Spotted Woodpecker (lifer)
170. Willow Tit (lifer)
 
I added some more while heading back across the Kanto to Tokyo Feb 1

343 Middendorffs Bean Goose
344 Falcated Duck
345 Baikal Teal
346 Japanese Green Woodpecker
347 Azure-winged Magpie
348 Asian Rosy Finch
349 :pallas Rosefinch
350 Chinese Grosbeak

... and at Koishikawa-Korakuen, Bunkyo, Tokyo

351 Baers Pochard
 
Took the train almost all the way to Locarno:
172. Carrion Crow
173. Common Buzzard
174. Common Wood-Pigeon
175. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (lifer)
176. Reed Bunting (lifer)
177. European Stonechat
178. Marsh Tit (lifer)
179. Eurasian Nuthatch (lifer)
 
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114 Inca Dove

Not the easiest bird to find in our county and I usually find only 1-2. Today I came across a flock of 18+.

Jeff
 
Dashed home from Manchester airport ( keeping within the speed limits, of course ;) ) and shot off down to New Brighton for Laughing Gull, taking me to 352 for the year.
 
This seems to be the year for gulls around here. This morning I went to the northern panhandle of West Virginia where last Saturday I added two gulls to my state list. Today I added one more to both my Year List and state list.

90. Lesser Black-backed Gull

Dave
 
Finally managed to get out and have a few hours birding this morning and picked up a few ticks. All in Hågadalen-Nåsten just outside Uppsala.

127. European Green Woodpecker
128. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
129. European Crested Tit
 
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