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Napamatt's 2011 List (1 Viewer)

napamatt

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As usual the question is whether I can see 500 birds. After last year's effort just sneaking over the line, I will have to be more focused and make more of an effort in CA.

As for trips, it looks like I'll have a SC swing in June, where hopefully I can escape Hilton Head Island long enough to find Swallow-tailed Kite's, definitely this year's target bird.

In November I have a SA trip planned, with 6 days in Kruger, followed by a few days in the Cape, there my targets are Victorin's Warbler, Cape Rockjumper, Cape Sugarbird, Bokmakerie and Cape Gannet.

I may get to the UK in the Spring.

I'm really hoping to manage a trip to Pico Bonito Lodge in Honduras some time, if that happens I will up the target B :)

As usual the year started at lake Tahoe, but horrible weather meant no snow shoeing, so I had to make do with the few birds that came to our feeders.

1. Mountain Chickadee
2. Common Merganser
3. Pied-billed Grebe
4. Pygmy Nuthatch
5. White-breasted Nuthatch
6. Red-breasted Nuthatch
7. Brown Creeper
8. American Crow

Jan 2 Drive back to Napa

9. Turkey Vulture
10. Feral Pigeon
11. Red-tailed Hawk
12. Brewers Blackbird
13. Yellow-billed Magpie
14. White-tailed Kite

Jan 2, Home in Napa
15. American Robin
16. Acorn Woodpecker
17. Cedar Waxwing
18. Lesser Goldfinch
19. House Finch
20. Northern Flicker
21. Red-breasted Sapsucker
22. Yellow-rumped Warbler
23. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
24. Northern Mockingbird
25. Western Scrub-Jay
26. Oak Titmouse
27. Golden-crowned Sparrow
28. White-crowned Sparrow
29. Dark-eyed Junco
30. California Towhee
31. American Goldfinch
 
Jan 4, Huichica, Napa sewage ponds

32. Horned Grebe
33. Great Egret
34. Snowy Egret
35. Mute Swan
36. Canada Goose
37. Mallard
38. Northern Pintail
39. Gadwall
40. American Wigeon
41. Northern Shoveler
42. Cinnamon Teal
43. Green-winged Teal
44. Common Goldeneye
45. Bufflehead
46. Ruddy Duck
47. Northern Harrier
48. Virginia Rail
49. American Coot
50. Black-necked Stilt
51. American Avocet
52. Willet
53. Dunlin
54. Western Sandpiper
55. Least Sandpiper
56. Short-billed Dowitcher
57. Ring-billed Gull
58. Mourning Dove
59. Tree Swallow
60. Eurasian Starling
61. Common Yellowthroat
62. Song Sparrow
63. Red-winged Blackbird
 
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Jan 9th, Napa Oxbow Preserve

64. Downy Woodpecker
65. Red-shouldered Hawk

Jan 16th Napa Oxbow Preserve

66. Green Heron
67. Double-crested Cormorant
68. Western Bluebird
69. American Kestrel
70. Eurasian Starling
71. Orange-crowned Warbler
 
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Jan 26th Chalk Hill

75. Belted Kingfisher

Feb 3rd Lake Hennessey

76. Western Grebe
77. Clark's Grebe
78. Bald Eagle
79. Great Blue Heron
80. Lesser Scaup
81. Greater Scaup
82. Common Goldeneye
83. American White Pelican

Feb 6th Limantour Beach

84. Black Scoter
85. California Gull

Feb 6th, Napa
86. Sharp-shinned Hawk
87. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
88. Bushtit
89. Bewick's Wren

Feb 12th, Stillwater NWR, Carson Lake, Sparks Marina NV

Dipped on the Iceland Gull! By five freaking minutes!

90. Golden Eagle
91. Tundra Swan
92. Black-crowned Night-Heron
93. Loggerhead Shrike
94. Horned Lark
95. Common Raven
96. Black-billed Magpie
97. Killdeer
98. Savannah Sparrow

Feb 14th Napa
99. California Quail

Feb 16th Gilroy
100. Peregrine Falcon
 
Feb 27- Mar 4 England

101. Carrion Crow
102. Wood Pigeon
103. Black-headed Gull
104. Rook
105. Blue Tit
106. Great Tit
107. Common Buzzard
108. Willow Tit
109. Song Thrush
110. Mistle Thrush
111. Coal Tit
112. Greenfinch
113. Bullfinch
114. Fieldfare
115. Tree Sparrow (L)
116. Redwing (L)
117. Green Woodpecker
118. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
119. Eurasian Kestrel
120. Brambling (L)
121. Tufted Duck
122. Greylag Goose
123. Common Moorhen
124. Great Crested Grebe
125. Siskin
126. European Goldfinch
127. European Wigeon
128. Shelduck
129. Eurasian Oystercatcher
130. Eurasian Blackbird
131. Eurasian Magpie
132. Eurasian Collared Dove
133. Eurasian Robin
134. Red Grouse (L)
135. Eurasian Curlew
136. Northern Lapwing
137. Great Cormorant
138. Reed Bunting
139. Yellowhammer
140. Whooper Swan (L)
141. White Wagtail
142. Winter Wren
 
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April, Napa

143. Hooded Oriole
144. Bullock's Oriole

May, Sonoma Coast and Russian River

145. Black-headed Grosbeak
146. Osprey
147. Allen's Hummingbird
148. Wild Turkey
149. Violet-Green Swallow
150. Barn Swallow
151. Cliff Swallow
152. White-throated Swift
153. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
154. Ash-throated Flycatcher
 
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May 17th, Chalk Hill Winery, Sonoma

155. House Wren
156. Western Tanager

May 18th, Ellis Creek

157. Common Moorhen
158. Marsh Wren
 
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June 13-15th, Greenwood, MS

A business trip with limited birding opportunities.

159. Chimney Swift
160. Blue Jay
161. Carolina Wren
162. Eastern Bluebird
163. Indigo Bunting
164. Common Grackle
165. Red-headed Woodpecker (L)
166. Purple Martin

June 16th Merus Winery, Saint Helena

167. Wilsons Warbler
 
June 26th - July 2nd, Hilton Head Island, SC

168. Anhinga
169. Little Blue Heron
170. Tricolored Heron
171. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
172. Laughing Gull
173. Royal Tern
174. Caspian Tern
175. Red-bellied Woodpecker
176. Pileated Woodpecker
177. Great Crested Flycatcher
178. Eastern Kingbird
179. Fish Crow
180. Carolina Chickadee
181. Tufted Titmouse
182. Brown-headed Nuthatch
183. Brown Thrasher (L)
184. Pine Warbler
185. Northern Cardinal
186. Eastern Kingbird
187. Eastern Towhee
188. White Ibis
189. Glossy Ibis
190. Cattle Egret
191. Wood Stork
192. Painted Bunting
193. Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
194. Boat-tailed Grackle
195. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
196. Wood Duck
 
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James Webb WMA

197. Black Vulture
198. Mississippi Kite (L)
199. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (L)
200. Red-cockaded Woodpecker (L)
201. Eastern Wood-Pewee
202. White-eyed Vireo (L?)
203. Northern Parula
204. Prothonotary Warbler (L)
205. Common Yellowthroat
206. Yellow-breasted Chat (L)
207. Blue Grosbeak (L)
208. Chipping Sparrow
209. Brown-headed Cowbird
 
Aug 12th, Bay Bridge

210. Elegant tern

Aug 14th, Nojoqui Falls, Kinevan Rd, Goleta Beach - Santa Barbara Area

211. California Thrasher
212. Hutton's Vireo
213. Cassin's Vireo
214. Pacific Slope Flycatcher
215. Pacific Wren
216. Heermann's Gull
217. Herring Gull
218. California Gull
 

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