ABA Big Year 2017 (1 Viewer)

[trptjoe]

Assuming Hawaii doesn't count until the revised ABA list comes out:
Yve hits the Top Ten all-time with 724 + 3.
The Stolls are at 715 + 2 (with 56 Hawaiian species in the bank).

Joe

 

[trptjoe]

Turns out I had Dan Sanders' 2005 Big Year list in my files, so I added him in.
Joe

 

[trptjoe]

Deja vu all over again. On the morning of August 25th, they're all tied!
Ruben & Victor: 728 (726 + 2)
Yve: 728 (725 + 3)

The Stolls have 54 species in the Bank of Hawaii: they've picked up Spotted Dove & Munia in California.

Joe

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Looks like Yve was on Debi Shearwater's recent trip that picked up Hawaiian Petrel.

 

[trptjoe]

They're all up in Alaska, and tied at 732, last I heard.
Joe

 

[McMadd]

You'd hope they were all en route to California...?

 

[lewis20126]

You'd hope they were all en route to California...?

what is there is California?

cheers, a

 

[Nutcracker]

what is there is California?

cheers, a

Presumably a typo for Seattle, WA (Swallow-tailed Gull) . . .

 

[lewis20126]

Presumably a typo for Seattle, WA (Swallow-tailed Gull) . . .

Yes, I would be heading to Seattle rather than California!

cheers, a

 

[Nutcracker]

That's if it's still there - only reports I've seen about it are for 31 Aug.

 

[trptjoe]

All five 700+ birders are on Gambell. Yve picked up King Eider & Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, both of which the Stolls already had.
Yve 734
Ruben/Victor 732

Joe

 

[McMadd]

Presumably a typo for Seattle, WA (Swallow-tailed Gull) . . .

Yeah...in a rush to get to the pub...B

 

[Kratter]

Yve posted last night on FB that she got Red-throated Pipit.

Andy

 

[Nutcracker]

Presumably a typo for Seattle, WA (Swallow-tailed Gull) . . .

That's if it's still there - only reports I've seen about it are for 31 Aug.

Just seen a mention for it at Point Wells, Snohomish - don't know how far that is from the original sighting.
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S38949533

 

[MKinHK]

Just seen a mention for it at Point Wells, Snohomish - don't know how far that is from the original sighting.
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S38949533

Just a few KM.

 

[Kratter]

Yve got Asian Brown Flycatcher in Gambell. Fourth ABA record. I think all the 700+ year-birders are there.

 

[trptjoe]

According to Yve, all the birders up there got it, including all five 700+ birders.

Joe

 

[Microtus]

According to this blog post, this is the fifth Asian Brown Flycatcher in the ABA area. What a nice sighting.

 

[Nutcracker]

What a nice sighting.

All the same - if I'd been doing this big year - I'd very much rather see that Swallow-tailed Gull . . . what a bird!

 

[Microtus]

All the same - if I'd been doing this big year - I'd very much rather see that Swallow-tailed Gull . . . what a bird!

Me too. But, if you're stuck in Alaska, you're stuck in Alaska. Maybe the gull will still be around when people get back to the lower 48.