How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Penny Clarke]

A day out in Cleveland added a few more to the year list. Plus a tawny Owl flew in front of me not far from where I live.

165. Eider
166. Common Scoter
167. Red-throated Diver
168. Long-tailed Duck
169. Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler (Lifer)
170. Red Grouse
171. Tawny Owl

John

Goodness me John, you must have been zipping about all over the place to see 171 species since Jan 1st!!!!!!! - Well done:t:

Best Wishes Penny:girl:

 

[cnybirder]

Saw the following at Cayuga Lake State Park yesterday with my new Nikon Fieldscope:
43. Hooded Merganser
44. Red-breasted Merganser
45. Common Merganser
46. Tundra Swan
47. American Wigeon
48. Redhead
49. Northern Cardinal

At Montezuma NWR (we stopped for 5 minutes).
50. Great Blue Heron

Along the way back home:
51. Killdeer (2 in flight)

 

[Penny Clarke]

127. Woodlark

 

[Selsey Birder]

128. Woodlark

Nice one Penny, still need Woodlark!!!

 

[Steve Lister]

Despite being out of the country for almost half the time so far this year I have crept up to 150...

149 Sand Martin
150 Great White Egret

Steve

 

[Selsey Birder]

164 Willow Warbler (feeding enthusiastically in Selsey Bill garden, just arrived off the sea)

 

[Larry Lade]

102. Turkey Vulture, back in Saint Joseph, Missouri from some southern wintering area!

 

[cnybirder]

Saw these in the last few days:
52. American Goldfinch (3 at our feeder)
53. House Finch (2 high in a tree just down the road)
54. Red-shouldered Hawk (came within 30 feet of me)
55. Northern Harrier

ADD for March 17:
56. Horned Larks (about 7 in a nearby field)
My parents and brother saw a couple of Bluebirds that I missed by about 5 minutes.

 

[Larry Lade]

It is starting to look a little more like Spring may be heading our way. This morning I was able to see a few more birds here in Missouri which I really should have had before now this year. But, it has been a long, drawn out Winter.

These four were seen in the Lake Contrary area of Saint Joseph, Missouri.
103. Great Blue Heron
104. American White Pelican
105. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
106. Red-breasted Merganser

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got back from a ten-day birding trip to Honduras, my first time seriously birding in the Neotropics. I added 227 species to my Year List, including 136 lifers. One highlight among many was seeing the Honduran Emerald, an endemic hummingbird restricted to just a few arid valleys in Honduras. We even had a female on a nest.

Lifers are in bold.

104. Great-tailed Grackle
105. Tropical Kingbird
106. Clay-colored Thrush
107. White-winged Dove
108. Red-throated Parakeet
109. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
110. Lesser Goldfinch
111. White-collared Seedeater
112. Yellow-faced Grassquit
113. Blue Grosbeak
114. Ruddy Ground Dove
115. Tropical Mockingbird
116. American Yellow Warbler
117. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
118. Vaux's Swift
119. Swallow-tailed Kite
120. Violet Sabrewing
121. Short-tailed Hawk
122. Rufous-naped Wren
123. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
124. Wilson's Warbler
125. Red-billed Pigeon
126. White-breasted Hawk
127. White-collared Swift
128. Azure-crowned Hummingbird
129. Blue-crowned Motmot
130. Boat-billed Flycatcher
131. Spot-breasted Oriole
132. Baltimore Oriole
133. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
134. Lineated Woodpecker
135. White-eared Hummingbird
136. Bushy-crested Jay
137. Yellow-backed Oriole
138. Chestnut-capped Brush Finch
139. Yellow-throated Brush Finch
140. Slate-throated Whitestart
141. Buffy-crowned Wood Partridge
142. Green-breasted Mountain-gem
143. Slate-colored Solitaire
144. Golden-olive Woodpecker
145. Tropical Wren
146. Tennessee Warbler
147. Black-throated Green Warbler
148. Black-vented Oriole
149. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
150. Common Bush Tanager
151. Rufous-browed Wren
152. Sparkling-tailed Hummingbird
153. Yellowish Flycatcher
154. White-faced Quail-Dove
155. Blue-headed Vireo
156. Emerald Toucanet
157. Scaled Antpitta
158. Black-headed Saltator
159. Groove-billed Ani
160. Turquoise-browed Motmot
161. Indigo Bunting
162. Western Kingbird
163. Blue-black Grassquit
164. Altamira Oriole
165. Barred Antshrike
166. White-lored Gnatcatcher
167. Rufous-capped Warbler
168. Orange-fronted Parakeet
169. Striped Cuckoo
170. White-throated Magpie-Jay
171. Fan-tailed Warbler
172. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
173. Least Flycatcher
174. Crested Caracara
175. Salvin's Emerald
176. Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
177. Roadside Hawk
178. Social Flycatcher
179. Rose-throated Becard
180. Inca Dove
181. Melodious Blackbird
182. Squirrel Cuckoo
183. Great Egret
184. Grace's Warbler
185. Rusty Sparrow
186. Black-headed Siskin
187. Hammond's Flycatcher
188. Plumbeous Vireo
189. Western Cattle Egret
190. Chestnut-headed Oropendola
191. Muscovy Duck
192. Brown Jay
193. Ringed Kingfisher
194. Sungrebe
195. Purple Gallinule
196. Gray-headed Dove
197. Limpkin
198. Bronzed Cowbird
199. Yellow-bellied Elaenia
200. Passerini's Tanager
201. Giant Cowbird
202. White-fronted Parrot
203. Mealy Parrot
204. Montezuma Oropendola
205. Snail Kite
206. Rufous-breasted Spinetail
207. Cinnamon Hummingbird
208. Olive-throated Parakeet
209. Black-and-white Warbler
210. Violaceous Trogon
211. Buff-throated Saltator
212. Great Kiskadee
213. Prevost's Ground Sparrow
214. Rufous-browed Peppershrike
215. Plain Chachalaca
216. Dusky Antbird
217. Yellow-throated Euphonia
218. Collared Trogon
219. Northern Barred Woodcreeper
220. Keel-billed Toucan
221. Hooded Warbler
222. Masked Tityra
223. Golden-hooded Tanager
224. Olivaceous Piculet
225. Black-crested Coquette
226. Northern Bentbill
227. Plain Antvireo
228. Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
229. Western Long-tailed Hermit
230. White-bellied Emerald
231. Stripe-throated Hermit
232. Wood Thrush
233. Blue-gray Tanager
234. Yellow-winged Tanager
235. Tree Swallow
236. Chestnut-sided Warbler
237. American Redstart
238. Northern Jacana
239. Little Blue Heron
240. Barn Swallow
241. Common Moorhen
242. Fork-tailed Flycatcher
243. Orchard Oriole
244. Blue-winged Teal
245. Common Yellowthroat
246. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
247. Black-bellied Whistling Duck
248. Green Heron
249. Snowy Egret
250. Tricolored Heron
251. Spotted Sandpiper
252. Spotted Rail
253. Ruddy Crake
254. Streak-headed Woodcreeper
255. Yellow-throated Vireo
256. Summer Tanager
257. Magnolia Warbler
258. Northern Waterthrush
259. Gray Catbird
260. Grayish Saltator
261. Red-throated Ant Tanager
262. Collared Aracari
263. Royal Tern
264. Black-bellied Plover
265. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
266. Pale-vented Pigeon
267. Mangrove Swallow
268. Prothonotary Warbler
269. Boat-billed Heron
270. Black-headed Trogon
271. Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
272. Red-lored Parrot
273. Semipalmated Plover
274. Neotropic Cormorant
275. Sanderling
276. Scrub Euphonia
277. Spot-breasted Wren
278. Great Antshrike
279. Black-striped Sparrow
280. Olive-backed Euphonia
281. Variable Seedeater
282. Long-billed Gnatwren
283. White-collared Manakin
284. Crimson-collared Tanager
285. Blue-winged Warbler
286. Slate-headed Tody-Flycatcher
287. Bright-rumped Atilla
288. Cocoa Woodcreeper
289. Black-cowled Oriole
290. Piratic Flycatcher
291. Red-legged Honeycreeper
292. Brown-crested Flycatcher
293. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
294. Common Black Hawk
295. Green Honeycreeper
296. Thick-billed Seed Finch
297. Black-crowned Tityra
298. Ovenbird
299. Green Kingfisher
300. Common Tody-Flycatcher
301. Bat Falcon
302. Pale-billed Woodpecker
303. White-tailed Kite
304. Gray-breasted Martin
305. Honduran Emerald
306. White-eyed Vireo
307. Yellow-olive Flycatcher
308. White-bellied Wren
309. White-tipped Dove
310. Gray Hawk
311. Laughing Falcon
312. King Vulture
313. Common Ground Dove
314. Black-throated Trogon
315. Lesser Greenlet
316. Plain Xenops
317. Blue-black Grosbeak
318. White-crowned Parrot
319. Rufous Mourner
320. Keel-billed Motmot
321. Red-capped Manakin
322. White Hawk
323. Chestnut-colored Woodpecker
324. Paltry Tyrannulet
325. White-vented Euphonia
326. Philadelphia Vireo
327. Black-cheeked Woodpecker
328. Guatemalan Screech Owl
329. Violet-crowned Woodnymph
330. Wood Stork

Dave

 

[jtibbetts]

Added a few more in the last week at Upton Warren and a day at Titchwell:

330: Goshawk
331: Wheatear
332: Little Ringed Plover
333: Marsh Harrier
334: Hen Harrier
335: Eider
336: Manx Shearwater
337: Bar-tailed Godwit
338: Snow Bunting

(Also picked up Sand Martin, Knot and Grey Plover for UK year list, which is now at 167)

 

[TorchBCT]

A two day trip to Aransas NWR and Rockport-Fulton yielded 65 species total, with 31 new year birds, and 7 lifers including the Whooping Crane. Went for a walk this evening when I got in, and picked up my FOS Eastern Bluebird, as well as a Ring-necked Duck in a local stock pond...which is a first for my area.

Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Green Kingfisher
Wild Turkey
Northern Harrier
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Laughing Gull
Brown Pelican
Vermilion Flycatcher
American Kestrel
Whooping Crane
Great Kiskadee
Roseate Spoonbill
Common Moorhen
Willet
Common Yellowthroat
Marbled Godwit
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Gray Catbird
Ruddy Duck
Great-tailed Grackle
Anhinga
Black-and-White Warbler
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Forster's Tern
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Reddish Egret
Northern Parula
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Bufflehead
Ring-necked Duck

Year total: 94

 

[Larry Lade]

107. Eastern Phoebe, in the area around Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

 

[Selsey Birder]

166. Sand martin
167. Shag
168. Sandwich Tern
169. Long-billed Dowitcher

 

[Steve Lister]

Eyebrook Res 18/3
150 Green-winged Teal
Filey 19/3
151 Gannet
152 Shag
153 Purple Sandpiper
154 Firecrest
Arkengarthdale 20/3
155 Black Grouse
156 Red Grouse
157 Dipper

Steve

 

[Reader]

Caught up with a couple of local year ticks today when I popped into Coton.

172. Little Gull
173. Sand Martin.

John

 

[Jacana]

yesterday's Pembrokeshire-Somerset twitch netted me:

122. BLACK DUCK
123. ROSY STARLING
124. Sand Martin
125. Pintail
126. Chiffchaff
127. FRANKILN'S GULL
128. Garganey

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening, a new bird for the year showed up at my feeder. Now up to 331.

331. Chipping Sparrow

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

A slow morning with not much moving. However, I did pick up one new bird for the year, bringing my Year List up to 332.

332. Eared Grebe

I also added Blue-winged Teal and Tree Swallow to my Indiana Year List, which is now at 107. (I had seen both species earlier in Honduras).

Dave

 

[Tero]

76 Common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula, purppuraturpiaali
77 Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus, amerikanpalokärki
78 Yellow-rumped Warbler, Dendroica coronata, keltaperäkerttuli
79 Fish Crow, Corvus ossifragus, kalastajavaris
80 Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus, mäntykerttuli
81 Eastern Phoebe, Sayornis phoebe, harmaafiivi
82 Brown-headed Cowbird, Molothrus ater, lehmäturpiaali
83 Tree Swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, kelopääsky
84 Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, valkokulmanakkeli
85 Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus, mäntykerttuli