How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[TorchBCT]

Got out and about while at home on break, managed to pick up a decent total for my area of around 30 species, including 4 FOS birds:

Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow

Year Total: 98

 

[Jacana]

picked up this last night (or rather early this morning!!) calling in a large tree in the garden, glad to get it out of the way so soon!

129. Tawny Owl

 

[cnybirder]

Here is one I forgot from the 15th:
57. Common Grackle
I finally saw the Bluebirds on Friday:
58. Eastern Bluebird
On Saturday added:
59. Rusty Blackbird
60. Carolina Wren (two singing)

 

[Larry Lade]

Spring just does not want to "break forth" here in northwestern Missouri! We had snow flakes on Easter Sunday (yesterday). I should have had five or six species of shorebirds by now. So far, the only one I have is Killdeer!

However, I did finally pick up one more bird for my Missouri Year List.

108. Double-crested Cormorant, at Mud Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

 

[Penny Clarke]

128. Little Owl
129. Cettis Warbler
130. Snipe

 

[Nightjar61]

While running errands today as part of my job, I saw a new bird for the year flying over town. Now up to 333.

333. Short-eared Owl

Unusual to see a Short-eared Owl flying over a town like that.

Dave

 

[Chlidonias]

haven't been out of NZ yet so my 2008 list is only on 79. Last bird was a black-fronted dotterel on 23 March. Nice birds on the list include takahe, kea, kaka, saddleback, stitchbird, little blue penguin.

 

[Larry Lade]

Chlidonias, I had to look up the saddleback to see what it looks like. That is quite a bird!

Tieke or Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus

For anyone interested there is a photograph of one here in Wikipedia.
Or even a better photo of one in our own bird database here.

 

[Reader]

A marathon day today for Steve Lister and me. We started out at 04:45am from Coventry and called in to Cardiff for the Spot Sand & R B Gull. Over to Pembrokeshire for the Black Duck and the Rosy Starling then a rush over to Cheddar Res for the Bonaparte's Gull. We managed all of them plus a few bonus birds as well.

174. Ring-billed Gull
175. Common Sandpiper
176. Spotted Sandpiper
177 Rose-coloured Staling
178. Black Duck
179. Chough
180. Bonaparte's Gull
181. Red-necked Grebe.

John

 

[Penny Clarke]

131. Meadow Pipit
132. Red Breasted Merganser

 

[cnybirder]

Yesterday
61. Eastern Phoebe (first record for Oneida County for 2008)
This morning at our feeder:
62. Purple Finch (a pair)
This afternoon at Verona Beach State Park:
63. Snow Goose (thousands on the lake)
64. Cackling Goose
At Sylvan Beach along the canal:
65. Northern Shoveller
66. Bufflehead
67. Gadwall
Along Rt. 13 in Vienna:
68. American Kestrel

 

[Reader]

I wasn't feeling too well today but still managed a few hours in Leicestershire visiting Eyebrook Reservoir and Rutland Water. Thanks to Steve Lister's info I found three year birds on Rutland Water to add to the G W Teal at Eyebrook.

182. Green-winged Teal
183. Black-necked Grebe
184. Ruddy Duck
185. Wheatear.

John

 

[jtibbetts]

Another couple today at Frampton:

339: Blackcap
340: Temmincks Stint

Plus the drake Green-winged Teal there was a UK Year tick which is now on 170.

 

[Penny Clarke]

133. Dartford Warbler
134. White Spotted Bluethroat:t:

 

[Larry Lade]

March 25 I added seven Missouri Year Birds at Squaw Creek NWR, Mound City, Missouri.

109. Wilson's Snipe
110. Greater Yellowlegs
111. Pectoral Sandpiper
112. Lesser Yellowlegs
113. Baird's Sandpiper
114. Horned Grebe
115. Tree Swallow

March 26 I added three more in the oxbow lakes region just south of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

116. Brewer's Blackbird
117. American Golden-Plover
118. Vesper Sparrow

 

[Steve Lister]

A good few days....

23/3 Swithland Res
158 Lesser Scaup

25/3 Cardiff
159 Ring-billed Gull
160 Common Sandpiper
161 Spotted Sandpiper
Haverfordwest
162 Rose-coloured Starling
Marloes
163 American Black Duck
164 Chough
Cheddar Reservoir
165 Bonaparte's Gull
166 Red-necked Grebe

26/3 Rutland Water
167 Northern Wheatear
168 Little Ringed Plover
Eyebrook Res
169 Osprey

Steve

 

[Jacana]

got a couple of nice birds yesterday both in Shropshire, and both very nice birds

130. Little Gull
131. Ring-necked Duck

 

[Penny Clarke]

135. Great White Egret
136. Tawny Owl

 

[JeffMoh]

Finally a new bird!

I've been reading your posts with envy, as my 2008 bird list has been stalled at 134 since February 23. (That's excluding 40+ birds I saw on a recent trip to England, and some Nutmeg Mannikins that have taken up residence in our yard.)

Today we finally had a new visitor:
#135 Ruby-throated Hummingbird.

I hope it's a sign that the next few weeks are going to be good ones for birding.

Jeff

 

[Steve Lister]

Rutland Water came up with two more yesterday 28/3

170 Common Tern (my earliest ever)
171 Little Gull

My Leics/Rutland 2008 list is on 133, no bad at all far an inland county. And World 2008 now 694.

Steve