How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Jacana]

A north wales trip netted me some goodies:

132. Black Grouse
133. Red-throated Diver
134. Common Scoter
135. Black Guillemot
136. Chough
137. Fulmar
138. Razorbill
139. Manx Shearwater
140. Common Guillemot
141. Ring-billed Gull
142. Greenshank
143. Wheatear
144. Short Eared Owl

 

[jtibbetts]

Another couple at Frampton this morning:

341: Garganey
342: Swallow

Also added Merlin to my UK Year list- 173.

 

[Selsey Birder]

170. Arctic Skua at Selsey Bill

 

[Reader]

A drive around Norfolk & Suffolk gained me 4 more ticks for the year. One of them was a White-spotted Bluethroat at Minsmere. What a stonking looking bird that is. It's just a shame that it was a bit too far from me to get a good photo.

186. Stone Curlew
187. Shorelark
188. White-spotted Bluethroat (the first I have ever seen)
189. Short-eared Owl.

John

 

[Penny Clarke]

Well done John with bluethroat:t: - goodness you covered some ground today!!!!! Nice to bump into you again. Now going to write up my day's report on Norfolk thread.

Best Wishes Penny:girl:


137. Shorelarks
138. Chiffchaff

 

[Reader]

Hi Penny

It's a cracking bird as well. I couldn't believe my luck. The path was under about 5" of water and the birders were split into two groups. One group was at the sluice end and standing on dry ground. The group I was with was standing in water. The bird had been showing between both groups. After just over an hour a group of people walked through the far group and came towards us. At the same time a few birders left the far group so a few of us walked to the other group because of the water. 45 minutes later the bird appeared -- down to twenty feet from where I had been standing. We were over 100 yards away. They were getting unbelievable images. Me - I got some record digiscope shots.

Below are 4 of the best shots. Still at least you can see what it is. What I would have given to have stayed where I originally was.

John

Well done John with bluethroat:t: - goodness you covered some ground today!!!!! Nice to bump into you again. Now going to write up my day's report on Norfolk thread.

Best Wishes Penny:girl:


137. Shorelarks
138. Chiffchaff

 

[Nightjar61]

Went out last evening after pouring rain most of the day, and added two new birds to my Year List. Now up to 335.

334. Double-crested Cormorant
335. Purple Martin

Dave

 

[JeffMoh]

Managed to fit in a decent morning's birding a little further from home.

Anahuac NWR added 9 species to my year list:
Redhead, Glossy Ibis, Cattle Egret, Sora, Eastern Kingbird, Palm Warbler, Seaside Sparrow, Barn Swallow and Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

High Island was very disappointing. Literally the only bird I saw at Boy Scout Woods was a Brown Thrasher.

So that takes my 2008 list for the USA to 145.

That's a bit behind last year's list at this time - but last year I had already taken a trip down to south Texas and that had produced a lot of new birds.

Jeff

 

[cnybirder]

Just on more to add:
Whitney Point, Broome County, NY
69. Cooper's Hawk (large female)

 

[Larry Lade]

119. Golden-crowned Kinglet, at Bluff Woods CA, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

 

[JeffMoh]

Birding locally

Took a walk around our campus this morning, not expecting to see much. Amazingly, I added 3 species to my year list!

146. House Wren
147. Solitary Sandpiper
148. Song Sparrow.

Jeff

 

[Penny Clarke]

139. stock dove

 

[TorchBCT]

Managed to get out today after class, surprisingly wasnt all that birdy, probably due to the 15 knot wind. Still managed to pick up three year birds, which breaks my personal record for fastest to the century mark.

99. Canada Goose
100. Cattle Egret
101. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning while birding the Smithville Lake area, Smithville, Missouri, I added four (4) new "year birds" for Missouri.

120. Common Loon (saw fifteen of them in breeding plumage, scattered about the lake)
121. Eared Grebe x 2
122. Bonaparte's Gull
123. Herring Gull

 

[jtibbetts]

Another few from the weekend and today:

343: Lapland Bunting
344: House Martin
345: Willow Warbler
346: White Wagtail
347: Ring Ouzel

(UK List 178)

 

[Nightjar61]

Left work early this afternoon to chase a Long-tailed Duck, a local rarity. I found my target, as well as two other birds, so my Year List is now up to 338.

336. Horned Grebe
337. Long-tailed Duck
338. Northern Shoveler

I also added Northern Rough-winged Swallow to my ABA Area and Indiana year lists. (I had seen it last month in Honduras).

Dave

 

[JeffMoh]

One More

Was watching two Crested Caracaras doing an aerial display this morning when along to take a look came:
149. Peregrine Falcon

Jeff

 

[cnybirder]

A couple new birds in the last few days:
70. Brown-headed Cowbird
71. Northern Flicker
72. GOLDEN EAGLE (very uncommon in Oneida County, NY)

 

[Penny Clarke]

140. Willow Warbler

 

[TorchBCT]

102. Canyon Wren