How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[mr.sim]

150. Common Crane (x5)
151. Montagu's Harrier

Where you at Holme on Wednesday Penny? Cracking day!

 

[Jacana]

spring has arrived in Shropshire!

145. Barn Swallow
146. Little Ringed Plover
147. Willow Warbler

 

[Penny Clarke]

141. Med. Gull
142. Wheatear
143. Swallow

 

[Black Wheatear]

The old year list is doing quite nicely and my tally has been greatly added to during a recent visit to Morocco. With further trips planned to China, India and later to Morocco again and Kenya, then I would imagine I must be on for a 1000 species this year?

594. Moustached Warbler
595. Spotted Crake
596. Collared Pranticole
597. Gull-billed Tern
598. Caspian Tern
599. Mediterranean Gull
600. Glossy Ibis
601. Wood Sandpiper
602. Little Bittern
603. Squacco Heron
604. Little Swift
605. Common Swift
606. Lanner Falcon
607. Barbary Falcon
608. Plain Martin
609. Purple Heron
610. Calandra Lark
611. Short-toed Lark
612. House Bunting
613. Common Bulbul
614. Melodious Warbler
615. Willow Warbler
616. Sub-alpine Warbler
617. Horned Lark
618. Nightingale
619. Alpine (yellow-billed) Chough
620. Long-legged Buzzard
621. Thick-billed Lark
622. Desert Wheatear
623. Black-eared Wheatear
624. Spectacled Warbler
625. Whitethroat
626. Desert Lark
627. Eurasian Bee Eater
628. Tree Pipit
629. Barbary Partridge
630. Fulvous Babbler
631. Cream-coloured Courser
632. Hoopoe Lark
633. Isabelline Wheatear
634. Brown-necked Raven
635. Desert Sparrow
636. Crowned Sandgrouse
637. Moussier’s Redstart
638. Red-rumped Wheatear
639. White-crowned Wheatear
640. Tristram’s Warbler
641. Scrub Warbler
642. Houbara Bustard
643. Ruddy Shelduck
644. Little Stint
645. Whiskered Tern
646. Ferruginous Duck
647. Desert Warbler
648. Egyptian Nightjar
649. Bonelli’s Warbler
650. Bluethroat (white & red spotted)
651. Quail
652. Levaillant’s Woodpecker
653. Temminck’s Horned Lark
654. Black-bellied Sandgrouse
655. Gadwall
656. Garganey
657. Marbled Teal
658. Red-crested Pochard
659. Montagu’s Harrier
660. Spotted Redshank
661. Turtle Dove
662. Laughing Dove
663. Common Cuckoo
664. Pharaoh Eagle Owl
665. Marsh Owl
666. Red-necked Nightjar
667. Blue-cheeked Bee Eater
668. Wryneck
669. Lesser Short-toed Lark
670. Bar-tailed Lark
671. Tawny Pipit
672. Red-throated Pipit
673. Grasshopper Warbler
674. Savi’s Warbler
675. Sedge Warbler
676. Reed Warbler
677. Western Olivaceous Warbler
678. Spotted Flycatcher
679. Common Redstart
680. Woodchat Shrike
681. Trumpeter Finch
682. Cory’s Shearwater
683. Balearic Shearwater
684. Razorbill
685. Great-spotted Cuckoo
686. Dipper
687. Rock Thrush
688. Eurasian Nightjar
689. Scop’s Owl
690. Egyptian Vulture
691. White-headed Duck
692. Water Rail

:t:

 

[Reader]

25 Lifers for me there Pete. Hopefully we will see a similar list next March.:t:

On top of that there are some stunning birds on that list and I would be well impressed if I got photos of a good percentage of those.

John

 

[Black Wheatear]

25 Lifers for me there Pete. Hopefully we will see a similar list next March.:t:

On top of that there are some stunning birds on that list and I would be well impressed if I got photos of a good percentage of those.

John

You can be almost if not entirely certain of getting most of them John! We did dip badly on Mourning Wheatear this year, but Pf and I made the discovery of a pair of nesting Pharaoh Eagle Owl at one of the sites, so who's complaining!!

Looking forward to the trip?

B

 

[Reader]

Sorry Pete but no pressure. I am not allowing you to dip on anything.:-O:-O:t:

John

You can be almost if not entirely certain of getting most of them John! We did dip badly on Mourning Wheatear this year, but Pf and I made the discovery of a pair of nesting Pharaoh Eagle Owl at one of the sites, so who's complaining!!

Looking forward to the trip?

B

 

[Larry Lade]

Yesterday I was with a group who visited the booming grounds of the Greater Prairie Chicken at the Dunn Ranch (an area maintained by The Nature Conservancy) in Harrison County, near Eagleville, Missouri. From the blind (hide) we observed seventeen of the birds, eleven male who were "strutting their stuff" and six females who remained seemingly disinterested in the show the males were putting on. Really an awesome sight for us non-birds who were watching!

124. Greater Prairie Chicken
125. Louisiana Waterthrush

 

[Nightjar61]

A beautiful spring day after what seems like weeks of rain. A few migrants starting to move in, so I was able to add to my Year List, which is now up to 344.

339. Rusty Blackbird
340. Savannah Sparrow
341. Pine Warbler
342. Osprey
343. Wilson's Snipe
344. Northern Bobwhite

Dave

 

[Selsey Birder]

171. House martin
172. Blackcap

Then an almighty snow storm, a flat battery! and fortunately a friend 2 miles away with some jump leads - phewwwwww

 

[JeffMoh]

Life bird

Went to Spring Creek Park in Tomball this morning and saw two new 2008 birds:
#150 Northern Parula (ABA Lifer #397)
#151 Summer Tanager.

I'd been looking for a Parula for years!

Jeff

 

[Larry Lade]

Walking down our alley here in Saint Joseph, Missouri this evening I observed one more Missouri Year Bird.

126. Hermit Thrush

 

[Larry Lade]

Three more birds today for my Missouri Year List.

127. Purple Martin
128. Greater Scaup
129. Barn Swallow

 

[Larry Lade]

Brenda just called me and told me to look out our back window there was....

130. Eastern Towhee

 

[Nightjar61]

Last evening I birded for about an hour before having to go to a meeting and added an new bird to my Year List, which is now at 345.

345. Brown Thrasher

Dave

 

[cnybirder]

On the river just down the road:
73. Wood Duck
74. Blue-winged Teal

 

[Black Wheatear]

Serves me right for mentioning the great weather we been having on the Local Patch Thread!! Got absolutely hissed-on today, but still managed a few returning migrants/summer visitors.

693. Western Orphean Warbler
694. Melodious Warbler
695. Whinchat

Just off to get a change into dry clothes after a nice hot shower!!

:t:

 

[Nightjar61]

I just realized I forgot to list one of the birds I saw in Honduras last month, so my Year List should actually be up to 346.

346. Guatemalan Flicker

Dave

 

[TorchBCT]

Forgot to add:

102. Bewick's Wren

 

[Nightjar61]

Went out for an hour's birding after work this afternoon. High winds made it difficult to bird, but I did add one to my Year List, which is up to 347.

347. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Dave