How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Larry Lade]

Missouri Year List (update)

May 26, 2008
226. Black-bellied Plover, at Horseshoe Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri
227. Yellow-billed Cuckoo, at "Sprake" marsh, Saint Joseph, Missouri

May 27, 2008
228. Willow Flycatcher, at Bob Brown Conservation Area, Forest City, Missouri
229. Snowy Egret, at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri
230. Acadian Flycatcher, at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

 

[Steve Lister]

Bringing things up to date....

May 4th
198 Temminck's Stint (Wanlip, Leics)

May 9th
199 Turtle Dove (Rutland Water)

May 10th
200 Caspian Gull (Kilvington, Notts)

May 13th
201 Wood Sandpiper (Rutland Water)

May 14th
202 Golden Oriole (Lakenheath, Suffolk)
203 Red-footed Falcon (as above)
204 Stone Curlew (Brecks)
205 Woodlark (Brecks)
206 Montagu's Harrier (should be kept quiet)
207 Dotterel (Choseley, Norfolk)

1284 for my 2008 World List now.

Steve

And another update....

May 11th
208 Little Tern Rutland Water
209 Short-eared Owl Eyebrook Res

May 17th
210 Purple Heron Rutland Water

May 22nd
211 Spotted Flycatcher Charnwood

May 24th
212 Black Redstart Bempton Cliffs
213 Razorbill
214 Guillemot
215 Puffin

and then the big day...

216 STILT SANDPIPER Rutland Water
217 MARSH SANDPIPER

Steve

 

[Dave B Smith]

A long weekend in Barbados increased my World year list by two:
288. Barbados Bullfinch
289. Black-whiskered Vireo

Both lifers too!

 

[Larry Lade]

May 28, 2008 Missouri Year Birds

231. Little Blue Heron, "Sprake" marsh, Saint Joseph, Missouri
232. Ruddy Turnstone, at Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri
233. Sanderling, at Horseshoe Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening, just at dusk, I went to the local mall to look for nighthawks. They fly around flood lights to catch insects attracted by the light.

396. Common Nighthawk

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

234. Olive-sided Flycatcher, near Sprake marsh, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

 

[Reader]

A bit of a disappointing day with many birds disappearing before we could get to see them. Starting at Rutland where the Marsh Sandpiper was not to be seen then onto Spurn where only a marsh warbler was found. Everything else, apart from a very elusive Golden Oriole (which we didn't see) had also departed.

I did manage three new ticks though so all was not lost.

235. Turtle Dove
236. Marsh Warbler
237. Spotted Flycatcher.

John

 

[Nightjar61]

Took a long (2 1/2-hour) lunch today to chase a Fork-tailed Flycatcher. It is the first record of this species for Indiana. I saw my target, which was a lifer for the ABA Area and Indiana, so my ABA Area life list is now at 621, and my Indiana state list is now at 286. It was number 201 for my ABA Area and Indiana year lists. Ironically, it was not a year tick, since I saw the species in Honduras in March.

Dave

 

[JRE]

Hayle Estuary, Cornwall.
170. Spoonbill

Lands End
171. Turtle Dove
172. Chough
173. Manx Shearwater

 

[Nightjar61]

Spring migration definitely seems to be winding down, and I'm having to work hard for one new bird at a time now. I only saw one bird today, a Summer Tanager, and it wasn't a year tick, since I saw it in Honduras in March. However, it was number 202 for my ABA Area and Indiana year lists.

Dave

 

[Jacana]

since my last update a few weeks back...

176. Wood Warbler LIFER (tarty since i live in Shropshire!!)
177. Tree Pipit
178. Little Stint
179. Common Crane LIFER

 

[jtibbetts]

A few more in the last couple of weeks:

382: Greenshank
383: Dartford Warbler
384: Nightjar
385: Long-eared Owl
386: Common Crane

(UK list 211)

 

[Selsey Birder]

Okay, been to Mallorca for a week and following Penny's lead i will add to my Year List (really just a tactic to ensure that all the Kenyan birds later in the year get on here)!!

227. Yellow-legged Gull
228. Sardinian Warbler
229. Zitting Cisticola
230. Pallid swift
231. Stone Curlew
232. Audouin's Gull
233. Night Heron
234. Great Reed Warbler
235. Black-winged Stilt
236. Kentish Plover
237. Little Ringed Plover
238. Yellow Wagtail
239. Squacco Heron
240. Purple Heron
241. Eleanora's Falcon
242. Marbled Duck
243. Hoopoe
244. Red-Knobbed Coot - only lifer of the week
245. Black Kite
246. Spotted Flycatcher
247. Little Stint
248. Purple Gallinule
249. Crag Martin
250. Red-Footed Falcon
251. Woodchat Shrike
252. Spectacled Warbler
253. Little Bittern
254. Booted Eagle
255. Balearic Warbler
256. Cirl Bunting
257. Beeeater
258. Short-toed Lark
259. Thekla's Lark
260. Greater Flamingo
261. Cory's Shearwater
262. Tawny Pipit
263. Black Vulture
264. Subalpine Warbler
265. Blue Rock Thrush
266. Collared Pratincole
267. Moustached Warbler
268. Lesser Whitethroat

101 Species in total and an excellent week in lovely surroundings, i remembered whilst i was there why i like birding there so much!

 

[Dave B Smith]

This past weekend, I managed to get out to my local patch and also make a trip up to the north end of the Island adding 8 birds to my T&T year list (and one lifer*):
195. Gray-necked Wood-Rail
196. Lilac-tailed Parrotlet*
197. Plain Antvireo
198. Crimson-crested Woodpecker
199. Bat Falcon (actually saw 3!)
200. Black-tailed Tityra
201. Silvered Antbird
202. Fork-tailed Flycatcher

 

[gthang]

Hello all, just wanted to stop in and mention a possible giant tick that i'm gonna try to get...

My parents have seen, on two occassions here in SE New York, a humongous bird of prey with a large, hooked bill, and is totally uniform brown all over. They also say it's not a Turkey Vulture, which would be similar in color... Golden Eagles do migrate through New York on their way to nesting grounds farther north. They used to nest in NY, but have been extirpated and no longer nest here. However, if this sighting proves to be valid, there probably will be a huge attention focused on searching for a nest if one exists. I will contact local birders to see if anyone else has seen something similar.

I know that large birds, especially eagles, need huge tracts of land to call home. this explains why one sighting was near a major interstate thoroughfare and another was on a secondary road just 1/2 mile away from said thoroughfare. But, i read that Golden Eagles are shy birds that prefer to be away from humans, so i'm still not sure if it's a Golden Eagle.

I did do a photo lineup without species names, and my parents both picked the golden eagle as being as close as they can get.

Will definitely keep an eye on this.

 

[cnybirder]

Hello all, just wanted to stop in and mention a possible giant tick that i'm gonna try to get...

My parents have seen, on two occassions here in SE New York, a humongous bird of prey with a large, hooked bill, and is totally uniform brown all over. They also say it's not a Turkey Vulture, which would be similar in color... Golden Eagles do migrate through New York on their way to nesting grounds farther north. They used to nest in NY, but have been extirpated and no longer nest here. However, if this sighting proves to be valid, there probably will be a huge attention focused on searching for a nest if one exists. I will contact local birders to see if anyone else has seen something similar.

I know that large birds, especially eagles, need huge tracts of land to call home. this explains why one sighting was near a major interstate thoroughfare and another was on a secondary road just 1/2 mile away from said thoroughfare. But, i read that Golden Eagles are shy birds that prefer to be away from humans, so i'm still not sure if it's a Golden Eagle.

I did do a photo lineup without species names, and my parents both picked the golden eagle as being as close as they can get.

Will definitely keep an eye on this.

When was it seen? In the last few weeks?
I had a Golden Eagle in Oneida County in early April. Numbers of Golden Eagles are going up - there were 80 seen this year at Derby Hill, which is on Lake Ontario. However, I am fairly sure that there are still no breeding Golden Eagles in NY.

 

[gthang]

When was it seen? In the last few weeks?
I had a Golden Eagle in Oneida County in early April. Numbers of Golden Eagles are going up - there were 80 seen this year at Derby Hill, which is on Lake Ontario. However, I am fairly sure that there are still no breeding Golden Eagles in NY.

There was a sighting of a gigantic raptor sometime in the last week, off the nearby Interstate 84 in NY, between exits 16 and 17 (Taconic Parkway and Ludingtonville Road, respectively).

The second sighting was yesterday afternoon, on Route 52 in Stormville, right near the previous sighting location.

I looked on Google Maps, and there's a lot of forest in the area, particularly right by my home... NYC recently purchased thousands of acres of pristine forest for use in their Watersheds, which means it's protected land. There's also large tracts of pristine forest on the northeastern side of I-84 in the area of the sightings.

I'll have map coordinates for viewing in Google Earth shortly.

 

[gthang]

For viewing of surrounding terrain of the second sighting, the coordinates are
41°31'52.85" N
73°42'30.40" W

 

[Penny Clarke]

247. Guillimot
248. Razorbill
249. Gannet
250. Trumpeter Finch:t:

 

[Tero]

Stuck on 170, a Yellow bellied Flycatcher