How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Penny Clarke]

172. Turtle dove
173. Black tern
174. Little Gull
175. Red crested pochard

176. Will be from Lesvos!!!!

 

[Reader]

Good luck Penny. I hope its a good un.

Let us know how you get on and if that Mulberry Tree turns up trumps.

John

172. Turtle dove
173. Black tern
174. Little Gull
175. Red crested pochard

176. Will be from Lesvos!!!!

 

[Larry Lade]

Today I birded Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri. It was a very good outing! I tallied 115 species (about 100 at Squaw Creek NWR and the other fifteen along the back roads coming back home to Saint Joseph).

210. White-rumped Sandpiper
211. Black-necked Stilt
212. Least Bittern
213. Black Tern
214. American Redstart
215. Blue Grosbeak

This evening I drove down to Pigeon Hill Conservation Area (just south of Saint Joseph) to listen to:
216. Chuck-will's-widow
and
217. Whip-poor-will

 

[cnybirder]

One more from yesterday:
153. Yellow-throated Vireo.

 

[JeffMoh]

Good Week in SE Texas

HighIsland, Anahuac and Bolivar (plus my yard and the college where I work) produced a lot of good new year birds and 4 lifers:

164 Yellow-breadsted Chat (lifer)
165 Least Bittern
166 Purple Gallinule
167 American Avocet
168 Dunlin
169 Stilt Sandpiper (lifer)
170 Least Tern
171 Gull-billed Tern
172 Common Tern
173 Eastern Wood-pewee
174 Philadelphia Vireo
175 Red-eyed Vireo
176 Chestnut-sided Warbler
177 Bay-breasted Warbler (lifer)
178 Magnolia Warbler
179 Blackburnian Warbler
180 Black-and-white Warbler
181 American Redstart
182 Northern Waterthrush
183 Scarlet Tanager
184 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
185 Orchard Oriole.

I'm about where I was this time last year. But this year I haven't done any birding in south Texas or on the central Texas coast. Last year I spent 5 days there in March.

Jeff

 

[Larry Lade]

So what was your fourth "lifer", Jeff!

The Philadelphia Vireo?

 

[jtibbetts]

Another one yesterday evening:

377: Spotted Flycatcher

(UK 202)

 

[Larry Lade]

A few more Missouri Year Birds today!

At Horseshoe Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri
219. Caspian Tern, four

Along Northwest Parkway, Saint Joseph, Missouri
220. Blackpoll Warbler, several
221. Black-throated Green Warbler, several
222. Blackburnian Warbler, two
223. Magnolia Warbler, one
224. Yellow-throated Warbler, one

 

[Nightjar61]

Picked up a new bird for the year on my way to work this morning, so my Year List is now up to 373.

373. Eastern Kingbird

Dave

 

[Dave B Smith]

Just a quick update,
T&T list is at 188 adding Least and Pied-billed Grebes last weekend - both on my local patch!
World list is at 283.

Going out this afternoon and hope to add one or two.

 

[Nightjar61]

A rainy, windy, miserable day, but I did manage to get out and see three more species for the year. My Year List is now at 376.

374. Broad-winged Hawk
375. Eastern Wood Pewee
376. Blackpoll Warbler

Dave

 

[Selsey Birder]

A trip to Minsmere, but unfortunately left before the Spectacled Warbler was found!

217. Curlew Sandpiper
218. Woodlark
219. Garden Warbler
220. Nightingale
221. Bullfinch - At last !!!

 

[Jacana]

A trip to Minsmere, but unfortunately left before the Spectacled Warbler was found!

217. Curlew Sandpiper
218. Woodlark
219. Garden Warbler
220. Nightingale
221. Bullfinch - At last !!!

was there too this morning... perhaps we met?

Suffolk trip resulted in the following ticks from various sites got four lifers, albeit very tarty lifers!

162. Little Owl
163. Wood Lark (lifer)
164. Nightingale (lifer)
165. Dartford Warbler (lifer)
166. Cetti's Warbler (lifer)
167. Little Tern
168. Mediterranian Gull
169. Common Tern
170. Reed Warbler
171. Stone Curlew
172. Hobby
173. Cuckoo

at Belvide res. on the way back to Shropshire:

174. Black-necked Grebe

 

[Dave B Smith]

And a good afternoon it was. Started out with a lifer(*) and then add two more to my T&T list
189. Long-winged Harrier*
190. Caribbean Flamingo
191. Limpkin

 

[cnybirder]

All are from within a half a mile from our house except Chimney Swift.

May 8th:
154. Bobolink
Whitesboro, NY:
155. Chimney Swift

May 9th:
156. Red-breasted Nuthatch

May 10th:
157. Red-eyed Vireo
158. Common Yellowthroat

May 11th:
159. Swainson's Thrush
160. Tennessee Warbler
161. Pine Warbler
162. Scarlet Tanager

 

[JeffMoh]

So what was your fourth "lifer", Jeff!

The Philadelphia Vireo?

Oops. Thanks for catching that, Larry.

Northern Waterthrush.

Jeff

 

[JeffMoh]

Two at Work

Two more at the college where I work:
186. Wilson's Warbler
187. Canada Warbler.

Jeff

 

[JeffMoh]

And another

Over lunchtime at work:
188. Black-throated Greeen Warbler.

Jeff

 

[Selsey Birder]

222. Temminck's Stint at farlington marshes

 

[cnybirder]

Most of these were seen in the woods near my house.

May 12th:
164. Solitary Sandpiper

May 13th:
165. Eastern Wood-Pewee
166. Wood Thrush

May 14th:
167. Bay-breasted Warbler
168. Mourning Warbler
169. Indigo Bunting

At Verona Beach State Park, "Verona Beach Woods":
170. Cerulean Warbler (heard only)
171. Red-headed Woodpecker (Uncommon in Central NY)