How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[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

 

[jtibbetts]

A few more over the last week:

378: Honey-buzzard
379: Nightingale
380: Whiskered Tern (UK Tick!)
381: Wood Sandpiper

(UK year list 206)

 

[gthang]

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)

Cool, that makes two of us NYers... saw one earlier this month at my feeder, probably a once in a lifetime sighting, since the bird's on the decline here in NY... poor thing, such a beautiful bird!

 

[gthang]

Oh, and The grey catbirds have been stopping by... they never really stopped by last year, so this year is back to normal, i suppose.

At dusk this evening, saw this really long-pointy-winged bird flying around almost as if it were a bat... possible nighthawk sighting? If so, a first for me, only thing is i don't know what the heck it was... all I saw was the flight and the silohuette...

 

[Penny Clarke]

176. Yellow Leg Gull
177. Crested Lark
178. Hooded Crow
179. Masked Shrike
180. Black Stork
181. Black Headed Bunting
182. Stone Curlew
183. Kentish Plover
184. Long Legged Buzzard
185. Spannish Sparrow
186. Little Bittern
187. European Bee Eater
188. Hobby
189. Great Reed Warbler
190. Wood Sandpiper
191. Collard Pratincole
192. Red Footed Falcon
193. White Winged Black Tern
194. Black Winged Stilt
195. Curlew Sandpiper
196. Little Stint
197. Greater Flamingo
198. White Stork
199. Squacco Heron
200. Olivaceous Warbler
201. Spur Winged Plover
202. Red Rumped Swallow
203. Masked Shrike
204. Kruper's Nuthatch
205. Long Eared Owl
206. Serin
207. Nightjar
208. Sub Alpine Warbler
209. Black Eared Wheater
210. Ruddy Shelduck
211. Purple Heron
212. Red Backed Shrike
213. Woodchat Shrike
214. Greenshank
215. Cretzschmar's Bunting
216. Cirl Bunting
217. Rock Nuthatch
218. Ortolan Bunting
219. Scops Owl
220. Alpine Swift
221. Sombre Tit
222. Craig Martin
223. Rock Thrush
224. Blue Rock Thrush
225. Isabelline Wheater
226. Rock Sparrow
227. Spotted Flycatcher
228. Cinereous Bunting
229. Lesser Kestrel
230. Lesser Grey Shrike
231. Mediterrean Shearwater
232. Shag
233. Little Ringed Plover
234, Rufous Bush Robin
235. Orphean Warbler
236. Ruppell's Warbler
237. Hoopoe
238. Middle Spotted Woodpecker
239. Olive Tree Warbler
240. Rose Coloured Starling
241. Temmincks Stint
242. Audouin's Gull
243. Raven
244. Short Toed Eagle

 

[Selsey Birder]

Hmmmmm Penny, i cannot compete with all these foreign birds (maybe i will add my Majorcan, Southern france and Kenyan ones from later in the year). Anyway for now.

223. Turtle Dove

 

[JRE]

168. Spotted Flycatcher (garden)
169. American Golden Plover (Exminster Marshes)

 

[Reader]

Thankfully my car is now repaired but with my car off the road for over a week I was getting withdrawal symptoms. I just had to have a day out chasing and I managed to get four more year ticks.

227. Red-footed Falcon
228. Wood Sandpiper
229. Temminks Stint
230. Nightjar

John

 

[Selsey Birder]

Still celebrating Portsmouth's FA Cup triumph i agreed to an early start to Portland for the Olivaceous Warbler (no sign while we were there). However, excellent compensation with a lifer that i never expected (and we waited over 2 hours for it to show!)

224. Thrush Nightingale !!!!
225. Red Rumped Swallow (Lodmoor)
226. Wood Warbler (New Forest - no intention of saying where)

I am now only 5 short of my previous british year list - i think i might just make it - thanks to all my friends who have pushed me along the way (That includes you Ads - lol)

 

[Nightjar61]

Spring warbler migration seems to be slowing down, with new warblers becoming harder and harder to find. Today I birded in woodland and wetland/grassland so I had a good mix of birds. Eight new birds bring my Year List up to 384.

377. Acadian Flycatcher
378. Canada Warbler
379. Least Bittern
380. King Rail
381. Willow Flycatcher
382. Bobolink
383. Bell's Vireo
384. Grasshopper Sparrow

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Wilson's Warbler to my ABA Area and Indiana year lists, both of which are now at 185. (I had seen Wilson's Warbler in Honduras in March).

Dave

 

[cnybirder]

Was able to get Cliff and Bank Swallows around town in the last few days which puts my year list up to 174. Still missing Northern Rough-winged Swallow.

 

[Penny Clarke]

245. Golden Oriole
246. Common Crane

 

[TorchBCT]

Flew down to Rockport for the weekend, and caught the tail end of a wave of migrants coming in over the Gulf. Actually got to see the Cuckoo come in while standing on the jetty a mile out into the ocean.

107. Eurasian Collared-Dove
108. Ruddy Turnstone
109. Magnolia Warbler
110. Chestnut-sided Warbler
111. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
112. Lesser Yellowlegs
113. Yellow Warbler
114. Red-eyed Vireo
115. Sandwich Tern
116. Yellow-billed Cuckoo

 

[Dave B Smith]

A wonderful day in the Northern Range added:
192. Blue Dacnis
193. Red-rumped Woodpecker
194. Swallow-tailed Kite

 

[Jacana]

175. Dipper

yesterday at Longor bridge finally!!

 

[Larry Lade]

225. Common Nighthawk, Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

[Reader]

Dropped into Bempton Cliffs yesterday and managed to add four more year ticks.

231. Razorbill
232. Guillemot
233. Puffin
234. Gannet

John

 

[Nightjar61]

Eight year ticks today, so my Year List is now at 392.

385. Dickcissel
386. House Wren
387. Black-necked Stilt
388. Dunlin
389. Semipalmated Sandpiper
390. White-rumped Sandpiper
391. Henslow's Sparrow
392. Yellow-breasted Chat

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Semipalmated Plover to my ABA Area/Indiana year lists, which are both at 194. (I had seen Semipalmated Plover in Honduras in March).

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Three year ticks today, so my Year List is now up to 395.

393. Kentucky Warbler
394. Cerulean Warbler
395. Alder Flycatcher

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Western Great Egret and Black-bellied Plover to my ABA Area/Indiana year lists, both of which are now at 199. (I had seen both birds in Honduras in March).

Dave

 

[cnybirder]

Nightjar: What's a Western Great Egret?