How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Geoff Brown]

Disastrous. All records lost as my mapmate backup didn't. Ah well start again!

 

[Tero]

187 was an osprey I saw a month ago from a car and forgot to write down
186 was scissor tailed flycatcher, rarity locally

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning at a local lake, I added a regional rarity to my Year List, which is now up to 415.

415. Lesser Black-backed Gull

Dave

 

[Dave B Smith]

Spent the weekend birding in the south of Trinidad and picked up two year birds:
228. Lined Seedeater
229. Plain-brown Woodcreeper

 

[Larry Lade]

235. Yellow-breasted Chat, Poosey Conservation Area near Chillicothe, Missouri

June 24
236. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, near Chillicothe, Missouri
237. Henslow's Sparrow, near Chillicothe, Missouri

It has been a long time since I got a "year bird" for Missouri.

August 16
238. Sedge Wren, seen at Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Sumner, Missouri

 

[JRE]

Scillonian Pelagic
182. Arctic Skua
183. Great Skua
184. Sooty Shearwater
185. Cory's Shearwater
186. Great Shearwater
187. Grey Phalarope

Stithians Reservoir
188. Wood Sandpiper

Yorkshire
189. Red Kite
190. Red Grouse
191. Tree Sparrow
192. Little Gull

 

[Dave B Smith]

A phone call last night alerted me to sightings of Red Knot just a short distance from my office, so right after work this afternoon I found:
#230. Red Knot

 

[JRE]

Wykeham Forest, Yorkshire
193. Crossbill
194. Goshawk

Gloucestershire
195. Little Ringed Plover
196. Stilt Sandpiper 21/08/08 Coombe Hill Meadows
197. Red-necked Phalarope 21/08/08 Frampton-on-Severn

Bowling Green Marsh, Devon
198. Garganey
199. Long-tailed Duck

 

[Larry Lade]

August 20
239. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Missouri Western State University Campus, St. Joseph, Missouri

August 25
240. Common Moorhen, Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

August 26
241. Mourning Warbler, Missouri Western State University Campus, St. Joseph, Missouri

 

[Steve Lister]

An addition at last.......

235 Red-necked Phalarope Swithland Res 26/08

Off down to clotted cream and pasty land for two weeks this aft, so hopefully I will have a few more to report when I get back.

Steve

 

[Nicky mwangi]

Got a new lifer,Lead coloured flycatcher.I saw it at Oldonyo sabuk National park.I also saw Hindes babbblers which are endemic to Kenya.In the IBA'S of Kenya the site is not recognised and i feel that more should be done.I had a total of 19 babbler in 3 different families with in the parks environ.

 

[Larry Lade]

August 28 at Missouri Western State University Campus, Saint Joseph, Missouri

242. Canada Warbler
243. Wilson's Warbler

 

[JRE]

At last...

Dawlish Warren
200. Semipalmated Sandpiper

 

[Reader]

Congrats.

I know Steve Lister has seen it as well as he text me to let me know.

John

At last...

Dawlish Warren
200. Semipalmated Sandpiper

 

[Nightjar61]

Shorebirds are starting to move in in good numbers and variety. I got four year ticks this morning, bringing my Year List up to 419.

416. Short-billed Dowitcher
417. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
418. Sora Rail
419. Piping Plover

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Sanderling to my ABA Area and Indiana year lists, both of which are now at 230. (I had seen Sanderling in Honduras last March).

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

With the day off work due to the Labor Day holiday, I went out again this morning to look for shorebirds. I got two year ticks, one of which was an Indiana state lifer (Western Sandpiper). My Year List is now up to 421, and my Indiana list is at 289.

420. Western Sandpiper
421. Long-billed Dowitcher

Dave

 

[Dave B Smith]

A lifer this morning in Trinidad:
#233 White-rumped Sandpiper. 30 of them.

(last week added 231 Sandwich Tern and 232 Sanderling)

 

[jtibbetts]

A few more since my return from the states:

558: Whinchat
559: Little Tern
560: Roseate Tern
561: Storm-petrel
562: Cirl Bunting
563: Red-crested Pochard
564: Red-necked Phalarope (@Frampton with the Stilt Sandpiper on the same day)
565: Dotterel (Slimbridge)

 

[canadagurl123]

My year list is at 279 all but four in British Columbia and around 220 in Victoria alone last few are
Black legged Kittiwake
Sabine's Gull
Pink footed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Cassin's Auklet
Little Stint
Pacific Golden Plover

 

[Dave B Smith]

After work today:
#234. American Golden-Plover
#235. Least Tern