How is your 2009 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Gill Osborne]

After a few 'dry' weeks of too much work and not enough birding being done I was out yesterday after an early finish *10am* :t:
95: Linnet
96: Sand Martin ~ first of 2009
97: Mediterranean Gull ~ two at Amble Harbour and Lifer No. 197 too :king:

 

[Dave B Smith]

This past weekend added:
205. Ringed Kingfisher
206. Sora
207. Red-rumped Woodpecker

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

6 April: Marqueterre, Baie de Somme (first serious birding trip of the year)

87. Rook
88. Jackdaw
89. Grey Partridge
90. White Stork
91. Shelduck
92. Greylag Goose
93. Barnacle Goose
94. Avocet
95. Skylark
96. Tufted Duck
97. Spoonbill
98. Little Egret
99. Oystercatcher
100. Sedge Warbler
101. Lapwing
102. Shoveler
103. Teal
104. Little Grebe
105. Pintail
106. Redshank
107. Collared Dove
108. Yellowhammer

 

[JeffMoh]

On my drive home from work:
#165 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Jeff

 

[Steve Lister]

Leics/Rutland 143
Latest additions Yellow Wagtail and Common Sandpiper 7/4
Amazingly still puts me in 8th place on Surfbirds !!!

Britain 171

WP and World 301
(Britain, Morocco, Spain)

Europe 204
(Britain, Spain)

Steve

 

[Larry Lade]

April 8, 2009

Found two more Missouri "year birds" at Little Bean Marsh, about 20 minutes south of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

127. Northern Bobwhite
128. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning while birding Bluff Woods Conservation Area, Halls, Missouri, I added one more "year bird" for Missouri.

129. Brown Thrasher

 

[Hanno]

I went to Yok Don National Park in the South-west of Vietnam. Never been before and therefore a lot of new birds for both my year- and Vietnam List:

219.Vietnamese Greenfinch
220. Orange-breasted Laughingthrush (heard only)
221. Vietnamese Green Magpie
222. Hill Prinia
223. Little Pied Flycatcher
224. Blue-and-white Flycatcher
225. White-tailed Robin
226. Chestnut-capped Babbler
227. Black-throated Sunbird
228. Chinese Pond-heron
229. Large-billed Crow (split by some into Southern Jungle Crow)
230. Black Baza
231. Oriental Honey-buzzard
232. Shikra
233. White-rumped Falcon
234. Red-wattled Lapwing
235. Common Sandpiper
236. Yellow-footed Pigeon
237. Green Imperial-pigeon
238. Grey-headed Parakeet (lifer)
239. Blossom-headed Parakeet
240. Large Hawk-cuckoo
241. Asian Koel
242. Silver-backed Needletail
243. Brown-backed Needletail
244. Crested Treeswift
245. Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
246. Rufous Woodpecker
247. Greater Yellownape
248. Black-headed Woodpecker
249. Common Flameback
250. Greater Flameback
251. Large Cuckoo-shrike
252. Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike
253. Small Minivet
254. Scarlet Minivet
255. Common Iora
256. Red-billed Blue Magpie
257. Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (split into Neglected Nuthatch by some)
258. Sooty-headed Bulbul
259. Rufescent Prinia
260. Purple Sunbird
261. Black-hooded Oriole
262. Common Woodshrike
263. Spangled Drongo
264. Hill Myna
265. Little Cormorant
266. Intermediate Egret
267. Changeable Hawk-eagle
268. Alexandrine Parakeet
269. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo (lifer)
270. Asian Barred Owlet
271. Rufous-bellied Woodpecker
272. Streak-throated Woodpecker (lifer)
273. Rufous Treepie
274. Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
275. Narcissus Flycatcher
276. Large Woodshrike
277. Mekong Wagtail
278. Rufous-winged Buzzard
279. Common Snipe
280. Indochinese Bushlark
281. Siberian Stonechat
282. Grey Wagtail.
282. Oriental Pipit
282. Mugimaki Flycatcher
282. Oriental White-eye

Made a mistake in a previous post, thus 4 time No. 282

 

[Vectis Birder]

My '09 list is laughable at present. Most recent bird is Sandwich Tern (no 88 - I said it was laughable!). Hoping to bump it up by a few hundred species in Asia and Australia soon...

 

[Gill Osborne]

Yesterday...

98: Little Egret
99: Willow Warbler ~ 1st of 2009

Today...

100: Garganey!!! :t: On the 4th attempt!!! A lovely pair feeding in front of the hide o

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

Yesterday...


100: Garganey!!! :t: On the 4th attempt!!! A lovely pair feeding in front of the hide o

Congrats Gill - one of my bogey birds. Spent ages this week in northern France trying to turn Teal into Garganey bit all to no avail.

DiP

 

[Gill Osborne]

Thanks David :t: I was beginning to think they WERE jinxed as it seemed everybody except me was seeing them! There's three sites at the moment that have them on and I was dipping on all of them :smoke:

Cracking bird though - it's the best views I've had yet of a male :t: Previous ones have been either asleep with only a tiny bit of that white head flash showing or so far away you CAN make them out as definite garganey but not close enough to savour their gorgeous plumage. This pair were to drool over :t:

I can now do the HUGE pile of ironing that is waiting for me with a smile on my face 3

 

[Larry Lade]

Wow! Hanno, that is quite an impressive addition to your year/Vietnam lists! How long was your visit to amass such a long list of birds? You must have been there a week or more!

 

[Larry Lade]

Me too!

Congrats Gill - one of my bogey birds. Spent ages this week in northern France trying to turn Teal into Garganey bit all to no avail.

DiP

David, I tried to do the same thing a few days ago. I initially tried to make a Blue-winged Teal into a Garganey, or at least a BWTE X Garganey hybrid! Alas, it was to no avail!

It just turned out to be a variant Blue-winged Teal with a continuation of the white cresent facial mark going over and behind the eye and connecting on the back of the neck with the same feature on the opposite side of the face. I did not get a photo, but I "doctored" up a picture of a regular BWTE to show the feature I saw on this aberrant bird.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Wow! Hanno, that is quite an impressive addition to your year/Vietnam lists! How long was your visit to amass such a long list of birds? You must have been there a week or more!

That's what I was thinking too :king: I doubt I had that many in a YEAR when I first started birding 3

 

[BeesWing]

A promising weather and radar forecast yesterday didn’t pan out at the coast today. Muggy and mosquito-ey. Still, picked up a few new birds (and saw some birders under the age of 50 for a change).
185. Blue Grosbeak
186. African Collared-Dove (Ringed Turtle-Dove)
187. Green Heron
188. Dunlin

 

[Hanno]

I did three days in Da Lat, which is good for endemics, and three days in Yok Don National Park. Yok Don is unique in Vietnam in that it consists primarily of dipterocarp forest; making birding a lot easier than in the usual rain forest.

I also had the fortune top go with three very able birders; including my wife.

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning I birded Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri, and added three (3) birds.

130. Sandhill Crane
131. American Bittern
132. Field Sparrow

 

[Nightjar61]

Not a bad day's birding, having seen seven new species for the year. My Year List is now up to 137.

131. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
132. American Bittern
133. Barn Swallow
134. Western Osprey
135. American Golden Plover
136. Dunlin
137. Black-necked Stilt

Dave

 

[BeesWing]

189. Baltimore Oriole
190. American Redstart
191. Western Kingbird
192. Louisiana Waterthrush
193. Common Nighthawk