How is your 2009 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Larry Lade]

I birded along a bike trail in north Saint Joseph, Missouri, this morning and was able to add seven (7) year birds to my Missouri list.

184. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
185. Yellow-throated Vireo
186. Red-eyed Vireo
187. Scarlet Tanager
188. Gray-cheeked Thrush
189. Wilson's Warbler
190. Northern Parula

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning at Missouri Western State University Campus I saw two new year birds for Missouri.

191. Great Crested Flycatcher
192. Kentucky Warbler

Later, at Muskrat Lake just south of Saint Joseph, Missouri, I found a couple of shorebirds feeding at the edge of the lake.

193. Western Sandpiper

 

[Peter C.]

Tuesday, May 11

Some really good birds are migrating into our area these days; got two more on my way to and from work today:

223. Great Egret
224. Clay-colored Sparrow

Peter C.

 

[Dave B Smith]

Sunday in the Northern Range added 4 year birds:
227 Euler’s Flycatcher
228 Chestnut Woodpecker
229 Slaty-capped Flycatcher
230 Swallow-tailed Kite

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning I birded along a bike trail in north Saint Joseph, Missouri and added four more wood warblers to this year's list.

194. American Redstart
195. Black-throated Green Warbler
196. Chestnut-sided Warbler
197. Magnolia Warbler

I saw seven other species of warbler, but I had seen them previously this year.
Orange-crowned, Tennessee, Blackpoll, Northern Parula, Nashville, Yellow-rumped and Black-and-white.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Up to 111 with Lesser Whitethroat yesterday afternoon at Druridge Pools :t:

Fairly pleased with my year total so far as I haven't been out as much as I would have liked because of work infringing on my freedom :smoke: But still got a few easy ones to pick up still.....looking at my list at the back of my diary I was quite shocked to realise that I've yet to see a goldcrest...bullfinch...goosander...guillemot...jay...kingfisher...kittiwake...knot...puffin...red kite...red-legged partridge...ruddy duck...shag...tree sparrow :eek!: Disgusting!!! And I call myself a birder!!!! :smoke: 3

Nae worries...I know exactly where to go to pick up all of these birds and I'll get to work on it over the next few weeks :t:

 

[Peter C.]

Wednesday, May 13

225. Red-eyed Vireo
226. Veery
227. Chestnut-sided Warbler
228. American Redstart

Later,
Peter C.

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning under overcast skies and intermittent rain showers I birded the very productive paved bicycle trail in northern Saint Joseph, Missouri. The wood warblers were "dripping from the trees", as the expression goes! There were three of us observing all the birds and we recorded fifteen species of the warblers. Several were FOY for me. I was able to see fourteen of them but missed the Ovenbird which was tallied before I arrived.

198. Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
American Redstart
199. Canada Warbler
200. Blackburnian Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Nashville Warbler
203. Yellow-throated Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle race)

* additional FOY birds
201. White-eyed Vireo
202. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
204. Blue-headed Vireo

 

[BeesWing]

233. Cedar Waxwing (Finally, I feel lucky to have seen some this late in the year)
234. Blackburnian Warbler
235. Chestnut-sided Warbler
236. Greater Flamingo (a banded bird, may not be countable, but I will for now)
And, a Bobcat, not ten feet from me, attended by a flock of grackles who were no doubt saying very bad things about him in the grackle language

 

[Nightjar61]

Although the warbler migration is mainly over, I did see some other good birds today, including a state lifer. I added 12 birds to my Year List, which is now at 310.

299. Kentucky Warbler
300. Scarlet Tanager
301. Palm Warbler
302. Least Flycatcher
303. Dickcissel
304. Bobolink
305. Sora Rail
306. Willow Flycatcher
307. Bell's Vireo
308. Henslow's Sparrow
309. Grasshopper Sparrow
310. House Wren

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Canada Warbler, Eastern Wood Pewee, Black Tern, and Western Cattle Egret to my Indiana year list, which is now up to 197. (I had seen all these species a couple of weeks ago in Texas).

The Western Cattle Egret was a state lifer, my third of the year, and number 294 on my state list.

Dave

 

[Dave B Smith]

Saturday we birded the lower edges of the Trinity Hills bringing my 2009 T&T list to:

231. Streaked Xenops
232. Tropical Parula

 

[Gill Osborne]

Last week's No. 111 was misidentified *whoops* :smoke: It wasn't a Lesser Whitethroat but WAS a Common - silly me! Went back to Druridge yesterday afternoon to get a better - and a proper! - look!

111: Common Whitethroat
112: Spoonbill ~ full breeding plumage - what a cracking bird! :t:

 

[Larry Lade]

A birding friend and I birded a couple of areas around his home town of Chillicothe last Saturday (May 16th) and found 121 species.

New FOY birds for my 2009 Missouri List included:

205. Bobolink
206. Eastern Wood-Pewee
207. Cape May Warbler
208. Veery
209. Prothonotary Warbler
210. Blue Grosbeak
211. Common Nighthawk
212. Bell's Vireo

Some other noteworthy birds (previously seen this year in Missouri) were:
Peregrine Falcon, Northern Harrier, White-eyed Vireo and Cedar Waxwing.

Our list of eighteen (18) warblers for the day:
Tennessee, Orange-crowned, Nashville, Northern Parula, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Cape May (a smashing bird!, male and female), Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Blackpoll, Black-and-white, American Redstart, Prothonotary, Kentucky, Common Yellowthroat, Wilson's and Canada.

 

[Larry Lade]

Today at Corby Pond in northern Saint Joseph, Missouri, I added:

213. Ovenbird
214. Mourning Warbler

Then nearby along the bicycle trail I observed:

215. Broad-winged Hawk

 

[Tero]

That's more like Larry by May. I am at 146
http://esatero.blogspot.com/2009/05/vuodarit.html

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening I went out to look for nighthawks at a local mall. They hawk for insects attracted by the floodlights in the mall parking lot. I saw my target, Common Nighthawk, which was number 198 on my Indiana year list. (I had seen the species a couple of weeks ago in Texas).

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

Dave, I still need to get out and add the Chuck-will's-widow and Whip-poor-will to my year list. I get them in the same location each year. I have just not gotten around to visiting the area in the evening this year!

Hang in there Tero, "slow and steady" wins the race!

 

[Larry Lade]

I added two more birds this morning.

216. Black-bellied Plover (in full breeding plumage!) at Horseshoe Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri
217. Little Blue Heron at Muskrat Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri

And this evening I finally got around to going down to Pigeon Hill Conservation Area south of Saint Joseph and picked up a couple more birds that I usually get in early May.

218. Common Poorwill, * New bird for me in Missouri, but I have heard/seen them in Portal, Arizona. ** Accidental in Missouri!
219. Whip-poor-will
220. Chuck-will's-widow

 

[JeffMoh]

Good birding in Utah

Spent a few days in Salt Lake City, Utah, mainly to visit family. But most days I also squeezed in a couple of hours of birding, which boosted my year list by 29 species and my USA life list by 6.

Bird of the trip was Yellow-headed Blackbird.

209. California Quail
210. Long-billed Curlew
211. California Gull
212. Great Horned Owl
213. Black-chinned Hummingbird
214. Dusky Flycatcher (Lifer)
215. Western Kingbird
216. Plumbeous Vireo (Lifer)
217. Steller’s Jay
218. Western Scrub-Jay
219. Black-billed Magpie
220. Common Raven
221. Violet-green Swallow
222. Black-capped Chickadee
223. Mountain Chickadee
224. Red-breasted Nuthatch
225. Hammond's Flycatcher (Lifer)
226. Sage Thrasher (Lifer)
227. Black-throated Gray Warbler
228. Wilson’s Warbler
229. Western Tanager
230. Fox Sparrow
231. Dark-eyed Junco
232. Black-headed Grosbeak (Lifer)
233. Lazuli Bunting
234. Yellow-headed Blackbird (A Lifer I’ve been hoping to see for ten years!)
235. Bullock’s Oriole
236. Cassin’s Finch
237. Pine Siskin

Jeff

 

[Larry Lade]

221. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, rather rare in northwestern Missouri, but I observed one this morning in northern Saint Joseph, Missouri

222. Swainson's Hawk x 4, around Horseshoe and Muskrat Lakes, near Saint Joseph, Missouri