How is your 2009 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Peter C.]

Saturday, May 16

Yikes! Getting behind on the accounts, again.

This past weekend, did a Big Day down at Rondeau P.P., one of southern Canada's 'other' migration hotspots on Lake Erie. It was quite tough sledding, and I didn't get nearly the numbers I really should have (the Big Day was a fundraiser for our national ornithological network, so it mattered!), but managed the following FoY birds:

229. Blue-winged Teal
230. Black-bellied Plover
231. Semipalmated Sandpiper
232. Dunlin
233. Chimney Swift
234. Eastern Wood-peewee
235. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
236. Great Crested Flycatcher
237. Tennessee Warbler
238. Cerulean Warbler
239. Canada Warbler

Later,

PeteR C.

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

18 May: Bois de Boulogne

163. Wood Warbler

 

[Larry Lade]

223. Least Bittern, at Bob Brown Conservation Area near Forest City, Missouri
224. Forster's Tern, at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri
225. Philadelphia Vireo, same as above
226. Snowy Egret, same as above

 

[Steve Lister]

Leics/Rutland 179
Latest Temminck's Stint at Eyebrook Res 19/5

Britain 200
The Temminck's brought up the double century

WP and World 316
(Britain, Morocco, Spain)

Europe 233
(Britain, Spain)

Steve

 

[Peter C.]

Sunday, May 17

Continuing with last weekend's excursion to various south-western Ontario migration hotspots (Walpole Island, St. Clair NWA, and Hillman Marsh):

240. Peregrine
241. Marbled Godwit
242. Short-billed Dowitcher
243. Black Tern
244. Cliff Swallow
245. Bay-breasted Warbler
246. Blackpoll Warbler

The Peregrine - though only a speck in the sky! - kept putting up the shorebirds at Hillman. Hundreds each of Black-bellied (Grey) Plover and Dunlin took to the sky simultaneously; and the sight of ~150-200 of the former wheeling by, and the sound their wings made, was an experience not to be missed.

Seeing a Marbled Godwit in flight was not bad either - that is one outstandingly showy wader!

Peter C.

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

22 May: Mont Valerien (Suresnes)

164. Spotted Flycatcher
165. Serin

 

[JeffMoh]

I've never birded up your way, Peter, but it's obviously a great area. You're getting a lot of the same birds we got here in se Texas in April. It's good to know our migrants reached Canada safely!

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

24 May: River Seine (St-Cloud)

166. Common Tern

 

[Dave B Smith]

This weekend in the Northern Range again has added two more Trinidad year birds:
233. White-shouldered Tanager
234. White-winged Becard

 

[JeffMoh]

Only two

Sheldon Lake in Houston had quite a few nice birds this morning but only two FOY species:
#238. Purple Gallinule
#239. Least Bittern.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[Peter C.]

Tuesday, May 19

I keep forgetting to record things :scribe:

... this individual was found just north of my place, on the campus of University of Waterloo (a surprisingly good birding locality).

247. Mourning Warbler.

PeteR C.

 

[Nightjar61]

Tried to do some birding on this Memorial Day holiday, but heavy rains severely limited my opportunities. However, I did get one new bird for the year, so my Year List is now up to 311.

311. Ring-necked Pheasant

In addition, I saw an Orchard Oriole for the 200th species for my Indiana Year List. (I had seen it earlier this month in Texas for my Year List).

Dave

 

[Peter C.]

Sunday, May 24

One more trip to Long Point before passerine migration shuts down completely. Not many birds to be found anymore, excepting those very confiding ones that just love people; fly right up to you, in fact, and sing their lovely song right in your ear, "meeeeeeeeeee." Don't know the exact species name, I believe they're in the genus Culex? Anyway, no problem finding those, just open the car door.:cat:

Camped out just north of the point, at a place called Backus Woods. This is a renowned site for breeding birds of the more "southerly" type, such as Chuck-wills-widow and Hooded Warbler. Dipped on both of those, and a Lark Sparrow that had been reported nearby. However, did get one target species, a very co-operative Louisiana Waterthrush, who sang at me from an exposed perch for about five minutes.

248. Common Moorhen
249. Alder Flycatcher
250. Louisiana Waterthrush

Cheers,
Peter C.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Picked up another six yesterday at Dunstanburgh Castle which has a seabird colony behind it and at Boulmer :t:

115: Kittiwake
116: Shag
117: Guillemot
118: Razorbill
119: Arctic Tern
120: Whimbrel

The list is coming along...slowly but surely :t:

 

[Larry Lade]

227. Black Tern, at Bob Brown Conservation Area, Forest City, Missouri
228. Olive-sided Flycatcher, at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

* Some other nice birds seen this morning: Dunlins, White-rumped Sandpipers, Sandhill Cranes, juvenile Bald Eagle, Great Egrets, American White Pelicans, Double-crested Cormorants, Yellow-headed Blackbirds and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.

 

[Hotspur]

190: Whiskered Tern UK Lifer

 

[Larry Lade]

229. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, at Bluff Woods Conservation Area, Halls, Missouri

 

[Larry Lade]

Brenda and I went down south of Saint Joseph about a 1/2 hours drive to Weston Bend State Park, Weston, Missouri. This is a great birding venue. It is particularly known for the spring warblers migration through our area here in northwest Missouri.

I took my recently purchased "SongFinder" device which allows me to hear the high frequency songs/calls of some of the birds. This "hearing booster" help me get four new Missouri year birds.

230. Black-billed Cuckoo
231. Worm-eating Warbler
232. Hooded Warbler
233. Louisiana Waterthrush

 

[Peter C.]

Friday, May 29

Today, I dipped on Connecticut Warbler, which had been reported singing at a local C.A. (man, those things are elusive). As a consolation, there were a number of small marshes along the road nearby - and I sor' a rail! |^|

251. Sora

PeteR C.

 

[Bucko1983]

1. house sparrow
2. starling
3. blackbird
4. Song thrush
5. Redwing
6. Fieldfare
7. robin
8. Wheatear
9. Stonechat
10. Whinchat
11. Ring Ouzel
12. Nightingale
13. Redstart
14. Black redstart
15. Meadow Pipit
16. Pied Wagtail
17. Yellow Wagtail
18. Grey Wqagtail
19. Black headed Gull
20. Lesser Black backed gull
21. Great Black backed gull
22. Med Gull
23. Little gull
24. Herring gull
25. Common Gull
26. Little Tern
27. Common Tern
28. Sandwich Tern
29. Black Tern
30. Whiskered Tern
31. Dunlin
32. sanderling
33. Bar tailed Godwit
34. Black tailed godwit
35. redshank
36. greenshank
37. Ruff
38. Little ringed plover
39. ringed plover
40. dotterel
41. lapwing
42. golden plover
43. curlew
44. whimbrel
45. turnstone
46. common sandpiper
47. avocet
48. grey plover
49. short eared owl
50. barn owl
51 tawny owl
52. little owl
53. kestrel
54. hobby
55. buzzard
56. red kite
57. marsh harrier
58. sparrowhawk
59. goshawk
60. red tailed hawk (escapee)
61. peregrine
62. magpie
63. Carrion Crow
64. rook
65. jackdaw
66. jay
67. raven
68. whitethroat
69. garden warbler
70. blackcap
71. willow warbler
72. dartford warbler
73. chiff chaff
74. grasshopper warbler
75. sedge warbler
76. reed warbler
77. blue tit
78. great tit
79. long tailed ti
80. coal tit
81. marsh tit
82. willow tit
83. penduline tit
84. bearded tit
85. cettis warbler
86. wood lark
87. sky lark
88. wigeon
89. mallard
90. gadwall
91. golden eye
92. teal
93. pintail
94. smew
95. goosander
96. red breasted merganser
97. garganey
98. pochard
99. red crested pochard
100. brent goose
101. pink footed goose
102. greylag
103. barnacle goose
104. mute swan
105. whooper swan
106. tufted duck
107. shoveller
108. shelduck
109. cormorant
110. gannet
111. guillemot
112. kittewake
113. siskin
114. hawfinch
115. greenfinch
116. goldfinch
117. chaffinch
118. crossbill
119. lesser redpoll
120. bullfinch
121. bluethroat
122. swift
123. swallow
124. house martin
125. sand martin
126. coot
127. morehen
128. stone curlew
129. cuckoo
130. mandarin
131. snipe
132. woodcock
133. pied flycatcher
134. spotted flycatcher
135. treecreeper
136. nuthatch
137. great spotted woodpecker
138. lesser spotted woodpecker
139. green woodpecker
140. kingfisher
141. bluethroat (france)
142. reed bunting
143. yellowhammer
144. corn bunting
145. dunnock
146. grey heron
147. little egret
148. squacco heron
149. golden oriole
150. woodpigeon
151. feral pigeon
152. collared dove
153. turtle dove

this if the top of my head but i know i am at 175 i need to consult my note book at home!!!