How is your 2009 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Nightjar61]

This winter there's an irruption of White-winged Crossbills over the northern portion of the Midwest and East Coast. I drove an hour north of here to add this bird to my Indiana State List (number 292) as well as my Year List. The crossbill and a merganser bring me up to 94 on the year.

93. Common Merganser
94. White-winged Crossbill

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

On January 20

71. Red Crossbill, one male and two females at our backyard bird feeder, Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

[Penny Clarke]

114. Caspian Gull
115. Yellowleg Gull
116. Med Gull
117. Grey Grey Shrike
118. Lesser Redpoll
119. Kingfisher
120. Lesser Black Backed Gull
121. Rough legged Buzzard
122. Whooper Swan
123. Merlin
124. Meadow Pipit
125. White Fronted Geese
126. Tundra Bean Geese
127. Stock Dove
128. Black Bellied Dipper
129. Tree Sparrow

 

[Peter C.]

On January 20
71. Red Crossbill, one male and two females at our backyard bird feeder, Saint Joseph, Missouri

So there's hope for me yet! I keep looking at the flocks of crossbills wherever I see them (which is almost everywhere, this winter), but so far, they're all White-winged.

Drove a bit north of my place Saturday, hoping for Lapland Longspur, but no luck yet. Generally still very much in the deep freeze in Southern Ontario, so there isn't much else around at the moment. Did find a few 'easy' winter birds that I'd (unaccountably) missed earlier in the month:

Saturday, January 24
99. Downy Woodpecker
100. Red-breasted Nuthatch
101. Snow Bunting

Sunday, January 25
102. Hooded Merganser
103. Belted Kingfisher

Peter C.

 

[DaninJapan]

Great year so far! I'm at 116 with 14 Lifers!

 

[Steve Lister]

Leics and Britain 117

WP and World 218
(Leics/Rutland, Morocco, Spain)

Europe 164
(Leics/Rutland, Spain

Still resisting driving more than a couple of miles for year-ticks.

Steve

 

[Nightjar61]

Due to a mid-week blizzard that dumped 13 inches of snow and froze all bodies of water, birding was rather slow this weekend. However, I did get a year tick while driving down the highway this morning, bringing me up to 95 for the year.

95. Black Vulture

Dave

 

[steve west]

113 species on my northeast Spain hotspot list for January (25km radius circle around Balaguer). Highlights include Kittiwake (it's an inland site), Common Gull, Little Gull, Wallcreeper, Alpine Accentor, Ferruginous Duck, Bluethroat, Little Bustard, etc.

Pine Bunting, Black-winged Kite and Pin-tailed Sandgrouse occured outside 25km but within 50km.

Steve
http://www.BirdingInSpain.com

 

[Tero]

60 Northern shrike, lifer

 

[dantheman]

82 in the uk, and now an extra 14 in france;

Dartford Warbler,
Brambling,
White Wagtail,
Cirl Bunting,
Hawfinch,
Black Redstart,
Serin,
Blackcap,
Tree Sparrow,
Tawny Owl,
Fan-tailed Warbler,
Red Kite,
Chiffchaff,
Merlin.

 

[Penny Clarke]

130. Great White Egrets x 2!
131. Corn Bunting
132. Bewick Swan
133. Velvet Scooter
134. Common Scooter
135. Peregrine

 

[BeesWing]

Yesterday, at San Bernard NWR on the upper Texas coast near Freeport:
100. Ross's Goose
101. Mottled Duck
102. Lesser Scaup
103. Tree Swallow
104. Sedge Wren
105. Hermit Thrush
106. Northern Waterthrush (lifer)
A foggy and chilly morning with the skies filled with Snow Geese and Sandhill Crane. With the Tropical Parula in Brazos Bend last week, who needs to drive down to South Texas? Climate change has moved it up here.

 

[Peter C.]

February 01

Finally, I had the time for an excursion to a good-sized body of (open) water! Got to the west end of Lake Ontario, Hamilton harbour. Temperature for the region finally got above freezing for the first time this year, peaking at a whopping 3 C.

High winds made using the scope a bit difficult, but there were some good waterfowl near shore.

104. Mute Swan
105. American Black Duck
106. Greater Scaup
107. White-winged Scoter
108. Long-tailed Duck
109. Red-breasted Merganser
110. Bald Eagle
111. Ring-billed Gull
112. Herring Gull
113. Great Black-backed Gull
114. Northern Flicker
115. Horned Lark

Peter C.

 

[BeesWing]

107. Purple Marten
108. Marsh Wren
109. American Bittern (the best view I've ever had of one)
110. Virginia Rail
111. Lesser Yellowlegs

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening there was a new bird for the year at my feeders, so my Year List is now up to 96.

96. Field Sparrow

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

Scanning a flock of around 200,000 Snow Geese (with some Ross's Geese) at Sugar Lake, Lewis & Clark State Park (about 20 minutes south of Saint Joseph, Missouri) I was able to pick out:

72. Hooded Merganser (1)
73. Ring-necked Ducks (10)

Seen south of Saint Joseph, Missouri (near Dearborn, Missouri)
74. Wild Turkey (a flock of about 20 birds)

 

[Nightjar61]

After work this afternoon, I was able to get out and added two birds to my Year List, which is now up to 98.

97. Eastern Screech Owl
98. Bonaparte's Gull

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

Today our local Audubon Club had a field trip to the bird feeders of several people in the Saint Joseph, Missouri. area.

New Missouri year bird was:

75. Purple Finch

 

[BeesWing]

112. Brown-headed Nuthatch (lifer)
113. Redhead

One hard and one easy. The Nuthatch after an hour of searching and a long drive. The Redhead in a pond in a park with a bunch of Ring-necked and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks when I was out walking with my brother this morning.

 

[Tero]

A rare year, two lifers in a row
61 white winged scoter
62 pintail
63 red winged blackbird