TwoDipsfromAmsterdam
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16 May: Bois de Boulogne
71. Common Tern
72. Sparrowhawk (nearly 6 months since the last one!)
71. Common Tern
72. Sparrowhawk (nearly 6 months since the last one!)
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How is your 2010 List Going? (1 Viewer)
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Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
That is a pity - although we do have bike lanes here, they're kind of a joke - none of the drivers pay much attention to them, they usually end up full of parked cars. However, Kitchener being such a small place, traffic is really pretty light on most roads (except the freeways, which don't come into it in any case) so cycling here is safe mostly.
Mind you, I've worked as a bicycle courier in Toronto and Calgary, so I may have a somewhat skewed impression of what "safe" means... |8.|
I've decided to change the way I list this year and the way I set myself annual targets. I normally keep only one real list, for the whole USA, and I just aim to have a longer list each year. The latter helps to keep me motivated to go out and bird! (I particularly need motivation in the summer when it's VERY hot and humid here.)
However, I've decided to keep, with the help of e-bird, three lists from now on:
USA
Texas
My Area (Southeast Texas: Harris County and the 7 adjoining counties).
To date I've seen 206 species, all in Southeast Texas. Given the time I'll have available and my level of competence as a birder, I reckon I'd do very well indeed to end the year with 230 birds in "my area". So that's my new target for 2010.
Do any of you keep local area lists and/or set yourselves annual targets?
Jeff
However, I've decided to keep, with the help of e-bird, three lists from now on:
USA
Texas
My Area (Southeast Texas: Harris County and the 7 adjoining counties).
To date I've seen 206 species, all in Southeast Texas. Given the time I'll have available and my level of competence as a birder, I reckon I'd do very well indeed to end the year with 230 birds in "my area". So that's my new target for 2010.
Do any of you keep local area lists and/or set yourselves annual targets?
Jeff
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Saturday, May15
The weather, and the migration, finally came together for me today; great wave of new birds came into the region.
All in Kitchener and Waterloo:
79. Black-throated Green Warbler
80. Chestnut-sided Warbler
81. Blackburnian Warbler
82. Northern Parula
83. White-crowned Sparrow
84. Yellow Warbler
85. Barn Swallow
86. Eastern Kingbird
87. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
88. Least Flycatcher
89. American Redstart
90. Swainson’s Thrush
91. Least Sandpiper
92. Lincoln’s Sparrow
93. Swamp Sparrow
94. Common Yellowthroat
95. Red-eyed Vireo
Peter C.
The weather, and the migration, finally came together for me today; great wave of new birds came into the region.
All in Kitchener and Waterloo:
79. Black-throated Green Warbler
80. Chestnut-sided Warbler
81. Blackburnian Warbler
82. Northern Parula
83. White-crowned Sparrow
84. Yellow Warbler
85. Barn Swallow
86. Eastern Kingbird
87. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
88. Least Flycatcher
89. American Redstart
90. Swainson’s Thrush
91. Least Sandpiper
92. Lincoln’s Sparrow
93. Swamp Sparrow
94. Common Yellowthroat
95. Red-eyed Vireo
Peter C.
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Nightjar61
David Daniels
Drove to southwest Indiana to the state's only colony of breeding Least Terns. I ended up with four new birds for the year, so I'm now up to 205.
202. Least Tern
203. Ruddy Turnstone
204. Black Tern
205. Semipalmated Sandpiper
The turnstone was a state lifer (number 299), the second of the year.
Dave
202. Least Tern
203. Ruddy Turnstone
204. Black Tern
205. Semipalmated Sandpiper
The turnstone was a state lifer (number 299), the second of the year.
Dave
Larry Lade
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My 2010 Missouri List still stands at 202 species. I birded over at Cheyenne Bottoms (a Kansas State Park) and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in our neighboring state of Kansas on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (May 16-18). I did observe nineteen (19) species that I had not seen anywhere this year.
__ Horned Grebe
__ Eared Grebe
__ American Bittern
__ Least Bittern
__ Cattle Egret
__ White-faced Ibis
__ Golden Eagle
__ BLACK RAIL
__ Virginia Rail
__ Common Moorhen
__ Black-bellied Plover
__ Snowy Plover
__ Black-necked Stilt
__ Ruddy Turnstone
__ Sanderling
__ Least Tern
__ Burrowing Owl
__ Common Nighthawk
__ Field Sparrow
__ Horned Grebe
__ Eared Grebe
__ American Bittern
__ Least Bittern
__ Cattle Egret
__ White-faced Ibis
__ Golden Eagle
__ BLACK RAIL
__ Virginia Rail
__ Common Moorhen
__ Black-bellied Plover
__ Snowy Plover
__ Black-necked Stilt
__ Ruddy Turnstone
__ Sanderling
__ Least Tern
__ Burrowing Owl
__ Common Nighthawk
__ Field Sparrow
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Indeed it was!
Because of the limits I have imposed on myself, I get these long fallow periods where I don't see much of anything. Then, a wave of migration rolls over, and it's like a breath of fresh air! In fact, got another interesting migrant the very next day, just two houses down the street:
96. Cape May Warbler
P.S. Not myself into regional lists, I find it confusing if I have to track too much. (I'm too lazy to get on the computer and formalize it in some way). I have an Ontario life list, but that's about it - I'd never know what I see in a year, but for the fact that I'm now recording it on BF.
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
TwoDipsfromAmsterdam
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18 May: Vondelpark Amsterdam
73. Ring-necked Parakeet
73. Ring-necked Parakeet
Spent 4 hours at three different good birding sites yesterday but only saw one new bird:
207. Purple Gallinule.
Highlight of the day wasn't a bird, though. It was being face to face with a bobcat that was only 5 feet away. Beautiful animal!
Black Rail would have been a lifer for me, Larry. And I haven't seen a burrowing owl since I left California 8 years ago.
Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
207. Purple Gallinule.
Highlight of the day wasn't a bird, though. It was being face to face with a bobcat that was only 5 feet away. Beautiful animal!
Black Rail would have been a lifer for me, Larry. And I haven't seen a burrowing owl since I left California 8 years ago.
Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
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Larry Lade
Moderator
Back home in Missouri! Rain, rain and more rain! No shorebird habitat, I only had 3 or 4 Killdeer (our common shorebird in these parts). I did find three (3) other species in a flooded puddle in a crop field, but none of these were new for the year here in Missouri (Hudsonian Godwits, 2 male and 3 female; one Dunlin and one other bird which was too far out to ID, * about the size of the Dunlin).
Found around the Saint Joseph oxbow lakes region south of town.
203. Least Bittern (I had in a recent trip to Kansas, but new for this year in Missouri.)
204. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
205. Olive-sided Flycatcher
206. Cattle Egret (Had this species in Kansas too, but new for Missouri.)
Found around the Saint Joseph oxbow lakes region south of town.
203. Least Bittern (I had in a recent trip to Kansas, but new for this year in Missouri.)
204. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
205. Olive-sided Flycatcher
206. Cattle Egret (Had this species in Kansas too, but new for Missouri.)
StarainBoy
Well-known member
The Wentwood Forest Iberian chiffchaff took me up to 174 but, more important, was also a lifer for world bird 1066.
Nice bird to reach the 100 mark with.
I didn't realize they got up your way so early in the year.
Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
Larry Lade
Moderator
I birded Weston Bend State Park, Weston Bend, Missouri, this morning and was able to add three (3) more warblers to my 2010 Missouri Year List.
207. Hooded Warbler, a nice adult male, "singing his heart out".
208. Ovenbird
209. Kentucky Warbler
207. Hooded Warbler, a nice adult male, "singing his heart out".
208. Ovenbird
209. Kentucky Warbler
Peter C.
...just zis guy, you know?
Sunday, May 23
Actually, this is about the normal, expected time for us to get them. But this has been a very odd year, with June-like temperatures through much of April - so I was actually quite behind the times, in this particular case. The first Ruby-throated to show in my area was at Long Point on April 17!
101. Semi-palmated Sandpiper
102. Willow Flycatcher
103. Blackpoll Warbler
104. Wilson's Warbler
105. Bobolink
106. Wild Turkey
Indeed!
Actually, this is about the normal, expected time for us to get them. But this has been a very odd year, with June-like temperatures through much of April - so I was actually quite behind the times, in this particular case. The first Ruby-throated to show in my area was at Long Point on April 17!
101. Semi-palmated Sandpiper
102. Willow Flycatcher
103. Blackpoll Warbler
104. Wilson's Warbler
105. Bobolink
106. Wild Turkey
TwoDipsfromAmsterdam
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25 May: Boulogne-Billancourt
74. Serin
74. Serin
