How is your 2010 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Pete Mella]

Lunchtime wanders this last couple of days have got treecreeper (68) and great black-backed gull (69).

Hope to break the 70 barrier this weekend with a bit of a walk round the moors and conifer plantations - hoping for crossbill, buzzard, goldcrest and red grouse if nothing else.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Went up to the top part of Alnwick to get a few sprigs of bramble for my two Leaf Insects and got another tck in the process...along with wet feet from plunging into 12 inches at least of snow! :-O

36: Song Thrush

 

[Stranger]

At work today a flock feeding on the berries from the ornamental shrubs and trees in the directors carpark.
55 Redwing

 

[Steve Lister]

ready for six days in Norfolk, weather permitting.

Steve

Weather did not permit ! Came home (very slowly) two anda half days early. Still, added 30 species to my year list, now on 132. Highlights the Horsey Cranes (superb views of a family of three very close from the Horsey Mere footpath), 60 Taiga Beans, a couple OF GNDivers, Glaucous Gull on the ice at Titchwell, and an enexpected Bonxie past Hunstanton.

Steve

 

[JeffMoh]

A quick walk along the nature trail at our college turned up 100 Cedar Waxwings and another new bird:
60. Pine Warbler.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[Steve Lister]

133 Mistle Thrush (at last) - from my living room window as well

Steve

 

[AlexC]

50. Turkey Vulture
51. Northern Flicker
52. Swamp Sparrow*
53. Winter Wren*

*On a winter college art course field trip to Brandywine River Museum in PA - 20 minutes along a decently-sized river in PA and I'm still missing GBH and kingfisher?? What gives?? Hell there were even 2 RB Mergs there!

 

[DaveJones]

68. Blackcap
69. Sparrowhawk
70. Great Spot Woodpecker
71. Linnet

 

[Nightjar61]

Late this afternoon while driving home from work, I saw another bird for my Year List, which is now up to 75.

75. Cooper's Hawk

Dave

 

[Jacana]

let's see now

01/01/10

1. robin
2. chaffinch
3. wood pigeon
4. blackbird
5. greenfinch
6. blue tit
7. great tit
8. dunnock
9. nuthatch
10. cormorant
11. collared dove
12. magpie
13. house sparrow
14. jay
15. carrion crow
16. jackdaw
17. black headed gull
18. brambling
19. pied wagtail
20. mistle thrush
21. starling
22. rook
23. mute swan
24. mallard
25. rock dove
26. redwing
27. moorhen
28. fieldfare
29. pheasant
30. herring gull
31. yellowhammer
32. goldfinch
33. buzzard
34. wren
35. raven
36. coal tit
37. kestrel
38. lapwing
39. shelduck
40. teal
41. shoveler
42. snipe
43. canada goose
44. tree sparrow
45. greater spotted woodpecker
46. reed bunting
47. linnet
48. grey heron
49. coot
50. tufted duck
51. little grebe
52. pochard
53. great crested grebe
54. wigeon
55. sparrowhawk
56. bullfinch
57. redpoll
58. greylag goose
59. meadow pipit
60. song thrush
61. green sandpiper
62. grey wagtail
63. siskin
64. redshank
65. lesser black backed gull
66. black necked grebe
67. gadwall

02/01/10

68. greater black backed gull
69. yellow legged gull

03/01/10

70. smew
71. ruddy duck

05/01/10

72. long tailed tit

07/01/10

73. marsh tit

Not a bad total so far all things considered, all were in Shropshire. Pick of the bunch goes to Black-necked Grebe at Prioslee and 3 Smew on the trout pool next to venus pool

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

Yesterday in the Bois de Boulogne:

35. Fieldfare

and on the Seine:

36. Coot

 

[Nightjar61]

Seven new birds for the year today, so I'm now up to 82.

76. Eurasian Collared Dove
77. Lapland Longspur
78. Redhead
79. Brown Thrasher
80. Northern Bobwhite
81. American Treecreeper
82. Sharp-shinned Hawk

Dave

 

[Peter C.]

Has remained very cold (-14 – -10 C) for the past few days, so it's been more than a little difficult to get around by bike! However, today, I gritted my teeth and rode out to my local "Sanitary Management Transfer Site" (i.e. dump), where there were some good gulls.

14. Great Black-backed Gull
15. Herring Gull
16. Glaucous Gull
17. Rock Pigeon
18. American Tree Sparrow

 

[TwoDipsfromAmsterdam]

Longchamp and the Seine yesterday gave:

37. Great Crested Grebe
38. Greenfinch

 

[JeffMoh]

Didn't manage to get to look for new birds over the weekend, though I did enjoy our yard birds.

On my way to work this morning saw:
61. Crested Caracara.

Then at work I came across:
62. Copper's Hawk.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[AlexC]

Good day in MD.

54. Carolina Chickadee
55. Ruddy Duck
56. Ring-necked Duck
57. Canvasback
58. Common Merganser
59. Bald Eagle
60. American Coot
61. Pied-billed Grebe
62. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
63. Belted Kingfisher
64. Eastern Bluebird
65. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
66. Redhead
67. Great Blue Heron
68. Eastern Towhee

 

[Simmo1111]

Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan and a Common Buzzard pushed me to 75 yesterday but things have slooooooowed down now !!

 

[AlexC]

P.S. Anyone looking for a good place to check their spot with the competition, check out www.bubo.org - AWESOME listing set-up for any region, any year or just your overall life list. They also have this great feature where you can see your "target" birds - basically blockers, listed in order of frequency on other birders' lists. So if you're missing a bird for ABA 2010 which everyone else has, it will be at the top of your "target" list. Really just an awesome system.

I really hope some of you check it out! www.bubo.org

 

[Pete Mella]

Red Grouse, Crossbill, Buzzard and Goldcrest at the weekend, plus a nice lunchtime Peregrine yesterday, bring my total to 74. On ya tail, Dave

 

[JeffMoh]

New bird at work yesterday:
63. Double-crested Cormorant.

Can't wait to fit in some real birding rather than just around home and work. Hoping to visit Galveston, Bolivar and Anahuac NWR on the weekend. If I do, it should add quite a few more species.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com