How is your 2013 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Larry Lade]

Yesterday I viewed a dozen species of wood warblers (* three of them were new for the year).
174. Golden-winged Warbler *
175. Blue-headed Vireo
176. Black-throated Green Warbler *
177. American Redstart *
178. Red-eyed Vireo
179. Great-tailed Grackle (somehow missed including this from a previous day's birding)
180. Warbling Vireo

 

[borealowl47]

Since my last post

49.Cooper's Hawk
50.Killdeer
51.Ruby-crowned Kinglet
52.Common Grackle
53.Franklin's Gull
54.Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
55.Northern Flicker
56.Hermit Thrush
57.Yellow-rumped Warbler
58.Fox Sparrow
59.Song Sparrow
60.Canvasback
61.Redhead
62.Bufflehead
63.Red-breasted Merganser
64.Common Loon
65.Horned Grebe
66.Red-necked Grebe
67.Wilson's Snipe
68.American Tree Sparrow
69.Brown-headed Cowbird
70.Sharp-shinned Hawk
71.American Coot
72.Snow Bunting
73.Tree Swallow
74.Orange-crowned Warbler
75.Vesper Sparrow
76.Savannah Sparrow
77.Swamp sparrow
78.Swainson's Hawk
79.Northern Shoveler
80.Western Grebe
81.Chipping Sparrow
82.Green-winged Teal
83.Greater Scaup
84.Northern Goshawk
85.Brewer's Blackbird
86.Tundra Swan
87.Ruddy Duck
88.Palm Warbler
89.Clay-colored Sparrow
90.Greater Yellowlegs
91.American Woodcock
92.Belted Kingfisher
93.Brown Creeper
94.Snow Goose
95.Northern Pintail
96.Osprey
97.Spotted Sandpiper
98.Swainson's Thrush

 

[Jacana]

A bit of a rarity for Sweden today at Beijershamn, Öland.

160. Spoonbill

 

[Jacana]

forgot to add yesterday:

161. Swift

 

[Jacana]

One missed from a few days ago:

162. Barnacle Goose

And today from a fantastic morning at Ottenby:

163. Arctic Tern
164. Bluethroat
165. Red-breasted Flycatcher
166. Greenish Warbler
167. Purple Sandpiper
168. Dunlin
169. Little Tern
170. Garganey
171. Sedge Warbler
172. Black-throated Diver
173. Ortolan Bunting
174. Kentish Plover
175. Turnstone
176. Ruff
177. Avocet

 

[borealowl47]

Tyndall,Manitoba

99.Eastern Phoebe
100.Olive-sided Flycatcher(nice one!usually only see one or two every year)
101.Least Flycatcher
102.White-crowned Sparrow
103.Rose-breasted Grosbeak

 

[Larry Lade]

181. Western Kingbird
182. Dickcissel
183. White-rumped Sandpiper
184. Hudsonian Godwit
185. Northern Bobwhite
186. Grasshopper Sparrow

 

[Jacana]

178. Icterine Warbler

 

[JeffMoh]

I haven't had time for birding lately. Tried for Common Nighthawk at a nearby park yesterday lunchtime but failed. Then the first bird I saw when I got to work was:
232. Common Nighthawk.

So far this year I've concentrated on county (Harris) birds and I've now reached 200 species for the third year in a row.

It's time to look further afield, so we're going up to the hill country west of San Antonio this weekend in hopes of seeing some different birds. We also want to see the Rio Frio colony of 10-12 million bats. Should be fun, although it's going to be hottish (mid to upper 90sF).

Jeff

 

[Nightjar61]

It's been rainy and/or very windy over the last few days so I haven't been able to get out to bird. Today, however, there was a break in the weather and I was able to get out into the woods behind my house. I managed to see two new birds for the year.

279. Red-eyed Vireo
280. Eastern Wood Pewee

I also added Indigo Bunting to my West Virginia year list. (I saw my first Indigo Bunting of the year last week in Arizona).

Dave

 

[HabbinAlan]

Fen Drayton filled a niggling gap in the Life list yesterday morning. After decades of "heards" and "glimpses," Nightingale goes on the Life lists as well as 2013:

122 (653) Nightingale
123 (654) Common Tern

Yesterday evening and today, Wicken Fen was great for warblers and some passage waders but for the lists delivered:

124 (655) Garganey
125 (656) Black-winged Stilt

There was also a very pale juvenile Buzzard (?) that had a number of people puzzled for a while. Unfortunately my phone-camera digiscope pics were rubbish.

alan

 

[Larry Lade]

187. Philadelphia Vireo
188. Least Flycatcher
189. Wilson's Warbler

 

[Reader]

An absolutely brilliant day today, only blighted by us listening to a Golden Oriole for over two hours without it showing once.

We started near Wicken Fen for the Black-winged Stilt and whilst looking for it a Short-eared Owl gave us a fabulous display. Then onto Lackford Lakes where we connected with a Turtle Dove and finally we finished at Lakenheath where we saw Red-footed Falcon, quite a few Hobby & Cuckoo a Common Crane and huge numbers of Swifts.

259. Black-winged Stilt
260. Turtle Dove
261. Red-footed Falcon.

John

 

[Nightjar61]

Three new birds for the year this morning, so my Year List is now up to 283.

281. Willow Flycatcher
282. Golden-winged Warber
283. Acadian Flycatcher

Dave

 

[Jacana]

3 ticks yesterday:

179. Red-backed Shrike
180. Red-necked Grebe
181. Reed Warbler

 

[borealowl47]

In the rain,Assiniboine Park

104.American Goldfinch
105.Lincoln's Sparrow
106.Yellow Warbler
107.Black-and-White Warbler

 

[Reader]

Mega panic last night after 11pm when the pager announced the arrival of a Dusky Thrush in Margate Cemetary. The bird had been present for three days but had only just been correctly identified.

This is the first twitchable bir since 1959 and the phones were going crazy. We managed to organize two cars with eight people in (five in mine and three in the smaller car) and once car set out at 2am and we set out at 3am.

We arrived at 6am and as soon as we arrived it showed. Always flighty but thankfully always perching at the top of the trees. Ridicously bad light and the bird always kept it's distance from the 200+ birders that were currently there.

We also saw a Ring-tailed Montague's harrier not far away at Reculver.

262. Dusky Thrush.
263. Montague's Harrier.

John

 

[Nightjar61]

Three warblers and a flycatcher today, so I'm now up to 287 for the year.

284. Chestnut-sided Warbler
285. Magnolia Warbler
286. Black-throated Blue Warbler
287. Least Flycatcher

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

190. Black Tern
191. Mourning Warbler
192. Magnolia Warbler

 

[Brian2]

after a week in Wales where I bagged ten ticks including Chough, Pied Fly, Spotted Fly, Tawny Owl, Glossy Ibis, Manx Shearwater, Puffin, Arctic Skua, Tree Pipit, Wood Warbler then added the Dusky Thrush, Montagu's Harrier and Cattle Egret in Kent on Saturday I now sit at 237 for the year with a trip to Scotland this coming weekend I hope to add a few more before the end of the month.
Wow that Dusky Thrush was a real surprise.