How is your 2013 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Bananafishbones]

Still slow going and a trip to Spurn yesterday didn't help as much as I had expected, force 5 Westerly wind made sure of that....

134. Whimbrel
135. Sanderling
136. Grey Plover
137. Yellow Wagtail
138. Lesser Whitethroat

at last something to shout about - a trip to Finland \ Norway has snook me over the 200 - here's the last dozen to take me to 201 species


Shorelark
Long-tailed Skua
Shag
Arctic Skua
Long Tailed Duck
Red Throated Diver
Common Scoter
Brunnichs Guillimot
Guillemot
Great Skua
Bluethroat
Siberian Jay

 

[Larry Lade]

Well, CB, if I saw a Curlew Sandpiper here in Missouri, I would probably be so excited that I might forget to say what I saw too!

 

[Larry Lade]

Bananafishbones, my next Missouri Bird will be # 200 for my 2013 Missouri Bird List. I wonder what it will be!

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Well, CB, if I saw a Curlew Sandpiper here in Missouri, I would probably be so excited that I might forget to say what I saw too!

I'm guessing that you have yet to see one in Missouri? Have they ever been recorded in the state?

CB

 

[Larry Lade]

Curlew Sandpiper is listed as "Transient & accidental" on our Missouri Birds Checklist. I think they have been recorded in Missouri a few times.

I was on the scene once (with a few other birders) up at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge (Mound City, Missouri) and caught just a glimpse of a few feathers hidden in shore side vegetation. That was all I got! Never got another look. So I did not count it.

* Some of the other birders there said that they did get enough of a look to count it.

So it goes!

 

[Jacana]

From the last couple of days:

185: Marsh Warbler
186. Nightjar
187. Hobby

 

[lazza]

Slow progress - nothing new since mid-May, despite the Northumberland reports of dozens of species not on this year's list (including several potential lifers)

Admittedly, I have had little time to go out birding, but when I have had, reported migrants/rarities seem to have disappeared. Maybe I can start a 2013 list of birds I have missed despite trying: black kite, purple heron (x2), great egret, temminck's stint (x2), collared flycatcher, redstart, etc.!

 

[Brian2]

A decent weekend in Scotland and the Savi's warbler at Lakenheath today moves the year list to 248 and keeps my nose ahead of 2012

 

[Nightjar61]

Today I went to the only place in the state that I know of where Clay-colored Sparrow is reliable. I found my target, as well as another species, so I'm now up to 297 for the year.

296. Alder Flycatcher
297. Clay-colored Sparrow

Dave

 

[Reader]

2 more today.

273. Golden Pheasant (undisclosed site near the Suffolk / Norfolk border).
274. Savi's Warbler Lakenheath (missed by 20 minutes at 8.30am this morning and it took me until nearly 3pm to get two brief views).

John

 

[Nightjar61]

This afternoon while doing yard work, a bittern flew low over the house. It was a new bird for the year, as well as a state lifer (number 207). At least now I don't have to slog through swampy, muddy, and buggy reeds to add it to my state list.

298. American Bittern

Dave

 

[Jacana]

2 more near Öland's southern tip:

188. Grey Plover
189. Grey Partridge

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning I went to high-altitude hemlock forests to look for birds I can't find around here. I saw one new bird, so I'm now up to 299 for the year. (I tried hard to find one more species so I could get to the 300 mark, but it wasn't to be).

299. Northern Saw-whet Owl

The owl was roosting in a nesting box that I accidentally stumbled upon as I was trying to track down a singing warbler. This was my first self-found saw-whet owl and only the fourth I've ever seen. I saw a staked out bird many years ago in Illinois, and the other two were seen when I participated in a banding program last fall.

In addition to the owl, I added Pine Siskin to my West Virginia year list.

Dave

 

[JeffMoh]

This morning I went to high-altitude hemlock forests to look for birds I can't find around here. I saw one new bird, so I'm now up to 299 for the year. (I tried hard to find one more species so I could get to the 300 mark, but it wasn't to be).
299. Northern Saw-whet Owl
Dave

Great bird - and one I've never seen!
I'm very envious of the rest of you because I'm not able to do any birding at present. The best I can hope for is maybe to squeeze in an hour or two on Saturday morning.
Jeff

 

[borealowl47]

Migration slowing down in the city ,have to head out of town now!

143.Red-eyed Vireo
144.Canada Warbler

 

[Bananafishbones]

at last something to shout about - a trip to Finland \ Norway has snook me over the 200 - here's the last dozen to take me to 201 species


Shorelark
Long-tailed Skua
Shag
Arctic Skua
Long Tailed Duck
Red Throated Diver
Common Scoter
Brunnichs Guillimot
Guillemot
Great Skua
Bluethroat
Siberian Jay

202. Ring Ouzel

 

[borealowl47]

145.American White Pelican(found in Canada)
146.Bank Swallow

 

[Brian2]

249 with a Little Stint at Minsmere today but the ticks are getting harder to find now.
I saw 82 species today at the reserve with just the one bird being a first this year.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Added Spotted Flycatcher today

CB

 

[JeffMoh]

Saw reports early last week of some Swallow-tailed Kites on the east side of Houston. It's a species I've only seen once before.
Drove over and was surprised to see 8 of the birds in one tree!

250. Swallow-tailed Kite

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com