How Is Your 2015 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Peter C.]

Peter your type of list is so awesome! Really should be an inspiration for us all to do green lists.

Thanks, Alex.

I mostly find traditional listing - well, year listing - so tiresome, because (in Ontario, at least) there are such long drives involved. I know, for instance, that there are always going to be all three scoter species on Lake Ontario, every winter - but seems a stupid waste of time (and money) to drive all that way, yet again, to see them ("can't we just take these trips 'as read'?" is how I feel about it.) The sense of discovery (which is the only reason I'm into birding, really) just isn't there.

Of course, my real motivation is that I get to eat all the croissants I want (or, more accurately, can afford) without the usual consequences. (o)<

 

[JeffMoh]

One at work:
235 Ovenbird

Jeff

 

[Tero]

90 short-billed dowitcher
91 bald eagle (Branched oak)
92 belted kingfisher
one misidentified black-bird-for-sparrow scratched off (have not done one of those for 10 years)

 

[Nightjar61]

Today two birding friends and I went on an all-day expedition to west-central West Virginia to chase a rarity (night heron) and do some birding along the Ohio River. This was one of the best birding days I've had in a long time, adding four birds to my West Virginia list (Black-crowned Night Heron, Caspian Tern, Virginia Rail, and Prothonotary Warbler). I added a total of 13 birds to my Year List, which is now at 176.

164. Black-crowned Night Heron
165. Blue Grosbeak
166. Philadelphia Vireo
167. Eastern Kingbird
168. Orchard Oriole
169. Forster's Tern
170. Caspian Tern
171. Warbling Vireo
172. Virginia Rail
173. Blackpoll Warbler
174. Least Sandpiper
175. Scarlet Tanager
176. Prothonotary Warbler

Dave

 

[Peter C.]

Wednesday, April 29:

A bird that it has taken me an unconscionably long time to get, given how common they are in this country:

40) Killdeer.

Location: Kitchener-Waterloo; from home to Waterloo Park and back.

Conditions: Shorts and t-shirt sort of weather, just - about 14º, dry, mostly calm.

 

[JeffMoh]

One more at work this morning:
236 American Redstart

Jeff

 

[peter hill]

165madrin 166 hobby 167 little ringed plover

 

[peter hill]

Back to 166 little ringed plover counted twice :eat:

 

[Jacana]

Back on Öland now and starting to pick up some more birds.

146. Common Redstart
147. Willow Warbler
148. Collared Flycatcher
149. Tree Pipit
150. Caspian Tern
151. Eurasian Oystercatcher
152. Eurasian Hobby
153. European Pied Flycatcher

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got in from looking for night birds. No owls, but I did see a whip-poor-will (my all-time favorite bird) and heard another, a county lifer (number 210).

177. Eastern Whip-poor-will

Dave

 

[Andy Hurley]

I went to the Jadebusen, north of Bremen in Niedersachsen, Germany today. It was a good haul, including these year birds.

151 Osprey
152 Common Redshank
153 Eurasian Curlew
154 Eurasian Oystercatcher
155 Yellow Wagtail (flava)
156 Common Reed Bunting
157 Northern Pintail
158 Pied Avocet
159 Brent Goose
160 Common Ringed Plover
161 Northern Wheatear
162 Whimbrel
163 Spotted Redshank
164 Common Greenshank
165 Lesser black backed Gull
166 Curlew Sandpiper
167 Arctic Tern
168 Common Tern
169 Ruff
170 Common Shelduck
171 Rook
172 Dunlin

I love the coast!

 

[Swindon Addick]

The year-list is a bit becalmed as I'm not getting much birding time, but some progress today:
110 swallow
111 common sandpiper (stopping in Swindon on migration, as they often do).

 

[Nightjar61]

A cold, wet, windy spring has meant a rather slow migration so far this year. It has finally warmed up, though, and I was hoping for an active day. It's still slow, but I did add four birds to my Year List.

178. Blue-winged Warbler
179. Kentucky Warbler
180. Bobolink
181. Black-throated Blue Warbler

Dave

 

[Andy Hurley]

167 Curlew Sandpiper turned out to be Whimbrel, but I forgot to add Common Whitethroat from Sauertal in April, and Western Marh Harrier added twice.

 

[martinboer]

19 April

Walibi in Wavre, Belgium
108. White Wagtail

30 April

I moved to Maryland from Brussels. My new job will include a lot of travel, domestic and foreign, which augers well for the bird count...

Chevy Chase, MD, USA
109. Red-bellied Woodpecker
110. Cedar Waxwing Chevy Chase

2 May

Went on a nice walk with the local Audubon society and met lots of local birders.

Audubon Naturalist Society, Woodend Sanctuary, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
111. Bald Eagle
112. Hairy Woodpecker
113. Tufted Titmouse
114. Carolina Wren (New Lifer)
115. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
116. Brown-headed Cowbird

World life list: 400 (Carolina Wren, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; May 2015)
USA life list: 116 (Carolina Wren, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; May 2015)
2015 year list: 116 (Brown-headed Cowbird, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; May 2015)

 

[martinboer]

:t: I'm going to be far too busy, I have to go to Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, purely for fun My wife wants to see a family of elephants, nothing to do with the 296 possibles I've yet to tick there:-O

Hey Andy, that's great. Have you been to Namibia before? I used to live in Windhoek and there's good birding at Daan Viljoen and Avis Dam. Then of course lots up in Etosha and along the coast (Swakopmund and Walvis Bay.) Enjoy your time there. The animals are quite amazing too of course. Best wishes, Martin

 

[Tero]

had some doubles so redid numbering
92. red-headed woodpecker
93. Swainson’s thrush
94. least flycatcher
95. gray catbird
96. N Mockingbird
97. baltiomore oriole

 

[Nightjar61]

Four more birds today, so I'm now up to 185.

182. Great Crested Flycatcher
183. Nashville Warbler
184. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
185. Worm-eating Warbler

The Worm-eating Warbler was a Preston county lifer (number 211), my second in two days.

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

Nice to be able to "bird two worlds" Martin!

Good birding!

 

[Peter C.]

Saturday, May 02:

41. Barn Swallow
42. Forster’s Tern
43. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
44. Great Blue Heron
45. Swamp Sparrow
46. Purple Martin
47. Mute Swan

Location: Long Point, Ontario - Lake Erie End of the causeway to the mainland and back (with a bit of a detour along the Big Creek Marsh walk).

Conditions: Sunny, about 12º, but a bit breezier than ideal; made it hard to hear anything. The Swamp Sparrows were really vocal though, no problem at all finding those.Traffic along there was the worst factor though! Never let up, I think some fishing tournament had just finished, leading to an endless stream of boat trailers leaving the point.