How Is Your 2015 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[chris butterworth]

A couple of hours seawatching, and a wander through the marsh / dunes at Red Rocks, Hoylake, Wirral, turned up Manx Shearwater, Nthn Gannet, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Eur Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler and Common Whitethroat . There were plenty Barn Swallow belting northward as well. My year total is now 654. :t:

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning around my local patch (oxbow lakes region) south of St. Joseph, Missouri.
Forster's Tern, Bank Swallow and Baltimore Oriole.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Added a few more summer visitors to reach 176

CB

 

[chris butterworth]

A trip over to Anglesey today added another 9 species ( including some I should have got earlier in the year ). There were plenty of auks back on the ledges but, despite walking all the way down the steps to the lighthouse at South Stack ( and all the b****y way back up ), there were no signs of Atlantic Puffin. :-C Black Guillemot were showing really well at Holyhead Fish Quay and there were a pair of Raven with 2 young perched on the sea wall.

 

[Nightjar61]

Four new birds today bring me up to 199. I tried hard to find one more to get to an even 200, but no luck. Maybe tomorrow.

196. Chestnut-sided Warbler
197. Golden-winged Warbler
198. Yellow-breasted Chat
199. Acadian Flycatcher

Dave

 

[Tero]

108. Clay-colored sparrow
109. sharp shinned hawk
110. indigo bunting
111. Western kingbird
112. Bell’s vireo
113 lark sparrow

 

[Larry Lade]

Baltimore Oriole 5/8
Bank Swallow 5/8
Forster's Tern 5/8
Wood Thrush 5/9
Summer Tanager 5/9
Tennessee Warbler 5/9

 

[Andy Hurley]

NSG Sauertal, NRW, Germany 10.05.2015

174 Red Backed Shrike

Lifer no. 580 for me. 16 for the year so far.

 

[AlexC]

Camping this weekend up in the Tehachapi mountain range at the restricted access Tejon Ranch of California (half the size of Rhode Island :eek! - 90% protected, the ranch's conservancy program was hosting a BioBlitz event to catalogue as much wildlife as possible! Beyond the birds, some of the highlights were:
-Brown Myotis (bat) roost (waiting on ID confirmation)
-American Badger! In daylight!
-Baja California Chorus Frogs
-On a midnight hike, we literally stumbled upon (5 feet away from) a wrestling match to the death between a Viriginia Opossum and a Pacific Gopher Snake. Just flesh, scales, teeth and blood rolled up into a ball! The possum ran off pretty peeved we'd disturbed his meal. The snake was likely done for. He hissed at us, bleeding, and slowly wandered off. One of the most incredible animal encounters of my life.

291. Western Wood-Pewee
292. Barn Owl
293. Purple Martin
294. Blue Grosbeak
295. Western Tanager
296. Prairie Falcon (mobbing a Golden Eagle!)
297. Palm Warbler

 

[Nightjar61]

Broke the 200 mark today with three new birds. All of them are residents of high-altitude boreal bogs that have a habitat that is almost the same as the boreal forests and bogs of northern Canada.

200. Veery
201. Canada Warbler
202. Alder Flycatcher

Dave

 

[Andy Hurley]

Paderborn, NRW, Germany 11.05.2015

175 Icterine Warbler

 

[chris butterworth]

Checked out the fields etc at the back of the house today and added Spotted Flycatcher. 664 for the year.

 

[Larry Lade]

Yesterday I picked up five year birds for my Missouri 2015 list.
Golden-crowned Warbler
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Bobolink

 

[Larry Lade]

Nashville Warbler

 

[Nightjar61]

It's now that time in the spring when I've seen most of the arriving migrants and residents, and new birds are getting harder to find. Only one new bird this morning.

203. Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Dave

 

[Tero]

114. Lincoln’s sparrow (L Saline Wetland) IN LINCOLN!
115. Forster’s tern
116. Black tern
117. Canvasback
118. orchard oriole

 

[Andy Hurley]

Zwillbrocker Venn, NRW, Germany today

176 Tree Pipit
177 Mediterranean Gull
178 Lesser Whitethroat
179 Tundra Bean Goose
180 Chilean Flamingo
181 American Flamingo
182 Eurasian Golden Oriole

A great day out and 3 lifers

Life List now at 583
Germany List now at 202
European List now at 300

 

[Peter C.]

296. Prairie Falcon (mobbing a Golden Eagle!)

Now, that would be a sight I'd pay to see!

Zwillbrocker Venn, NRW, Germany today

180 Chilean Flamingo
181 American Flamingo

These are established in.... Deutschland!?!

 

[JeffMoh]

No time for birding lately so just one new bird, seen at work:
240 Olive-sided Flycatcher

Jeff

 

[chris butterworth]

I had a nice Hobby harassing the life out of passing hirundines and Swifts at the back of the house this morning taking me up to 645 for the year.
Eur Turtle Dove, a NW mega, turned up at Leasowe so ........ it's 666 now.

These are established in.... Deutschland!?!

There's a feral population of Chilean, at least, in Germany.