How Is Your 2015 List Going? (4 Viewers)

[Peter C.]

Thursday, May 14:

49. Wood Thrush
50. Warbling Vireo
51. White-crowned Sparrow

Location: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario (Waterloo Park, mostly)

Conditions: Pleasant (18C), but buggy; whole swarms of gnats have hatched out recently, which I kept running into. And inhaling.

 

[Andy Hurley]

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



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

Yes at that location. They are all escapes that have bred succesfully. They overwinter 250 Km away in Holland. The American Flamingo is the only one but it has successfully bred with Chilean and Greater, the other Flamingo species there afaik.

 

[Andy Hurley]

so ........ it's 666 now.

The number of the beast8-P

 

[Andy Hurley]

Went to the Dummer See in Niedersachsen, Germany today and added:

183 Common Swift
184 Garganey
185 Sedge Warbler there were lots of these along the southern edge in the reeds and small bushes in the reeds
186 Commom Nightingale

I saw a pair of Common Cuckoos on a hunter's seat! The female was rufous. Also a pair of Marsh Harriers hunting over the reeds together, brilliant to see.

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning I found two birds that can be hard to see in this area. Now up to 205.

204. Wilson's Warbler
205. Semipalmated Plover

In fact, the plover (seven of them) was a state lifer (number 245).

Dave

 

[peter hill]

173 woodwarbler 174 spotted fly 175 garden warbler

 

[chris butterworth]

The number of the beast8-P

:t:

 

[chris butterworth]

Wood Warbler at Manifold Valley, Derbyshire today takes me to 667.

 

[Nightjar61]

I finally found a long overdue bird in the woods behind my house late this afternoon.

206. Eastern Wood Pewee

Dave

 

[Swindon Addick]

The year list is still struggling due to work pressures, but yesterday I managed to get a bit of time outdoors:
112 cuckoo (heard only)
113 spotted flycatcher
114 swift
Also took my year list of dragons & damsels from 1 to 3, including 2 species emerging, so not a bad day at all.

 

[Larry Lade]

Mourning Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Red-eyed Vireo

 

[Peter C.]

Saturday, May 16:

52) House Wren
53) Baltimore Oriole
54) Spotted Sandpiper
55) Yellow Warbler
56) Gray Catbird
57) Hairy Woodpecker
58) Osprey
59) Swainson's Thrush

Location: Columbia Lake, Waterloo, Ont.

 

[avesjohn]

Went into the Morongo Valley with Pasadena Audubon yesterday and picked up 16 year birds.

At Big Morongo Canyon Preserve (birds listed in taxonomic order):
231. Gambel's Quail
232. White-winged Dove
233. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
234. Olive-sided Flycatcher
235. Willow Flycatcher
236. Gray Flycatcher
237. Vermilion Flycatcher
238. Brown-crested Flycatcher
239. Verdin
240. Swainson's Thrush
241. Summer Tanager

At Black Rock Campground, Joshua Tree National Park:
242. Greater Roadrunner
243. Costa's Hummingbird
244. Pinyon Jay
245. Black-throated Sparrow
246. Scott's Oriole

 

[peter hill]

Rechecked list and its now 181 trip to Norfolk added 182 dottrell 183 little gull 184 temminks stint 185 turtle dove 186woodlark 187 greenshank 188 reed warbler some of these were at frampton marsh

 

[Nightjar61]

Not a great day birdingwise. I drove six hours round-trip to chase what would have been a state lifer (Short-billed Dowitcher), but dipped. I did see one new bird for the year, but, given the distance driven, it was hard to get excited about it because I usually see the species at a pond within ten minutes of where I live.

207. Semipalmated Sandpiper

Dave

 

[AlexC]

An unexpected surprise working (not actively birding) up in the canyons this week:
298. Swainson's Thrush (also my 300th California bird!)

 

[Tero]

119. stilt sandpiper
120. semipalmated sandpiper
121. barn swallow

 

[martinboer]

Some catch up after some good birding the last few days...

Saw a massive Pileated pecking away in a nearby garden.

14 May

Chevy Chase, MD
120. Pileated Woodpeck

17 May

Visited Silicon Valley with my work and stayed across from Stanford University.

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
121. California Gull
122. Acorn Woodpecker
123. Nuttall's Woodpecker
124. Black Phoebe
125. Steller's Jay
126. Western Scrub-Jay
127. Violet-green Swallow (New Lifer)
128. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
129. Oak Titmouse (New Lifer)
130. Spotted Towhee (New Lifer)
131. California Towhee (New Lifer)
132. Lesser Goldfinch (New Lifer)

19 May

Took a nice walk out to the water, to Fisherman's Wharf, and saw lots of birds.

Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, CA
133. Double-crested Cormorant
134. Brown Pelican
135. Black-crowned Night-Heron (New Lifer)
136. Western Gull
137. Forster's Tern (New Lifer)
138. Anna's Hummingbird
139. Common Raven
140. White-crowned Sparrow (New Lifer)
141. Brewer's Blackbird

World life list: 409 (White-crowned Sparrow, San Francisco, CA, USA; May 2015)
USA life list: 125 (White-crowned Sparrow, San Francisco, CA, USA; May 2015)
2015 year list: 141 (Brewer's Blackbird, San Francisco, CA, USA; May 2015)

 

[Larry Lade]

American Redstart
Black-billed Cuckoo
Blackpoll Warbler
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Northern Mockingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow Warbler

 

[Larry Lade]

American Redstart
Black-billed Cuckoo
Blackpoll Warbler
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Northern Mockingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Yellow Warbler

58 birds seen yesterday morning around the St. Joseph area. The above birds were new for me for this year.