How Is Your 2016 List Going? (4 Viewers)

[Scridifer]

125) Isabelline Wheatear also a lifer!

Chris

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning I led a field trip for the local Audubon chapter. During the outing I added two birds to my Year List.

133. Northern Parula
134. Palm Warbler

The Palm Warbler was of the yellow eastern race, which is very rare west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Dave

 

[Andy Hurley]

91 Lesser black backed Gull
92 Little Gull
93 Black legged Kittiwake
94 Common Guillemot
95 Northern Gannet
96 Sandwich Tern
97 Razorbill
98 Meadow Pipit
99 Northern Fulmar
100 Common Eider
101 Hooded Crow
102 Ruddy Turnstone
103 Water Pipit
104 Yellow Wagtail
105 Common Redstart
106 Brent Goose
107 Northern Wheatear
108 Common Ringed Plover
109 Dunlin
110 Tree Pipit
111 Redwing
112 Ring Ouzel
113 Rock Pipit
114 European Reed Warbler
115 Barn Swallow
116 Pied Flycatcher
117 Blackcap
118 Garden Warbler
119 Common Snipe
120 Great Grey Shrike
121 Short eared Owl
122 Common Tern
123 Hen Harrier

Helgoland 09-16 April except 92, 122 which were in Cuxhaven and 123 which was seen from the Autobahn between Bremerhaven and Bremen

 

[Trystan]

17/4/16

139. Nightingale (1st UK)

 

[Nightjar61]

After a week or so of cold weather (including snow eight days ago) the weather has been very warm and spring-like the last few days. Therefore, migrants, especially warblers, are starting to arrive in good numbers. I added four to my Year List this morning.

135. Pine Warbler
136. Ovenbird
137. Black-throated Green Warbler
138. House Wren

Dave

 

[Jacana]

This morning at Hjälstaviken, SW of Uppsala

246. Barnacle Goose
247. Greater White-fronted Goose
248. Common Linnet
249. Common Redshank
250. Northern Wheatear
251. Garganey
252. Northern Pintail
253. Common Tern
254. Little Gull
255. Taiga Bean Goose

 

[Larry Lade]

110. Dunlin

 

[Nightjar61]

I briefly stopped by a couple of wetlands on my way home from work and picked up three new birds for the year.

139. Great Egret
140. Broad-winged Hawk
141. Green Heron

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Two new birds this morning, so I'm now at 143 for the year.

142. Black-and-white Warbler
143. Cliff Swallow

Dave

 

[Tero]

154 blue-gray gnatcatcher
155 brown thrasher
156 Forster’s tern
157 eared grebe
158 long-billed dowitcher
159 semipalmated plover

 

[Larry Lade]

111. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
112. Northern Parula
113. Brewer's Blackbird
114. Osprey
115. Chimney Swift

 

[Nightjar61]

This afternoon a couple of birding buddies called to let me know of a regional rarity they found, which I went and saw.

144. Forster's Tern

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening just at dusk I saw my first swifts of the year flying over town.

145. Chimney Swift

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

116. Spotted Sandpiper
117. Willet
118. Lark Sparrow

 

[Nightjar61]

Migration seems a little slow this year, but I did pick up three new birds this morning.

146. Yellow Warbler
147. Solitary Sandpiper
148. Common Yellowthroat

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

119. White-faced Ibis
120. Northern Mockingbird

 

[Nightjar61]

I stopped by a couple of places on my way home from work this afternoon and added two birds to my Year List.

149. Eastern Kingbird
150. Northern Waterthrush

Dave

 

[Trystan]

22/4/16

140. Twite

 

[Nightjar61]

Finally spring migration has kicked in in full force. Prior to today, a day's birding would get me one or two new birds for the year. Today I got eight.

151. Blue-winged Warbler
152. Spotted Sandpiper
153. Bank Swallow
154. Wood Thrush
155. Prairie Warbler
156. Bobolink
157. Blackburnian Warbler
158. Hooded Warbler

Dave

 

[Tero]

160 dunlin
161 house wren
162 northern rough-winged swallow
163 semipalmated sandpiper