How Is Your 2016 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Larry Lade]

Went out birding with a couple of friends yesterday to near-by national wildlife refuge and a Missouri conservation area. We tallied a list of 83 birds (10 new year birds for my Missouri 2016 List)
Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Peregrine Falcon (4), Black-necked Stilt, Prothonotary Warbler, Swainson's Thrush, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Solitary Sandpiper and Eared Grebe.

 

[Larry Lade]

Isn't Springtime great!

 

[Jacana]

A few more today from Öland:

269. Black-tailed Godwit
270. Common Eider
271. Goosander
272. Wood Warbler
273. Arctic Tern
274. Eurasian Blackcap

 

[Jacana]

One more from today:

275. Common Greenshank

 

[Nightjar61]

I birded hard today but was only able to add two birds to my Year List.

180. Chestnut-sided Warbler
181. Black-billed Cuckoo

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

Today around my regular patch just south of St. Joseph, Missouri:
Dickcissel, Sora, Western Kingbird and Semipalmated Sandpiper

 

[Trystan]

01/5/16

150. Yellow wagtail
151. Whitethroat
152. Whimbrel
153. Greenshank
154. Lesser whitethroat
155. Brent goose (Singles of Pale bellied and Black brant with the usual dark bellied. Black brant a new ssp for me)
156. Grey plover
157. Cuckoo
158. Little ringed plover

 

[Andy Hurley]

124 Common Sandpiper
125 Common Redshank
126 Barnacle Goose
127 Eurasian Wigeon
128 Eurasian Curlew
129 Western Marsh Harrier
130 Spotted Redshank
131 Black tailed Godwit
132 Northern Pintail
133 Ruff
134 Pied Avocet
135 Stock Dove
136 Common Greenshank
137 Whimbrel

All taken at the Jadebusen near Wilhelmshaven, Germany 01 05 2016.

Although I saw one earlier this year, this is the first fairly decent photo of a Bluethroat.
Larry, I agree with you Spring's great!

 

[Nightjar61]

Three new birds this morning, so I'm up to 184.

182. Golden-winged Warbler
183. Least Flycatcher
184. Magnolia Warbler

Dave

 

[Tero]

173 warbling vireo
174 black and white warbler
175 gray catbird
176 pectoral sandpiper
177 cliff swallow
178 neotropical cormorant
179 snowy egret
180 clay-colored sparrow
181 lincoln’s sparrow
182 sedge wren
183 great egret
184 orange-crowned warbler
185 common yellowthroat

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening I went out to look for night birds. No owls but I did hear and see a nightjar.

185. Eastern Whip-poor-will

Dave

 

[Larry Lade]

140. Northern Bobwhite
141. Palm Warbler
142. Gray Catbird

 

[Scridifer]

A day trip down to Poda reserve in Burgas took me up to 154 with several lifers

149) Honey Buzzard
150) (Greater) Spotted Eagle
151) Black Kite
152) Squacco Heron
153) Little Tern
154) Caspian Tern

Chris

 

[Nightjar61]

One new bird this afternoon puts me at 186 for the year.

186. Warbling Vireo

Dave

 

[Tero]

186 white-crowned sparrow
187 solitary sandpiper
188 yellow warbler
189 eastern kingbird
190 sora

 

[Jacana]

From the last couple of days on Öland:

276. Eurasian Woodcock
277. Eurasian Oystercatcher
278. Common Ringed Plover
279. Common House Martin
280. Red-breasted Merganser
281. Lesser Whitethroat
282. Sandwich Tern
283. Dunlin
284. Ruff
285. Ruddy Turnstone
286. Wood Sandpiper
287. Little Tern
288. Western Yellow Wagtail
289. Eurasian Golden Plover
290. European Green Woodpecker
291. Common Cuckoo

Really filling in the gaps now of the easy stuff I missed due to a heavy workload earlier in the year. Spending most of the day outside looking for my study species helps too!

The Golden Plover and Sandwich Terns were also long overdue Swedish lifers

 

[Nightjar61]

I birded hard today but was only able to come up with one new bird.

187. Canada Warbler

Dave

 

[Andy Hurley]

Today from the bus stop:
138 Common Swift
139 Common House Martin

One from April that I forgot

140 Common Whitethroat

 

[Tero]

191 American bittern
192 stilt sandpiper
193 lark sparrow
194 rose-breasted grosbeak
195 red-eyed vireo

 

[Trystan]

7/5/16

Plans scuppered by unexpected fog on the east coast today. Partly cloudy the forecast said - failed to mention that the clouds were at ground level.

159. Swift
160. Razorbill
161. Puffin