How's your 2004 year list going? (1 Viewer)

[SimonC]

I made up a life list last night and i got 141 only 80 away from my dad and still only 13

Good stuff :t:

you do realise though, that in making your first list, you've probably started out on the slippery slope to full-on "list addiction"

Never mind, we'll be here for you in our capacity as "listers anonymous"

 

[Larry Lade]

I made up a life list last night and i got 141 only 80 away from my dad and still only 13

Hi Timmy,

141 Wow! That is impressive! You may pass your father before long if you keep at it. :t:

I have been interested in nature (emphasis on birds) since my boyhood (quite a long time ago!), but I did not record the birds I was seeing then. I only started writing down what I was seeing about 17 years ago. It would be interesting to me if I could compare birds/numbers of birds from that earlier time with those I am seeing now. Some of the "old time birders" tell me that there used to be many more birds when they started birding than there are now. I suppose that is true, but we still have quite a few. We just need to protect them and their habitats.

Good Birding!

 

[jtibbetts]

286: American Wigeon (this equals last years total, so i should beat this!)

 

[tom mckinney]

...282

Haven't updated for ages, but in last month or so seen...

Ovenbird
Cream-coloured Courser
Western Sandpiper
Pallas's Wblr
Bluethroat
Grey Phalarope
Firecrest
Bittern (at last)

However I have dipped...

Brown Shrike
White's Thrush
Olive-backed Pipit
Pallid Swift
Pied Wheatear
Squacco Heron
Red-b.Fly
Richard's Pipit
Barred Wblr
Red-backed Shrike

 

[StevieEvans]

279 UK '04
229 Co. Durham '04

1st winter Richards Pipit & Red Breasted Fly

SE

 

[Karl J]

An excellent first trip out on my shiney new Dawes Galaxy ( :king: ) in Broadland / East Norfolk this afternoon.

Incidentally if anyone's after a new bike for a bit of bike-birding, there are some really good deals about on last years (2004) stock at the minute. Like mine !

47 miles + 33 sp. inc some really good stuff

Loads of Redwings on Norton marshes, lots of lapwings around, couple of Jays, GS Woody, tits / finches, Goldcrest etc, 2 Marsh Harriers .... 300+ Pinkfeet Geese (plus various size skeins in flight, at various distances) in stubble field E of B1152 at Clippesby.

And ....

162. Siskin

 

[Edward woodwood]

Hi Karl

you know of a good dealer around East Norfolk way?

I'm really keen to get biking it to cover more ground around my favourite patches

47 miles? Blimey, i thought i was healthy!

 

[Karl J]

yes i'll pm you tim, save deviating this thread too far

 

[pduxon]

well assuming I can't count the Bar Heade Goose which was an escape I presume.

191. Grey Pharalope (bird 200 on my UK life list)
192. Jack Snipe (bird 201 on my uk life list)

may even make 200 at this rate, then again maybe not.....

anyway 6 (192)

 

[Charles Harper]

Well, it's Hallowe'en-- just time to scare up a final bird for October to add to your yearlist, and post your monthly total here, if you haven't done so already. I'll be back to collect them tomorrow afternoon or so and put them onto our Yearlist thread.

 

[Larry Lade]

Today at Smithville Lake, Smithville, Missouri.

267 American Pipit (7 for October)

 

[lassa8]

Just two new ones so far for October (216 and 217 for the year)....horned grebe and orange-crowned warbler.

 

[Bluetail]

Another one scrapes in for October:

207 Little Gull

 

[postcardcv]

252 - scaup
253 - green-winged teal

still struggling to find se owl for the year....

 

[Reader]

Only been out once in October so my totals still are the same

GB 240. GB & EU 292 & 1 Oct

Going to Spain on Thursday so hoping to reach the 300 for the year if I can.

 

[TorchBCT]

Final for October 152 ABA, 112 Texas, 2 October.

 

[Michael W]

Since I posted last...

For Washington (ABA in parenthesis)...
205. Bonaparte's Gull (Winthrop, Okanogan County)
206. Swamp Sparrow ( " , " , Lifer!, ABA #365)
And on an outing today...
207. Green-winged Teal
208. Cackling Goose (Lifer!, ABA #366)
209. Surf Scoter (Rarity, ABA #367)

So that's 209 (O 7) for Washington, and 367 (O 5) for the ABA area.

I'll pm you, Charles, about why my numbers don't match up.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[Dave B Smith]

October was a good month with over half of the birds I've seen being lifers.
The weekend brought me:
Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
Blue-tailed Emerald
Groove-billed Toucanet
White Hawk (pair soaring low over canopy)
Bay-headed Tanager

Brings totals to:
Oct 42
World (442); Venezuela (81); USA (179); Mex (299)

 

[erizzo]

Just got out to the Crodillera for a couple days and olny got rain but I still got some for November.
1 Spectacled Tyrant
2 Austral Negrito
3 Magellanic Woodpecker (2 females Very Very Close)
4 Flying Steamer Duck
5 Speckeld Teal
6 Yellow billed Pintail
7 Neotropic Cormorant
8 Bar Winged Cinclodes
9 Chucao Tapaculo (not seen only heared)

 

[Charles Harper]

Sorry, folks, my machine is down, and I am relegated to this Japanese one with all of the inscrutable menus and keys. Hence, no update to the Yearlists yet. I have got your PMs, and when I get my own computer running again, I`ll get the job done. Meanwhile, just keep birding-- November must hold a few birds yet for some of us.