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How's Your 2023 List Going? (1 Viewer)

I have this in a Word document and somehow tacked an all the Latin names.
263 Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria

264 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

265 Nashville Warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla

266 Sedge Wren Cistothorus stellaris

267 Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica

268 Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana

269 Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus

270 White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

271 LeConte's Sparrow Ammospiza leconteii
 
Back in Ohio, I went birding this afternoon and added an uncommon (usually fall) migrant.

258. Dunlin
 
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Ended September/October with 295 species, my second best year already after 2018...

September 9
After a nice morning birding with a local group, I went out searching for a continuing Limpkin that has been spotted in the area. And it was a great spot, my first time seeing it in North America.

Pennyfield Lock, C&O Canal, Potomac, Maryland, USA
277. Limpkin (+)

September 11

Went birding for a few hours in Toronto yesterday, after a day full of meetings, and am finding it increasingly difficult to add to my year list. That said, did spot me a lifer that had been long overdue.

Ashbridge's Bay Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
278. Trumpeter Swan

September 17

Great morning out birding with a local group of excellent birders and together seeing 36 species, including two lifers: the Grasshopper Sparrow and the Black-throated Green Warbler. Then drove more than four hours roundtrip to rural Pennsylvania to see a continuing, very wet and drippy American Flamingo, and a beauty all the same. A great day for birding.

Woodstock Equestrian Park, Dickerson, Maryland, USA
279. Grasshopper Sparrow
280. Cape May Warbler
281. Blackburnian Warbler
282. Black-throated Green Warbler

Long Pond Lane, St. Thomas, Pennsylvania, USA
283. American Flamingo

October 11-12

In Marrakech for the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings and was able to get out for a bit of birding between meetings..

Menara Gardens, Marrakech, Morocco
284. Eurasian Hoopoe
285. Maghreb Magpie
286. Sardinian Warbler (+)
287. European Pied Flycatcher
288. Common Bulbul (+)
289. Common Redstart
290. Spanish Sparrow
291. Rock Bunting
292. House Bunting
293. Little Swift

October 29

Visiting family in Oregon, and managed to get in a bit of birding as well.

Berrydale Park, Portland, Oregon, USA
294. California Scrub-Jay
295. Red-breasted Nuthatch

Latest lifer: #942 - Little Swift (Movenpick Hotel, Marrakech, Morocco)
 
New birds are becoming harder to find, but waterfowl are starting to move in so I’m hoping I can pick up some ducks, geese, and swans that I missed last winter.

Although not part of the waterfowl family, I did find one new year bird this morning.

571. Double-crested Cormorant

Can’t believe it took me this long to see one. Cormorants are scarce at the higher elevation where I live, but I usually see several a year, from early in the year (as long as there’s open water) through the end of the year.

Dave
 
Short trip to South Texas
(Mitchell Lake Audubon Center)
769. Great-tailed Grackle
770. Gadwall
771. Northern Pintail
772. Green-winged Teal
773. Least Grebe
774. Inca Dove
775. Neotropic Cormorant
776. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
777. Black-crested Titmouse
778. Verdin
779. Bewick's Wren
780. Long-billed Thrasher
781. Hermit Thrush
782. White-throated Sparrow
783. Vesper Sparrow
784. Green-tailed Towhee
785. Spotted Towhee
786. Nashville Warbler
787. Pyrrhuloxia

(Drive from San Antonio to Brownsville)
788. White-tailed Hawk
789. Western Meadowlark
790. Harris's Hawk
791. Great Kiskadee

(Oliveira Park)
792. Red-crowned Parrot
793. Red-lored Parrot
794. White-fronted Parrot

(Santa Ana NWR)
795. Lesser Scaup
796. Ruddy Duck
797. Plain Chachalaca
798. White-tipped Dove
799. Black-chinned Hummingbird
800. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
801. Couch's Kingbird
802. Green Jay
803. Clay-colored Thrush
804. Altamira Oriole
805. Clay-colored Sparrow
806. Olive Sparrow

(Estero Llano Grande SP)
807. Common Pauraque
808. Buff-bellied Hummingbird
809. Black Phoebe

(Parking Lot Stop for Green Parakeet)
810. Green Parakeet
811. Zone-tailed Hawk
812. Curve-billed Thrasher

(Santa Margarita Ranch)
813. Mexican Duck
814. Red-billed Pigeon
815. Gray Hawk
816. Ringed Kingfisher
817. Green Kingfisher
818. Brown Jay
819. Rock Wren
820. Cassin's Sparrow
821. Black-throated Sparrow
822. Hooded Oriole
823. Audubon's Oriole
824. Black-throated Gray Warbler

(Falcon State Park)
825. Greater Roadrunner

(Mission Nature Park)
826. Cactus Wren

(Hugh Ramsey Park)
827. Golden-crowned Warbler

(Laguna Atascosa NWR)
828. Tropical Parula
829. Long-billed Curlew
830. Aplomado Falcon

(South Padre Island)
831. Marbled Godwit
832. Bullock's Oriole

(McAllen)
833. Lark Sparrow
834. Greater White-fronted Goose
 
Latest addition:-

1617. Red-headed Bunting Flamborough, Yorkshire, England 22nd October.

Off now for a trip if all goes to plan so hopefully a few more to come this year.

All the best

Paul
 
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I had a bit of a dry spell but finally had a great day this week and was able to add a couple of species I hadn't seen locally since March 2022.

485. Little Bustard
486. European Golden Plover
 
I had a couple of rarities this morning, including a self-found absolute mega.

572. Sandhill Crane
573. Pacific Loon

The crane was just over the state line in Maryland (I wanted it for my county year list, but just missed by a couple hundred yards).

The loon was only the second record of the species for West Virginia and the first for Preston County. A state and county lifer. What a day.

Dave
 
232. Rock Sparrow

Visited Villafáfila near Leon today to try to find some new birds. Unfortunately, the weather was against me with pretty heavy fog. I only managed one lifer and no additional year ticks.
 
This would have been easy to tick off when I'm in England next month, but much nicer to get it here in Madrid where it's uncommon (unless you count the escaped that's been living in the city centre for a couple of years!).

487. Eurasian Wigeon
 
Another British tick - another Tern! This time the Dorset Forster's Tern, followed by Wood Sandpiper and Buff-breasted Sandpiper, and a change of venue with a trip to a very scorched Southern Spain: White Stork, Griffon Vulture, Spotless Starling, Booted Eagle, Lesser Kestrel, Serin, Crag Martin, Spanish Sparrow, Blue Rock Thrush, Short-toed Eagle, Egyptian Vulture, Crested Lark, Kentish Plover, Audouin's Gull, Zitting Cisticola, Montagu's Harrier, Black Wheatear, Rock Bunting, Chough, Rock Sparrow. Thekla Lark, Southern Grey Shrike, Black Stork, Red-rumped Swallow, and Crested Tit. A few back in the UK: Barnacle Goose, Lesser Scaup, Surf Scoter, Willow Tit, Grey Phalarope. 234. There may still be a few more, but not many I think.
 

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