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

[la_ravachol]

One tick on The Fleet in the rain this evening.

254. Eurasian Curlew

 

[lgonz1008]

(Heathrow Airport)
234. Common Wood-Pigeon
235. Common Swift
236. Eurasian Kestrel
237. Carrion Crow
238. White Wagtail

(Wildebeest Eco Camp)
239. Dusky Turtle-Dove
240. Dideric Cuckoo
241. Red-chested Cuckoo
242. White-rumped Swift
243. African Palm Swift
244. African Darter
245. Long-tailed Cormorant
246. Gray Heron
247. African Sacred Ibis
248. Hadada Ibis
249. Black Kite
250. Speckled Mousebird
251. Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
252. Spot-flanked Barbet
253. African Black-headed Oriole
254. Chinspot Batis
255. Black-backed Puffback
256. African Paradise-Flycatcher
257. Northern Fiscal
258. Pied Crow
259. White-bellied Tit
260. Yellow-breasted Apalis
261. Wire-tailed Swallow
262. Red-rumped Swallow
263. Black Sawwing
264. Common Bulbul
265. Brown Parisoma
266. Abyssinian Thrush
267. White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
268. Cape Robin-Chat
269. Rüppell's Robin-Chat
270. Collared Sunbird
271. Scarlet-chested Sunbird
272. Bronzed Sunbird
273. Northern Double-collared Sunbird
274. Variable Sunbird
275. White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
276. Baglafecht Weaver
277. Holub's Golden-Weaver
278. Village Weaver
279. Grosbeak Weaver
280. Red-billed Firefinch
281. African Pied Wagtail
282. Streaky Seedeater

(Ngong Forest Sanctuary)
283. Red-eyed Dove
284. Marabou Stork
285. Hamerkop
286. Crowned Eagle
287. Narina Trogon
288. White-headed Barbet
289. Brown-backed Woodpecker
290. Black-fronted Bushshrike
291. Green-backed Camaroptera
292. Rock Martin
293. Lesser Striped Swallow
294. Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
295. Kikuyu White-eye
296. African Dusky Flycatcher
297. Pale Flycatcher
298. Amethyst Sunbird
299. Speke's Weaver
300. Common Waxbill
301. Pin-tailed Whydah
302. Kenya Rufous Sparrow
303. African Citril

(Nairobi National Park)
304. Common Ostrich
305. Helmeted Guineafowl
306. Shelley's Francolin
307. Yellow-necked Spurfowl
308. Ring-necked Dove
309. Kori Bustard
310. Hartlaub's Bustard
311. White-bellied Go-away-bird
312. White-browed Coucal
313. Great Spotted Cuckoo
314. Little Swift
315. Eurasian Moorhen
316. Spotted Thick-knee
317. Blacksmith Lapwing
318. Black-winged Lapwing
319. Crowned Lapwing
320. Three-banded Plover
321. African Jacana
322. African Openbill
323. Yellow-billed Stork
324. Great Cormorant
325. Black-headed Heron
326. White-backed Night-Heron
327. African Spoonbill
328. Secretarybird
329. Black-winged Kite
330. White-backed Vulture
331. Martial Eagle
332. Tawny Eagle
333. African Fish-Eagle
334. Eurasian Hoopoe
335. African Gray Hornbill
336. Malachite Kingfisher
337. Pied Kingfisher
338. Little Bee-eater
339. Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
340. Black Cuckooshrike
341. Brown-crowned Tchagra
342. Fork-tailed Drongo
343. Long-tailed Fiscal
344. Rufous-naped Lark
345. Moustached Grass-Warbler
346. Tawny-flanked Prinia
347. Singing Cisticola
348. Rattling Cisticola
349. Winding Cisticola
350. Stout Cisticola
351. Croaking Cisticola
352. Siffling Cisticola
353. African Yellow-Warbler
354. Northern Pied-Babbler
355. Red-billed Oxpecker
356. Wattled Starling
357. Hildebrandt's Starling
358. Rüppell's Starling
359. Superb Starling
360. African Gray Flycatcher
361. Spotted Morning-Thrush
362. Cardinal Quelea
363. Yellow-crowned Bishop
364. White-winged Widowbird
365. Red-cowled Widowbird
366. Jackson's Widowbird
367. Bronze Mannikin
368. Quailfinch
369. Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
370. Chestnut Sparrow
371. Cape Wagtail
372. African Pipit
373. Pangani Longclaw
374. Rosy-throated Longclaw
375. Reichenow's Seedeater
376. Brimstone Canary

 

[lgonz1008]

(Lake Naivasha)
377. Hildebrandt's Spurfowl
378. Squacco Heron
379. Tropical Boubou
380. Arrow-marked Babbler
381. Black-lored Babbler
382. Red-winged Starling
383. White-browed Robin-Chat
384. Speckled Pigeon

(North Kinangop)
385. Montan Nightjar
386. African Harrier-Hawk
387. Long-crested Eagle
388. Cape Crow
389. Levaillant's Cisticola
390. Wing-snapping Cisticola
391. African Stonechat
392. Long-tailed Widowbird
393. Sharpe's Longclaw

(Aberdare National Park)
394. Jackson's Spurfowl
395. Hartlaub's Turaco
396. Mountain Buzzard
397. Augurd Buzzard
398. Hunter's Cisticola
399. Aberdare Cisticola
400. Plain Martin
401. Waller's Starlinng
402. Moorland Chat
403. Tacazze Sunbird
404. Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
405. Mountain Wagtail
406. Yellow-crowned Canary

(Mt. Kenya National Park)
407. Red-fronted Parrot
408. White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher
409. Sharpe's Starling
410. African Black Duck
411. Rameron Pigeon
412. Olive Ibis
413. Crowned Hornbill
414. Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
415. Green-backed Honeyguide
416. Tullberg's Woodpecker
417. Gray Cuckooshrike
418. Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
419. Black-tailed Oriole
420. Black-collared Apalis
421. Black-throated Apalis
422. Chestnut-throated Apalis
423. Gray Apalis
424. Slender-billed Greenbul
425. Eastern Mountain Greenbul
426. Cabanis's Greenbul
427. Brown Woodland-Warbler
428. African Hill Babbler
429. Abbott's Starling
430. White-starred Robin
431. Spectacled Weaver
432. Brown-capped Weaver
433. Black-and-white Mannikin
434. Gray-headed Nigrita
435. Kandt's Waxbill
436. Thick-billed Seedeater

(Samburu National Reserve)
437. Gray-crowned Crane
438. Red-headed Weaver
439. White-faced Whistling-Duck
440. Vulturine Guineafowl
441. Crested Francolin
442. Mourning Collared-Dove
443. Laughing Dove
444. Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
445. Namaqua Dove
446. Pied Cuckoo
447. Spur-winged Lapwing
448. Three-banded Courser
449. Rüppell's Griffon
450. Black-chested Snake-Eagle
451. African Hawk-Eagle
452. White-headed Mousebird
453. Blue-naped Mousebird
454. Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
455. Von der Decken's Hornbill
456. Northern Red-billed Hornbill
457. Gray-headed Kingfisher
458. White-throated Bee-eater
459. Lilac-breasted Roller
460. D'Arnaud's Barbet
461. Nubian Woodpecker
462. Pygmy Falcon
463. Red-bellied Parrot
464. Brubru
465. Slate-colored Boubou
466. Fan-tailed Raven
467. Fischer's Sparrow-Lark
468. Fawn-colored Lark
469. Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
470. White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
471. Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow-Weaver
472. Chestnut Weaver
473. Blue-capped Cordonbleu
474. Parrot-billed Sparrow
475. Somali Ostrich
476. Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
477. Mottled Swift
478. Bateleur
479. Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
480. Abyssinian Scimitarbill
481. Rufous-crowned Roller
482. Red-and-yellow Barbet
483. Black-throated Barbet
484. Cardinal Woodpecker
485. Taita Fiscal
486. White-rumped Shrike
487. Pink-breasted Lark
488. Somali Crombec
489. Banded Parisoma
490. Golden-breasted Starling
491. Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
492. Speckle-fronted Weaver
493. Black-capped Social-Weaver
494. Lesser Masked-Weaver
495. Vitelline Masked-Weaver
496. Cut-throat
497. Steel-blue Whydah
498. Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
499. Somali Bunting
500. Black-faced Sandgrouse
501. Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
502. Great White Pelican
503. Somali Bee-eater
504. Rosy-patched Bushshrike
505. Gray Wren-Warbler
506. Pale Prinia
507. Northern Brownbul
508. Rufous Chatterer
509. Black-necked Weaver
510. Village Indigobird

(Samburu to Lake Nakuru)
511. Bristle-crowned Starling
512. Gray-capped Warbler
513. Red-faced Cisticola
514. Hinde's Pied-Babbler
515. Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
516. Golden-winged Sunbird
517. Yellow Bishop
518. Cape Eagle-Owl

 

[lgonz1008]

(Lake Nakuru National Park)
519. Blue-billed Teal
520. Yellow-billed Duck
521. Cape Teal
522. Red-billed Duck
523. Greater Flamingo
524. Lesser Flamingo
525. Little Grebe
526. Klaas's Cuckoo
527. Black-winged Stilt
528. Common Greenshank
529. Gray-hooded Gull
530. Gull-billed Tern
531. Whiskered Tern
532. Pink-backed Pelican
533. Goliath Heron
534. Intermediate Egret
535. Green Woodhoopoe
536. Striped Kingfisher
537. Greater Honeyguide
538. Mountain Gray Woodpecker
539. Gray-backed Fiscal
540. Red-capped Lark
541. Greater Blue-eared Starling
542. African Thrush
543. Northern Anteater-Chat
544. Crimson-rumped Waxbill
545. African Firefinch
546. Plain-backed Pipit
547. Yellow-throated Longclaw

(Lake Baringo)
548. White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
549. Striated Heron
550. Shikra
551. African Scops-Owl
552. Spotted Eagle-Owl
553. Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
554. Pearl-spotted Owlet
555. Jackson's Hornbill
556. Red-fronted Tinkerbird
557. Lesser Honeyguide
558. Scaly-throated Honeyguide
559. African Gray Woodpecker
560. Pygmy Batis
561. Red-fronted Prinia
562. Brown Babbler
563. Hunter's Sunbird
564. Slender-tailed Nightjar
565. Dark Chanting-Goshawk
566. Northern White-faced Owl
567. Grayish Eagle-Owl
568. Somali Tit
569. Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit
570. Northern Crombec
571. Yellow-bellied Eremomela
572. Red-backed Scrub-Robin
573. Beautiful Sunbird
574. Shining Sunbird
575. Little Weaver
576. Northern Red Bishop
577. Purple Grenadier
578. White-bellied Canary
579. Black Crake
580. Senegal Thick-knee
581. Gabar Goshawk
582. Madagascar Bee-eater
583. Buff-bellied Warbler
584. Mocking Cliff-Chat
585. Brown-tailed Chat
586. Northern Masked-Weaver
587. Golden-backed Weaver
588. Spur-winged Goose
589. African Swamphen
590. Purple Heron (Lifer #1500)
591. Little Egret
592. Woodland Kingfisher
593. Giant Kingfisher
594. Red-fronted Barbet
595. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
596. White-crested Turaco
597. Mariqua Sunbird

 

[maplekong]

That's one impressive list. I've been hampered down up to now with six hours of piano practise a day for my diploma (I recorded it for the first time today) so my year list stands at a puny 54. I have managed to get excited about mistle thrushes and house martins. I can't wait to get out again, fingers crossed this recording was good enough.

 

[lgonz1008]

(Kakamega Forest National Reserve)
598. Great Blue Turaco
599. Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill
600. Mackinnon's Shrike
601. African Blue Flycatcher
602. Northern Yellow White-eye
603. Delegorgue's Pigeon
604. African Emerald Cuckoo
605. African Pygmy Kingfisher
606. Gray-throated Barbet
607. Hairy-breasted Barbet
608. Brown-throated Wattle-eye
609. Pink-footed Puffback
610. Gray-green Bushshrike
611. Sharpe's Drongo
612. Southern Hyliota
613. Turner's Eremomela
614. White-chinned Prinia
615. Buff-throated Apalis
616. Banded Prinia
617. Black-faced Rufous-Warbler
618. Angola Swallow
619. White-headed Sawwing
620. Joyful Greenbul
621. Violet-backed Starling
622. Stuhlmann's Starling
623. Brown-chested Alethe
624. Green-headed Sunbird
625. Green Sunbird
626. Green-throated Sunbird
627. Olive-bellied Sunbird
628. Red-headed Malimber
629. Forest Weaver
630. White-breasted Nigrita
631. Red-headed Bluebill
632. Least Honeyguide
633. Brown-eared Woodpecker
634. Petit's Cuckooshrike
635. Western Black-headed Oriole
636. Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye
637. Ansorge's Greenbul
638. Little Greenbul
639. Uganda Woodland-Warbler
640. African Green-Pigeon
641. Black Cuckoo
642. Yellow-billed Barbet
643. Yellow-spotted Barbet
644. Yellow-throated Greenbul
645. Gray-winged Robin-Chat
646. Yellow-fronted Canary
647. Black-billed Turaco
648. Bar-tailed Trogon
649. Blue-headed Bee-eater
650. Golden-crowned Woodpecker
651. African Shrike-flycatcher
652. Dusky Tit
653. Green Hylia
654. Olive-green Camaroptera
655. Red-tailed Bristlebill
656. Mountain Illadopsis
657. White-tailed Ant-Thrush
658. Equatorial Akalat
659. White-headed Woodhoopoe
660. Blue-spotted Wood-Dove
661. Chestnut Wattle-eye
662. Jameson's Wattle-eye
663. Plain Greenbul
664. Toro Olive-Greenbul
665. Brown Illadopsis
666. Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat
667. Copper Sunbird
668. Ross's Turaco
669. White-spotted Flufftail
670. Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
671. Vieillot's Black Weaver
672. Chubb's Cisticola
673. Northern Black-Flycatcher

(Kisumu Waterfront)
674. Eastern Plantain-eater
675. Water Thick-knee
676. Little Bittern
677. Broad-billed Roller
678. Black-headed Gonolek
679. Carruthers's Cisticola
680. Greater Swamp Warbler
681. Swamp Flycatcher
682. Red-chested Sunbird
683. Slender-billed Weaver
684. Northern Brown-throated Weaver
685. Red-billed Quelea
686. Fan-tailed Widowbird

(Maasai Mara)
687. Black Goshawk
688. Red-necked Spurfowl
689. Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
690. Bare-faced Go-away-bird
691. Wattled Lapwing
692. White-tailed Lark
693. Latakoo Lark
694. Pectoral-patch Cisticola
695. Mosque Swallow
696. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
697. Sooty Chat
698. Yellow-mantled Widowbird
699. Gray-headed Social-Weaver
700. Zitting Cisticola
701. Coqui Francolin
702. Black-bellied Bustard
703. Abdim's Stork
704. Senegal Lapwing
705. Temminck's Courser
706. Rufous-bellied Heron
707. Gray Kestrel
708. Flappet Lark
709. Dwarf Bittern
710. Lappet-faced Vulture
711. Brown Snake-Eagle
712. Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
713. Meyer's Parrot
714. Fan-tailed Grassbird
715. Rufous-chested Swallow
716. White-bellied Bustard
717. Hooded Vulture
718. Southern Ground-Hornbill
719. Banded Martin
720. Red-faced Crombec
721. Silverbird
722. Swahili Sparrow

(Transfer to Nairobi)
723. Abyssinian Wheatear
724. Red-knobbed Coot

 

[lgonz1008]

(Weekend trip in Ontario)
725. Canada Goose
726. Common Merganser
727. Common Raven
728. Song Sparrow
729. Mute Swan
730. Trumpeter Swan
731. Wood Duck
732. Canvasback
733. Common Tern
734. Willow Flycatcher
735. Warbling Vireo
736. Bank Swallow
737. Cliff Swallow
738. American Goldfinch

(Biscayne Bay National Park)
739. Clapper Rail
740. Mangrove Cuckoo

Finally caught up for the year!

 

[la_ravachol]

This rounds off Dorset (and England) for now. Will be stateside for the next couple of months.

255. White-tailed Eagle
256. Manx Shearwater
257. Sandwich Tern
258. Balearic Shearwater
259. Arctic Skua

 

[la_ravachol]

A two hour layover turned into four days stuck in Montreal due to crazy weather and general Air Canada nonsense. But on the bright side it gave me a couple of small opportunities to do some birding in a completely new region.

260. Wood Duck
261. Pied-billed Grebe
262. Mourning Dove
263. Wilson's Snipe
264. Green Heron
265. Belted Kingfisher
266. Downy Woodpecker
267. Northern Flicker
268. American Kestrel
269. Eastern Wood-Pewee
270. Alder Flycatcher
271. Eastern Kingbird
272. Warbling Vireo
273. Red-eyed Vireo
274. American Crow
275. Black-capped Chickadee
276. Tree Swallow
277. White-breasted Nuthatch
278. House Wren
279. Grey Catbird
280. American Robin
281. Cedar Waxwing
282. American Goldfinch
283. Chipping Sparrow
284. Song Sparrow
285. Red-winged Blackbird
286. Common Grackle
287. Common Yellowthroat
288. Yellow Warbler
289. Northern Cardinal
290. Chimney Swift
291. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
292. Pileated Woodpecker
293. Great-crested Flycatcher
294. Indigo Bunting

 

[lgonz1008]

(Palm Beach Agricultural Fields)
741. Pectoral Sandpiper

 

[Jacana]

Not had much birding time since leaving Sweden. However today I found a pair of Alpine Swifts, which are rare birds here in Asturias.

213. Alpine Swift

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening I observed a new bird in my yard while relaxing on my deck. Not only was it a new bird for the year, it was also the first record of this species for Preston County.

404. Summer Tanager

Dave

 

[la_ravachol]

First week in San Diego.

295. Anna's Hummingbird
296. Allen's Hummingbird
297. Western Gull
298. White-tailed Kite
299. Cooper's Hawk
300. Red-shouldered Hawk
301. Red-tailed Hawk
302. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
303. Black Phoebe
304. Say's Phoebe
305. Ash-throated Flycatcher
306. Bell's Vireo
307. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
308. Cliff Swallow
309. Bushtit
310. Wrentit
311. House Finch
312. Lesser Goldfinch
313. Lawrence's Goldfinch
314. California Towhee
315. Yellow-breasted Chat
316. Hooded Oriole
317. Black-headed Grosbeak
318. Black-chinned Hummingbird
319. American Coot
320. Turkey Vulture
321. Northern Harrier
322. Nuttall's Woodpecker
323. Cassin's Kingbird
324. Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
325. Bewick's Wren
326. Spotted Towhee
327. Brown-headed Cowbird
328. Orange-crowned Warbler
329. Blue Grosbeak
330. Canada Goose
331. Ruddy Duck
332. Western Grebe
333. Clark's Grebe
334. Killdeer
335. Caspian Tern
336. Double-crested Cormorant
337. Neotropic Cormorant
338. Snowy Egret
339. California Gnatcatcher
340. Scaly-breasted Munia
341. Great-tailed Grackle
342. Forster's Tern
343. Black Skimmer
344. Brown Pelican
345. Common Ground Dove
346. California Thrasher
347. American Moorhen
348. Hutton's Vireo
349. Ridgway's Rail
350. Black-necked Stilt
351. American Avocet
352. Snowy Plover
353. Semipalmated Plover
354. Whimbrel
355. Long-billed Curlew
356. Marbled Godwit
357. Least Sandpiper
358. Western Sandpiper
359. Short-billed Dowitcher
360. Willet
361. Heermann's Gull
362. Least Tern
363. Gull-billed Tern
364. Royal Tern
365. Elegant Tern
366. Brandt's Cormorant
367. Pelagic Cormorant
368. Great Blue Heron
369. Reddish Egret
370. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
371. Shore Lark
372. Savannah Sparrow
373. Great Horned Owl

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning I chased a bird that was found about a week ago in a neighboring county, and I easily found my target.

405. Swainson's Warbler

This is a rare species here in the northern part of the state, although it is fairly common in the southern part of the state.

Dave

 

[Tero]

Catching up on local birds and a few on the E coast such as fish crow
229 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

230 Bell's Vireo

231 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

232 Eastern Wood-Pewee

233 Cliff Swallow

234 Summer Tanager

235 Scarlet Tanager

236 Wood Duck

237 Cedar Waxwing

238 Red-headed Woodpecker

239 Green Heron

240 Orchard Oriole

241 Wood Thrush

242 Acadian Flycatcher

243 Fish Crow

244 Yellow-breasted Chat

245 Northern Parula

246 Blue Grosbeak

 

[Jacana]

Two more today in Las Ubiñas-La Mesa national park

214. Short-toed Snake-Eagle
215. Common Rock Thrush

 

[la_ravachol]

Second week in San Diego. One lifer.

374. California Gull
375. Brewer's Blackbird
376. Cinnamon Teal
377. Northern Mockingbird
378. Western Bluebird
379. Lesser Nighthawk
380. Little Blue Heron
381. Wilson's Phalarope
382. Ruddy Turnstone
383. Rock Wren
384. White-throated Swift
385. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
386. Lesser Yellowlegs
387. Common Poorwill
388. Bullock's Oriole

On a side note: whilst writing this post a Barn Owl called very loudly through my open window. Not new for the year, but deserves an honourable mention for effort.

 

[Jacana]

216. Black-winged Stilt

Yesterday, on the way to Santander

 

[martinboer]

Ended July with 268, up from 247...
And with 1 new lifer, to 931..

July 1-3

Spent a great 4th of July Weekend in Sea Bright, New Jersey, and saw 54 species, including a new lifer with the Clapper Rail.

Sea Bright, New Jersey, USA
248. American Oystercatcher (+)
249. Laughing Gull (+)
250. Common Tern
251. Least Tern (+)
252. Boat-tailed Grackle (+)
253. Marsh Wren
254. Short-billed Dowitcher (+)
255. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (+)
256. Clapper Rail
257. Black-bellied Plover (+)
258. Greater Yellowlegs (+)

July 15-29

Had a great family vacation in the Bjørvika neighborhood of Oslo and ending up seeing 33 species, including a few more good ones for the year list!

Bjørvika, Oslok Norway

259. Common Gull
260. Northern Goshawk
261. Hooded Crow
262. Common House-Martin
263. European Goldfinch

July 29-31

Visiting Ireland for a week, and started on the West Coast where I got in some birding at Old Head Beach...

Old Head Beach, Louisburgh, Connacht, Ireland

264. Sandwich Tern (+)
265. Common Buzzard
266. Rook (+)
267. Willow Warbler
268. Eurasian Linnet


Places birded in 2023 - January to July:

• Belgium - Brussels
• Germany - Karlsruhe
• Iceland
• Ireland - Connacht
• The Netherlands - Amsterdam
• Norway - Oslo
• Spain - Boadilla Del Monte, Madrid
• Switzerland - Basel
• USA - California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC

Latest lifer: #931 - Clapper Rail (Sea Bright, New Jersey, USA)

 

[lgonz1008]

(Palm Beach Agricultural Fields)
742. Black Tern