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

[Jon Turner]

Crossbill was on May 18th, and since then I seem to have gone into reverse!, but reached July 18th with No. 200, again nearly all summer migrants:
Grasshopper Warbler, Wood Warbler, Nightjar, Guillemot, Puffin, Marsh Warbler, Tree Sparrow, Bearded Tit, Little Tern, Common Tern, Green Sandpiper, Nightingale, and the first British tick of the year, and I'm not sure what it was; either Lesser Crested or Elegant Tern. A grey rump and upper tail were recorded, leaning towards lesser Crested, but it is now in the hands of the Rarities Committee.

 

[Nightjar61]

A new year bird this afternoon as I was relaxing on my deck after mowing the lawn.

406. Warbling Vireo

A common bird in the lower elevations of the state, but tough to see here at higher altitudes. This is a bird I could easily miss for my county year list.

Dave

 

[la_ravachol]

End of another week in San Diego. Passed 400.

389. Red-masked Parakeet
390. Black Oystercatcher
391. Black Turnstone
392. Red-necked Phalarope
393. Wandering Tattler
394. Pomarine Skua
395. Black-vented Shearwater
396. Spotted Sandpiper
397. Swinhoe's White-eye
398. Blue-crowned Parakeet
399. California Scrub-Jay
400. Greater Yellowlegs
401. Canyon Wren
402. Phainopepla
403. California Quail
404. Western Kingbird

 

[la_ravachol]

More from San Diego. Got out on to the ocean for the first time - will have to do that again while I'm in California!

405. Greater Roadrunner
406. Surfbird
407. Craveri's Murrelet
408. Sabine's Gull
409. Black Storm-Petrel
410. Pink-footed Shearwater
411. Sooty Shearwater
412. Brown Booby
413. Long-billed Dowitcher
414. Pacific Golden Plover
415. Red Knot

 

[Nightjar61]

One new bird on Tuesday, but I identified it today. I had initially identified the bird as a female Blue-winged Teal, but something about it wasn't quite right. I was able to get close enough today to get photographs and to make a positive identification.

407. Cinnamon Teal

Only the second record for West Virginia and the first for Preston County.

Dave

 

[lgonz1008]

(Eagle Lakes Community Park) Long overdue twitch
743. Large-billed Tern

 

[Jacana]

217. Eurasian Hobby
218. Western Barn Owl

The Hobby was last week, on Whixall Moss. The Owl was yesterday, near Hodnet, UK.

 

[Nightjar61]

One new early fall migrant this evening.

408. Common Nighthawk

Dave

 

[Paul Chapman]

A quick check suggests that Koepcke's Screech Owl was 1,027 on my year list last night using eBird taxonomy.

All the best

Paul

 

[lgonz1008]

(Coral Gables)
744. Cerulean Warbler

 

[la_ravachol]

San Diego
416. Western Meadowlark
417. Lilac-crowned Parrot
418. Yellow-headed Parrot
419. Wilson's Warbler

Sacramento & Yolo
420. Cackling Goose
421. American Wigeon
422. Redhead
423. Lesser Scaup
424. American White Pelican
435. White-faced Ibis
436. Swainson's Hawk
437. Loggerhead Shrike
438. Marsh Wren
439. Goosander
440. Bald Eagle
441. Acorn Woodpecker
442. Oak Titmouse
443. Yellow-billed Magpie
444. Lazuli Bunting
445. Wild Turkey
446. American Bittern
447. Yellow-headed Blackbird
448. Tricoloured Blackbird
449. Greater White-fronted Goose

 

[Jacana]

219. Egyptian Goose

A couple of days ago at Venus Pool

 

[Nightjar61]

One new bird this morning.

409. Blackburnian Warbler

Easy to miss in the spring, but common during fall migration (which unbelievably is now starting.)

Dave

 

[Derbyfella]

111 Uk birds for me, my best identification year ever. Still plenty of easy wins not seen this year. But just enjoying days out with a couple of mates. Best bird for me this year, even though it was only two very short glimpses..montagus harrier at Cley.

 

[AlexC]

Way late this year submitting my updates.. but here they are, January thru August:

Jan 1st, neighborhood birds and chasing a few rarities:
1. Common Raven
2. Mourning Dove
3. Northern Flicker
4. Cedar Waxwing
5. Houe Finch
6. Yellow-rumped Warbler
7. Mallard
8. Rock Pigeon
9. European Starling
10. American Crow
11. Black Phoebe
12. Snowy Owl (local rarity, Orange County, CA)
13. Western Gull
14. Burrowing Owl
15. Canada Goose
16. American Wigeon
17. Northern Pintail
18. Ring-necked Duck
19. Ruddy Duck
20. Glaucous-winged Gull
21. Great Blue Heron
22. Great Egret
23. Turkey Vulture
24. Red-tailed Hawk
25. American Kestrel
26. Peregrine Falcon
27. Say’s Phoebe
28. Cassin’s Kingbird
29. Bushtit
30. Mountain Bluebird
31. House Sparrow
32. White-crowned Sparrow
33. Savannah Sparrow
34. Western Meadowlark
35. Sandhill Crane (local rarity, LA County, CA)
36. Band-tailed Pigeon
37. Allen’s Hummingbird
38. Acorn Woodpecker
39. Nuttall’s Woodpecker
40. Red-crowned Parrot
41. Yellow-headed Parrot
42. Oak Titmouse
43. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
44. Western Bluebird
45. Lesser Goldfinch
46. Dark-eyed Junco

More January birding around LA:
47. Orange-crowned Warbler
48. California Scrub-Jay
49. Northern Mockingbird
50. California Gull
51. California Towhee
52. American Coot
53. Eurasian Collared-Dove
54. Anna’s Hummingbird
55. Black-crowned Night-Heron
56. Song Sparrow
57. Red-whiskered Bulbul
58. Egyptian Goose
59. Black-necked Stilt
60. Bufflehead
61. White-throated Swift
62. Greater Yellowlegs
63. Cooper’s Hawk
64. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
65. Hooded Merganser
66. White-breasted Nuthatch
67. Bewick’s Wren
68. Mitred Parakeet
69. Double-crested Cormorant
70. Snowy Egret
71. Red-winged Blackbird
72. Spotted Sandpiper
73. Ring-billed Gull
74. Green Heron
75. Red-shouldered Hawk
76. American Pipit
77. Brewer’s Blackbird
78. Common Yellowthroat
79. Blue-winged Teal
80. Snow Goose
81. Wilson’s Snipe
82. Townsend’s Warbler
83. Wrentit
84. Lesser Scaup
85. Pied-billed Grebe
86. Ross’s Goose
87. Greater White-fronted Goose
88. Common Merganser
89. Belted Kingfisher
90. Red-masked Parakeet
91. American White Pelican
92. Gadwall
93. Neotropic Cormorant
94. Killdeer
95. Western Sandpiper
96. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

February birding in LA, seeking a county bird and my first chance to check out the beach:
97. California Quail
98. White-winged Dove (LA County lifer)
99. Canvasback
100. American Goldfinch
101. Chipping Sparrow
102. Lark Sparrow
103. Brown Pelican
104. Willet
105. Marbled Godwit
106. Sanderling
107. Short-billed Gull
108. Royal Tern
109. Brandt’s Cormorant
110. Black Turnstone
111. American Robin

Late Feb trip to Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México for a family wedding:
112. Black Vulture
113. Great-tailed Grackle
114. Mangrove Swallow
115. Tropical Kingbird
116. Great Kiskadee
117. Yellow Warbler
118. Inca Dove
119. Streak-backed Oriole
120. Wood Stork
121. Northern Waterthrush
122. Laughing Gull
123. Sandwich Tern
124. Black Skimmer
125. Magnificent Frigatebird
126. Little Blue Heron
127. Tricolored Heron
128. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
129. White Ibis
130. Common Black Hawk
131. Short-tailed Hawk
132. Western Tanager
133. Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (lifer)
134. Baltimore Oriole
135. Cattle Egret
136. Lesser Nighthawk
137. Ruddy Ground Dove
138. Gray-breasted Martin
139. Orchard Oriole
140. Cinnamon Hummingbird
141. Wandering Tattler
142. Turquoise-crowned Hummingbird (lifer)
143. Groove-billed Ani
144. Least Flycatcher
145. Brown-crested Flycatcher
146. Social Flycatcher
147. Rufous-naped Wren (lifer)
148. Cassin’s Vireo
149. Citreoline Trogon (lifer)
150. Barn Swallow
151. Elegant Tern
152. Orange-breasted Bunting (lifer)
153. West Mexican Chachalaca (lifer)
154. Yellow-winged Cacique (lifer)
155. Northern Cardinal
156. Warbling Vireo
157. Ash-throated Flycatcher
158. Olive Sparrow
159. Cinnamon-bellied Saltator
160. White-throated Magpie-Jay (lifer)
161. Orange-fronted Parakeet (lifer)
162. White-tipped Dove
163. Roadside Hawk
164. Boat-billed Flycatcher (lifer)
165. Common Ground Dove
166. Painted Bunting
167. Indigo Bunting
168. Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (lifer)
169. Common Gallinule
170. Northern Jacana
171. Ringed Kingfisher
172. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Back in LA, March and April birding with a far-flung rarity:
173. Great Horned Owl
174. Indian Peafowl
175. Northern Shoveler
176. Tundra Bean-Goose (CA lifer)
177. Cackling Goose
178. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
179. Cliff Swallow
180. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (LA County lifer)
181. Brown-headed Cowbird
182. Bell’s Vireo
183. Bullock’s Oriole
184. Horned Lark
185. Rock Wren
186. Greater Roadrunner
187. Yellow-headed Blackbird
188. Tricolored Blackbird

April 23rd, doing my annual Big Day effort with friends, we tried a new route this year (started at the Salton Sea, finished in Playa del Rey) but came up a bit underwhelmed with only 130 species on the day; still a good amount of year birds:
189. Abert’s Towhee
190. Vermilion Flycatcher
191. Gila Woodpecker
192. Verdin
193. Wilson’s Warbler
194. Whimbrel
195. American Bittern
196. Black-headed Grosbeak
197. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
198. Lazuli Bunting
199. Western Kingbird
200. White-faced Ibis
201. Gambel’s Quail
202. Gull-billed Tern
203. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
204. Tree Swallow
205. Bank Swallow
206. Caspian Tern
207. Cinnamon Teal
208. Least Sandpiper
209. Long-billed Dowitcher
210. Marsh Wren
211. Ridgway’s Rail
212. Cactus Wren
213. Eared Grebe
214. Green-winged Teal
215. Virginia Rail
216. Black-chinned Hummingbird
217. Costa’s Hummingbird
218. Western Grebe
219. Sora
220. Redhead
221. Common Loon
222. Short-billed Dowitcher
223. Phainopepla
224. Hooded Oriole
225. Lucy’s Warbler (CA lifer)
226. American Avocet
227. Surf Scoter
228. Red-breasted Merganser
229. Surfbird
230. Ruddy Turnstone
231. Long-tailed Duck
232. Black Oystercatcher

May birding in LA, plus a chase in early June:
233. Barn Owl
234. Rosy-faced Lovebird
235. House Wren
236. Spotted Towhee
237. Canyon Wren
238. Western Flycatcher (formerly Pacific-slope)
239. Common Poorwill
240. California Thrasher
241. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
242. Franklin’s Gull
243. Crested Caracara (CA lifer)

Two visits to the east coast in June/July:
244. Red-bellied Woodpecker
245. Blue Jay
246. Common Grackle
247. Chimney Swift
248. Gray Catbird
249. Black-capped Chickadee
250. Acadian Flycatcher
251. Wood Thrush
252. Wood Duck
253. Osprey
254. Mute Swan
255. Eastern Bluebird
256. Black-throated Blue Warbler
257. Eastern Wood-Pewee
258. Bobolink
259. Downy Woodpecker
260. Monk Parakeet
261. Red-eyed Vireo
262. Fish Crow
263. Herring Gull
264. Tufted Titmouse

In August, some local LA trips to the mountains and along the river:
265. Mountain Chickadee
266. Pygmy Nuthatch
267. Western Wood-Pewee
268. Steller’s Jay
269. Hairy Woodpecker
270. Clark’s Nutcracker
271. White-headed Woodpecker
272. Green-tailed Towhee
273. Brown Creeper
274. Bell’s Sparrow
275. Cassin’s Finch
276. Wilson’s Phalarope
277. Lesser Yellowlegs
278. Semipalmated Plover
279. Baird’s Sandpiper (LA County lifer)
280. Semipalmated Sandpiper (CA lifer)
281. Scaly-breasted Munia
282. Pin-tailed Whydah
283. Swinhoe’s White-eye (LA County lifer)
284. Long-billed Curlew (LA County lifer)

And following Hurricane Hilary, we had pelagic fallout in SoCal from Mexican waters, yielding many bizarre inland records. I was able to bag myself one of these birds:
285. Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel (lifer)
286. Clark’s Grebe
287. Red-necked Phalarope
288. Forster’s Tern
289. Violet-green Swallow

 

[lgonz1008]

(Highland Oaks Park)
745. Prothonotary Warbler

 

[la_ravachol]

(I've just noticed I misnumbered my previous post - oops!)

Lake Tahoe
440. Ring-necked Duck
441. Baird's Sandpiper
442. Steller's Jay
443. Violet-green Swallow
444. White-headed Woodpecker
445. Mountain Chickadee
446. Pygmy Nuthatch
447. Hairy Woodpecker
448. Dark-eyed Junco
449. Brown Creeper
450. Yellow-rumped Warbler
451. Red-breasted Nuthatch
452. Western Tanager
453. Virginia Rail
454. Sora
455. Black-backed Woodpecker
456. Western Wood-Pewee
457. Golden-crowned Kinglet
458. Clark's Nutcracker
459. Williamson's Sapsucker
460. Black-billed Magpie
461. Willow Flycatcher
462. Dusky Flycatcher
463. Cassin's Vireo
464. Townsend's Solitaire
465. Nashville Warbler
466. Olive-sided Flycatcher
467. Mountain Quail
468. Sooty Grouse
469. Band-tailed Pigeon
470. Grey-crowned Rosy-Finch
471. Fox Sparrow
472. Green-tailed Towhee
473. MacGillivray's Warbler
474. Evening Grosbeak

 

[lgonz1008]

(Lucky Hammock)
746. Alder Flycatcher

 

[AlexC]

(I've just noticed I misnumbered my previous post - oops!)

Lake Tahoe
440. Ring-necked Duck
441. Baird's Sandpiper
442. Steller's Jay
443. Violet-green Swallow
444. White-headed Woodpecker
445. Mountain Chickadee
446. Pygmy Nuthatch
447. Hairy Woodpecker
448. Dark-eyed Junco
449. Brown Creeper
450. Yellow-rumped Warbler
451. Red-breasted Nuthatch
452. Western Tanager
453. Virginia Rail
454. Sora
455. Black-backed Woodpecker
456. Western Wood-Pewee
457. Golden-crowned Kinglet
458. Clark's Nutcracker
459. Williamson's Sapsucker
460. Black-billed Magpie
461. Willow Flycatcher
462. Dusky Flycatcher
463. Cassin's Vireo
464. Townsend's Solitaire
465. Nashville Warbler
466. Olive-sided Flycatcher
467. Mountain Quail
468. Sooty Grouse
469. Band-tailed Pigeon
470. Grey-crowned Rosy-Finch
471. Fox Sparrow
472. Green-tailed Towhee
473. MacGillivray's Warbler
474. Evening Grosbeak

Nice to see some Cali birds be lifers! Where were you for the hurricane? Any interesting birds turn up for you?

 

[la_ravachol]

Nice to see some Cali birds be lifers! Where were you for the hurricane? Any interesting birds turn up for you?

Tahoe. I'm usually based in San Diego whenever I'm over here but left for a week or two at the exact wrong time (from a birding perspective!). I understand some interesting things did turn up, but predictably gone before I got back. Having said that, there are still very big numbers of seabirds off shore so hopefully I might see something when I go out again in a few days (who knows).