How's Your 2024 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Andy Bright]

readys, steady, go

 

[qwerty5]

Got a late start this morning, and birding was somewhat slow (I missed Carolina Chickadee), but an enjoyable start to the year nonetheless.

Around home and driving to my first stop:
1. American Robin
2. House Sparrow
3. European Starling
4. Northern Cardinal
5. American Kestrel
6. Rock Pigeon
7. Mourning Dove

Birding at my local spots, with basically no waterbirds around:
8. American Goldfinch
9. White-breasted Nuthatch
10. Red-bellied Woodpecker
11. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
12. White-throated Sparrow
13. Hermit Thrush
14. Field Sparrow
15. Eastern Towhee
16. Blue Jay
17. American Crow
18. Northern Flicker
19. Cedar Waxwing
20. Canada Goose
21. Tufted Titmouse
22. Song Sparrow
23. House Finch
24. American Tree Sparrow
25. Fox Sparrow
26. Yellow-rumped Warbler
27. Swamp Sparrow
28. Downy Woodpecker
29. Horned Lark
30. Belted Kingfisher
31. Dark-eyed Junco
32. Great Blue Heron
33. Bald Eagle
34. Eastern Bluebird
35. Carolina Wren
36. Herring Gull
37. Ring-billed Gull
38. Mallard
39. Red-shouldered Hawk
40. Hairy Woodpecker

Went to a neighboring county to re-tick a continuing rarity that was nice enough to stick around into the new year:
41. Western Grebe

And nearby, an Iceland Gull dip:
42. Common Merganser
43. Killdeer

 

[Nightjar61]

Despite steady snow flurries all day, I didn’t do too badly, seeing 40 species. The first ten were seen at my feeder.

01. Northern Cardinal
02. Dark-eyed Junco
03. Tufted Titmouse
04. American Goldfinch
05. Black-capped Chickadee
06. House Finch
07. White-breasted Nuthatch
08. Red-bellied Woodpecker
09. American Crow
10. Song Sparrow
11. European Starling
12. House Sparrow
13. Swamp Sparrow
14. Winter Wren
15. Mallard
16. White-throated Sparrow
17. Blue Jay
18. Canada Goose
19. White-crowned Sparrow
20. American Robin
21. Carolina Wren
22. Hooded Merganser
23. Red-shouldered Hawk
24. Mourning Dove
25. Rock Pigeon
26. Eastern Bluebird
27. Northern Flicker
28. Hermit Thrush
29. Downy Woodpecker
30. Hairy Woodpecker
31. Golden-crowned Kinglet
32. Carolina Chickadee
33. Brown Creeper
34. Bufflehead
35. Canvasback
36. Ring-necked Duck
37. Ruddy Duck
38. Gadwall
39. Common Merganser
40. Belted Kingfisher

Dave

 

[Jacana]

Good start to the year around Shropshire:

1. Carrion Crow
2. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
3. Common Wood Pigeon
4. Fieldfare
5. Lesser Black-backed Gull
6. Eurasian Magpie
7. Goldcrest
8. European Robin
9. Great Tit
10. Common Blackbird
11. Eurasian Wren
12. Rook
13. Dunnock
14. Great Cormorant
15. Eurasian Collared Dove
16. Western Jackdaw
17. Common Pheasant
18. Common Buzzard
19. Eurasian Chaffinch
20. Mistle Thrush
21. Eurasian Bullfinch
22. White Wagtail
23. Northern Lapwing
24. Tufted Duck
25. Gadwall
26. Northern Shoveler
27. Greylag Goose
28. Eurasian Teal
29. Common Snipe
30. Mallard
31. Long-tailed Tit
32. Common Reed Bunting
33. European Greenfinch
34. Eurasian Blue Tit
35. Common Moorhen
36. Yellowhammer
37. Eurasian Coot
38. Great Crested Grebe
39. Little Grebe
40. Common Linnet
41. Grey Heron
42. Corn Bunting
43. Great Spotted Woodpecker
44. Little Egret
45. Canada Goose
46. Mute Swan
47. Great Egret
48. Red Kite
49. Common Merganser
50. European Goldfinch
51. Red-legged Partridge
52. Stock Dove
53. Common Kestrel
54. House Sparrow
55. Rock Dove
56. Common Starling
57. Eurasian Siskin
58. Northern Pintail
59. Eurasian Wigeon
60. Northern Raven
61. Song Thrush
62. Marsh Tit
63. Lesser Redpoll
64. Eurasian Jay
65. Merlin
66. Redwing
67. Common Gull
68. Black-headed Gull
69. Common Goldeneye
70. Common Shelduck
71. Green Sandpiper
72. Yellow-legged Gull
73. European Herring Gull
74. Great Black-backed Gull
75. Caspian Gull
76. Eurasian Woodcock

 

[Jacana]

77. Eurasian Nuthatch

Pouring with rain, so there'll be nothing else today.

 

[lgonz1008]

(First day was a guiding trip around Everglades and urban Miami, good start to the year)
1. Egyptian Goose
2. Muscovy Duck
3. Indian Peafowl
4. Pied-billed Grebe
5. Rock Pigeon
6. Eurasian Collared-Dove
7. Common Ground Dove
8. Mourning Dove
9. King Rail
10. Common Gallinule
11. Purple Gallinule
12. Sandhill Crane
13. Black-bellied Plover
14. Killdeer
15. Semipalmated Plover
16. Piping Plover
17. Short-billed Dowitcher
18. Greater Yellowlegs
19. Ruddy Turnstone
20. Sanderling
21. Dunlin
22. Least Sandpiper
23. Western Sandpiper
24. Bonaparte's Gull
25. Laughing Gull
26. Ring-billed Gull
27. Herring Gull
28. Lesser Black-backed Gull
29. Caspian Tern
30. Royal Tern
31. Wood Stork
32. Anhinga
33. Double-crested Cormorant
34. American White Pelican
35. Brown Pelican
36. Least Bittern
37. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
38. Black-crowned Night Heron
39. Tricolored Heron
40. Snowy Egret
41. Green Heron
42. Western Cattle Egret
43. Great Egret
44. Great Blue Heron
45. White Ibis
46. Roseate Spoonbill
47. Black Vulture
48. Turkey Vulture
49. Osprey
50. White-tailed Kite
51. Cooper's Hawk
52. Red-shouldered Hawk
53. Belted Kingfisher
54. Red-bellied Woodpecker
55. American Kestrel
56. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
57. Blue-and-yellow Macaw
58. Chestnut-fronted Macaw
59. Mitred Parakeet
60. Least Flycatcher
61. Eastern Phoebe
62. Tropical Kingbird
63. Western Kingbird
64. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
65. White-eyed Vireo
66. Loggerhead Shrike
67. American Crow
68. Fish Crow
69. Tree Swallow
70. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
71. House Wren
72. Carolina Wren
73. European Starling
74. Common Myna
75. Gray Catbird
76. Northern Mockingbird
77. House Sparrow
78. American Pipit
79. Savannah Sparrow
80. Eastern Meadowlark
81. Red-winged Blackbird
82. Common Grackle
83. Boat-tailed Grackle
84. Common Yellowthroat
85. American Redstart
86. Palm Warbler
87. Yellow-rumped Warbler
88. Prairie Warbler
89. Northern Cardinal
90. Painted Bunting

 

[qwerty5]

While driving this afternoon

44. Red-tailed Hawk

 

[Nightjar61]

A new bird this morning on my way to work.

41. Black Vulture

Dave

 

[Jacana]

Filling in some of the last possible gaps in the first week of January in this part of Shropshire in the sodden fields around home today:

78. Coal Tit
79. Eurasian Skylark
80. Grey Wagtail

 

[Nightjar61]

This evening after work I picked up a new bird in the woods behind my house.

42. Eastern Screech Owl

I put up a nesting box a few years ago and the owl has been using the box for the last two years. This was the first day this year that he was perched in the hole.

Dave

 

[qwerty5]

A flock in my yard this morning:
45. Brown-headed Cowbird

And another while driving:
46. Northern Harrier

 

[Nightjar61]

Thanks to the lengthening days, I was able to do a little birding after work and picked up four new birds for the year.

43. American Kestrel
44. Green-winged Teal
45. Eastern Towhee
46. Northern Harrier

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Birding was cut short this morning by freezing rain, but I was still able to add five new species to the Year List.

47. Common Raven
48. Snow Goose
49. Red-tailed Hawk
50. Northern Mockingbird
51. Myrtle Warbler

Dave

 

[Jacana]

81. Meadow Pipit
82. European Stonechat

That's probably everything now until I get back to Spain next week.

 

[qwerty5]

Received light snow overnight and into the early morning, so I headed out to check for birds chased out of the fields to the roadside by the snow. I found surprisingly few individuals, but two of them were year birds.

47. American Pipit
48. Lapland Longspur
49. Northern Mockingbird

 

[lgonz1008]

(Another day of guiding between Lucky Hammock and urban Miami gave more year birds)
91. Lesser Scaup
92. White-winged Dove
93. White-crowned Pigeon
94. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
95. Limpkin
96. American Coot
97. Sora
98. Glossy Ibis
99. Little Blue Heron
100. Snail Kite
101. Short-tailed Hawk
102. Northern Harrier
103. Red-headed Woodpecker
104. Pileated Woodpecker
105. Red-masked Parakeet
106. Orange-winged Parrot
107. Blue Jay
108. Great Crested Flycatcher
109. Vermilion Flycatcher
110. Brown-headed Cowbird
111. Yellow-throated Warbler
112. Pine Warbler
113. Black-and-white Warbler
114. Northern Waterthrush
115. Orange-crowned Warbler
116. Ovenbird
117. Indigo Bunting

 

[Jacana]

83. Whooper Swan

An unexpected one today in Shropshire, that really should be my last now until Spain.

 

[Nightjar61]

Just one new bird this morning, but it’s one I rarely see this early in the year.

52. Cedar Waxwing

Dave

 

[lgonz1008]

(Casual birding morning in Broward)
118. Broad-winged Hawk
119. Sharp-shinned Hawk
120. Downy Woodpecker
121. Blue-crowned Parakeet
122. Monk Parakeet
123. Brown Thrasher
124. Blue-headed Vireo
125. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
126. Northern Parula

 

[qwerty5]

Had a productive afternoon, including a long anticipated self-found county lifer (in italics).

50. Carolina Chickadee
51. Black Vulture
52. Bufflehead
53. Golden-crowned Kinglet
54. Brown Creeper
55. Ruddy Duck
56. Pileated Woodpecker
57. Lesser Black-backed Gull
58. Eastern Screech-Owl