How's Your 2025 List Going? (6 Viewers)

[WalterRayle]

141 now with House Martin from the window so no real effort required.

 

[qwerty5]

In my yard this morning:

114. Baltimore Oriole

 

[Nightjar61]

One new bird this afternoon, seen in the fields of a nearby farm.

464. Bobolink

Dave

 

[WalterRayle]

144 now after a nice walk yesterday and a small flock of swifts from the window today, doesn't seeing them just make your heart sing?

 

[Jacana]

Three new ones today in Gijón:

176. Great Black-backed Gull
177. Common Ringed Plover
178. Sanderling

 

[qwerty5]

This morning was cold and a bit windy, but I was able to pick up a good number of new arrivals.

115. Northern House Wren
116. Gray Catbird
117. Orchard Oriole
118. Eastern Kingbird
119. Nashville Warbler
120. Common Yellowthroat
121. Spotted Sandpiper
122. Kentucky Warbler
123. Yellow-throated Vireo
124. Scarlet Tanager
125. Red-eyed Vireo
126. Ovenbird
127. Cliff Swallow
128. Cape May Warbler
129. Solitary Sandpiper
130. White-eyed Vireo
131. Hooded Warbler

 

[Nightjar61]

Cold and rainy today, so the birding was somewhat limited.

465. Hooded Warbler
466. Kentucky Warbler
467. Red-eyed Vireo

Dave

 

[la_ravachol]

Another weekend, another set of year ticks.

238. Wood Sandpiper
239. Northern Bald Ibis
240. Spotted Flycatcher
241. Garden Warbler

 

[Jacana]

Just one more new one today out of various targets:

179. Tree Pipit

 

[Nightjar61]

A disappointing two new birds this morning. At this time of the year, I could have had up to about ten new birds today.

468. Least Flycatcher
469. Blue-winged Warbler

Dave

 

[lgonz1008]

(Successfully led trip to Dry Tortugas and Florida Keys with 2 lifers!)
269. Shiny Cowbird
270. Northern Gannet
271. Masked Booby
272. Sooty Tern
273. Brown Booby
274. Brown Noddy
275. Black Noddy
276. Bridled Tern
277. Roseate Tern
278. Red-footed Booby
279. Black-whiskered Vireo
280. Bank Swallow
281. Hooded Warbler
282. Summer Tanager
283. Sargasso Shearwater
284. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
285. Antillean Nighthawk
286. Semipalmated Sandpiper
287. Common Tern
288. Mangrove Cuckoo

 

[AlexC]

Was pumped to lead a walk for a group of ornithologists in town for a conference last week:
190. Nashville Warbler
191. Western Wood-Pewee
192. Ash-throated Flycatcher
193. Warbling Vireo

And an annual Big Day tradition with friends this Sunday - kept it hyper local to LA's South Bay + OC:
194. Caspian Tern
195. Wandering Tattler
196. Pink-footed Shearwater (from land!)
197. Yellow-breasted Chat
198. Black Skimmer
199. Blue Grosbeak
200. Swinhoe’s White-eye
201. Pin-tailed Whydah
202. Reddish Egret
203. Snowy Plover
204. Brant
205. White-tailed Kite
206. Bonaparte’s Gull
207. Least Tern

 

[qwerty5]

Birding was slow yesterday, with just one new year bird:

132. Indigo Bunting

 

[la_ravachol]

Every cloud has a silver lining. And yesterday's crazy power cut meant I got a paid day off work today, presenting the perfect opportunity to twitch some Black Terns for the year list.

242. Black Tern
243. Golden Oriole

 

[qwerty5]

One new bird yesterday evening:

133. Chimney Swift

 

[Nightjar61]

Two new birds during some birding after work.

470. Least Sandpiper
471. Cape May Warbler

Dave

 

[lgonz1008]

(Surprise yard list addition)
289. Solitary Sandpiper

 

[qwerty5]

They come one at a time apparently. Another year bird early this morning:

134. Great Crested Flycatcher

 

[qwerty5]

This afternoon between classes I chased a Kirtland's Warbler that was reported this morning in an urban migrant trap. It never showed, but I got several other year birds.

135. Black-throated Green Warbler
136. Chestnut-sided Warbler
137. Blackburnian Warbler
138. Magnolia Warbler
139. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
140. Black-throated Blue Warbler
141. Eastern Wood-Pewee
142. Blue-headed Vireo
143. Black-and-white Warbler
144. Least Flycatcher

 

[Nightjar61]

One new year bird this evening.

472. Scarlet Tanager

Dave