How's Your 2025 List Going? (3 Viewers)

[TicoTyler]

A bunch of new ones for my year list and one lifer this morning in some wetlands around the Tempisque River Basin with Palo Verde Boat Tours who invited me to come check out their operations.

203 Lesser Nighthawk
204 Black-necked Stilt
205 Lesser Yellowlegs
206 Roseate Spoonbill
207 Green Heron
208 Yellow-naped Amazon
209 Magnificent Frigatebird
210 Black-crowned Night Heron
211 Little Blue Heron
212 Crane Hawk
213 Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
214 Black-headed Trogon
215 Belted Kingfisher
216 Streak-backed Oriole
217 Spot-breasted Oriole (lifer!)
218 Southern Lapwing
219 White Ibis
220 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
221 Banded Wren

And this afternoon was a double success with two lifers! One expected and one not expected/rare.

222 Fulvous Whistling-Duck (lifer!)
223 Blue-winged Teal
224 Double-striped Thick-knee
225 Long-billed Dowitcher (lifer! fairly uncommon to rare in Costa Rica)
226 Limpkin
227 Great Crested Flycatcher
228 Streaked Flycatcher
229 Scrub Euphonia
230 Purple Gallinule
231 Least Grebe
232 Roadside Hawk
233 White-fronted Amazon

 

[TicoTyler]

And wrapping up the quick dry forest trip with

234 Lesser Scaup
235 Neotropic Cormorant
236 Snail Kite
237 White-throated Magpie-Jay
238 Gray-crowned Yellowthroat

 

[hookem2010]

Expectedly slow year, as I'm lugging around a baby or dragging around a toddler. I took the baby off the patch today to the large reservoir surrounded by ag fields 30 miles to the east. The lake was totally dead, but added...
84. Greater yellowlegs
85. Northern harrier
86. American kestrel
87. Vesper sparrow
88. Western meadowlark
89. Brown-headed cowbird
90. Brewer's blackbird
Then, on the drove home, a large, pale hawk caught my attention. It turned out to be the first county record in 4 years of...
91. Ferruginous hawk (county bird #240!)
A quick trip to a local pond added...
92. Northern shoveler
93. Ring-necked duck
94. Neotropic cormorant

 

[WalterRayle]

Mine is now (07/02) 108 and all on foot around home/local patch.

 

[hookem2010]

95. Yellow-crowned night-heron
About a month before they're supposed to start showing up.

 

[TicoTyler]

241 Swallow-tailed Kite
242 Northern Black-throated Trogon
243 Great Antshrike
244 Bare-crowned Antbird
245 Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner
246 Masked Tityra
247 Cinnamon Becard
248 Slaty-capped Flycatcher
249 Brown-capped Tyrannulet (was nice to move this off my heard-only list)
250 Long-tailed Tyrant
251 Red-throated Ant-Tanager

 

[TicoTyler]

Reviewing some audio recordings from today that I'd left un-IDd in the field although had my suspicions, can add:

252 Violet-headed Hummingbird
253 Yellow-billed Cacique

 

[Jacana]

Today around Villaviciosa and Gijón. 3 Asturias ticks amongst them, which was a very nice surprise.

118. Bluethroat
119. Eurasian Crag Martin
120. Common Redshank
121. Eurasian Curlew
122. Cirl Bunting
123. Glossy Ibis

 

[Nightjar61]

A rare but almost-annual visitor this morning.

76. Greater White-fronted Goose

Dave

 

[qwerty5]

A few new ones today:

66. Snow Goose
67. Northern Pintail
68. Belted Kingfisher

Very shocked to discover I hadn't got the kingfisher yet.

 

[TicoTyler]

254 Spectacled Owl

Heard them doing a duet last night outside my house. Might be nesting here again this year for a second year in a row.

 

[lgonz1008]

(Short trip to Sax-Zim Bog in Minnesota)
198. Canada Goose
199. Black-capped Chickadee
200. Dark-eyed Junco
201. Trumpeter Swan
202. Snow Bunting
203. Ring-necked Pheasant
204. Horned Lark
205. American Tree Sparrow
206. Great Gray Owl LIFER
207. Sharp-tailed Grouse LIFER
208. White-winged Crossbill
209. Red-breasted Nuthatch
210. Redpoll
211. Hairy Woodpecker
212. White-breasted Nuthatch
213. Common Raven
214. Glaucous Gull LIFER
215. Snowy Owl LIFER
216. American Goshawk LIFER
217. Ruffed Grouse LIFER
218. Canada Jay
219. Purple Finch
220. Northern Shrike LIFER
221. Evening Grosbeak
222. Pine Grosbeak LIFER
223. Boreal Owl LIFER
224. Boreal Chickadee
225. Brown Creeper
226. Black-billed Magpie
227. Rough-legged Hawk LIFER
228. Northern Hawk Owl LIFER
229. Song Sparrow

 

[TicoTyler]

(Short trip to Sax-Zim Bog in Minnesota)
198. Canada Goose
199. Black-capped Chickadee
200. Dark-eyed Junco
201. Trumpeter Swan
202. Snow Bunting
203. Ring-necked Pheasant
204. Horned Lark
205. American Tree Sparrow
206. Great Gray Owl LIFER
207. Sharp-tailed Grouse LIFER
208. White-winged Crossbill
209. Red-breasted Nuthatch
210. Redpoll
211. Hairy Woodpecker
212. White-breasted Nuthatch
213. Common Raven
214. Glaucous Gull LIFER
215. Snowy Owl LIFER
216. American Goshawk LIFER
217. Ruffed Grouse LIFER
218. Canada Jay
219. Purple Finch
220. Northern Shrike LIFER
221. Evening Grosbeak
222. Pine Grosbeak LIFER
223. Boreal Owl LIFER
224. Boreal Chickadee
225. Brown Creeper
226. Black-billed Magpie
227. Rough-legged Hawk LIFER
228. Northern Hawk Owl LIFER
229. Song Sparrow

An 11 lifer day in the ABA for someone living in the US and at nearly 2k life list is quite a day!

 

[floodlelandbirder]

Jan 1 and 2, Taipei, Taiwan

1. Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
2. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
3. Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)
4. Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
5. Light-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus sinensis)
6. Pacific Swallow (Hirundo javanica)
7. Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
8. Great Egret (Ardea alba)
9. Gray Treepie (Dendrocitta formosae)
10. Taiwan Blue-magpie (Urocissa caerulea)
11. Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
12. Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
13. White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) (Lifer)
14. Pale Thrush (Turdus pallidus)
15. Large-billed Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) (Lifer)
16. Crested Goshawk (Lophospiza trivirgata) (Lifer)
17. Bronzed Drongo (Dicrurus aeneus) (Lifer)
18. Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
19. White-eared Sibia (Heterophasia auricularis)
20. Brown-headed Thrush (Turdus chrysolaus)
21. Taiwan Bamboo-Partridge (Bambusicola sonorivox) (Lifer)
22. Morrison’s Fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia) (Lifer)
23. Taiwan Whistling-thrush (Myophonus insularis) (Lifer)
24. Black-naped Monarch (Hypothymis azurea) (Lifer)
25. Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus) (Lifer)
26. White-bellied Erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) (Lifer)
27. Gray-chinned Minivet (Pericrocotus solaris) (Lifer)
28. Taiwan Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus musicus)
29. Taiwan Barbet (Psilopogon nuchalis)
30. Swinhoe’s Pheasant (Lophura swinhoii) (Lifer)
31. Eastern Cattle-egret (Ardea coromanda)
32. Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
33. Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis)
34. Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) (Lifer)
35. Little Ringed Plover (Thinornis dubius) (Lifer)
36. White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)
37. Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
38. Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
39. Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) (Lifer)
40. Javan Myna (Acridotheres javanicus)
41. Swinhoe’s White-eye (Zosterops simplex)
42. Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
43. Black-crowned Night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
44. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
45. Malayan Night Heron (Gorsachius melanolophus)
46. White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus)
47. Manchurian Bush-warbler (Horornis canturians)

 

[lgonz1008]

An 11 lifer day in the ABA for someone living in the US and at nearly 2k life list is quite a day!

It wasn't a day, mostly a long weekend, but definitely an amazing time, especially since all but 2 species were boreal specialties that outside of there, would be very difficult treks elsewhere!

Locals said it was the best winter season in the Bog in over a decade.

 

[TicoTyler]

On a Layover at Orlando, Florida airport yesterday.

255 Laughing Gull
256 Double-crested Cormorant
257 Glossy Ibis
258 Tricolored Heron
259 Boat-tailed Grackle (lifer!)

 

[hookem2010]

96. Savannah sparrow- shocking it tookel me til February to see one
97. Red-breasted nuthatch (county bird #241!)

 

[AlexC]

On a Layover at Orlando, Florida airport yesterday.

255 Laughing Gull
256 Double-crested Cormorant
257 Glossy Ibis
258 Tricolored Heron
259 Boat-tailed Grackle (lifer!)

Going anywhere exciting?

 

[AlexC]

Yard bird last week that has become less frequent in the yard the past year:
125. Mountain Chickadee

In Griffith Park, 3rd time's the charm chasing this nemesis state bird...
126. Golden-crowned Sparrow
127. Thick-billed Kingbird (CA lifer)

And re-kindling an old favorite trail/patch:
128. Hermit Thrush

 

[qwerty5]

This morning I saw a new bird while driving to class:

69. Killdeer