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

[TicoTyler]

Quick overnight trip up to Maquenque near the border with Nicaragua.

343 Little Tinamou (one was nearly under my bed and woke up up at 5:09 am a minute before my alarm to go listen to the dawn chorus)
344 Gartered Trogon
345 Brown-hooded Parrot
346 Great Green Macaw
347 Bright-rumped Attila
348 White-ringed Flycatcher (an uncommon although easily overlooked yellow-bellied flycatcher)
349 Black-faced Grosbeak (was taken off guard by a flock of these coming through at sunset, took me a minute to figure out why something sounded like a Manakin but looked like a flycatcher.)
350 Green Ibis
351 Gray-chested Dove
352 Short-tailed Nighthawk
353 Olive-throated Parakeet
354 Red-capped Manakin
355 Black-cowled Oriole

 

[la_ravachol]

A flock of Black Kites (#172) flew north over my work yesterday afternoon.

 

[hookem2010]

Some late sparrow additions that usually aren't so difficult to find...
#103 Field Sparrow
#104 Spotted Towhee

 

[AlexC]

Some LA County "clean up" species as well as new arrivals this week:
146. Red-naped Sapsucker
147. Great-tailed Grackle
148. Violet-green Swallow
149. Ross's Goose
150. Cliff Swallow
151. Cactus Wren

 

[hookem2010]

I did a mini big day today, adding 5 species to the year.
#105 Monk parakeet, gathering nesting material under the water tower they regularly nest under
#106 Northern house wren
#107 Blue-winged teal
#108 Cinnamon teal (county bird #242!), dabbling alongside the blue-wingeds
#109 White-crowned sparrow
Finally, my year sparrow tally looks more normal, even if just a single bird here and there

All combined, I tallied 69 species within about 5 miles from home and with a baby in tow. May do a write-up in the "your birding day" section.

 

[la_ravachol]

Yet another rainy day today, but a good few hours' birding nonetheless.

173. Long-eared Owl
174. Pallid Swift
175. Bar-headed Goose
176. Common Crane (can't believe this one took so long)
177. Short-toed Eagle

 

[AlexC]

Yet another rainy day today, but a good few hours' birding nonetheless.

Birded in the rain here in LA yesterday as well; today's mountains covered in snow make for a beautiful vista from the city.

Rainy stops at Descanso Gardens and the LA River netting me:
152. Wood Duck
153. Hooded Merganser
154. Green Heron
155. Merlin

 

[hookem2010]

Leisurely walk with the baby at a not particularly birdy spot, but did add a singing
#110 White-eyed vireo
Their song will be ubiquitous along the local greenbelts soon.

 

[Nightjar61]

One new bird today.

84. Wilson’s Snipe

A total of six flushed as I walked through a wet field.

Dave

 

[hookem2010]

#111 Black Scoter (Lifer!)
Completing the Travis County scoter sweep (black, white-winged, surf)! I think it meant almost as much to the 2 year-old and 5 month-old I dragged along with me.

 

[TicoTyler]

356 - Piratic Flycatcher - new for my yardlist too #146.

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

I did some backyard birding today. I'm glad I finally identified the hawks I see flying around my house. My vision is poor so by the time I bring out my binoculars they already flew away. Today I managed to observe them with my monocular. I saw two of them flying around each other. I also realize I have way more hummingbirds in my yard than I thought. I saw over 30 of them flying everywhere from the trees to the feeders fighting. I need to buy some more hummingbird feeders but I already struggle to keep the 3 I have maintained. When I first saw the Lesser Goldfinch at my small feeder I thought it was a warbler. I was confused for a bit until I noticed how its shape resembled a house finch.

16. Song Sparrow
17. Lesser Goldfinch
18. Red-tailed Hawk

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

I decided to do a quick backyard birding session to relax today around 5 o'clock. I didn't expect much but to my surprise found 2 lifers! At first I thought the Cooper's hawk wasn't a hawk because I was so used to the size of the Red-tailed hawk. I took a closer look and realized it was a Cooper's hawk! Very happy to find 5 lifers in one day of backyard birding!

19. California Towhee
20. Cooper's hawk

 

[la_ravachol]

Six more from some local wetlands/old gravel pits this weekend.

178. Sand Martin
179. Penduline Tit
180. Eurasian Goshawk
181. Little Bittern
182. Purple Heron (first report I've seen locally this year and over three weeks earlier than I've personally had before)
183. Black-crowned Night Heron

 

[Jacana]

I've not had many opportunities to go birding in recent weeks. I did manage one new one today though, during a walk along the coast

126. Richard's Pipit

 

[lgonz1008]

(Miami Exotics Weekend giving native species for the year)
235. Broad-winged Hawk
236. Bronzed Cowbird

 

[TicoTyler]

Up in Monteverde for two days.

357 Black Guan
358 Magenta-throated Woodstar (first time I've seen a female I think, hovering right over me for a few seconds)
359 Canivet's Emerald
360 White-crowned Parrot
361 White-eared Ground-Sparrow

 

[qwerty5]

A nice warm day today with a good number of new birds at my local lake:

80. Red-breasted Merganser
81. Common Loon
82. Horned Grebe
83. Greater Scaup
84. Double-crested Cormorant
85. Tree Swallow

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

I went on a 2.5 hour car ride each way to San Luis Obispo today. I brought my monocular and binoculars. I saw a bunch of red tailed hawks, some hummingbirds, American Crows, and a Yellow-rumped Warbler. I also saw a big flock of tiny birds but they were too far away for me to get a decent look at them. I have a spotting scope arriving in the mail tomorrow. I wish it had arrived for this trip today so I could've seen what the tiny birds were. After the ride home I did a quick hour long birding session in my yard. I found everything I usually find with a new unexpected lifer. I found a very nice Orange-crowned Warbler in a bush. He didn't stick around long but was very pretty while he was around.

21. Yellow-rumped Warbler
22. Orange-crowned Warbler

 

[TicoTyler]

Last night
362 Mottled Owl - heard while outside reading a book

Morning 3/10
363 Black-breasted Wood-Quail (lifer! heard only)
364 Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
365 Rufous-and-white Wren
366 Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
367 Chestnut-capped Warbler
368 Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
369 Gray-throated Leaftosser (lifer!)
370 Olivaceous Woodcreeper
371 Long-tailed Manakin
372 Lesser Greenlet
373 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
374 Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
375 White-throated Thrush
376 Elegant Euphonia (got to move this one from my heard only to my seen list)
377 Golden-browed Chlorophonia
378 White-naped Brushfinch
379 Slate-throated Redstart