How's Your 2025 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[lgonz1008]

(Two Successful Miami Exotics Tours this weekend)
231. Blue-crowned Parakeet

 

[qwerty5]

A few new birds today:

70. Fox Sparrow
71. Wood Duck
72. Barred Owl

 

[TicoTyler]

Finished my US trip with
312 Wild Turkey
313 Snow Goose

Now back in Costa Rica with
314 Willet
315 Brown Pelican
316 Mangrove Hummingbird
317 Black-bellied Plover
318 Royal Tern
319 Whimbrel
320 Sandwich Tern
321 Rufous-backed Wren

 

[hookem2010]

101. Barn swallow
Excited for hints of spring after a lackluster winter

 

[TicoTyler]

Sunrise walk on the beach netted
322 Semipalmated Plover
323 Sanderling
324 Franklin's Gull
325 Red-crowned Woodpecker

Drive home
326 Cabanis's Wren

Quick trip to grab a country tick in the afternoon
327 Pale-vented Pigeon
328 Common Ground Dove
329 Green-breasted Mango
330 Yellow-breasted Crake
331 Solitary Sandpiper
332 Jabiru
333 Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
334 Lineated Woodpecker
335 Cattle Tyrant (Costa Rica tick, third? record for country)
336 Eastern Meadowlark
337 Shiny Cowbird
338 Bronzed Cowbird
339 Nicaraguan Grackle
340 Nicaraguan Seed-Finch

 

[la_ravachol]

167. Dartford Warbler
168. Golden Eagle
169. Alpine Accentor

After 3.5 years and many attempts I've finally seen Alpine Accentor in Madrid again. I'm relieved because I thought I might be cursed on something.

 

[Nightjar61]

Went out this evening and picked up a new bird for the year.

79. American Woodcock

Along with the song of the Red-winged Blackbird, the arrival of the woodcocks is a sure sign that spring is coming.

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Despite cold, windy weather this morning, early spring migrants are starting to arrive.

80. Red Fox Sparrow
82. Common Grackle
83. Eastern Meadowlark

Dave

 

[qwerty5]

We have finally thawed out with all open water. Some new waterfowl yesterday, and the hawk in my yard this morning.

73. Ring-necked Duck
74. Redhead
75. Mute Swan
76. Common Merganser
77. Cooper's Hawk

 

[WalterRayle]

114 now all on foot on my local patch.

 

[Nightjar61]

One new bird this morning.

84. Brown-headed Cowbird

Dave

 

[lgonz1008]

(DuPuis WMA)
232. Swallow-tailed Kite
233. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
234. Bachman's Sparrow

 

[qwerty5]

A couple fun year birds this evening:

78. Rusty Blackbird
79. American Woodcock

 

[TicoTyler]

Wednesday
341 White-necked Jacobin - nesting female with two very recently hatched chicks

Today (Sunday)
342 Cocoa Woodcreeper - heard

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

Thought I'd share some nice lifers I found today at The Huntington Botanical Gardens and at Lake Balboa. Some really common ones I have seen in my life before but only before I started to get into birding.
8. Turkey vulture
9. Red-Whiskered Bulbul
10. American Wigeon
11. Mallard
12. Rock Pigeon
13. American Coot

 

[AlexC]

Thought I'd share some nice lifers I found today at The Huntington Botanical Gardens and at Lake Balboa. Some really common ones I have seen in my life before but only before I started to get into birding.
8. Turkey vulture
9. Red-Whiskered Bulbul
10. American Wigeon
11. Mallard
12. Rock Pigeon
13. American Coot

Welcome, neighbor! Just drove by the Huntington today.. haven't birded it in a good while though.

Last weekend in my 5MR:
141. Ring-necked Duck

Chasing a couple elusive county birds this past week to no avail:
142. Egyptian Goose
143. Herring Gull (AOS still yet to split here..)
144. Dusky-capped Flycatcher

And finally a kiddo b'day party at a nearby park today, greeted an early arrival:
145. Western Flycatcher

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

Welcome, neighbor! Just drove by the Huntington today.. haven't birded it in a good while though.

Last weekend in my 5MR:
141. Ring-necked Duck

Chasing a couple elusive county birds this past week to no avail:
142. Egyptian Goose
143. Herring Gull (AOS still yet to split here..)
144. Dusky-capped Flycatcher

And finally a kiddo b'day party at a nearby park today, greeted an early arrival:
145. Western Flycatcher

Nice work! I highly recommend you give the Huntington another go! Just watching the hummingbirds in the desert garden was worth the trip. The Red-Whiskered Bulbuls were quite a treat as well! The small flock of 4 of them quickly flew off three times and evaded me before they took a rest on a tree branch. Very rewarding once I finally got to see them sitting still!

 

[la_ravachol]

A break in the rain provided a small window of opportunity to visit my local park (Casa de Campo) to tick off some spring arrivals. Still got rained on, of course, but added two year ticks:

170. Barn Swallow
171. European Red-rumped Swallow (my earliest one yet)

 

[hookem2010]

#102 Swamp sparrow
In one of the few reed patches the city hasn't removed from the nearby pond.

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

Just did a quick 20 minute backyard bird watch. I came across a very pretty bird I haven't seen in my yard before. It was only in my line of sight for a few seconds before flying off because of my dog barking.
14. Spotted Towhee