So how is your 2007 list going? (1 Viewer)

[jtibbetts]

Added 3 more today:

122: Barn Owl
123: Grey Partridge (a rare bird round here now!)
124: Firecrest (Wombourne Sewage Works)

 

[JRE]

2 more today, but managed to dip 3 really good birds in the meantime.

108 Reed Bunting
109 Goosander

 

[Reader]

Went to Yorks then Lincs and ended up with 6 more for the year.

126. American Robin
127. Firecrest
128. Grey Wagtail
129. Merlin
130. Lapland Bunting
131. Black-throated Diver

John

 

[Steve Lister]

A long day out with Reader today......

149. American Robin (Yorkshire #303)
150. Firecrest
151. Merlin
152. Lapland Bunting

Steve

 

[Reader]

A day of almost all blanks. Went to Needingworth, Cambs after the Am Wigeon and Smew but they had all disappeared. I then went back to Pitsford Reservoir in Northants for the R T Diver and Scaup but couldn't find them. Finally called into Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Northants for a back up Smew but that had gone as well. Finished off by coming home and doing the RSPB garden birdwatch. I did get a couple of common bird year ticks whilst out.

132. Green Woodpecker
133. Ruddy Duck

John

 

[Nightjar61]

Went out this morning for a couple of hours before work, and added nine birds to the Year List, bringing it up to 453.

445. Ring-billed Gull
446. Bufflehead
447. Cackling Goose
448. Common Loon
449. Pied-billed Grebe
450. Western Grebe
451. American Robin
452. American Coot
453. Bonaparte's Gull

The Western Grebe was an Indiana state lifer (number 266), the first of the year.

Dave

 

[jtibbetts]

A coach Trip to Marshside and Martin Mere today produced a few more:

125: Scaup
126: Little Egret
127: Twite
128: Bar-tailed Godwit
129: Whooper Swan
130: Snow Goose
131: Tree Sparrow
132: Merlin
133: Marsh Harrier

 

[Hotspur]

78) American Robin
79) Mistle Thrush

 

[prairiemerlin]

I'm not doing to well...

61. Tufted Titmouse
62. Red-breasted Merganser
63. Long-tailed Duck
64. White-winged Scoter
65. Peregrine Falcon
66. American Kestrel
67. Purple Sandpiper
68. Yellow-rumped Warbler
69. Snowy Owl

Hopefully I'll be able to find one more to hit 70 for January.

--Neil G.

 

[Mars4096]

Two more to wrap up January:

20. Brown Thrasher (forgot to count this one earlier)
21. Brown Creeper (nice surprise for the end of the month)

 

[Dave B Smith]

A good day out today brought me up to 30 in the ABA area with some good new additions:
Mountain Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Clark's Nutcracker
Northern Saw-whet Owl (lifer)
Northern Shrike

 

[deboo]

20/01/07
109. Green Woodpecker - Woodwalton, Cambs.
26/01/07
110. Yellow-legged Gull - Rainham, Greater London
111. Kingfisher
112. Black Redstart
28/01/07
113. Black-necked Grebe - Diddington, Cambs.

why?

 

[Helenelizabeth2]

why?

There's a thread with this very title here, Dave, if you'd like to join in the debate:

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=76942

Or was it more of an existential 'why?' - in which case why not pop over to RF and start something more philosophical. I don't think I've seen a Meaning of Life thread, yet.

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning I birded from my vehicle as it was just to cold to walk about in the out of doors. I watched the bird feeders at a friend's home on the northern shore of Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri. During the 45 minutes or so that I was there I observed twenty (20) species of birds.

The new Missouri bird for 2007 was:

97. Merlin

 

[Steve Lister]

Managed three more during a goose-studying trip to Norfolk yesterday

153. Twite
154. Lesser Yellowlegs
155. Scaup

Five Pink-feet with neck collars amongst 18,000 at Holme.

156. Corn Bunting

Steve

 

[Mabel]

30-01-07
62. Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
63. Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) (Lifer)
64. (Eurasian) Wigeon (Mareca penelope)

 

[jtibbetts]

Yet another trip to London with my mate to help with his delivery, and picked up a couple more:

134: Lesser Scaup (Sonning Eye GPs)
135: Slavonian Grebe (Bray GPs)

Also a Ring-necked Parakeet at the latter site and 30 Red Kites along the M40.

 

[Hotspur]

84) Pacific Loon
85) Stonechat
86) Ruff
87) Whooper Swan
88) Peregrine
89) Little Grebe
90) Black-tailed Godwit
91) Dunlin
92) Marsh Harrier
93) Hen Harrier

 

[flippsy]

62. Greylag goose
63. Red Kite
64. Bullfinch
65. American Robin


too many duplicates! Looking forward to February - Pacific Diver should start it off well!!!

 

[AlexC]

59. Iceland Gull
60. Peregrine Falcon
61. Lesser Black-backed Gull
62. Bald Eagle

Also of note was a VERRRY interesting gull we got in the Windsor/Bloomfield CT Landfill - We are uncertain of it's identity at this point, but got good looks in the scope and some pictures (which I will soon be posting on the ID forums). We think we've narrowed it down to two things... HEGU x LBBG, or... I don't want to jinx it by saying a state record that would be a HUGE DEAL outloud... but...



YLGU?

EDIT: Posted in http://birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=77281