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

[Larry Lade]

Found along Northwest Parkway, Saint Joseph, Missouri
202. Eastern Wood-Pewee
203. Black-and-white Warbler
204. Least Flycatcher
205. Mississippi Kite (rare for our area)
206. Blackburnian Warbler (a stunning male bird)
207. Yellow Warbler

208. Western Kingbird (at Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri)

209. Lazuli Bunting (at a farm house feeder near Fairfax, Missouri)

210. Cattle Egret (at a wetland behind a service station in Mound City, Missouri)

211. Chuck-will's-widow (at Pigeon Hill Conservation Area, Saint Joseph, Missouri)

 

[Larry Lade]

May 9, 2007
212. Mourning Warbler at Bluff Woods CA, Halls, Missouri
213. Dickcissel on barbed wire fence near Muskrat Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

[Nightjar61]

Took the afternoon off work to go birding. Despite some rain, had a great day, with six new birds for the year, including two Indiana state lifers (my seventh and eighth of the year). Now up to 563.

558. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
559. Black-and-white Warbler
560. Black-throated Green Warbler
561. Orchard Oriole
562. Veery
563. Gray-cheeked Thrush

The Veery and Gray-cheeked Thrush were Indiana state lifers. Two thrushes added to my state list within ten minutes of each other. My Indiana state list is now up to 273.

Dave

 

[cavan wood]

May is here, and so are the warblers.

87. greater yellowlegs
88. chipping sparrow
89. white-throated sparrow
90. broad-winged hawk
91. northern waterthrush
92. hermit thrush
93. house wren
94. yellow-rumped warbler (myrtle)
95 black-throated green warbler
96. spotted sandpiper
97. black-and-white warbler
98. solitary sandpiper
99. northern parula
100. field sparrow
101. nashville warbler
102. ovenbird
103. eastern kingbird
104. palm warbler
105. brown thrasher
106. ruby-throated humming bird
107. grey catbird
108. wood thrush
109. white-crowned sparrow
110. yellow warbler
111. american redstart
112. rose-breasted grosbeak
113. common yellowthroat

Scott

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning a friend and I birded a mostly "flooded" wetland adjacent to the Thompson River which runs near Chillicothe, Missouri. While there I added:

214. Wood Thrush
215. Bobolink
216. Grasshopper Sparrow

Then a little further afield at the Poosey Conservation Area I had one more new year bird for Missouri.

217. Yellow-billed Cuckoo

 

[cavan wood]

A few more this afternoon after work

114. least flycatcher
115. chestnut-sided warbler
116. baltimore oriole
117. bobolink
118. black-throated blue warbler
119. warbling verio
120. green heron
121. caspian tern
122. blue-gray gnatcatcher

Scott

 

[Mabel]

10-11/05/07
92. (Northern) Gannet
93. Whimbrel
94. Ring-billed Gull (lifer)
95. Long-eared Owl (lifer)
96. (Common) Swift
97. (Common) Guillemot
98. Razorbill

 

[Larry Lade]

218. Cape May Warbler at Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

[Hotspur]

151. reed warbler

 

[JeffMoh]

New 2007 and lifer

At Edith L Moore sanctuary in Houston this morning saw:
Canada Warbler
Black-and-Whire Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Ovenbird
East Wood Pewee.

The Canada was #388 on my US life list and #184 on my US 2007 list.

Who knows but I might actually take my US lists to 400 lifers and 200 year birds this year!

Jeff

 

[Larry Lade]

Today was North America Migration Count (NAMC) day. I birded one of my regular areas in our assigned county here in Missouri and added one more species to my 2007 Missouri Year List.

219. Philadelphia Vireo

 

[Tero]

I never know what the bird count is about. This morning I had an excuse to sleep late: I will work two nights night shift.

Seems to be week for Gray-cheeked Thrush. I finally got it, never was sure previous times but had other peple to verify it this time.

 

[Larry Lade]

Tero, people from all over North America count the birds observed they observe on the second Saturday in May each year. Individual counties are surveyed, usually by teams of several birders. The data gathered for each county is then sent to the state compiler and then to the federal compiler. This data is then available to scientists, enviromentalists, government agencies, etc. The data is useful in determining the status of the various bird species as to their populations, migration times, etc.

*I am the compiler for Buchanan County here in Missouri.

 

[Nightjar61]

Migrants are getting a little harder to find, especially warblers. Nevertheless, I did get ten new birds for the year, including an Indiana state lifer (number 274). Now up to 573.

564. Eastern Wood-Pewee
565. Magnolia Warbler
566. Philadelphia Vireo
567. Blackpoll Warbler
568. Green Heron
569. Spotted Sandpiper
570. Semipalmated Plover
571. Semipalmated Sandpiper
572. Least Sandpiper
573. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

The flycatcher was the state lifer, my fourth in one week.

Dave

 

[Dave B Smith]

Out on the prairies yesterday I added two to my ABA yr list:
#170 - Stilt Sandpiper
#171 - Common Tern

Good numbers of migrants are starting to show up so next week should add a few birds.

 

[jtibbetts]

Another at the weekend:

321: Spotted Flycatcher

(UK list 212)

 

[gthang]

'tis May the 14th and my 2007 list is quite crappy so far compared to last year's.

Since the 1st of May, I have seen 8 species, including 4 warblers in one patch of coniferous trees at once (a first of such an event for me, seeing that many warbler species simultaneously).

May 1st:
35: Ruby-Throated Hummer [The earliest I've seen]
36: Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
37: Tree Swallow

May 4th:
38: Baltimore Oriole [The first ever on my property]

May 5th:
39: Rose-Breasted Grosbeak [Three birds, all males; another male seen at cabin on the 13th]

May 13th:
40: Yellow-Rumped Warbler [First listing at cabin]
41: Black-Throated Blue Warbler [Earliest I've seen at cabin]
42: Black-Throated Green Warbler [Earliest I've seen at cabin]
43: Black-and-White Warbler [BF veterans may remember the help I requested a couple years ago on one of these, but now seen in action]

The Black-and-White Warbler was particularly great as one of my BF gallery images is of a bird suspected to be this species. But yesterday at our cabin upstate I finally saw what I believe to be a definite B&W Warbler. To put it this way: It looked like a miniature Downy Woodpecker with black stripes on in undersides, moving in a nuthatch-like fashion with chickadee-like quickness.

Other notables:
All warblers seen yesterday were in beautiful breeding plumages, most of them were males. The breeding male Yellow-Rumped Warbler was especially pretty, but they all were. The BTBW from afar looked like a Dark-Eyed Junco with tiny white wing patches and a dark bill.

Also we've had our second nesting species on our downstate home, an Eastern Phoebe. It's also the second nesting Phoebe since last year's nester at our cabin.

I will look at the coniferous tree patch (where I saw all the warblers) next time we go upstate and try and see some more.

 

[Steve Lister]

Still local....

213 Curlew Sandpiper
214 Black Tern

Both at Rutland Water 14/5

Steve

 

[Larry Lade]

At Weston Bend State Park, Weston, Missouri

220. Hooded Warbler
221. Acadian Flycatcher
222. Cerulean Warbler

 

[Hotspur]

152) Woodlark
153) Tawny Owl

About flaming time i got tawny owl, after having one land on my roof last year and not bother to get up to go see it, and the millions that have taunted me, one nearly flies into me.