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

[Mark Harper]

999 Grasshopper Warbler

Having heard several it was good to finally see one this morning on my local patch. Just one to go, but what will it be?

 

[Nightjar61]

Drove six hours round-trip to north-central Indiana to chase a mega rarity. I got my target, as well as another bird that I can only see in the northern part of the state. Now up to 590.

589. Western Kingbird
590. Black-capped Chickadee

There's a pair of Western Kingbirds nesting in a tree along side of the road in front of a farmhouse. It's only the third nesting of the species in the state. It's also a state lifer (number 276), my eleventh of the year.

Dave

 

[jtibbetts]

Spent the weekend in Norfolk/Suffolk on an RSPB local group trip, visiting Lakenheath, Weeting, Minsmere and Titchwell. The weather was quite cool and dull with a bit of rain but there were plenty of birds to be had!

324: Golden Oriole
325: Little Tern
326: Arctic Skua

Also 5 Woodlarks and 2 Stone-curlews at Weeting, 10+ Marsh Harriers, 6+ Hobbies, Med Gulls, Little Stints, Grey Plover, Bittern, Grasshopper Warbler, Nightingales, Turtle Doves and Bearded Tits among others at Minsmere, Barn Owl, Peregrine, Velvet Scoter, Sanderlings, Barwits and Little Gulls among others at Titchwell,

(UK list now at 220)

 

[Hotspur]

158) Goshawk
159) Siskin
160) Crossbill
161) Turtle Dove
162) Nightjar
163) Woodcock

 

[Jacana]

picked up:

158: redstart

at llangedwyn, pity it was on the wrong side of the border. Also added peregrine to shrops list

 

[Larry Lade]

June 14, 2007 (State of Missouri Year List)

232. Least Bittern at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri.

 

[Reader]

I shouldn't have gone out today with my bad back but just couldn't turn down a trip to Upton warren for the R N Phalarope.

228. Red-necked Phalarope.

John

 

[jtibbetts]

I too had made the trip to Upton Warren this evening; rained on the way there and the way back, but it miraculosly stayed dry for the duration of me watching the bird!!

327: Red-necked Phalarope (a little gem!)

 

[Jacana]

22/06/07

Llyn Idwal:
159. siskin

not a bird i would have predicted first seeing in June! but still nice to finally get it on my list, really brightened up my geography field trip!

 

[mountainpatsy]

6/21/07 Audobon's Warbler, North Dome Trail, Yosemite National Park

 

[Hotspur]

After my stag do in Ibiza i added a few.
164) Audouin's Gull
165) Yellow-legged Gull
166) Spotted Flycatcher
167) Serin
168) Sardinian Warbler
169) Balearic Warbler
170) Firecrest
171) Woodchat Shrike

 

[Larry Lade]

While doing some grassland bird surveys for the Missouri Department of Conservation last weekend I added three more birds to my 2007 Missouri List by doing some birding in nearby areas.

233. King Rail, at mitigated wetland site near Lexington, Missouri
234. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, at Schell-Osage Conservation Area, Schell City, Missouri
235. Little Blue Heron, at Four Rivers Conservation Area, Horton, Missouri

 

[prairiemerlin]

333. Cactus Wren

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got back from ten days in Florida. A successful trip in that I got 44 new birds for the year, including five lifers (lifers are in bold). My Year List is now up to 634.

591. Anhinga
592. Fish Crow
593. White Ibis
594. Wood Stork
595. Boat-tailed Grackle
596. Laughing Gull
597. Brown Pelican
598. Nanday Parakeet
599. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
600. Magnificent Frigatebird
601. Black Skimmer
602. Snowy Egret
603. Willet
604. Wilson's Plover
605. Loggerhead Shrike
606. Forster's Tern
607. Monk Parakeet
608. Roseate Spoonbill
609. American Oystercatcher
610. Budgerigar
611. Swallow-tailed Kite
612. Muscovy Duck
613. Florida Scrub-Jay
614. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
615. Summer Tanager
616. Common Ground-Dove
617. Mottled Duck
618. Little Blue Heron
619. Tricolored Heron
620. Limpkin
621. Indian Peafowl
622. Gray Kingbird
623. White-crowned Pigeon
624. Roseate Tern
625. Black-whiskered Vireo
626. Seaside Sparrow
627. Cinnamon-throated Swallow
628. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
629. White-winged Dove
630. Snail Kite
631. Bronzed Cowbird
632. Spot-breasted Oriole
633. Red-whiskered Bulbul
634. Reddish Egret

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Western Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis, Osprey, Common Moorhen, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Tern, Royal Tern, and Sandwich Tern to my ABA Area year list, which is now up to 250.

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

This morning I drove to nearby Daviess County for Loggerhead Shrike, which would be an Indiana state lifer. I found my target, which was number 277 on my Indiana state list. Although not a year bird (I saw it in Florida last week), it was year bird number 202 for my Indiana year list.

Dave

 

[Reader]

At last my back eased up enough for me to go out so it was off for a few hours in Norfolk / Suffolk. It helped to add four more to my total.

229. Golden Oriole
230. Spotted Flycatcher
231. Arctic Tern
232. Arctic Skua.

John

 

[jtibbetts]

Finally managed to get out and do some birding over the last few days! Have added 2 more:

328: Black-necked Grebe (Belvide)
329: Black-throated Diver (Draycote)

(223 Uk list)

 

[jtibbetts]

Added 4 more after a trip to Portland:

330: Manx Shearwater
331: Balearic Shearwater
332: Storm-petrel
333: Roseate Tern

(227 UK List)

 

[JeffMoh]

Slow progress

Now that it's in the 90s F every day, it's getting tough birding around Houston. However, I got my 2007 US list to 195 and my US life list to 391 with 3 new birds this week:

Dickcissel (A life bird I've been looking for for a while)
Northern Bobwhite (Another lifer)
Wood Stork.

Later today we're heading to Galveston, Bolivar and San Bernard for the weekend. I'm hoping for some shorebirds and perhaps a rail or two!

Jeff

 

[Larry Lade]

I birded Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri, this morning and added two more birds to my Missouri Year List.

236. Prothonotary Warbler
237. American Bittern