So Hows your 2006 Yearlist Going then ? (1 Viewer)

[Gavin Haig]

Hobby and Swift.

Funny, that - me too!

153 patch list

 

[Larry Lade]

This morning I went up to Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge which is near Mound City, Missouri, and tallied eight (8) Missouri year birds.

169. Solitary Sandpiper - 1
170. Green Heron - 1
171. Snowy Egret - 2
172. Tennessee Warbler - 3
173. Hudsonian Godwit - 4
174. Black-necked Stilt - 1
175. Louisiana Waterthrush - 1
176. Little Blue Heron - 2

Also, had a large flock of White-faced Ibis (75), but this was not a new species for the year.

 

[Richard W]

162 - Turtle Dove at work this morning.

 

[StevieEvans]

2 Garden Warbler & Lesser Whitethroat at work today

116 Patch
182 County
185 UK

SE

Sat 29th-
118 Patch with 3Sedge Warblers & 2Swifts

 

[JeffMoh]

Warblers & Vireos

My 2006 list got stuck in the 80s for a while. It finally reached 100 two weeks ago when I spent a day at Anahuac, High Island and Lake Sheldon with "Chris in France" (who I met through this forum).

This morning I stopped off for a productive 90 minutes at the Edith Moore bird sanctuary in Houston. This is a great birding site, particularly during spring migration when a cold front has come in from the north.

I saw, among other birds:
101 Gray Catbird
102 Summer Tanager
103 Baltimore Oriole
104 Philadelphia Vireo
105 Great Crested Flycatcher
106 Tennessee Warbler
107 Yellow Warbler
108 Black-and-white Warbler
109 Magnolia Warbler
110 Black-throated Green Warbler (a lifer for me)
111 Chestnut-sided Warbler
112 Red-headed Woodpecker.

The birders I was with also saw Kentucky and Swainson's Warbler but I missed these!

Jeff

 

[dan pointon]

Wood Warbler on my doorstep (not literally!)

203 BOU

 

[cavan wood]

Crippling views of the broadwing less than 100 m from my front door. Too bad I didn't have the camera with me. First one for "my" woods.

83. chipping sparrow
84. broad-winged hawk
85. swamp sparrow
86. northern waterthrush

Scott

 

[Julie10_10]

Wow Stevie, 185 already and I thought I was doing ok at 162.

162 Redstart - always an enjoyable bird to watch.

 

[jada dulo]

Wealth of ticks....guess where I've just come back from?...

164 - Osprey.
165 - Golden Eagle.
166 - Ptarmigan. (2 of them, utterly stunning!!! Hell of a slog to get 'em though).
167 - Crested Tit.
168 - Black-throated Diver. (2 in full summer plumage - matched only by 2 full summer pl. Slavonian Grebe nearby!!).
169 - Common Crossbill.
170 - Cuckoo.
171 - Capercaillie. (Wow!!!).
172 - Scottish Crossbill. (Got a male in the scope!!)....bit of a clue this one!!
173 - Tree Pipit.

Awesome 2 day trip, but very tiring. Hit 100% of target birds, also heard Dotterel, but couldn't get on it!! Ptarmigan without doubt the star bird!!

 

[Andrew]

Dipped on the Whiskered Tern. Got Arctic Tern instead and feeling right sick about that.

183 BOU.

 

[Papuan birder]

One new seen today, but a true rarity here and well noted, a skulker which I have looked for the last decades but unsucesfully until today. A single bird seen taking of from undergrowth and then flying over a small creek, down in the undergrowth on the other side of the creek which was had sparse undergrowth but the bird has such a good camouflage that you cant see it if you are more than 10m away from it, but I got some good views of, what appeared to be a adult one.

590. New Guinea Woodcock (a recent split) LIFER

Best bird of the year, defenitely. Also a recent split

 

[Jacana]

wow sounds like an awsome trip Jase!

 

[lassa8]

A trip up Cayuga Lake in central New York brought several new year birds.
165. Lesser Yellowlegs
166. Solitary Sandpiper
167. Caspian Tern
168. Common Moorhen
169. Blue-winged Teal
170. Dunlin
171. Long-billed Dowitcher
172. Sandhill Crane (2 flying, heard at least two more on the ground)
173. Bald Eagle
174. Upland Sandpiper (5 running around and calling)

 

[Tero]

I may not get to 200 till late in the year, or close.
American and Finnish names.

108 Yellow Warbler, keltakerttuli
109 Cerulean Warbler, latvuskerttuli
110 Prothonotary Warbler, kelokerttuli
111 Indigo Bunting, idigokardinaali
112 Chimney Swift, piippukiitäjä
113 Nashville Warbler, harmaapääkerttuli
114 Swainson’s Thrush, korpirastas
115 American avocet, preeriaavosetti
116 Dunlin, suosirri
117 Lesser Yellow-legs, keltajalkaviklo
118 Ovenbird
119 Rose Breasted Grosbeak

 

[timmyjones]

A stag weekend on the Welsh border produced

132: Hobby (whilst paintballing)
133: Swift
134: Dipper (L)

 

[Andrew]

Very distant Arctic Terns and several nice Manxies off Dawlish Warren. Sadly no Skuas.

181 Devon BOU.

 

[Larry Lade]

April 28
Driving down from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Clinton, Missouri to do some work for the Missouri Department of Conservation on a "Wetland Restoration Project", I stopped by a newly created "mitigation area". There I found
177. American Bittern x 3
178. Western Kingbird was near a McDonald's in Richmond, Missouri
179. Warbling Vireo was found at Sunshine Lake, near Lexington, Missouri

April 29, in the area we were monitering for MDC I added.
180. Wilson's Phalarope
181. Indigo Bunting
182. Dickcissel

Back at home in Saint Joseph, Missouri, today there was
183. Swainson's Thrush
in our backyard.

 

[jtibbetts]

One more this evening:

176: Swift

 

[Richard W]

163 - Nightingale

 

[cavan wood]

87 solitary vireo
88 yellow-rumped warbler (myrtle)
89 common snipe
90 rusty blackbird
91 greater yellowlegs
92 hermit thrush
93 barn swallow
94 black-throated green warbler
95 red-shouldered hawk (lifer)