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

[Dave B Smith]

I just updated my yearlist today - results for ABA are:
Thru March 31 - 60
Thru April 30 - 101

A quick trip to Panama brought my year world list to 286

 

[AlexC]

87 solitary vireo

...was split into Plumbeous, Cassin's, and Blue-headed. Considering your location, cavan wood, I'd guess it was Blue-headed.

 

[dbradnum]

182 now, with highlights of heavy Arctic Tern passage through my local reservoir, and a couple of summer plumage Barwits - very smart.

 

[columbidae]

This morning:
91. Scarlet tanager
92. Black-throated green warbler
93. Veery
94. Acadian flycatcher
95. Louisiana waterthrush
96. Northern parula
97. Wood thrush

 

[Hedgewitch]

Got Jay at last today. Flippin' eck that took some doing, no idea why!

Garganey
Sedge Warbler
Garden Warbler
Reed Bunting
Pied Flycatcher
Jay

138.

 

[Birdbrain]

185 Swift.
186 House Martin.
187 Garden Warbler.
188 Stone Curlew.
189 Whimbrel.
190 Common Sandpiper.
191 Tree Pipit.

 

[Geoff Pain]

137. Gannet
138. Little Ringed Plover
139. Whimbrel
140. Kittiwake
141. Guillemot
142. Razorbill
143. Puffin
144. Rock Dove
145. Swift
146. Yellow Wagtail
147. White Wagtail
148. Whitethroat
149. Willow Warbler

 

[Richard W]

164 - Swift

 

[Larry Lade]

184. White-rumped Sandpiper, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri

These others were found at Bluff Woods Conservation Area, Halls, Missouri.
185. Summer Tanager
186. Kentucky Warbler
187. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
188. Scarlet Tanager (You ain't seen nothin' until you see a spring, male Scarlet Tanager in bright sunlight. That will "knock you socks off"!

 

[prairiemerlin]

I've gotten a few more recently:

146. Pine Warbler
147. Broad-winged Hawk
148. House Wren
149. Blue-headed Vireo
150. White-eyed Vireo
151. Common Yellowthroat
152. Virginia Rail
153. Henslow's Sparrow
154. Yellow Warbler
155. Warbling Vireo
156. Chimney Swift
157. Bank Swallow
158. Northern Waterthrush
159. Orchard Oriole
160. Green Heron
161. Black-throated Green Warbler
162. Baltimore Oriole
163. Great-crested Flycatcher
164. Nashville Warbler

Finally, the migrants are trickling in.

P.S. - I heard the Nashville Warbler whilst lying in bed!!!

 

[lassa8]

Added a couple more year birds at Sapsucker Woods this morning.
182. Warbling Vireo
183. Ovenbird

 

[Koen Verhoeyen]

137 Common Swift
138 Garganey
139 Little Ringed Plover
140 Common Ringed Plover
141 Temminck's Stint
142 Common Tern
143 Curlew Sandpiper
144 Spotted Redshank
145 Common House-Martin
146 Buff-breasted Sandpiper *****************
147 Great Bittern
148 Black Kite
149 Montagu's Harrier
150 Common Greenshank
151 Little Gull
152 Eurasian Turtle-Dove
153 European Stonechat
154 Great Reed-Warbler
155 Lesser Whitethroat
156 Eurasian Golden Oriole
157 European Serin
158 Eurasian Linnet
159 Bank Swallow

 

[Jacana]

108. swift

 

[lassa8]

184. Magnolia Warbler
185. American Redstart
186. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
187. Wood Thrush

 

[Hotspur]

126 year with 123 uk with Grey Wagtail, Common Swift, Red Grouse and a lifer with Red Kite

 

[columbidae]

Finally got to 100 this morning:

98. Barn swallow
99. Green heron
100. Red-eyed vireo

 

[dan pointon]

Two more today:

204: Arctic Tern
205: Woodchat Shrike - huge surprise to get such a cracker so local!

 

[Larry Lade]

Observed the following at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mound City, Missouri

189. Gray Catbird
190. Yellow Warbler
191. Common Moorhen
192. Dunlin
193. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
194. Northern Waterthrush
195. Stilt Sandpiper
196. American Redstart

197. Blue Grosbeak (found on utility wire along "T" Highway between Forbes and Amazonia, Missouri.)

 

[jtibbetts]

Another good day at Slimbridge/Frampton:

177: Red-crested Pochard
178: Arctic Tern
179: Marsh Harrier
(180: Redhead; a tentative tick in light of the fact that Birdguides now says it may be a hybrid, i thought it looked ok, but i'll remove the tick if the powers that be say its definately a hybrid!!!!)

Also a few other good species including 2 Hobbies, 4 Swifts, 6+ Lesser Whitethroats, 2 Little Gulls and some nice summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwits (possibly icelandic race)

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got back from a week in San Diego. I went on a five-day pelagic trip and birded in the coastal mountains and the Mojave Desert. I added 120 birds to my Year List, bringing it up to 431. Of those, 12 were lifers. Lifers are in bold.

The highlight was seeing my 600th ABA Area bird, which was Common Murre.

312. Upland Sandpiper
313. Western Gull
314. Cassin's Kingbird
315. Anna's Hummingbird
316. Black Phoebe
317. Brown Pelican
318. Spotted Towhee
319. California Towhee
320. Brant
321. Brandt's Cormorant
322. Wandering Tattler
323. Snowy Egret
324. Willet
325. Brewer's Blackbird
326. Western Scrub-Jay
327. Vaux's Swift
328. Lesser Goldfinch
329. Bushtit
330. Wrentit
331. Marbled Godwit
332. Semipalmated Plover
333. Sanderling
334. Forster's Tern
335. Red-crowned Parrot
336. Western Kingbird
337. Western Tanager
338. Wilson's Warbler
339. Orange-crowned Warbler
340. Hermit Warbler
341. Least Tern
342. Surf Scoter
343. California Gull
344. Heermann's Gull
345. Parasitic Jaeger
346. Elegant Tern
347. Northern Fulmar
348. Red-necked Phalarope
349. Sooty Shearwater
350. Pacific Loon
351. Black Storm-Petrel
352. Xantus's Murrelet
353. Pink-footed Shearwater
354. Cassin's Auklet
355. Pomarine Jaeger
356. Royal Tern
357. Flesh-footed Shearwater
358. Rhinocerous Auklet
359. Black Turnstone
360. Red-throated Loon
361. Pigeon Guillemot
362. Common Murre
363. Pelagic Cormorant
364. Black-footed Albatross
365. Sabine's Gull
366. Laysan Albatross
367. Ashy Storm-Petrel
368. Arctic Tern
369. Red Phalarope
370. Long-tailed Jaeger
371. Leach's Storm-Petrel
372. Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
373. Long-billed Curlew
374. Golden-crowned Sparrow
375. Red-billed Tropicbird
376. Western Grebe
377. Black-crowned Night-Heron
378. Clark's Grebe
379. Great-tailed Grackle
380. Grasshopper Sparrow
381. Black-headed Grosbeak
382. Pacific-slope Flycatcher
383. Western Wood-Pewee
384. Black-throated Gray Warbler
385. Nashville Warbler
386. Townsend's Warbler
387. Costa's Hummingbird
388. California Gnatcatcher
389. California Quail
390. Ash-throated Flycatcher
391. California Thrasher
392. Bullock's Oriole
393. Sage Sparrow
394. Western Bluebird
395. Lark Sparrow
396. Black-chinned Sparrow
397. Nuttall's Woodpecker
398. Oak Titmouse
399. Lazuli Bunting
400. Scott's Oriole
401. White-throated Swift
402. Bewick's Wren
403. Acorn Woodpecker
404. Mountain Chickadee
405. Western Meadowlark
406. Band-tailed Pigeon
407. Black-throated Sparrow
408. White-winged Dove
409. Cactus Wren
410. Verdin
411. Greater Roadrunner
412. Gambel's Quail
413. Common Ground-Dove
414. Black-necked Stilt
415. Abert's Towhee
416. Yellow-headed Blackbird
417. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
418. MacGillivray's Warbler
419. Burrowing Owl
420. White-tailed Kite
421. Black Skimmer
422. American Avocet
423. Wilson's Phalarope
424. Red Knot
425. Lesser Nighthawk
426. Brown-crested Flycatcher
427. Steller's Jay
428. Pygmy Nuthatch
429. Violet-green Swallow
430. Black Swift
431. Mountain Quail

In addition to the birds listed above, I added Common Raven, Black-bellied Plover, Whimbrel, Eared Grebe, Caspian Tern, Great Egret, Osprey, Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Gull-billed Tern, Common Tern, and Common Moorhen to my ABA Area Year List, bringing that list up to 274.

Dave