Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)

[lvn600]

I haven't seen that many varieties of duck. Not having a scope might have something to do with that or maybe I just never looked carefully enough. Today I saw my first Green-Winged Teal-30+ of them!-I was quite pleased. I also saw my first American Wigeon but it was out of camera range.

 

[The Barn Owl]

My first ever yank today - lovely female Ring-necked Duck at Napton Reservoir, Warks

Sam

 

[Jynx]

My last life bird was Grey-cheeked Thrush on 19 Nov 2005 at Great Wood, Potters Bar. Definitely not one I would have predicted didn't get one on either of my visits to Florida during migration.

 

[Larry Lade]

Katy, I was going through the entire thread and came across one of your posts which is below.

Confirmed: Northern Pygmy-Owl, June 28, 2005, seen near dawn while on survey in one of our national forests.

Unconfirmed: Mourning Warbler, August 31, 2005.
(I'm waiting ID confirmation of the warbler from our AZ records committee since this species can closely resemble MacGillivray's Warbler. Sadly, it was also a window strike and has died. When I get the photos back, I'll post here, see what you guys think. )

I am curious whether or not you ever posted the photo of the warbler? Or did you determine what it was when you got the photos back and decided not to put it on the Forum?

 

[lvn600]

Glossy Ibis-On a skating pond in Durham CT.

 

[trashbird]

Glossy Ibis-On a skating pond in Durham CT.

Greater Yellow Legs. I had seen the Lesser a few years ago.

 

[maudoc]

Fea's Petrel - Pterodroma feae
Madera, Sep 1, 2005

My last "first in Italy"
Tundra Swan - Cygnus columbianus
"La Tomina" (MO), Nov 26, 2005

 

[calbirder]

not very exciting but a golden crowned sparrow. a pair have been in my yard every morning before school...

 

[olontur]

A Saker and two Barbary Falcons, all at the same time, 1 pm last Wednesday. I was sitting atop a hill in Touran, Semnan, Iran, on the edge of the desert. The Saker took off some hundred meters away from me, appearantly from "lunch" and flew higher and higher, just above my head. And there was a Barbary soaring there, another one joined them from south. The circled ever higher until through my binocs I just could make out tiny spots, and to the bare eye, they were invisible. They fley towards the cliffs in the north of the place.
I'm still in a trance

smiles and lots of birds
sam

 

[russkie]

penduline tits last weekend

nigel

 

[Edward]

Two American Herring Gulls my friend and I found a couple of weekends ago. Not exactly Albert's Lyrebird in terms of the "wow factor."

E

 

[fbeeldens]

Male black Grouse on the moorlands of the Botrange in the Belgian Ardennes last sunday.

cheers,

filip

 

[Larry Lade]

When I began this thread, Friday 2nd September 2005, my last life bird was a Sharp-tailed Grouse seen January 30, 2005 in Minnesota.

As of today, my last life bird was a Sharp-tailed Grouse seen January 30, 2005 in Minnesota.

It has been quite a "dry spell"!

The long "dry spell" was broken on April 1, 2006.

On a recent trip to Arkansas I was able to get a "life bird". Red-cockcaded Woodpecker in a stand of Loblolly Pines near Pine City, Arkansas. I actually saw four of these birds. They flew in to their roost trees at 1730 hours and I got very good looks!

 

[Mark Bruce]

Little Forktail,last week in Yushan National Park.

 

[Nightjar61]

Got 30 lifers on a birding trip to Tunisia and five on a layover in London. The last lifer was an unexpected Whinchat at the edge of the Sahara Desert.

Dave

 

[Edward woodwood]

Black-crested Coquette

Braulio Carillo National Park, Costa Rica. Last Thursday

a little stunner

Tim

 

[Hannes]

Brown nightjar and Scarce swift

2212m repectively 1239m, Mt Cameroon, 23 March 2006.

Both are among the rarest birds in West Africa and there is few/very few recent records of both of them.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Alpine swift first first this year - dipped the pendulines and cattle egret, which would have beaten it.

Last year humes ybw and green heron for the list.

 

[buckskin hawk]

Upland Sandpiper at the Sod farms in Bixby, Oklahoma.

 

[Nightjar61]

Sage Sparrow (plus 11 other lifers) on a birding trip to southern California.

Dave