Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (78 Viewers)

[A2GG]

yesterday I finally saw my first Yellow Bellied Sapsucker (a male)...very exciting.

 

[Original PaulE]

Glaucous gull(Dungeness) and Kentish plover(rye harbour) both on 29/03/13

 

[Thomas H]

Got a Red Kite and a Fieldfare today in Southern Germany at a chilly -5. Not my type of birding weather but a lifer is a lifer! :t:

 

[solarrobor]

Juvenile African Hawk-Eagle in Windhoek, Namibia on 31 March 2013

 

[JeffMoh]

Spent Fri-Sat looking for migrants in Glaveston and High Island.

Only saw 4 migrant warbler species (and only a single representative of each) but one was a lifer:
Louisiana Waterthrush.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[Cornish Chough]

Short Eared Owl on 30th March.

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Harlequin Duck at Balranald - well worth the twitch!

 

[Zackiedawg]

Male blue grosbeak, Saturday March 30 at approx. 4pm. Gorgeous bird. Western Palm Beach county, Florida.

 

[Hanno]

Orange-necked Partridge

A difficult bird to see and even harder to photograph. Seima, Mondulkiri, Cambodia.

 

[timsg80]

Latest was stone-curlew at Butterstreet Cove in Dorset. Six of them!

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Lesser Scaup

 

[A2GG]

This afternoon, Pied-Billed Grebe...very cute.

 

[idaho john]

and...

first new one in a while...

Greater White-fronted Goose. Flock of them resting in a recently tilled field north of my residence.

john

 

[SueO]

This group of lifers was gathered during our sail from Golfito, Costa Rica to Nicaragua (we are currently moored just south of the Gulf of Fonseca). We have made landfall a few times, so these lifers are from here and there and at sea. The last nine are from our current location: Marina Puesta Del Sol (setting of the sun) in Nicaragua--it's heaven!
Rufous-naped Wren
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Inca Dove
White-winged Dove
White-throated Magpie-jay
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Hoffman’s Woodpecker
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Spot-breasted Oriole
Banded Wren
Painted Bunting
Rose-throated Becard
Altimira Oriole
Scrub Euphonia

 

[Steve Arlow]

Finally connected with a Menetries Warbler in Israel this spring, one of only four lifers from there

 

[halftwo]

This group of lifers was gathered during our sail from Golfito, Costa Rica to Nicaragua (we are currently moored just south of the Gulf of Fonseca). We have made landfall a few times, so these lifers are from here and there and at sea. The last nine are from our current location: Marina Puesta Del Sol (setting of the sun) in Nicaragua--it's heaven!
Rufous-naped Wren
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Orange-fronted Parakeet
Inca Dove
White-winged Dove
White-throated Magpie-jay
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Hoffman’s Woodpecker
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Spot-breasted Oriole
Banded Wren
Painted Bunting
Rose-throated Becard
Altimira Oriole
Scrub Euphonia

Glad to see you posting on BF, Sue. Sounds like you're enjoying your continuing adventure.

 

[BirdingRob]

I am diverting my walk to work in Riyadh to the university's (very) small experimental farm for the duration of the passage. It paid dividends this morning when I saw an eastern Cinereous bunting.

 

[SueO]

Glad to see you posting on BF, Sue. Sounds like you're enjoying your continuing adventure.

Hi H,
Enjoying the landfalls. We were hoping to be home by the start of hurricane season (June), now we're hoping we can make it to Zihuatenejo by then. We will officially finish the circumnavigation there. We haven't had any terrible weather issues, but this leg has been hard on us, we're getting too old for this stuff! I have been looking for birds while underway and that has kept the passages passable.
Good to hear from you.
Sue

 

[Enji]

Just home after a trip to Portugal which gave 17 lifers, the last one being Great Bustard. Other highlights was Spanish Imperial Eagle, Great Spotted Cuckoo and Spectacled Warbler. Lots of brilliant birds!

 

[Larry Lade]

Wow! That is quite a list of "lifers"! Congrats!