Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (11 Viewers)

[Ian Lewis]

Three fantastic life birds today:

Silktail: a bizarre bird that has been in several families but probably deserves to be a family of its own

Orange Dove: totally bright orange except for its green head and bill

Many-coloured Fruit Dove: the name says it all

All three on Taveuni island, Fiji

Ian

 

[Brian2]

Lesser Grey Shrike at Leiston yesterday.

 

[Himalaya]

Leach's Petrel off the Wirral.

Previous to that were Tree Pipit and Cuckoo in the summer!

 

[foresttwitcher]

Lesser Grey Shrike - Leiston, Suffolk.

 

[Capito]

Hola Amigos,

A couple of weeks ago I lead Linda to see her 224th bird family of the 227 in the World.
The monotypic family Sapayoidae, whose lone living species is Sapayoa aenigma, the Broad-billed Sapayoa found here in Panama.

After observing two cooperative individuals, we ventured further South into the remote Darien. Near the Rancho Frio ranger station in the Darien National Park, we encountered a nice mixed flock containing among other goodies the gorgeous Viridian Dacnis (Dacnis viguieri). A bird that had eluded me for quite some time. Yes !

Happy birding,
Guido

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[Telephoto Paul]

Took my first visit to Dungeness, and saw my first Great Egret and Golden Plover.

 

[Rob_D]

Olive-sided Flycatcher today in the park.

 

[SueO]

Chestnut-backed Chickadee and Warbling Vireo.

 

[avesjohn]

On Thursday, I went to Arcadia's Peck Rd. Park in pursuit of lingering Dickcissel and Bobolink. The Dickcissel wasn't there, but the Bobolink was. That was lifer #455.

Yesterday, I went up to Ventura County to bird the Oxnard plain with Pasadena Audubon, and I saw Brown Booby (#456) in Ventura harbor, alongside yet another Blue-footed Booby. Also present was a hybrid American x Black Oystercatcher; I've never seen an American, and this obviously doesn't count, but it was still a cool bird.

We also may have seen a very rare (for California) Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, which would be another lifer for me, in the tamarisk rows on Laguna Rd., but the photos are circulating amongst some experts before we make that call.

 

[Paul Chapman]

The same as a number of other British and Irish birders:-

Yesterday - Wilson's Warbler - male - Dursey Island, County Cork.

Stunning bird in a stunning location with the help of some very kind and hospitable locals - seen within 18 hours of hearing about it in the company of the usual faces and some good friends after an interesting journey including 350 miles driving, 4 hours on a ferry, 10 minutes in a cable car and several miles walking.

One day I'll work out why I do it but irrespective of that another cherished memory that will live long .....

All the best

 

[Ian Lewis]

Velvet Dove, Kadavu, Fiji # 7620 (IOC)

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Grey Phalarope today at Penclacwydd.

Rich

 

[dwallace]

Melodious Warbler at Portland Bill after 6 previous attempts to catch up with this species.

Dave W

 

[Northern123]

Had a week in Norfolk last week and got 3:

Red-breasted flycatcher
Cattle egret
Pomarine skua

 

[cranefan]

Sentinel Rock-Thrush on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town.

 

[dwallace]

Radde's Warbler at Sheepcote Valley.

Dave W

 

[Jacana]

Too long since my last lifer! Red-breasted Goose today in Sweden.

 

[avesjohn]

Went to the Oxnard plain in Ventura County on Saturday and picked up Red-throated Pipit (2 among the Americans on Arnold Rd. sod fields) and a continuing female Prothontary Warbler (at the Laguna Rd. tamarisk rows). At the latter spot, I may also have seen Yellow-green Vireo, but my glimpse was unfortunately far too brief to be sure one way or the other.

It should be noted that we had 12 warbler species that day, 3 of which were eastern vagrants (a Tennessee at the Laguna tams, and a continuing Magnolia at a park in Camarillo). For a western state, that's a pretty good species count.

 

[andy hood]

Isabelline (Daurian) Shrike yesterday and Siberian Stonechat today

 

[avesjohn]

Today I saw the continuing pair of Masked Boobies (one adult, one subadult) on a buoy about one mile south of Long Beach harbor, after missing them yesterday.

I narrowly missed seeing two other life birds, spotted by another birder, that briefly flew by the boat - Manx Shearwater and Craveri's Murrelet. Alas, it was not meant to be.