Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (2 Viewers)

[Xenospiza]

My 175th (IOC + two undescribed taxa) in Tanzania was Striped Kingfisher, after a sizeable haul of Eastern Arc endemics including Udzungwa Forest Partridge. It really should be one less because treating Rubeho and Winifred's Warbler as two different species is nonsense.

 

[Lisa W]

On October 14th I saw a Clark’s Nutcracker for the first time. A bird I’ve been wanting to see for a long time! Not a great photo, but nice for a record shot.

 

[hookem2010]

#381(all new ABA area)- Clay colored sparrow, which pretty much wraps up all the sparrows I can expect to find in my region

 

[Reader]

I have done virtually no birding since the 1st of May. Thankfully I have just managed a few days between Spurn and Flamborough picking up a Lifer on my first day with a 1st winter Red-eyed Vireo.

 

[Nightjar61]

Today I went to north-central Ohio and saw my latest lifer, a Sharp-tailed Sandpiper.

Dave

 

[Tom Mc85]

Saw a Black Redstart for the first time, from my bedroom window! Glanced out at just the right time.

 

[birdmeister]

Clay-colored Sparrow, found not too far from home.

 

[KenM]

Common Nighthawk, a long way from home!

 

[hookem2010]

#382, greater scaup. Almost didn't pull my scope out because it was freezing, but these two struck me as quite possibly not the more common lesser scaup.

 

[thesetter11]

Velvet Scoter at Draycote Water, Warwickshire on the 30th

 

[Xenospiza]

Upcher's Warbler in the Netherlands on 13/10. Always nice to get a Dutch tick that's a lifer!

 

[in vitrio]

With some new spots, it can be one of those where you squint into the distance, wonder what it is, take a better look, perhaps pursue it a little if it hops away, and finally you realize it's something you've never seen before.

Less expected is when a flock of half-a-dozen basically hops about at your feet looking for bits of spilt food.

Turnstone, Mevagissey Harbour in Cornwall.

 

[Ries]

Crested lark

 

[aeshna5]

Northern Bald Ibis + Spanish Imperial Eagle in Andalucia. Also my first European Common Bulbul!

 

[Jon Turner]

Northern Bald Ibis + Spanish Imperial Eagle in Andalucia. Also my first European Common Bulbul!

Northern Bald Ibis complete with radio transmitters?

 

[aeshna5]

Northern Bald Ibis complete with radio transmitters?

Certainly didn't see one- just a ring on the leg.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

120 lifers so far on a trip to Southern India and Sri Lanka. One one today - Indian Stone-curlew - near Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

 

[in vitrio]

Grey plover, very distantly, on the rocks of Casablanca. Last of a dozen or so on an historical trip to Morocco.

 

[avesjohn]

Red-footed Booby seen at Corona del Mar State Beach in Orange County, California (about an hour from home) this past Sunday.

 

[birdmeister]

Lapland Longspur for me.