Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)

[david kelly]

Merlin picked up a Flammulated Owl on my walk with the dog last week. Only problem is, it was in East Lothian. I don’t know what a Flammulated Owl sounds like so I can’t tell what call it was misidentifying. Recently had Osprey, actually Nuthatch, and Grey Plover, actually Song Thrush, picked up by the app.

David

Now listened to Flammulated Owl song on eBird. It was a what we Scots call “a dug” (Canis familiaris).

David

 

[Frank van Drogen]

Still around in the Netherlands, managed to getup to the Lauwersmeer yesterday. I didn't have all the time that I would have like to spend there, but managed a couple of new ticks. Green-winged Teal, Pied Avocet and what I was most stoked about were some Black-winged
Stilt. On of the Stilts was sitting on a nest, would have been need to see some tiny ones I guess, but too early

 

[Warixenjalka]

Few hours ago: American Teal in Pori, Finland. This was the third time (and third place) this spring that I tried to twitch this species. Finally I got lucky 😁

 

[aeshna5]

Few hours ago: American Teal in Pori, Finland. This was the third time (and third place) this spring that I tried to twitch this species. Finally I got lucky 😁

What's an American Teal? Presumably you mean Green-winged or Blue-winged as most likely vagrants?

 

[Warixenjalka]

What's an American Teal? Presumably you mean Green-winged or Blue-winged as most likely vagrants?

Yes, Green-winged. I dont know where I have learnt that "American". Maybe cos it´s amerikantavi in Finnish

 

[foresttwitcher]

Semi-collared Flycatcher - male, near Pissouri, Cyprus.

 

[Bewick]

Got two lifers on Thursday, managed to finally connect with a little gull which was a nemesis of mine. Red-breasted goose was fantastic as well, too distant for decent photos but great views from the scope. Also saw a bunch of harder to see waders and waterfowl + saw flocks of hundreds of brent's flying over the reserve as the sun was setting which was awesome.

 

[Georgebirds]

I managed to come home with six lifers in one day - the joy of being a relatively new birder, things don't have to be extraordinarily unusual for me to have never knowingly seen them before!

Little Ringed Plover
Greenshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Garganey
Black-winged Stilt
Bearded Tit

 

[Bewick]

I managed to come home with six lifers in one day - the joy of being a relatively new birder, things don't have to be extraordinarily unusual for me to have never knowingly seen them before!

Little Ringed Plover
Greenshank
Lesser Yellowlegs
Garganey
Black-winged Stilt
Bearded Tit

Frampton marsh?

 

[Georgebirds]

Yes, looks like you've been there too, from what you just posted above me!

 

[Bewick]

Yes, looks like you've been there too, from what you just posted above me!

Yes, your list was so similar to mine that I thought it couldn’t just be coincidence.

 

[Georgebirds]

Some of yesterday's luck has spilled over into today - a Yellow Wagtail in the lane outside my field!

 

[WACCOE]

On my second Carribbean Holiday of the year this time in the Dom Rep again with the wife so birding mainly around the hotel and excursions we go on I've again booked a guide for a days birding to Parquet Nacional Cotubanama.
1st morning walk produce 5 lifers.
Grey Kingbird
Hispaniolan Woodpecker
Caribbean Martin
Palmchat
Antillean Mango
also there's a colony of Village Weavers but won't be ticking it.
However today's highlight was a very large swimming Tarantula.

 

[Warixenjalka]

On May 7th Black Duck and 8th Long-billed Dowicher. Winds have been good from west, I'm guessing. Both birds from Pori, Finland.

On second photo might include LbD, but not sure...

 

[chickadilly]

I love it when I'm at home and I all of a sudden hear a completely unfamiliar birdsong different from all the other backyard birds I've heard a million times before. This morning I heard a lively sing-song tune unfamiliar to me. Grabbed the binocs and noticed a Baltimore Oriole singing it's pleasant song at the very top of my neighbor's tree! A first for me. I'm located in San Antonio, for reference.

Bird #110 for me (just started in October).

 

[WACCOE]

Six more lifers today
Broad-billed Tody
Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo
Flat-billed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
White-necked Crow
Black -crowned Palm-Tanager

 

[sicklebill]

Six more lifers today
Broad-billed Tody
Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo
Flat-billed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
White-necked Crow
Black -crowned Palm-Tanager

Slaty-breasted Rail in Taiwan near Tainan May 9, only seen a UTV (Untickable view) in Thailand before

 

[SueO]

Mexican Hermit, Mountain (Mexican) Trogon, Elegant Trogon

 

[WACCOE]

Antillean Nighthawk just had one calling and flying over the road from the Hotel Lobby to the main entrance,me and the wife had decided to have walk after our dinner instead of going straight for a drink 😁

 

[WACCOE]

White-cheeked Pintail
A lone female type on an ornamental pond outside a Hotel Lobby on route to a shopping trip with the wife bit of a odd place to see one I thought the bird did fly off over the road into some marsh.🤷