Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)

[Mysticete]

1000th bird was a Siberian Rubythroat, a worthy bird for the title.

Actually the Ferries were fairly slow on our trip back. Almost entirely Streaked Shearwaters and scattered groups of Red-necked Phalaropes. Did get a Stejneger's Petrel, but only one Sooty Shearwater, one Bulwer's Petrel, and no albatrosses or storm-petrels. I am planning on taking a ferry through the Izu's so hopefully I can add some storm-petrels to my list soon.

Tried for the Rail but had no luck...most of the recommended spots seemed rather dry at this time of year for Rail.

 

[djleahy]

Purple Martin

Not so exotic, but a bit harder to find in the Western U.S. than your more common local swallows. I walked the short bird trail in Marymoor Park, Redmond, Washington, currently supported by Eastside Audubon. They have set up a pair of swallow nesting gourds stationed just by a fine viewing platform where Lake Sammamish flows out into the Sammamish Slough, successfully establishing Purple Martin nests! News to me. Purple Martins are BIG swallows! Fun to watch, mixed in with a host of Barn Swallows. The Purple Martins preferred to hunt 30-50 feet up, while the Barn Swallows liked flying at the water's surface.

 

[Jacana]

Icterine Warbler and Wryneck in the space of about a minute in the same field at Flamborough Head in Yorkshire. Nice!

 

[SeeToh]

A sub-adult Mangrove Pitta at Pulau Ubin, an offshore island in Singapore. This specie is classified near threatened internationally and nationally threatened in Singapore due to rapid habitat loss. It had been estimated that there are only around 20 birds left in Singapore - only found in Pulau Ubin and Pulau Tekong where healthy mangrove forests still exist.

 

[dalat]

A beautiful Golden-breasted Fulvetta in Sapa, Vietnam.

http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=1580&Bird_Image_ID=39284&Bird_Family_ID=&p=1

 

[Blue Alert]

A Merlin at WWT Slimbridge. A relief to get it, as in two years of serious birding I'd never even had a sniff of one.

 

[Zoogoer2000 - Packwatcher]

My most recent was a white breasted nuthatch

 

[andrewj123]

A Cirl Bunting when I was on holiday in France

 

[Fozzybear]

A Merlin at WWT Slimbridge. A relief to get it, as in two years of serious birding I'd never even had a sniff of one.

I've yet to see one after about three years of not entirely serious and mostly local birdwatching... and not seen Hobbies or Peregrines either!

Walking around my local patch last weekend turned up four Whinchats, which was rather unexpected!

 

[Sahria]

Today I got Peregrine Falcons, Cedar Waxwings, a Chimney Swift, and a Cape May Warbler.

 

[Divebird]

Today, near Den Helder, the Netherlands, a Daurian Shrike - Lanius isabellinus, adult female.

 

[Blue Alert]

Red-necked Phalarope (juv.) at Slimbridge. The place is on fire right now!

 

[dalat]

Migration is on and Hanoi Botanical Garden had 2 lifers for me this week: Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher and Forest Wagtail.

 

[djleahy]

Williamson's Sapsucker, Kings Beach, California

My 197th photographed bird in California, a female Williamson's Sapsucker is making regular excursions to a pine tree in the backyard of a friend's cabin. My best pics so far are at:

http://leahy.to/birds/williamson's%20sapsucker.html

Three more to go to get to 200 photographed -- maybe my ongoing week off at Lake Tahoe will get me there!

 

[Jacana]

Citrine Wagtail and 3 Ortolan Buntings on the same farm track area near Nanquidno Valley, Cornwall

 

[njlarsen]

Red-rumped Swallow, Cetti's warbler and Ruppell's warbler, all three in Crete. The Swallow have been on the list of birds I expected to find on any given trip to S Europe for the last 20 years, so a relief.

Niels

 

[Enji]

FINALLY caught up with Red-throated Pipit yesterday. They've been avoiding me, but at last I had two flying over me. Great! It's so hard with these birds that can only be found in the area for such a short period of time in the spring or autumn...

 

[Jacana]

Pomarine Skua off Pendeen today, finally!

 

[Halcon]

Buff-breasted Sandpiper.

 

[Lisa W]

Three new ones on September 10, 2010:
Plain-capped Startthroat seen here
Thick-billed Kingbird
Warbling Vireo

It was a great day.