Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)

[Mysticete]

Despite 11 hours searching and a 12 ish hour round trip, a friend and I were unable to refind the Nebraska Common Crane. We did however find good numbers of Greater Prairie Chicken, a lifer for both of us, so it wasn't a complete lost cause.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Picked up Lifer No. 213 today :t:

Bewick's Swan ~ adult & immature/juvenile (what IS the proper terminology?) grazing in field at Maidens Hall Pond, Northumberland o

 

[Eagle67]

A [Jack Snipe] at East Hyde Beds (273)

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

we are in the middle of the Zoothera Global Birding COLOMBIA trip and having done some of the good sites already, I happyly have to list:

GALAPAGOS ROAD (W Andes)
*Scaled Fruiteater (so wanted bird! for so long!... amazing couple perched near the road, vocalizing and offering great views to the whole group).
* Gray-and-gold Tanager (one ind perched in the top of a Cecropia for some 8 seconds.. gladly enough for me but not all of the group got it...)
RIO BLANCO RESERVE (C Andes)
* White-rumped Hawk ... to be honest I did not have this NICE raptor in my radar.. showed well to all group flying and perched later..

maybe more news later ;-)

d.

 

[darth bangkok]

Canvasback, Jamaica Bay, NYC

 

[Eagle67]

Twite at North Cave wetlands , E Yorks (274)

 

[knotsbirder]

Ring-billed Gull and Ring-necked Duck yesterday in (not so) sunny Yorkshire (276).

Sam :t:

 

[Padraig]

At Mahachai Mangrove Reserve Station west of Bankok on Friday: Oriental White Eye and Golden Bellied Gerygone in the same bush. Common enough in Thailand, but not in my book.
Missed out on mangrove Whistler though.

Padraig

 

[javan]

Limpkin

While canoeing on the Withlacoochee River in Sumter County, Florida, spotted a limpkin on the shoreline.

 

[apbarr]

Penduline Tit, Rock Sparrow, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Black Wheatear, Alpine Chough and Alpine Accentor this week in Spain plus Pyrenean Chamois.

 

[Birdingcraft]

Finally got my lifer Keel-billed Motmot at Heliconias Lodge last weekend. This most uncommon of motmots was a long-awaited species.

 

[DaninJapan]

Baer's Pochard & Grey-Headed Lapwing today in Okayama, Japan.

 

[cameron2]

a nutcracker, white winged snowfinch and crested tit are numbers 250-252. All were seen in St. Anton Austria

 

[birdermoose]

Baer's Pochard & Grey-Headed Lapwing today in Okayama, Japan.

Lucky, lucky lucky!
But the question I want to know is have you seen your avatar?

 

[GringoRojo]

Saw quite a few on a trip to Nova Scotia Sept 2011 as would be expected, but the most recent lifers seen in Britain would be pallid harrier in ayrshire and European white fronted goose, both at the back end of 2011.

 

[MWigley]

Female smew at Leighton Moss today. Ironically I'd gone to watch the Starling roost and they didn't show up, but this was a very nice substitute!

 

[dwallace]

Arctic Redpoll, Kelling, Norfolk.

Dave W

 

[Reuven_M]

Fish crow (3) in Fort Erie, Ontario. A very rare bird in ontario, and especially strange in winter.

 

[DaninJapan]

Daurian Jackdaw today, along with Siberian Crane! ;-)

 

[The Kerreran]

Common Yellowthroat, today in Gwent. :t:

B