Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (6 Viewers)

[aucarius]

Got back from Thailand on Monday & my last lifer there was Paddyfield Pipit.

 

[Reader]

Tristram's Starling.

May 4th in the St Katherine's Hotel grounds, near the Monastery on Sinai.

John

 

[chris butterworth]

My last two 'lifers' were probably not the best in the world as they are due to 'splits' but :-
Kamtchatka Leaf Warbler
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
both on Tsushima, on April 26th.

Chris

 

[Divebird]

This week Greater Sand Plover and today a Short-toed Lark

 

[Fozzybear]

Just returned from a week near Minsmere, got my first sightings of Cetti's Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Black Tern, Woodlark, Garden Warbler, Marsh Tit, Turtle Dove and, although not a wild bird, the Greater Flamingo.

Also got to see Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Green Hairstreak, Slow Worm, Stoat, Muntjac and Red Deer in the wild for the first time too... although those are somewhat outside the topic of this thread! :-O

 

[dwallace]

Ortolan Bunting at Longham Lakes.

Dave W

 

[Jacana]

Bonaparte's Gull, Hayle Estuary, Cornwall

 

[NicoleVG]

Black-throated Grey Warbler at Garner State Park, Leaky, Texas

 

[mrmanning]

Pacific Loon at Point Pelee National Park.

 

[Enji]

American Wigeon at Angarnssjöängen, Uppland, Sweden on April 24.

 

[Azzy]

White-browed woodswallow Great looking birds.

 

[viator]

Yesterday added Cinnamon-rumped Trogon and Short-toed Coucal in Panti Forest, Johor, Malaysia

 

[javan]

We were in central Florida in February, where I got my first viewing of a purple gallinule. This particular one was quite curious about my camera.

 

[neilmc]

Hildebrandt's Starling, on a game drive in Kenya in March.

 

[Mysticete]

3 new species this weekend in Colorado

Rufous-collared Sparrow*
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Pinyon Jay

The sparrow is a controversial bird; no doubt on the id, but how it got to Colorado is a mystery. This would be a first ABA record if accepted, which is a pretty big if. At any rate, at least for now, the odd location (middle of nowhere in a small mountain community) and absence of any clear indication of captive origin (feather wear, leg band, etc) is causing me to tentatively add this bird to my life list.

 

[Enji]

Angarnsjöängen continues to deliver to me... 2 cy male Red-footed Falcon there last Friday. Nice bird!

 

[rollingthunder]

African Marsh Owl, Merja Zerga, Morroco..................

 

[LBinGA]

Bald Eagle! Seen at Merritt Island National Seashore, Canaveral, FL (USA) 9/10...I was so excited I could barely stop shaking to take a photo!
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Sco6UGMWcKUAtK7VGWY9VEsqf7MjTPiSvQibVbg4QPk?feat=directlink

 

[Damon]

I saw a Black-Necked Stilt and Lesser Yellowlegs at different times in April, and Mottled Ducks on May 21.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

On my way back from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. 94 lifers, the last of which was Marsh Warbler.