Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (8 Viewers)

[Farnboro John]

Baillon's Crake at Rainham. My first lifer in Britain in five years and on my birthday too.

Well done Alastair! It took me 45 years to manage a tick on my birthday so I know how to appreciate one.

John

 

[rosbifs]

Happy birthday...

Got penduline tit yesterday. Been to the right places for the last 5 years and not connected so choughed to bits. Self found - on call to begin with. Aiming fir some more in the ebro over the next week or so - depending when i can escape........

 

[Dortmundbirder]

Got the Little Bustard near Hamburg,

Really cracking bird!

 

[eddy the eagle]

I got an American golden plover yesterday, not self found though,still on Los Lances beach Tarifa my thanks to Javi at Migres for the info Eddy

 

[Birdingcraft]

I ticked a mega lifer last night- Unspotted Saw-whet Owl on Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. This might be the toughest regularly occurring resident species to see in the country so I was very pleased!

 

[Reader]

At last. I got the bird I have been after for a while. Citril Finch. Seen and photographed in Spain at the Pla De la Font Mountain Refuge in the Aigüestortes National Park: (East Sou and Jou Itinerary) in the eastern side of the Pyrennes.

Also saw my first European Lammergeier here as well.

John

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

I ticked a mega lifer last night- Unspotted Saw-whet Owl on Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. This might be the toughest regularly occurring resident species to see in the country so I was very pleased!

VERY VERY good one Patrick!... felicitaciones.

 

[Tiraya]

I'm on 530 now.

Added these 5 on a trip to Joshua Tree NP in California over a 3 day period:
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Gambel's Quail
California Thrasher
Townsend's Solitaire (certainly not typical here)

Unfortunately no Verdin, Ladder-back Woodpecker, BT sparrow or BT Gnatcatcher.

 

[Birdingcraft]

VERY VERY good one Patrick!... felicitaciones.

Gracias Diego. Yes, it was a life achievement for myself and the others who saw it!

 

[daveverner74]

My #2214 was on 10/8/2012 in San Carlos Mexico, an Allen Hummerbird!!

 

[Sam Brunson]

Northern Pintail!

 

[Tiraya]

530- Yellow-headed Blackbird
531- Tricoloured Blackbird

Had a giant flock of blackbirds today including the above two.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Finally got through the Clements Updates.

One arm-chair tick: Siberian Stonechat.

 

[idaho john]

and...

long time looking for this one. A sharp-shinned hawk. Caught her moving from one grove of trees to another. Nice open area in between, so plenty of room to catch more than a glimpse.

john

 

[Dom F]

Eastern Yellow Wagtail at Knuckey near Darwin. Poss last Northern Territory birding day as pack up house and drive 3000km to Cairns next week with three children in the car!

 

[idaho john]

and...

today - a Rough-legged Hawk. Over river bottom near my home. John

 

[SueO]

Rufous-breasted Wren and Capped Heron. Metropolitan Park in Panama City, Panama.

 

[warren30]

I seen the purple heron at college reservoir cornwall today first for me seeing this bird

 

[South Parish]

Most recent is Velvet Scoter

 

[antshrike69]

I ticked a mega lifer last night- Unspotted Saw-whet Owl on Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica. This might be the toughest regularly occurring resident species to see in the country so I was very pleased!

I'm not surprised that you're chuffed! What a great bird.