Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (10 Viewers)

[Larry Lade]

Congrats, Diego, on those two species you really wanted to see!

One of these days I am going to get my Bohemian Waxwing (really not that difficult for most people, but it has been evading me for quite some time now)!

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

World #4443 Red-cheeked Wattle-eye (Aweta, Ghana 29.11.12)

The final one of my 33 lifers on a 15 day Ashanti African Tours trip guided by William Aprahu and Paul Mensah. Others included the magical Yellow-headed Picathartes, Nkulengu Rail, Spot-breasted Ibis and Hartlaub's Duck.

Steve

I love that wattle-eye. Beautiful bird. Not that the picathartes is a slouch.

But we missed the rail and the ibis on our tour. Ah well. A reason to go back.

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

Congrats, Diego, on those two species you really wanted to see!

One of these days I am going to get my Bohemian Waxwing (really not that difficult for most people, but it has been evading me for quite some time now)!

Thanks Larry..
indeed, those 'nemesis' birds keep you busy ;-) ie. after getting my Scaled Fruiteater, now I can't stop thinking on White-faced Nunbird!!

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Just got ABA bird #700 via armchair tick: Nanday Parakeet. They just added it to the checklist.

 

[Mysticete]

The Lovebird was ABA #612 for me, but I "officially" already had it on my lifelist when it was accepted by the Arizona checklist committee

 

[edenwatcher]

A bonus of attending a conference in Boston:

Barred owl

A long time since I got a lifer on a work trip!

Rob

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Reichenow's seedeater through a window at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Kenya, on the way back from Madagascar!

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got ABA bird #700 via armchair tick: Nanday Parakeet. They just added it to the checklist.

An armchair tick for me as well. I had counted it on my Life List but can now add it to my ABA Area list (number 642).

Dave

 

[Dom F]

A much wanted addition in the form of the bullet that is White-throated Needletail shooting across the road this morning.
:t:

 

[Dave Hall]

Crested Honey Buzzard November 17th Al Qurm Park Sultanate of Oman

 

[Nightjar61]

Pink-footed Goose in Huntingdon, New Jersey on December 10.

Dave

 

[punkskaphil]

Water Pipit a couple of weeks ago at Rainham Marshes.

 

[Tiraya]

So ABA finally accepted Nanday/Black-hooded. I was about to write an essay on why it should be included as well! It's doing very well around here in the Malibu State Park area and it has been doing so for many years.

Lewis' Woodpecker was a nice addition. Saw a few fly over the distance (ID by photo; dark green, bright red head) early in the morning. Been wanting this one for a while.

 

[J J Anderson]

Ring-necked Duck

On 2nd December at Eyebrook Reservoir, Leicestershire

Took a bit of finding among all the Tufted's but well worth it.

 

[Dom F]

Morning out with Chowchilla added Macleays Honeyeater and Yellow-breasted Boatbill on Black Mountain Road.

 

[Reader]

One definite Lifer yesterday at the Queen Mother's reservoir in Berkshire with the confiding Buff-bellied Pipit and a possible Armchair tick for the future with the Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll seen also yesterday at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Below are a few photos of those birds.

John

 

[timsg80]

I had three new birds for me yesterday:
Two long-tailed ducks at Abbotsbury Swannery
Two velvet scoters in Portland Harbour
A great northern diver in Portland Harbour

Also a short-eared owl and snow bunting.

 

[Brian2]

One definite Lifer yesterday at the Queen Mother's reservoir in Berkshire with the confiding Buff-bellied Pipit and a possible Armchair tick for the future with the Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll seen also yesterday at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Below are a few photos of those birds.

John

Same as....two cracking birds that seem completely relaxed around all the birders....right little stars!B

 

[eddy the eagle]

Went out in my local housing estate this morning and on a vacant lot full of bushes and weeds saw what I thought was a stonechat,very common here.and when I got the glasses on it it turned out to be a white spot bluethroat a first for me.I have seen red spot before and was I pleased with this. Eddy.

 

[Egretta]

My most recent life bird was a juvenile Bohemian Waxwing today. Because I was in my university city I did not have binoculars or camera at my disposal but I went anyway. Lucky for me there were a few other birders present and I got the opportunity to look at it with someone else's scope, what a stunning bird!