Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (12 Viewers)

[Birdingcraft]

Two new life birds for the year so far:
Black-tailed Flycatcher- Seen very well at the Villas Rio Mar in Dominical, Costa Rica and
Sulphur-rumped Tanager- Great views and a bad photo of a few near Manzanillo, Costa Rica. Long awaited bird that I have actually seen but did not want to count a silhouette!
I wrote a blog post about this lifer and great birding around Manzanillo.

 

[SueO]

Bare-throated Tiger-heron, Galapagos Shearwater, White Ibis, Gray-capped Flycatcher.

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

Two new life birds for the year so far:
Black-tailed Flycatcher- Seen very well at the Villas Rio Mar in Dominical, Costa Rica and
Sulphur-rumped Tanager- Great views and a bad photo of a few near Manzanillo, Costa Rica. Long awaited bird that I have actually seen but did not want to count a silhouette!
I wrote a blog post about this lifer and great birding around Manzanillo.

Patrick, enjoyed your post a lot and I am very very jealous of this Sulphur-rumped Tanager!.. we looked for it in the Rio Indio area near El Valle in Panama without success last September.. next time, next time I guess ...

 

[Ben88]

Gyrfalcon on Long Island yesterday. It's a very impressive bird!

 

[Larry Lade]

Gyrfalcon on Long Island yesterday. It's a very impressive bird!

Ben was your bird at Jamaica Bay or elsewhere?

 

[Ben88]

Ben was your bird at Jamaica Bay or elsewhere?

The Gyrfalcon was at Gilgo Beach, which is about five miles west of Jones Beach State Park. It has been hanging out there for more than a week, and I got it on my second try.

 

[Birdingcraft]

Patrick, enjoyed your post a lot and I am very very jealous of this Sulphur-rumped Tanager!.. we looked for it in the Rio Indio area near El Valle in Panama without success last September.. next time, next time I guess ...

I am likewise jealous of your streamcreeper! I missed that one in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. A tough tanager for sure, much more difficult than its sister Scarlet-browed. Hopefully you will get to Burbayar, it seems that they are very regular there.

 

[new_texas_birder]

Orange-crowned warbler in Dallas, Texas. Had it ID'd for me on here :t:

was not able to get a great pic.

 

[Jacana]

Number 910: Great Grey Owl today in Sweden

Had amazing views of it by the roadside. Fantastic tick!

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

I am likewise jealous of your streamcreeper! I missed that one in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. A tough tanager for sure, much more difficult than its sister Scarlet-browed. Hopefully you will get to Burbayar, it seems that they are very regular there.

Streamcreeper gave nice views, very prolonged, at a little stream in W Andes.. drabber plumaged bird than I expected so was not so excited at the beginning when I saw it...
That tanager you got rocks!!, its sister Scarlet-browed is commoner, and not difficult here in Colombia both in the Magdalena Valley and in the Pacific Choco lowlands...
Burbayar is for sure on my list to visit next time I get to Panama!
saludos, d.

 

[punkskaphil]

Green-winged Teal in Hampshire, UK. A mega-rarity.

 

[Peter C.]

Scarlet Ibis, on a trip to Trinidad.

Kind of a weird experience - one minute, you've never seen one in your life before, next minute, you've seen 150.

Peter C.

 

[SueO]

Scarlet Macaw.

 

[Larry Lade]

Sue, congrats on the macaw!

 

[Peter C.]

Sue, congrats on the macaw!

Too right! Where, though?

 

[timsg80]

Pied-billed Grebe at Ham Wall, Somerset. What an extraordinary little bird!

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Last bird of a trip to Southeast Asia was a brown Hawk-owl at Bokor, Cambodia.

A totql of 137 lifers on the trip.

 

[Reader]

Two lifers over the weekend after an excellent trip up to North Uist.

Harlequin Duck & Richardson's Canada Goose.

John

 

[Warixenjalka]

At last I saw it somewhere else than just my dreams.

I have to drive 20 miles and walk one in deep snow, but it was worth it. B

 

[SueO]

Sue, congrats on the macaw!

Thanks, Larry. Sorry for getting back so late; sporadic internet.
Sue