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Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (7 Viewers)
- Thread starter Larry Lade
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...and two days before I saw my first Swamp Sparrow.
Pinewood
New York correspondent
A beautiful redhead
Hello all,
I finally managed to see a rare visitor to Manhattan: a red-headed woodpecker. This one was near Azalea Pond, in the Ramble, in New York's Central Park.
Image from a painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, which appeared in Eaton's Birds of New York, 1914
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
Hello all,
I finally managed to see a rare visitor to Manhattan: a red-headed woodpecker. This one was near Azalea Pond, in the Ramble, in New York's Central Park.
Image from a painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, which appeared in Eaton's Birds of New York, 1914
Happy bird watching,
Arthur
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Beth
that's a good one ! I'm a little envious. congrats.
punkskaphil
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I added Cetti's Warbler and Garden Warbler at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset on Saturday morning. I'd had brief glimpses of Cetti's many times before, but this was the first good look at one. Got back to London but missed out on the Red-backed Shrike on my local patch at London Wetland Centre.
I managed to get a Thrush Nightingale at the Steinhorster Becken near Paderborn, Germany. It was the first record for Kreis Paderborn!
Cornish Chough
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A very attractive female Red Necked Phalarope at Coombe (Glos) on 26th May. Three days previously a long awaited Wood Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher at Nagshead.
All very nice birds.
All very nice birds.
idaho john
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and...
I was reviewing my posts and determined that I had claimed a Loggerhead Shrike twice instead of just the once...sorry.
Today (and firsts for me as far as I remember)
- Horned Larks...after two years looking for them in their supposed habitat, today, there they were.
- Savannah Sparrow.
John
I was reviewing my posts and determined that I had claimed a Loggerhead Shrike twice instead of just the once...sorry.
Today (and firsts for me as far as I remember)
- Horned Larks...after two years looking for them in their supposed habitat, today, there they were.
- Savannah Sparrow.
John
COLOMBIA Birding
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Had Black-throated Green Warbler (late to leave the Neotropics!), Gray-throated Leaftosser & Santa Marta Antbird (split from the former Long-tailed Antbird from the Santa Marta Mountains I had not seen before) on my recent Santa Marta & Guajira trip (http://www.flickr.com/photos/colombia_birding_diego/sets/72157633748722381/)..
I am now at 1243 for Colombia (http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/surfbirds/display.cgi?list=list101&lowVal=0&highVal=49)
;-)
I am now at 1243 for Colombia (http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/surfbirds/display.cgi?list=list101&lowVal=0&highVal=49)
;-)
Birdingcraft
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Edward- Nice bunch of lifers in Turkey. How I would love to go birding there!
Diego- Congrats on 1243 for Colombia!
As for myself, I finally got another lifer in Costa Rica 2 weeks ago- White-chinned Swift at Pocosol Research Station. We knew it occurred in the area but despite checking all the swifts we saw, the species didn't show up until our second day. Three birds first gave their distinctive call and then showed their odd, truly bat-like flight. 740 for my Costa Rica list, I forget where it goes on my world list, something around 2,500.
Diego- Congrats on 1243 for Colombia!
As for myself, I finally got another lifer in Costa Rica 2 weeks ago- White-chinned Swift at Pocosol Research Station. We knew it occurred in the area but despite checking all the swifts we saw, the species didn't show up until our second day. Three birds first gave their distinctive call and then showed their odd, truly bat-like flight. 740 for my Costa Rica list, I forget where it goes on my world list, something around 2,500.
COLOMBIA Birding
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Patrick, and some more possible as I am doing E Andes N of Bogota for a couple of weeks in June and that is an area where I have not birded so so much... so fingers crossed ;-)
Turtle dove at Otmoor RSPB near Oxford. Not on a par with the mega-rarities some people are reporting here, but when you live in Wiltshire it counts as pretty special.
Also removed the "(heard only)" from sedge warbler on my life list after one sat at the top of a tree singing its heart out. Pretty good day, all told.
Also removed the "(heard only)" from sedge warbler on my life list after one sat at the top of a tree singing its heart out. Pretty good day, all told.
JTweedie
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Finally saw a pied flycatcher at last - only after about 10 years of visiting one of the places they're known to frequent. Still dipped on the redstart though - maybe next time!
Edit: Looked at my records - turns out I have seen a redstart before, but it was only a brief glimpse. Wouldn't mind seeing one again.
Edit: Looked at my records - turns out I have seen a redstart before, but it was only a brief glimpse. Wouldn't mind seeing one again.
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Eddie the 'ed
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Hen Harrier last Friday.
RafaelMatias
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A very tasty King Eider, Iceland, self found.
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