Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (7 Viewers)

[timsg80]

1413. White-rumped Sandpiper
At Lodmoor in Dorset today.

 

[Brian2]

Managed to catch the Pacific Golden Plover at Rutland on my second trip for it.
Smart bird!

 

[mommymagpie]

We just returned from a trip to Cedar Island, NC where I added at least 15 lifers. Among them are Green and Tricolored Herons, Willets, Least Sandpipers, and Royal and Forster's Terns. My husband saw a Black-crowned Night-Heron on the evening he took our boys out for some after-dusk fishing.

Also listed Chuck-Will's Widow as "heard only".

 

[avesjohn]

Yesterday, I caught up with the Red-necked Stint that's been hanging out along the lower L.A. River.

 

[solarrobor]

Southern Pochard today seen during a Wetland bird count at Monte Christo just north of Windhoek.

 

[Rob_D]

Yesterday a White-tipped Sicklebill hummingbird. A very nice bird and also memorable because my wife (who less than two years ago was a non-birder) correctly identified it before I saw it.

 

[chowchilla]

Female Freckled Duck at Hasties Swamp. A rare bird up here.

 

[Larry Lade]

* I just checked and found that 768 individuals have posted to this thread.

 

[A2GG]

Great Crested Flycatcher earlier today...bigger bird than I had imagined.

 

[Troubador]

Rock Bunting in the Pyrenees a couple of weeks ago.

Have to go out and look for a Ballad Bunting or Soul Bunting next

Lee

 

[Dom F]

A busy few days birding around the Atherton Tablelands got me several lifers, Golden Bowerbird (my last of the Wet Tropic Endemics), Sarus Crane, Freckled Duck, Noisy Minor and Little Lorikeet.

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

I added some goodies to my list on the recent June/July trips:

1. MEGA White-faced Nunbird in the W Andes (see attached photos!)
2. Amazing Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo was my last Vireolanius!
3. Stripe-backed Wren long overdue lifer in the coast.
4. Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet along with mixed flocks in the E Andes E slope.

I am on 1.247 species for Colombia now ;-)

 

[Brian2]

two barred crossbill at Lynford on Monday having dipped a couple over the B years.

 

[A2GG]

American Redstart today...either a female or first yr male. Definitely not the black/orange of the adult male, but still a very pretty bird.

 

[idaho john]

And...

Blue-winged Teal today.

 

[Boro Birder]

Pectoral Sandpiper, LRP, and Black-tailed Godwit.

 

[Birdingcraft]

I added some goodies to my list on the recent June/July trips:

1. MEGA White-faced Nunbird in the W Andes (see attached photos!)
2. Amazing Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo was my last Vireolanius!
3. Stripe-backed Wren long overdue lifer in the coast.
4. Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet along with mixed flocks in the E Andes E slope.

I am on 1.247 species for Colombia now ;-)

Congrats Diego! That darn nunbird eluded me despite spending plenty of time in habitat for it in Ecuador.

 

[Birdingcraft]

In June, I got my lifer Bridled Tern during a bit of seawatching at Bajamar, Costa Rica.

July was much better for lifers with 4 great birds from a trip to southwestern Costa Rica that targeted several uncommon species. The trip brought my Costa Rican country list up to 746 along with the following lifers:

Ocellated Crake: Briefest glimpses of two and many heard in interesting savannas near Buenos Aires, Costa Rica.

Paint-billed Crake: Excellent looks at this mini gallinule in a rice field near Ciudad Neily.

Wedge-tailed Grass Finch: Nicer to finally get this overdue lifer!

Costa Rican Brush Finch: Another overdue bird.

Also heard but did not see Gray-breasted Crake on that trip to reinforce that bird's standing as the species I have heard the most without having seen it (have probably heard 200 or more in various places!).

 

[timsg80]

1414. Spotted Redshank
At least 20 at Titchwell in Norfolk today.

 

[Brian2]

Caspian Tern at Rudyard today B