Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (13 Viewers)

[The Kerreran]

Another for the Blagdon Lake Blyth's Pipit :t:


Did not expect at the start of the year that I'd be double-Blyth'd by the end of it.. B B

 

[SueO]

Long-tailed Duck at Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach, CA.

 

[foresttwitcher]

Black-throated Thrush (St. Asaph) - a couple of hours after the Dusky Thrush in Derbyshire.

 

[Swindon Addick]

The very showy Desert Wheatear at Thurlestone, Devon, today. Came prepared for a long wait, but it pretty much started tap-dancing in front of me as soon as I got there.

 

[Fiscalshrike]

Dec 8th - Zone-tailed Hawk, Riviera Maya, Mexico - bird 1125.

 

[dwallace]

Blue Rock Thrush at Stow-on-the-Wold.

Dave W

 

[Jacana]

Pine Bunting in Shropshire, UK

 

[punkskaphil]

Twite (at long last) at Wallasea Island, Essex, on New Year's Eve.

 

[timsg80]

Horned Lark (at least 30 of them!) at Holkham Gap in Norfolk, UK today. What fantastic birds!

 

[deidrahall]

First of the season the White Crowned Sparrow at our feeder

 

[HelenM1965]

Killdeer, Shetland - it's been here for months but I only managed to get to see it this week

 

[dave598]

31-DECEMBER-2016

Bufflehead

6-January-2017

Northern Harrier
White-faced Ibis
Yellow-rumped Warbler

 

[dave598]

First of the season the White Crowned Sparrow at our feeder

Beautiful bird.

 

[BryanP]

Costa Rican Pygmy Owl
Bronze-tailed Plumelteer Hummingbird
Chestnut-headed Oropendola

Saw the owl last week during Christmas up on the Providencia road in Costa Rica. We were looking for Quetzals which were a no show. That was ok since Quetzals can be fairly common there but the Owls not so much. A bunch of Fiery-throated Hummingbirds were mobbing him/her so an easy find.

On our first day back in Panama yesterday we saw the colony of Chestnut-headed Oropendola building their hanging nests. They are a smaller cousin of the more famous Montezuma Oropendola. Shortly after that we spotted the Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer.
Very excited to see these guys.

 

[Swindon Addick]

Desert Wheatear at Thurlestone, Devon on New Year's eve was the last of 14 lifers during 2016.

 

[Farnboro John]

I suppose it might turn out to be Stejneger's Stonechat.... would be now if I followed IOC.

John

 

[Xenospiza]

Mangrove Whistler near typically Indian (chaotic and dirty) Port Blair, Andamans. Most endemics (- barn owl) complied. The crake, wood pigeon, starling and especially the treepie make sense... the others really are very close to their mainland counterparts. Other highlights in India were Rufous-vented Babbler, Forest Owlet and six Great Indian Bustards (flushed at least twice by Desert National Park staff - no idea what conservation purpose this serves).

 

[timsg80]

Five today at Mabamba Swamp and Entebbe in Uganda. Probably the best day of birding of my life. They were: Northern Brown-throated Weaver, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, Papyrus Canary, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater AND.... SHOEBILL!!!! The best thing I've ever seen!!

 

[Reader]

At last, I caught up with the Hudsonian Whimbrel near Penzance on 7th Jan.That was my 4th attempt at this bird.

 

[Surreybirder]

At last, I caught up with the Hudsonian Whimbrel near Penzance on 7th Jan.That was my 4th attempt at this bird.

Is it a full species at the moment? :-O