Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (21 Viewers)

[dalat]

Nordmann's Greenshank in Vietnam, Yay!

 

[Tom Mc85]

After several attempts finally saw the Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor today. So happy!

 

[Paul Chapman]

In my first visit to mainland sub-Saharan Africa, slightly in excess of 200 ticks from a trip list in the 280's. Not a dedicated birding trip as such but a holiday with my wife, Cafebirder & his wife to Entebbe for a day followed by six nights in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. The last tick was Orange Weaver in Entebbe Botanical Gardens on the way back to the airport but plenty of work to do to finalise numbers, complete ebird checklists and edit photos. I do hope when done to complete a trip report.

I thoroughly recommend Deogratius Muhumuza of Uganda Eco Tours - https://www.ecouganda.com/homepage-4

Attached are pics of Shoebill, African Jacana, Dideric Cuckoo, Black-headed Gonolek & Leopard (one of many non-bird ticks).

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Distracted myself a little longer with a few pics from the trip - Red-throated Bee-eater, White-thighed Hornbill, Levaillant's Cuckoo, Rock Pratincole & African Darter.

Apologies for the self-indulgence. Now back to the checklists.......

All the best

Paul

 

[BryanP]

Pacific Screech Owl and story

I tend not to post my latest lifers in this thread mostly out of sheer forgetfulness but thought folks would like this one since it comes with both a story and a picture.

This lifer is a Pacific Screech Owl and is a particularly memorable lifer for all of us who witnessed the following event.

Just last week we were having dinner in a lodge in Caño Negro, Costa Rica. There was only one other couple in the restaurant and they, it turns out were newlyweds.
The owl in question surprised us all by flying into the room and proceeded to beat itself up by flying frantically back and forth and smacking hard into the windows as it did so.

The young man acted fast and managed to gently wrap it with a table cloth against a window where his wife very deftly grasped it from behind and then held it by its tarsus.
When she determined it was not injured she took it outside (with me in tow) and perched it in a bush where it flew to another branch.
Success me thinks thanks to their quick action.
It turns out the young women is a part of an organization that deals with raptor recovery in Cape May NJ.
How lucky is that little owl and how lucky we were to witness both the owl close up and the young woman’s deft handling of the situation.
Memorable indeed.

Bryan
P.S. Oh and since I'm on this thread anyway and before I forget other lifers last week were;

Keel-billed Motmot
Green Hermit
Snowy Cotinga
Striped Cuckoo
Barred Hawk
Ruddy Treerunner
Black-collared Hawk.

 

[Surreybirder]

Distracted myself a little longer with a few pics from the trip - Red-throated Bee-eater, White-thighed Hornbill, Levaillant's Cuckoo, Rock Pratincole & African Darter.

Apologies for the self-indulgence. Now back to the checklists.......

All the best

Paul

Some lovely shots, Paul. I look forward to your trip report!
Ken

 

[birdmeister]

Boreal Chickadee, great looks at the long-staying New Jersey bird!

 

[Tom Mc85]

Eurasian Penduline Tit, at Lodmoor RSPB. Beautiful little bird.

 

[in vitrio]

I must have seen and heard these loads of times before, but never clearly enough or with enough knowledge to ID it definitively. But at Oswestry Hillfort I got lucky as one flew pretty much right overhead, singing away...

...a skylark! And I got a couple of pics before he soared a ludicrous height in the sky, vanishing from view.

I think that's pretty much all the easy ticks done for me, other than nightingale. Sparrowhawk I need to photograph.

 

[osprey123]

Cirl Bunting in the garden!

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

CapercaillieB

 

[timsg80]

Spotted Nutcracker today in Wageningen in the Netherlands. Well worth the long trip for a truly awesome bird.

 

[foresttwitcher]

Steller's Eider - Vadso, Varangerfjord, Norway.

 

[Jacana]

2071. Savi's Warbler

At least 3 males singing and being showy at Hjälstaviken in Sweden today.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Citrine Wagtail and Slate-coloured Junco yesterday.

Rich

 

[dwallace]

Citrine Wagtail at Pilning Wetlands on Friday. This has been a difficult bird to catch up with on the south coast in recent years. I saw the female and assume that Rich saw the male which had also been present on this site before relocating to Wales.

Dave W

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Citrine Wagtail at Pilning Wetlands on Friday. This has been a difficult bird to catch up with on the south coast in recent years. I saw the female and assume that Rich saw the male which had also been present on this site before relocating to Wales.

Dave W

I was looking for the female at Pilning when the male was only 30 miles from my home Dave:eek!:

Rich

 

[Xenospiza]

Brown Bush Warbler in Cherrapunji (Sohra), after about 50 other lifers during my 2nd visit to NE India, including Blyth's Tragopan, Gould's Shortwing, Black-breasted Parrotbill, White-cheeked Partridge, Chestnut-backed, Yellow-throated, Rufous-vented & Western Moustached Laughingthrush, Naga & Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler and Yellow-rumped Honeyguide.

 

[halftwo]

Brown Bush Warbler in Cherrapunji (Sohra), after about 50 other lifers during my 2nd visit to NE India, including Blyth's Tragopan, Gould's Shortwing, Black-breasted Parrotbill, White-cheeked Partridge, Chestnut-backed, Yellow-throated, Rufous-vented & Western Moustached Laughingthrush, Naga & Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler and Yellow-rumped Honeyguide.

Are you writing a trip report, X?

 

[Xenospiza]

Are you writing a trip report, X?

I'm too lazy for that nowadays I'm afraid! We visited well-known sites with Rafik Islam as our guide (booked well in advance!), using Peter Lobo's services.