Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (12 Viewers)

[dafi]

Great Egret two weeks ago, totaly impressed me when it spooked a heron.What a great bird.

 

[Otto McDiesel]

Gyr Falcon - the white morph bird at Stepper Point Cornwall 9th March. A wonderful moment for me !

Not sure I can eclipse it.

Yes you can, when you see an Imperial Eagle taking a fox.

 

[Atricapilla]

Three in two days:~
Purple heron out at one of the local village marshes
Bittern on my patch
Collared flycatcher in the garden this morning.
Brilliant!!!

 

[Storm-Petrel]

Caspian tern at Laguna Atascosa NWR at 3-17-07
my 220th lifer. (ive only been birding 2 yrs)

 

[Pete Mella]

Not a very exciting one, but finally got Brambling at the weekend. Checking every chaffinch on a walk with the in-laws in Cheshire paid dividends!

 

[Nicky mwangi]

My last lifer was the globally threatened and kenyas endemic Hindes babbler,i went birding in the central kenya[Nyeri November 2006]with no expectations of having it on my checklist but there they were actually a familly of seven,their calls ,,,ever thought of chhpp-krwwk-krwwk-ke-keke-ke![do it like rapping],there you go now,exactly like that.

 

[Storm-Petrel]

my last lifer was either a ringed turtle dove or a eurasian collared dove that i got while running at the track. it was foraging on the football field. Since i cant decide between the 2 species im not going to count it. So I guess my last lifer is the Caspian Tern

 

[Reader]

A few days out in Scotland with Steve Lister got me a bird I thought I would never see, Parrot Crossbill. Thanks to Steve for spotting three of the little beauties.

John

 

[Steve Lister]

A few days out in Scotland with Steve Lister got me a bird I thought I would never see, Parrot Crossbill. Thanks to Steve for spotting three of the little beauties.

John

Don't mention it John - thanks for the 1816 miles driving!

 

[Reader]

Don't mention it John - thanks for the 1816 miles driving!

Err!! 1819 to be exact. :-O

BTW have you noticed the Surf Scoter has been seen again at Largo Bay?

John

 

[d.steeley]

Cirl Bunting, Prawle Point, Devon last week.

Dave

 

[Mars4096]

Red Crossbill. Got some very good looks of some juveniles late March. Red Crossbills have been around in low numbers all winter and this was likely the last chance of the winter season to observe them. Several years before I may have seen a Red Crossbill but this sighting was unconfirmed.

 

[d.steeley]

Me again, Tree Sparrow at Eyebrook Reservoir today.

Dave

 

[sylvia staffs]

Marbled Duck Frampton-on-Severn Gloucstershire today!!!!!!

B

Sylvia

 

[J Moss]

Red Kite, today at Titchwell

 

[OwlTalon]

Lincoln's Sparrow! Hempstead Lake State Park!!

 

[Accipiter91]

White-eyed Vireo

 

[Storm-Petrel]

Eurasian Collared Dove

 

[birdieboy123]

A Stone-curlew today in Lincolnshire, spent 3 hours looking at the top of its head as it was sat down in grass, but then it stood up for a few minutes for a stretch and a scratch giving good views making the wait worthwhile

 

[Cyclops]

Mine was quite a pleasant surprise for me. While at sea on an old tug at Scarborough last year I saw my very first Gannet! And not just one, but a few flew over! We were a few miles out at sea, so I wonder where their nearest breeding site would be to Scarborough?