Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (5 Viewers)

[Pluvius]

In the last week I have had quite a few lifers
Dartford Warbler
Pomerine Skua
Nightingale
Nightjar
Tree Pipit
Wood Lark
Garden Warbler
Hobby
Cettis Warbler
Avocet
Little Ringed Plover
Stone Curlew
Turtle Dove
and finally Little Tern

 

[Atricapilla]

Two lifers last week;
Sanderling
Roller

 

[Reader]

I have just got back from a very hot and dry two weeks in Lesvos where I managed one lifer. Ruppel's Warbler.

John

 

[MKinHK]

a week doing a survey near Hangzhou in China gave me Short-tailed Parrotbill and a quartet of Rusty Laughingthushes.

I will post more in the vacations section shortly.

Cheers
Mike

 

[Hrafn]

A had a nice week two weeks ago.. added to my lifelist:

Sedge Warbler
Bewick's Swan
White-winged Scoter
Stock Dove (3rd for Iceland)
Mandarin Duck
Purple Heron (2nd for Iceland)
Surf Scoter
Steller's Eider
and of course a Beluga Whale(I am told it's the 7th for Iceland. First in 70 years).. Even though that's not a bird I think it's worth mentioning.. pictures and text here: http://www.gaviatravel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=556&Itemid=26

 

[Macswede]

Saw a nice Black-tailed Godwit at my local patch yesterday.
Graham

 

[birderbf]

Had Hooded and Cerulean Warblers as well as Yellow-throated Vireos yesterday at Doodletown, NY.

 

[Xenospiza]

Moustached Warbler, and some 50+ others (some a lot more spectacular) in Kazakhstan.

 

[J Moss]

2 today.

A pair of Wood Warblers in the New Forest
An American Golden Plover on my local patch

Jason

 

[Conorbirda2]

Marmora's Warblers in Majorca last week. And red-knobbed coot!!

 

[Macswede]

Temminck's Stints at Hjälstaviken yesterday. I'm fairly sure I've seen them previously but this was the first time I was 100% sure they weren't Little Stints.
Graham

 

[gthang]

Most recent life bird was a Blackburnian Warbler in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. The breeding male bird was beautiful, with the flaming orange throat.

This is #135 on my life list.

 

[J Moss]

Kentish Plover, today at Church Norton

Life list now 188

Jason

 

[JeffMoh]

Effortless Lifer

I just moved my U.S. life list from 388 to 389, without seeing a single bird. How? Well, in March I saw a Black-crested Titmouse on my way from Houston to the Rio Grande Valley. According to my edition of Sibley, this didn't count as a lifer because it was only a sub-species of Tufted Titmouse. (They had been regarded as separate species until 2002.) Now I find that the Black-crested is once again recognized as a species!

This discovery doesn't change my 2007 list, though, because I haven't yet seen a Tufted this year. (I last saw one in October.) It's hard to believe that I have reached 185 species so far this year without seeing a Tufted. I read somewhere that West Nile Virus has reduced the number of Tufted in some areas, and I starting to think that this is true of southeast Texas.

Jeff

 

[Henstooth]

This week has been bril for me.

Spoonbill
Sedge Warbler
Hobby
Marsh Harrier
Linnet
Meadow Pippit
Whitethroat

This Year..
Golden Eagle
Dipper
Goosander
Treecreeper
Wheatear
Whooper Swan

 

[ChicotDave]

Toledo Bend South

Saw a scissor tail flycatcher.

 

[MKinHK]

Gray Bunting and Japanese Wagtail last week in Japan.

 

[Sir William]

Eastern Bluebird, finally!

 

[J Moss]

Nightjar, the other day.
Red Necked Phalarope and Little Ringed Plover a few days before.

Now on 191

Jason

 

[kittykat23uk]

Well, I can't be certain as I'm afraid I don't really keep a life list any more but I'm pretty sure that both Purple Heron and Bittern were lifers for me (although I may have seen bittern once before but I can't recall).

ETA: does your life list include only your home country or the whole world?