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  1. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    So that's birding done for 2019! 578 birds and 284 lifers. Don't expect to be topping this year for quite some time... A few stats for to sum up the year: Year ticks (lifers) per country: USA: 281 (158) UK: 148 (3) Costa Rica: 117 (105) Armenia: 28 (16) Netherlands: 2 (1) Austria: 1 (1)...
  2. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    28/12/2019 - Manuel Antonio Last day in Costa today, and spent the morning with the guide at a trail near the hotel. I should point out that I wasn't on a birding tour, just a regular tour group thingy. However, by chance, the guide was also a birder and a professional bird guide! Think he...
  3. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    27/12/2019 - Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica Birded quite a few different spots today in the sweltering heat; its very hot on the Costa Rican coast!!! Spent the morning in the Manuel Antonio reserve; fabulous place, but much too busy for proper leisurely birding :/ Lots of hummingbirds though; saw...
  4. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    26/12/2019 - Monteverde & Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica Back to the Ecological Reserve this morning; guide volunteered to take me and one of the other tourists down there as he knew I was having trouble finding and IDing the LBJs in the rainforest ;) 548. * Cabanis's Wren 549. * Rufous-Capped...
  5. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    25/12/2019 - Monteverde,Costa Rica Up to the Cloud Forest on Christmas Day! My first chance at seeing a quetzal; one of my Big 3 target birds worldwide (the others being Wallcreeper and Australian Magpie). Actually quite difficult to find things in the cloud forest; an hour and a half guided...
  6. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    24/12/2019 - La Fortuna & Monteverde, Costa Rica Up at dawn to spend a couple of hours at the Bogarin trail in La Fortuna, where they leave fruit out to attract a whole host of tropical stuff! 512. * Grey-Headed Chachalaca 513. * Ruddy Ground Dove 514. * Rufous-Naped Wood-Rail 515. *...
  7. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    23/12/2019 - Los Chiles, Costa Rica First stop this morning was at Cano Negro up near the border with Nicaragua. Took a boat down the river to see what we could see, and I got my first big target species of the trip: great potoo! Fantastic bird! 498. * Grey-Breasted Martin 499. * Snail Kite...
  8. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    22/12/2019 - Costa Rica First day of travelling in Costa Rica yielded my new record for most lifers in a day (sorry Corpus Christi!). First few birds from the list came from a break in the drive at a fruit market in Las Minas in extreme western Limon Province: 479. * Social Flycatcher 480. *...
  9. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    Welp, I got a *lot* of birds to add over the last week or so! Apparently it's really easy to add birds to the list in Central America... 21/12/2019 - San Jose, Costa Rica First full day of my trip to Costa Rica was spent birding a few sites in the capital. Not the easiest place to bird, but...
  10. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    Been a slow start to December... but that should change soon ;) 14/12/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA My first Christmas Bird Count today, which is apparently a thing American birders do! The whole Lubbock area was relatively quiet, but I did get one new bird for the year list: 461. Short-Eared Owl
  11. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    30/11/2019 - Palmyra, NJ, USA & Alnwick, PA, USA A last day of East Coast birding today, going for a couple of rare West-coast birds that have showed up over here. I guess it would have been easier for me to wait to see some of these birds in Texas, but a lifer's a lifer ;) . First to Palmyra...
  12. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    29/11/2019 - Smyrna, DE, USA A trip down to Bombay Hook today yielded a lot of good birds, including 2 lifers and 2 US ticks (Dunlin and Tundra Swan). Maybe if the IOC re-splits Bewick's Swan again in the future, those 2 lifers will become three ;) 455. * American Black Duck 456. * Swamp Sparrow
  13. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    27/11/2019 - Doylestown, PA, USA Going to visit family in Pennsylvania for this Thanksgiving thing that Americans do. Not really sure what that entails yet, but it was also entail some East Coast birding... got 1 lifer from an afternoon in Peace Valley Park in Doylestown: 454. *...
  14. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    23/11/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA Hmm, another slightly dubious one today from Lubbock cemetery. Massive grey-ish raptor flushed from distant trees by blue jays and flew off purposefully along the ground. Well, if it looks like an owl... 453. * Great Horned Owl
  15. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    17/11/2019 - Umbarger, TX, USA One more lifer from the 2nd day of the trip; a shrike which has been reported at Buffalo Lake for a week or so now. Found it just as we were ready to give up: 452. * Northern Shrike
  16. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    16/11/2019 - Spearman, TX, USA Off for a weekend birding the upper Texas panhandle! Hit several sites today, but pretty much all the best birds (including the two lifers) were at our first stop at Lake Palo Duro (which confusingly is nowhere near Palo Duro Canyon): 450. * Harris's Sparrow...
  17. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    11/11/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA A bit of an interesting one today. Popped into Clapp Park on the way back from a medical appointment, and was rather surprised to find an empid flycatcher! All empid flycatchers should be long gone from Lubbock by this point, which already made this sighting...
  18. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    9/11/2019 - Buffalo Springs, TX, USA *sigh* ... are all my merlin sightings doomed to be dubious? A small, sleek, grey raptor swooped down onto a prairie dog town on the drive back from Buffalo Springs, missed whatever it was aiming for, and immediately flew off low. Definitely not right for...
  19. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    8/11/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA A pre-work trip to one of the city parks to look for gulls yielded two more for the life list; won't get too excited about the lifer, it's one that I assumed would just happen eventually ;) 446. * Ross's Goose 447. Bonaparte's Gull
  20. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    2/11/2019 - Lubbock area, TX, USA Another full day's birding today. Up way before dawn to go see some resident owls in Crosby county. I normally only count birds that I definitively see and, while we heard the owls very close at one point, it's not so clear that I saw them. Maybe I saw a...
  21. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    21/10/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA I've been hunting high and low for this one all autumn, so of course I find it on my walk into work, and of course its on a day when I didn't bring my camera! Still, good to have this 'common' fall migrant sighted at last. 443. * Nashville Warbler Summary for...
  22. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    20/10/2019 - Becton, TX, USA Cracking day's birding today with a local birder friend at the playas in the northeast corner of Lubbock county. Plenty of life, year and country ticks, and a whole host of rarities to boot! I really need to get me a car... 437. * Long-Billed Dowitcher 438. *...
  23. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    19/10/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA A full day's birding today in honour of the eBird big day! Ended up with 46 species over 4 sites... probably could have gotten a fair few more if I'd remembered to include a playa lake on my route, but c'est la vie! Three lifers among today's tally; one from...
  24. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    13/10/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA Down to the cemetery today to see if the recent Northerly winds and cold weather had brought back some of the winter birds; and they had! Absolutely heaving with birds, including many I haven't seen since February/March time and 1 lifer. 433. * Red-Naped Sapsucker
  25. rylirk

    Rylirk's 2019 list

    So once again I discovered there was a bird I forgot to add to the list. Again, rather than go back and update all the numbers, I'm just going to add it here. I've updated the totals for March to include this one. 3/3/2019 - Lubbock, TX, USA 431. Cooper's Hawk Now onto the birds I actually...
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