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  1. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Currently at a life bird stalemate for a while with Yellow-billed Loon at 1,258. Not a bad species to be stuck on, though.
  2. Tiraya

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    Wood Warbler Los Angeles, California ...Technically I've heard one before in the UK, but never saw it.
  3. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    LeConte's sparrow today in Florida.
  4. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Henslow's sparrow, sedge wren and eastern meadowlark today. Sedge wren was walking around my feet! Too bad I couldn't get the camera on it quick enough. Only managed distant specks in the photographs as it flew off :-C
  5. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Ancient murrelet and Pacific wren here in Los Angeles.
  6. Tiraya

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    Medial-shafted king flycatcher Tyrannus x ferticalus https://www.flickr.com/photos/58824548@N04/14575937497/ ...ah just kidding, if only hybrids could be counted (I made that name up by the way, it's a scissor-tailed x western kingbird hybrid I saw today). Though, did see the real deal, so...
  7. Tiraya

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    Redhead at my local park. I had canvasback a few weeks ago too! Got them both now.
  8. Tiraya

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    So ABA finally accepted Nanday/Black-hooded. I was about to write an essay on why it should be included as well! It's doing very well around here in the Malibu State Park area and it has been doing so for many years. Lewis' Woodpecker was a nice addition. Saw a few fly over the distance (ID by...
  9. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    532:Sharp-shinned Hawk 533:Golden-crowned Kinglet
  10. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    530- Yellow-headed Blackbird 531- Tricoloured Blackbird Had a giant flock of blackbirds today including the above two.
  11. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    I'm on 530 now. Added these 5 on a trip to Joshua Tree NP in California over a 3 day period: Cactus Wren Rock Wren Gambel's Quail California Thrasher Townsend's Solitaire (certainly not typical here) Unfortunately no Verdin, Ladder-back Woodpecker, BT sparrow or BT Gnatcatcher.
  12. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Prairie Warbler near Los Angeles. Also got Ruddy Duck at the marina. At 525 species photographed now.
  13. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Pigeon Guillemot, Violet-green Swallow (woot) and Chestnut-backed Chickadee. Possible Northern Rough-winged Swallow too. Yet no sign of any Yellow-billed Magpie despite being in their prime habitat for whatever reason....Maybe they aren't as far south as San Jose after all.
  14. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    My 509th lifer is a Fox Sparrow just down the road here. Saw something skulking in the bushes, thought it was a Fox, then dismissed it as a Song when I saw the pattern on the face but it turns out it was a Fox after all. Had a strange Acciptrid today as well. It was completely dark, much...
  15. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Glaucous-winged Gull. Stupid Surfbirds were not at Marina del Rey. Apparently I'm the only person to have not seen them there for years.
  16. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    I wish!
  17. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Casual trip to the beach today and picked up my targets plus others. -Willet -Marbled Godwit -Western Grebe ^ targets As well as: -Red-breasted Merganser -Red-throated Loon -Eared Grebe -Black Scoter -Surf Scoter Which puts my life list at over 500 now.
  18. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Had a Phainopepla at my local park yesterday. Number 494 I think (am still going through old waterfowl records). The peculiar thing was that I was thinking about seeing one here, which is when a black long-tailed bird popped up |8.|.
  19. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    489- Ring-necked Duck 490- Hermit Thrush At my local park. Was hoping to see the former, but wasn't expecting it. Had a flock of 22 on the little pond. The latter I found via pishing. If I didn't hear that one rustle when it switched branches I never would have seen it. That will go up to 491...
  20. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    More where that came from. Was afraid that the white was going to bleed as it did on my Cabbage White butterfly shots but they turned out fine. And to top it off a nice sunset on the drive back. Yeah, there's other pictures but Photoshop is being too slow for me today.
  21. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    488- Sanderling o:D Been wanting them for so long. They have such a charm. New favourite bird. But on the other side I still have to find a Marbled Godwit, Western+Eared Grebe and Surfbird somewhere. As well as Black Turnstone. Marina Del Rey isn't being nice yet.
  22. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Brewer's Sparrow Western Meadowlark tenative Olive-sided Flycatcher Nashville Warbler Not yet prepared to add Orange-crowned, but my sightings last week seemed a perfect match.
  23. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Adding to my lifers from So Cal, I picked up a Black-crowned Night-heron at a local duck pond. The visit was for my brother's birthday (he's 6). Was not expecting a lifer there at all, especially considering the 50ish birds were all mallards, and many domestic types too.
  24. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    A trip to Rancho Sierra Vista added 3, though I expected more. 44x- Bullock's Oriole (forgot to add this earlier) 446- Cliff Swallow (Tons around car park) 447 - Western Kingbird (as long is it isn't Cassin's....) 448 - Greater Roadrunner
  25. Tiraya

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Good start for first week in CA. 441- Green Heron 442- California Quail Both at Oak Community Park. The former was less expected. I saw a bird fly over the desert area that I thought was a Lapwing sp. or at least some waterbird, but then found this bird on a lampost later on which was clearly...
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