How is your 2013 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[Woody1]

Congrats Woody. I see from another thread you've smashed your target:t:

Rich

Thank you
Woody

 

[Bruce Ramsay]

117 Abyssinian Scimitarbill
118 Abyssinian Thrush
119 African Dusky Flycatcher
120 African Fish Eagle
121 African Hoopoe
122 African Jacana
123 African Openbill
124 African Pied Wagtail
125 African Pipit
126 African Sacred Ibis
127 African Spoonbill
128 Anteater Chat
129 Ashy Starling
130 Augur Buzzard
131 Banded Martin
132 Bare-faced Go-Away-Bird
133 Bateleur
134 Beautiful Sunbird
135 Black Crake
136 Black Sparrowhawk
137 Black-and-White Mannikin
138 Black-headed Heron
139 Blacksmith Lapwing
140 Black-winged Kite
141 Black-winged Stilt
142 Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
143 Brimstone Canary
144 Brown Snake Eagle
145 Brown-throated Martin
146 Cape Crow
147 Capped Wheatear
148 Cardinal Quelea
149 Common Bulbul
150 Common Greenshank
151 Common Moorhen
152 Common Ostrich
153 Common Ringed Plover
154 Crested Francolin
155 Crimson-rumped Waxbill
156 Crowned Lapwing
157 D'Arnaud's Barbet
158 Dusky Turtle Dove
159 Eastern Chanting Goshawk
160 Eastern Grey Woodpecker
161 Egyptian Goose
162 Fan-tailed Widowbird
163 Fawn-colored Lark
164 Fischer's Sparrow-Lark
165 Fork-tailed Drongo
166 Golden-winged Sunbird
167 Great White Pelican
168 Greater Blue-eared Starling
169 Greater Flamingo
170 Grey Apalis
171 Grey Crowned Crane
172 Grey Heron
173 Grey Wren-Warbler
174 Grey-backed Fiscal
175 Grey-breasted Spurfowl
176 Grey-capped Social Weaver
177 Grey-headed Gull
178 Grey-headed Kingfisher
179 Hadada Ibis
180 Hamerkop
181 Helmeted Guineafowl
182 Hildebrandt's Francolin
183 Hildebrandt's Starling
184 Horus Swift
185 Kenya Sparrow
186 Kittlitz's Plover
187 Kori Bustard
188 Lappet-faced Vulture
189 Lesser Masked Weaver
190 Lesser Striped Swallow
191 Lilac-breasted Roller
192 Little Bee-eater
193 Little Grebe
194 Little Swift
195 Long-tailed Fiscal
196 Long-tailed Widowbird
197 Long-toed Lapwing
198 Marabou Stork
199 Marico Sunbird
200 Martial Eagle
201 Mourning Collared Dove
202 Namaqua Dove
203 Northern Fiscal
204 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
205 Northern White-crowned Shrike
206 Nubian Woodpecker
207 Pangani Longclaw
208 Parrot-billed Sparrow
209 Pied Crow
210 Pied Kingfisher
211 Pin-tailed Whydah
212 Purple-banded Sunbird
213 Rattling Cisticola
214 Red-and-yellow Barbet
215 Red-bellied Parrot
216 Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
217 Red-billed Oxpecker
218 Red-billed Teal
219 Red-capped Lark
220 Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
221 Red-eyed Dove
222 Red-fronted Barbet
223 Red-fronted Tinkerbird
224 Red-headed Weaver
225 Red-knobbed Coot
226 Red-necked Spurfowl
227 Red-rumped Swallow
228 Red-winged Starling
229 Reed Cormorant
230 Reichenow's Seedeater
231 Ring-necked Dove
232 Rufous Chatterer
233 Rufous-naped Lark
234 Rufous-tailed Weaver
235 Ruppell's Starling
236 Ruppell's Vulture
237 Saddle-billed Stork
238 Scarlet-chested Sunbird
239 Secretarybird
240 Silverbird
241 Slate-colored Boubou
242 Somali Short-toed Lark
243 Southern Ground Hornbill
244 Speckled Mousebird
245 Speckled Pigeon
246 Speckle-fronted Weaver
247 Spectacled Weaver
248 Speke's Weaver
249 Spur-winged Lapwing
250 Squacco Heron
251 Streaky Seedeater
252 Superb Starling
253 Taita Fiscal
254 Taveta Weaver
255 Tawny Eagle
256 Tawny-flanked Prinia
257 Three-banded Plover
258 Tropical Boubou
259 Variable Sunbird
260 Village Weaver
261 Vitelline Masked Weaver
262 Von der Decken's Hornbill
263 Wattled Starling
264 Western Cattle Egret
265 Western Osprey
266 White Stork
267 White-backed Vulture
268 White-bellied Go-away-bird
269 White-breasted Cormorant
270 White-browed Coucal
271 White-browed Robin-Chat
272 White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
273 White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
274 White-faced Whistling Duck
275 White-headed Barbet
276 White-headed Buffalo Weaver
277 White-headed Vulture
278 White-necked Raven
279 Wire-tailed Swallow
280 Yellow-billed Duck
281 Yellow-billed Kite
282 Yellow-billed Oxpecker
283 Yellow-billed Stork
284 Yellow-collared Lovebird
285 Yellow-necked Spurfowl
286 Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
287 Zitting Cisticola


Various locations in Kenya and/or Tanzania in May.

 

[lazza]

my list is now up to 125 yesterday with two lifers

124 Green Sandpiper

125 Great-Crested Pochard

Excellent...two lifers in one go is always a bonus! (although I guess that should be red-crested pochard...?)

 

[lazza]

Well, with 5 weeks to the end of the year, I finally reached my 2012 total last week with the fabulous Lesser Grey Shrike in Northumberland. That takes me to 160 for the UK (2 more than 2012) and 205 globally (the same as 2012).

A bit of comparison of just my UK lists shows that some of the birds missing this year that I saw last year may still be possible before the end of December, so I'm setting my sights on 210 to finish the year...

2013 missing species:
Bean goose
Black redstart
Brent goose
Common crane
Crossbill
Great northern diver
Great skua
Greenland White-fronted goose
Hawfinch
Jack snipe
Little Owl
Little stint
Merlin
Pied flycatcher
Puffin
Spotted Flycatcher
Stilt sandpiper
Yellow-browed warbler

 

[Woody1]

Excellent...two lifers in one go is always a bonus! (although I guess that should be red-crested pochard...?)

Oops thanks yes it should read Red-Crested Pochard

 

[Reader]

I would say definitely no chance with Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher & Stilt Sandpiper. Highly unlikely are Puffin & Little Stint. The others with a bit of luck and seaching for you have a chance with.

John

Well, with 5 weeks to the end of the year, I finally reached my 2012 total last week with the fabulous Lesser Grey Shrike in Northumberland. That takes me to 160 for the UK (2 more than 2012) and 205 globally (the same as 2012).

A bit of comparison of just my UK lists shows that some of the birds missing this year that I saw last year may still be possible before the end of December, so I'm setting my sights on 210 to finish the year...

2013 missing species:
Bean goose
Black redstart
Brent goose
Common crane
Crossbill
Great northern diver
Great skua
Greenland White-fronted goose
Hawfinch
Jack snipe
Little Owl
Little stint
Merlin
Pied flycatcher
Puffin
Spotted Flycatcher
Stilt sandpiper
Yellow-browed warbler

 

[lazza]

I would say definitely no chance with Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher & Stilt Sandpiper. Highly unlikely are Puffin & Little Stint. The others with a bit of luck and seaching for you have a chance with.

John

Thanks. Yes, there are certainly some that will stay missing from the 2013 list for sure. I'm pretty hopeful to get another goose or two on the list before the end of the year, and think crossbill should be doable, and maybe 1 or 2 surprises to get me up to 210

 

[Bruce Ramsay]

288 Eastern Osprey
289 Western Corella
290 Nankeen Kestrel
291 Regent Parrot
292 White-necked Heron

From south-west Western Australia

 

[Bruce Ramsay]

293 Torresian Crow
294 Pied Cormorant
295 Noisy Friarbird
296 Blue-faced Honeyeater
297 Fuscous Honeyeater
298 Royal Spoonbill
299 Caspian Tern
300 Far Eastern Curlew
301 Peaceful Dove
302 Black Kite
303 Scarlet Myzomela
304 Magpie Goose
305 Rainbow Bee-eater
306 Bar-shouldered Dove
307 Azure Kingfisher
308 Sacred Kingfisher
309 Short-tailed Shearwater
310 Pied Butcherbird
311 Australasian Figbird
312 Grey Goshawk

From Australia - Tweed Heads, New South Wales and/or Gold Coast, Queensland and/or Sunshine Coast, Queensland and/or Tin Can Bay area, Queensland. In mid-October.

 

[Nightjar61]

This afternoon a walk through the snowy woods netted me a new bird for the year, so I'm now up to 340.

340. Winter Wren

That's the last of the regularly occurring birds around here that I haven't seen (other than Great Horned Owl, and I'm not sure where to find one), so unless something unusual shows up during the next month, or I find an owl, that may be the last addition to this year's list.

Dave

 

[Woody1]

This years list as gone up to 128 today with

126 Marsh Harrier

127 Eider ( female)= lifer

128 Black Throated Diver= Lifer

 

[Nightjar61]

340. Winter Wren

That's the last of the regularly occurring birds around here that I haven't seen (other than Great Horned Owl, and I'm not sure where to find one), so unless something unusual shows up during the next month, or I find an owl, that may be the last addition to this year's list.

Since that last post, something unusual did show up.

341. Snowy Owl

A bird I never expected to see in West Virginia, but one was found in the fields of a nearby farm. The non-birder farmer contacted a birder he knows and word got out. It is part of a huge invasion of Snowy Owls now taking place on the northeast coast of the United States and the Maritime provinces of Canada.

Dave

 

[Gill Osborne]

Thanks. Yes, there are certainly some that will stay missing from the 2013 list for sure. I'm pretty hopeful to get another goose or two on the list before the end of the year, and think crossbill should be doable, and maybe 1 or 2 surprises to get me up to 210

You're not the only one with some glaring omissions....mine include such corkers as Puffin, Redstart, Whitethroat, Short-eared & Little Owl, Crossbill, Spoonbill, Nuthatch, Jay, Red Grouse, Golden & Grey Plover, Stock Dove, Barnacle Goose & Black-tailed Godwit!!! :smoke: In my defence it's been a horribly tight year with finances virtually non-existent so half the time I couldn't get out as we needed the few dregs of fuel to get Neil to work and for a lot of the summer I didn't have any binoculars as I had to sell mine on ebay to get some cash to buy food! :-C Finally managed to get a job which is great in that it's part-time so allows lots of time to go birding but not-so-great in that money is still fairly tight :smoke: By scrimping all summer and putting a few pennies away I've FINALLY managed to get a cheap pair of Opticrons so am now working on making 150 before year's end. Just 16 to go :t:

As to your list.....Brent Goose are at Holy Island...a Great Northern Diver was in Seahouses harbour on Sunday...there's been a Black Redstart hanging around the warden's hut at the Long Nanny for a few weeks now (still there on Sunday morning according to two birders I spoke to at Stag Rocks on Sunday afternoon)...Merlin are often around the causeway at Holy Island....Crossbill: there were some reported at Cragside last week but I'm sure they're also pretty common around Thrunton Woods and Kielder.

Today brought another two to my year total

133: Goosander
134: Black-necked Grebe

 

[JeffMoh]

Three days in the Rio Grande Valley helped my list and added 3 lifers:

296 Plain Chachalaca
297 Least Grebe
298 Stilt Sandpiper
299 Caspian Tern
300 Common Ground Dove
301 White-tipped Dove
302 Eastern Screech-Owl
303 Common Pauraque (LIFER)
304 Ringed Kingfisher (LIFER)
305 Green Kingfisher (LIFER)
306 Black Phoebe
307 Tropical Kingbird
308 Green Jay
309 Verdin
310 Clay-colored Thrush
311 Curve-billed Thrasher
312 Long-billed Thrasher
313 Yellow-throated Warbler
314 Olive Sparrow
315 Altamira Oriole

Jeff

 

[Kirk Roth]

Indiana year list - 2013

Right now I'm one bird shy of the state-year record. Waiting for that Harris's Sparrow to show up for #312. B

 

[WildlifeLog]

Hi All.

I'd love to see a waxwing. Haven't seen one yet this year.


All the best,

Steve

 

[Reader]

Not likley to either as it appears that their berry crop hasn't failed so this winter only a handful have made it over here so far.

John

Hi All.

I'd love to see a waxwing. Haven't seen one yet this year.


All the best,

Steve

 

[Reader]

I went over to Holland on Sunday to see the Hawk Owl. What a stunning bird. We also saw some Bar-headed Geese over there and as they are Catergory C birds over there then I can count them on my list.

334. Hawk Owl
335. Bar-headed Goose.

A few photos of the Hawk Owl below.

John

 

[JeffMoh]

Right now I'm one bird shy of the state-year record. Waiting for that Harris's Sparrow to show up for #312. B

That's impressive!
I hope you get the Harris's.

Jeff

 

[Bruce Ramsay]

313 White-winged Tern
314 Whiskered Tern
both at Lake Nakuru, Kenya

315 Red-billed Hornbill
at Tarangire, Tanzania

May 2013