How's Your 2023 List Going? (3 Viewers)

[lgonz1008]

(Home)
207. Gray Kingbird [Spring is finally here!]

 

[Nightjar61]

I was off work today for Good Friday, so of course I went birding. I added three birds to my Year List.

109. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
110. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
111. Blue-headed Vireo

Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Two new birds for the year this morning.

112. Solitary Sandpiper
113. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Dave

 

[lgonz1008]

(Key Largo)
208. Black-whiskered Vireo

(Miami Beach)
209. Blue-crowned Parakeet

 

[Nightjar61]

Last night as I was getting ready for bed, I heard owls in the woods behind the house. Birder that I am, I grabbed by spotlight and bird call app, and headed out. After a bit, I called in an owl which sat perched overhead while I was able to get great looks.

114. Barred Owl

Dave

 

[Steve Lister]

Approaching respectability ( the first page on BUBO) after my second out-of-county trip today with mates up in the Yorkshire Dales.
Red Grouse, Black Grouse, Grey Partridge, Ring Ouzel, Dipper, Spoonbill and Willow Tit take me up to 154.

 

[la_ravachol]

These since Friday. The Cuckoo was incidental in Segovia, but the rest were in Rivas-Vaciamadrid. Pleased to find Ferruginous Duck today as it's uncommon here and I usually only see it once locally each year.

193. Common Swift
194. Spectacled Warbler
195. Common Cuckoo
196. Eurasian Wryneck
197. Great Reed Warbler
198. Ferruginous Duck

 

[la_ravachol]

I broke the 200 mark at a windy Santillana reservoir today. Kentish Plover is rare for Madrid.

199. Osprey
200. Kentish Plover
201. Woodchat Shrike

 

[lgonz1008]

(Home)
210. Barn Swallow

 

[Jacana]

147. Water Pipit
148. Common House Martin
149. Northern Wheatear
150. Alpine Chough

From this morning in Somiedo National Park. The weather wasn't fantastic so I missed most of the mountain specialties.

 

[Nightjar61]

Two spring migrants added to the year List this morning.

115. House Wren
116. Green Heron

Dave

 

[Jon Turner]

Moving right along with the Spring: Hoopoe, Manx Shearwater, Willow Warbler, Little Owl, Barn Owl, House Martin, Little Gull, Little Ringed Plover, Tree Pipit, Woodlark, Red-legged Partridge, Whimbrel, Sandwich Tern, Corn Bunting, Stone Curlew, Lesser Yellowlegs, Black-crowned Night Heron, Pied Flycatcher. 169.

 

[lgonz1008]

(Picayune Strand State Forest)
211. Red-headed Woodpecker
212. Eastern Bluebird

(South Miami Area)
213. Chimney Swift

 

[Nightjar61]

A nice selection of spring migrants today.

117. Black-throated Green Warbler
118. Yellow-throated Warbler
119. Yellow-throated Vireo
120. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

The hummingbird came to my feeder which I put up a few days ago. It was the earliest one I've ever seen in this area by six days.

Dave

 

[la_ravachol]

Since I go by the eBird list, I've had minus one from my year list since last posting as eBird has changed the exotic status of Black Swan locally from 'provisional' to 'escaped'. I never understood why it was listed as 'provisional' in the first place but I don't argue.

I had a good day on Saturday adding three species at Santillana again - waders finally arriving in better numbers and variety (though to be honest a fabulous view of a hare trumped the birds for me). Today was relatively poor on the bird front but did manage to add Greater Short-toed Lark. The highlight today was surely witnessing a Montpellier snake predating a rabbit right in front of me. Very impressive! And unexpected. If a little bit traumatising...

201. Sanderling
202. Common Greenshank
203. Common Ringed Plover
204. Greater Short-toed Lark

 

[Jacana]

Today in Gijón:

151. Pallid Swift
152. Sandwich Tern

Gijón is one of the sites on the North Coast of Spain which has acquired (or recently discovered) a small colony of Pallid Swifts, which are otherwise an uncommon species this far north.

 

[Tero]

Probably the latest in the past 8 springs it took me to get to 100

61​	Franklin's Gull
62​	Eastern Meadowlark
63​	Western Meadowlark
64​	Sandhill Crane
65​	Great-tailed Grackle
66​	Pied-billed Grebe
67​	Common Grackle
68​	Green-winged Teal
69​	Wilson's Snipe
70​	Eastern Phoebe
71​	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
72​	Purple Martin
73​	Tree Swallow
74​	Common Loon
75​	Double-crested Cormorant
76​	Fox Sparrow
77​	Blue-winged Teal
78​	Savannah Sparrow
79​	Ring-necked Duck
80​	Great Blue Heron
81​	Great Egret
82​	Baird's Sandpiper
83​	Chipping Sparrow
84​	Cooper's Hawk
85​	Lesser Yellowlegs
86​	Vesper Sparrow
87​	Northern Bobwhite
88​	Lincoln's Sparrow
89​	Brown Creeper
90​	Orange-crowned Warbler
91​	Hudsonian Godwit
92​	Least Sandpiper
93​	Pectoral Sandpiper
94​	Loggerhead Shrike
95​	House Wren
96​	Northern Pintail
97​	Forster's Tern
98​	Field Sparrow
99​	Eastern Towhee
100​	White-throated Sparrow
101​	American Wigeon
102​	Brown Thrasher

 

[Nightjar61]

The swifts have arrived. I saw at least seven over town as I was coming home from work.

121. Chimney Swift

Dave

 

[la_ravachol]

A very good day today adding four year ticks plus a lifer (first one of the year)! Also stumbled across a Melodious Warbler in an unusual spot during a work break a couple of days ago. Today also brought another close encounter with a snake (albeit a much less intimidating one). I inadvertently flushed a Heron and in the process saved a fortunate Viperine Water Snake from being dinner.

205. Melodious Warbler
206. Whinchat
207. Common Whitethroat
208. Spotted Redshank
209. Eurasian Spoonbill
210. Temminck's Stint

 

[Nightjar61]

Today's additions to the Year List included a thrush and a bunch of warblers.

122. Wood Thrush
123. Black-and-white Warbler
124. Ovenbird
125. Hooded Warbler
126. Palm Warbler
127. Yellow Warbler

Dave