How's Your 2025 List Going? (2 Viewers)

[Nightjar61]

Nice. Which sites did you visit. I loved Uganda

I only had a week, so I did southwestern Uganda, including Mabamba Swamp, Lake Mburo, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and Queen Elizabeth NP.

My first time in East Africa, so it was a wonderful experience.

Dave

 

[Owene]

I only had a week, so I did southwestern Uganda, including Mabamba Swamp, Lake Mburo, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and Queen Elizabeth NP.

My first time in East Africa, so it was a wonderful experience.

Dave

I bet. We didn’t get to queen Elizabeth because of travel restrictions or bwindi but loved mburo and mabamba. So many brilliant birds

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

I was sitting on my computer a few minutes ago and saw a lifer through my window! It was a beautiful hooded oriole drinking from my hummingbird feeder! Sorry for the bad phone photo. I need to clean my window soon! And get a better phone!

44. Hooded oriole

 

[lgonz1008]

(Productive birding in both coasts of Florida)
249. Great Horned Owl
250. Piping Plover
251. Snowy Plover
252. American Oystercatcher
253. Rose-ringed Parakeet
254. Gray Kingbird
255. Red-crowned Amazon
256. Least Tern
257. Magnificent Frigatebird

 

[la_ravachol]

194. Common Swift
195. Willow Warbler
196. European Bee-eater
197. Booted Eagle
198. Common Whitethroat
199. Western Subalpine Warbler
200. Common Redstart
201. Common Reed Warbler
202. Black-winged Stilt

 

[Nightjar61]

Now back from Uganda and birding on home ground, where the birds are familiar but not quite so exotic.

417. Chipping Sparrow
418. Eastern Towhee
419. Brown Thrasher
420. Blue-winged Teal

Dave

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

Went to The Huntington Botanical Gardens again today. I walked around for three hours and a total of 5.2 miles (8.4 kilometers). I saw 20 species and took photos of all of them. I got 6 (edit: 5) lifers! This is the link to my Ebird checklist with all the photos for every species I saw https://ebird.org/checklist/S221962058

45. Band-tailed Pigeon
46. Oak Titmouse (Edit: Disregard wrong id)
47. Northern House Wren
48. American Robin
49. Cedar Waxwing (Dream Lifer! I saw a big flock of 22 of them fly around.)
50. Scaly-breasted Munia

 

[AlexC]

Spring arrivals and passers-through here in LA...

165. Costa's Hummingbird
166. Cackling Goose
167. Forster's Tern

 

[hookem2010]

Retroactively added #133 Pacific loon- seen a couple months ago but took a closer look at my photos and they looked good for the ID. Lifer!
#134 Chimney swift
#135 Great crested flycatcher

 

[OrnithologyDevotee]

Disregard #46. It was just another bushtit. My bad.

 

[Jacana]

A nice mix of spring and local interest in the last two days in the Alentejo of Portugal:

133. European Red-rumped Swallow
134. Western House Martin
135. Pallid Swift
136. Corn Bunting
137. Eurasian Scops Owl
138. Woodchat Shrike
139. Crested Lark
140. Rock Sparrow
141. European Bee-eater
142. Sand Martin
143. Crested Tit
144. Common Waxbill
145. Short-toed Snake Eagle
146. Common Cuckoo
147. Iberian Magpie
148. Black-winged Kite

Plus a few extras that I heard but didn't see, that I hope to get over the next week or so.

 

[qwerty5]

A few new birds yesterday afternoon:

90. Chipping Sparrow
91. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
92. Field Sparrow
93. Brown Thrasher

 

[Jacana]

Three of those "heard onlys" fell today:

149. Woodlark
150. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
151. Common Nightingale

 

[Jacana]

Posted too soon!

152. Booted Eagle

 

[TicoTyler]

A bit of a lull since any new year birds (and haven't been out much in two weeks). Today I added

430. Blue-throated Goldentail (photographed and audio recorded)
431. Uniform Crake (new recorded species for me)
432. Hooded Warbler

 

[hookem2010]

I added #136 Broad-winged hawk today, however I failed to connect with what I believe is the first documented short-tailed hawk nesting pair ever reported in Texas. Their nest is in a restricted area, so the stakeout is probably 1-1.5 km from their approximate nesting site and you just have to hope you catch one of them soaring over the ridgeline. Reported half an hour after my 2 hour effort.

 

[la_ravachol]

I made three attempts at finding Grasshopper Warbler in the last week, a long overdue lifer. Failed every time! The struggle continues. However, the year list continues to grow.

203. Great Bustard
204. Lesser Kestrel
205. Iberian Chiffchaff
206. Greater Short-toed Lark

 

[WalterRayle]

122 Now, still all on foot and on my local patch, already about a month ahead of last year