Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (4 Viewers)

[idaho john]

and...

the results of this past weekend -

Lazuli Bunting...very pretty fellow! And what a singer (evidently in dire need of female companionship)!

and

Bullock's Oriole...pretty spectacular.

At some point, this will all slowdown but right now I am like a newborn, every day it's something new!

Thanks...

John

 

[lazza]

Short-toed treecreepers in the trees in Fernay-Voltaire, France.

 

[Ecuadorrebel]

Black-breasted Puffleg at Yanacocha Reserve in Ecuador, yesterday. Many years searching for it but no luck until yesterday.

 

[Divebird]

River Warbler, last week, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

[Rob_D]

Two yesterday. At the in-laws small farm near La Fortuna in west of Santander, Colombia. This Russet-throated Puffbird which my wife's 8 year-old nephew spotted for me. Also cracking views of a Savanna Hawk carrying a frog in its beak and circling over the fish-ponds.

 

[JTweedie]

I'm just back from a week in Shetland and I got 5 lifers:

Storm Petrel
Great Skua
Arctic Skua
Long-tailed Skua
Red-necked Phalarope

This brings my British list up to 176.

 

[swankyspoon]

Cooper's Hawk.

Got a nice view of it too, feeding on a small bird on a low-hanging branch. It sat there for a few minutes.

 

[lulubelle]

Black-tailed Godwit - in Texas!!! Woohoo!

 

[Divebird]

Bonaparte,s Gull, Texel, The Netherlands today.

 

[swankyspoon]

Red-Bellied Woodpecker (When you're new, there are so many new birds to find!)

 

[Keith Dickinson]

European roller in my home county as well, doubly satisfying.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Indian cuckoo at a lagoon along the Yangtse near Wuhu.

 

[Dom F]

Black-fronted Dotterel at Knuckey Lagoons near Darwin taking my Australian list to 172 since we emigrated on 19th March!

 

[Vilasy]

White breasted cormorant is weekend, while out at a zoo (the bird wasn't in the zoo, there was a colony over the fence!) I must have been the only person at the zoo ignoring the exhibits and staring at the trees by the lake.

 

[Enji]

Finally managed to see a Penduline Tit last week. They have been eluding me for years, but haveing learned about a nest on Öland it was easy to find the male close by.
And then, just to make things even better, I found another one at Ottenby on the same island, this one showing superbly. Brilliant!

 

[idaho john]

and...

Yesterday I finally spotted...and identified a Northern Flicker. For some reason this bird has been difficult for me to find, even though I live in the right habitat. Very satisfying. I was looking for warblers near an area of old wood that has been abandoned and here she was.

Continuing on.

John

 

[swankyspoon]

Yesterday I finally spotted...and identified a Northern Flicker. For some reason this bird has been difficult for me to find, even though I live in the right habitat. Very satisfying. I was looking for warblers near an area of old wood that has been abandoned and here she was.

Continuing on.

John

Northern Flickers are great! We had a nesting pair on our apartment development this year.

Also, new lifer for me. Eastern Kingbird.

Edit: And another! Saw a Killdeer today!

 

[SueO]

Just back from a month long visit home to California. Spotted two Wood Storks from the cab on the way to Panama City from the airport. First one was on the ground in a marshy area with a couple of Snowy Egrets. As we drove by, I said, "What was that? It looked like a stork!" A few miles from the city, I saw another in flight and there was no doubt about ID. Wood Stork #940

 

[arjacee]

Saw a Glossy Ibis today. Pretty rare where we are!

 

[Tred]

Upland sandpiper on the 2nd.