Reviving from the old DU: What's the latest bird you added to your life list?

[semillama]

For me, it was Black-tailed Gull in Ashtabula, Ohio, and Barnacle Goose in Massachusetts.

[XemaSab]

1. Falcated Duck

[cpwm17]

2. Red-billed Tropicbird from a boat out of San Diego, CA

We saw three on the pelagic trip.

[XemaSab]

3. The Searcher or the Grande?

[cpwm17]

4. The Grande

Here's the trip: http://socaltripreports.com/?p=401

The Red-billed Tropicbird is not to be expected on this trip, but it is one to hope for.

[XemaSab]

5. I went on the overnight pelagic a few years ago

http://www.socalbirding.com/2008tripreports/nov132008sandiego.html

It was a good trip, but accommodations were... tight.

[cpwm17]

6. That's a long trip, and I see you got the Red-billed Tropicbird also

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I don't think I'll ever do a long pelagic trip. Over 15 years ago I did sign up for a couple of 1 1/2 day trips out of Sausalito, CA; but the trips were canceled due to weather. In the 90's, when I lived in Northern California for a few years, I did go out on quite a few regular day trips out of Monterey and Bodega Bay. I did the recent Grande trip while visiting my family in San Diego.

Now I live in Florida which is not good for pelagics.

[dbackjon]

9. I really want to see that one - but a little too far

My friend BJ made the drive twice from San Diego before he saw it.

[XemaSab]

11. I know BJ

[jpak]

7. Bohemian Waxwing

Saw TWO large flocks today.

When it rains it pours!

[semillama]

8. Great!

I'm from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and I've never seen them, even though they occur every winter. This year, when I go there for Christmas, that's my main target bird...

[dbackjon]

10. Nutting's Flycatcher - Bill Williams Delta in Arizona

Also got Rufous-capped Warbler earlier in December in the Santa Rita's - my (close to) birthday lifer.

In 2009 in was Rufous-backed Robin, 2010, Ruddy Ground-Dove

[ge26252se]

12. eagle

[dbackjon]

13. Added two new lifers this weekend

Spotted Owl (adult and juvenile) in Miller Canyon
Black-capped Gnatcatcher in Montosa Canyon

[semillama]

14. Haven't been around for a while, but only added two birds since my last post

Lark Bunting and Bohemian Waxwing, both in Ohio.

(I had to distance myself from political websites to reduce my stress levels and simply because DU can be kind of a time suck)

[Superbot]

15. At the feeder this week

Was a male Nothern Flicker. Two weeks ago had a flock of sandhill cranes fly over the house. I had to run outside to see what was making all that squawking.

Both in Indiana

[dbackjon]

16. Buff-collared Nightjar

Near Madera Canyon, Arizona.

Stunning close looks at male. Heard female calling nearby.

[NM_Birder]

17. Bosque Del Apache-Socorro NM ABA ALERT this past week-end !

Rufous-necked Wood-rail Ecuadorian bird that should not be here for ANY reason !

ABA Alert ! possibly the first time ever seen in the US ! We got the alert via E-Bird, takes a few hours to get there from where we are. 70-80 people there watching, met people from Colorado, Arizona and Texas that drove like animals to get here. Heard about people possibly flying in from all over !


Wonderful Day !

[XemaSab]

18. I think I know some of those people

I have a friend flying in from Florida tonight.

[NM_Birder]

19. My girlfriend is the one who

is trying to change my evil ways and turn me into a bird watcher.

I have to say though, the bird watching is pretty cool, so far it has my attention. But for overall tenacity and obsession, I think most bird watchers beat bird hunters by a mile !

I never knew the extent of the "bird watching world", it sometimes feels like a secret society, kinda like an Urban Special Forces Recon Platoon.

[dbackjon]

20. Saw this Tuesday!

[dbackjon]

21. Blue-footed Booby

Patagonia Lake State Park, Arizona/

Great views of it diving and flying Saturday

[onestepforward]

22. Finally, a Baltimore oriole!

I took this picture yesterday:



I was so excited! He was just as brilliant as the photos I've seen. I've wanted to see one for a very long time

[jpak]

23. Snowy Owl, Black Scoter, Great Cormorant - possible Golden Eagle

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Maine Coast Winter Trip.

List of non-lifers

Common Loon

Harlequin Duck
Golden Eye
Bufflehead
Black Duck
Mallard
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
Common Eider
Long-tailed Duck

Canada Goose

Horned Grebe

Red Tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle

Eastern Bluebird
American Tree Sparrow
Robin
Killdeer

Usual Suspects

Mourning Dove
Raven
Common Crow
Blue Jay
Starling-
Black capped Chickadee

On Earlier Ski Trip

Canada Jay
Boreal Chickadee

[cpwm17]

24. I braved the traffic in south Florida

to finally get a LA SAGRA'S FLYCATCHER. Many winters one will show up somewhere in south Florida. This winter one is still at Matheson Hammock Park, just south of Miami in Coral Gables off of Old Cutler Rd (N25.68228 W80.27177). It is in the park to the south of the small parking lot at the coordinates, to the west of the small lakes,

On the way home, after visiting Everglades NP, I stopped at a gas station in Florida City and saw a COMMON MYNA near my car. It is countable now, so I got two lifers in a few days.

[jpak]

25. Townsend's Solitaire - in Maine

At Florida Lake in Freeport. Less than 5 minutes from L.L. Bean's

[cpwm17]

26. Northern Hawk Owl

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I didn't expect it on my Minnesota Trip. I heard through word of mouth about an area were someone was seeing them. I got a brief distant look at one flying from the top of a tree to the ground.

The next day, nearby, on an early morning walk, one flew close over my head and landed on a distant tree. It was an odd sight: an owl shaped bird flying like a Cooper's Hawk.

[dbackjon]

28. Great bird. I got lucky during the owl invasion of 2004-05 and saw almost 30 of them.

[cpwm17]

30. That's amazing.

I'd love to get a better look at one sometime but I'm reluctant to travel so far north in the winter.

[adirondacker]

27. Northern Shrike in the SW Adirondacks last winter.Spotted twice threatening chickadees by the feeder

[dbackjon]

29. Added Tufted Flycatcher saturday

Made the two mile hike up Ramsey Canyon to see it.

[cpwm17]

31. It showed up just after I passed through

Arizona after visiting my parents in San Diego. I did finally get a Black-capped Gnatcatcher in Florida Canyon while there, a lifer.

[XemaSab]

32. Alder Flycatcher

[dbackjon]

33. Nice - that is one of the code 1's I still need - where did you get it?

[XemaSab]

34. Potter Marsh near Anchorage

[jpak]

35. Western grebe - coastal Maine (Brunswick)

It was posted on ABA Maine blog - made the trip and was not disappointed...

[XemaSab]

36. Marsh Sandpiper and Little Stint

[jpak]

37. Little Egret (a euro-bird)

Seen at Maine Audubon's (solar powered) Gilsland Farm in Falmouth.

[jpak]

38. Ruff - male, brown phase, breeding plumage

Weskeag marsh South Thomaston Maine

Hooray for me!




photo here...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/maine-birds/2GjCd9_zC9g

[jpak]

39. Whip-poor-will - Southern Maine

I've heard whip-poor-wills when I was very young and visiting Southern relatives - they kept us awake ALL night in the big oak tree just outside our bedroom window (which was open because the nights were hot).

Never saw them by day.

Tonight, I went to L.L. Bean in Freeport, then paid a visit my brother that lives nearby.

We were sitting around his backyard at dusk complaining about old age and home improvement projects when my nephew said...

"There'a a bat!".

Which is unusual anywhere now, thanks to White Nose Syndrome.

Then we saw it - it was Hugh!

We speculated it was a Big Brown Bat....until it landed in a tree...and began to "Whip-poor-will! Whip-poor-will!".

Good enough for the Life List for me...

[jpak]

40. Great Black Hawk