ZooChat Big Year 2017

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Macaw16 said:
A trip to the Yorkshire Dales and Teesdale allowed me to add a few (28-30/5/2017):

112. Little Owl Athene noctua
113. European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
114. Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
115. Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
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A bird which has been seen a few times recently in my garden, but only today have I managed to see it (22/6/2017):

116. Stock Dove Columba oenas
 
Hix said:
163. Raffles Malkoha
164. Greater Sand Plover
165. Sanderling
166. Wood Sandpiper
167. Common Redshank
168. Paddyfield Pipit

:p

Hix
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169. Australian Pratincole
170. White-faced Heron

:p

Hix
 
Hevden said:
Two more from idle valley yesterday

188. Turtle dove
189. Garden warbler
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A good couple of hours around south stack, Anglesey added quite a few more. Surprisingly there were no terns at Cemlyn bay as the colony has been abandoned due to excessive predation apparently by otters.

190. Guillemot
191. Razorbill
192. Puffin
193. Chough
194. Rock pipit
195. Fulmar
196. Peregrine
197. Shag
 
LaughingDove said:
I have been in the UK for the last few days on a school trip so whilst I was not able to actually look for any wildlife particularly, being my first visit to the UK this year, I was able to see some of the more common UK-but-not-Poland species:

435) Carrion Crow
436) Rose-ringed Parakeet
437) Canada Goose
438) Egyptian Goose

39) Eastern Grey Squirrel
40) European Rabbit
41) Fallow Deer
42) Field Vole
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Today I decided to try yet again to find a Black Stork and again I failed despite traveling to a location where they're supposed to be quite reliable. I'm beginning to think the whole species is made up just to play a joke on me. :p

There was other cool stuff around though:
439) Red-backed Shrike
440) Common Grasshopper-warbler
441) Great Grey Shrike
And another really nice species seen was a Hoopoe which was my first clear and photographable sighting in Europe and my second sighting ever in Europe, though I saw the species earlier in the year in Thailand.

And the afterwards I visited a location about an hour's walk away from my house because I had heard that there was a breeding pair of Little Bitterns around there, which turned out to be correct!

442) Little Bittern
443) Syrian Woodpecker
444) European Serin
 
Spent today at Chester playing zoo tour guide for my parents - but managed a sneaky mammal addition!

Mammals:
22. House Mouse - Mus musculus

Amused to note that the (excellent) recent WildGuides book 'Britains' Mammals', in its 'Where to Look' section for House Mouse, specifically recommends zoos (alongside farms and the London Underground) as good places to see the species.
 
final two for the month, with a combination of insular honeyeater and European accentor which only makes sense in New Zealand.

594) Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
595) Hedge sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
 
and the monthly round-up.

TLD seems not to have any mammals. I'm not sure if this is his oversight or mine, or maybe he's just decided that mammals are too uninteresting.


BIRDS:

Chlidonias – 595
LaughingDove – 444
robmv – 217
Hevden – 197
boof – 187
Ituri – 180
Maguari – 172
Hix – 170
DesertRhino150 – 144
Vision – 136
Zoo Tycooner FR – 136
GerbenElzinga – 134
lintworm – 119
KevinVar – 117
Macaw16 – 116
TeaLovingDave – 115
jbnbsn99 – 111
Fireplume – 108
vogelcommando – 90
animalszoos – 80
savethelephant – 80
ThylacineAlive – 79
Pleistohorse – 54
zooboy28 – 48
BeardsleyZooFan – 40
animal_expert01 – 40


MAMMALS:

Chlidonias – 83
Giant Panda – 49
LaughingDove – 42
lintworm – 25
Maguari – 22
DesertRhino150 – 21
Zoo Tycooner FR – 17
savethelephant – 16
animalszoos – 14
Hix – 14
Vision – 13
Fireplume – 12
Macaw16 – 11
Pleistohorse – 11
ThylacineAlive – 11
Ituri – 9
animal_expert01 – 7
GerbenElzinga – 6
KevinVar – 6
BeardsleyZooFan – 6
vogelcommando – 1


HERPTILES:

LaughingDove – 34 Herptiles total (23 Reptiles, 11 Amphibians)
Ituri – 13 Herptiles total (11 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
Hix – 13 Herptiles total (13 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
animal_expert01 – 9 Herptiles total (8 Reptiles, 1 Amphibians)
Maguari – 6 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
ThylacineAlive – 6 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 4 Amphibians)
Fireplume – 5 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
DesertRhino150 – 4 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
Vision – 4 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
Macaw16 – 3 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
lintworm – 2 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
KevinVar – 2 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)


FISH:

Hix – 271
DesertRhino150 – 7
Maguari – 6
animal_expert01 – 6
Fireplume – 1


INVERTEBRATES:

Maguari – 58 assorted
DesertRhino150 – 39 assorted (17 lepidopterans, 10 hymenopterans, 12 odonatans)
Hix – 21 assorted
animal_expert01 – 3 assorted
ThylacineAlive – 2 lepidopterans
Fireplume – 1 lepidopteran
 
Mammals:
1. Masked Shrew
2. House Mouse
3. Brown Lemming
4. Northern Red-backed Vole
5. North American Red Squirrel
6. North American Porcupine
7. River Otter
8. Red Fox
9. Arctic Fox
10. Brown Bear
11. Polar Bear
12. Moose
13. Caribou
14. Musk Ox
15. Ringed Seal

Birds:
1. Greater White-fronted Goose
2. Snow Goose
* Snow Goose / White-fronted Goose Hybrid
* Blue Goose morph
3. Brant
4. Cackling Goose
5. Canada Goose
6. Trumpeter Swan
7. Tundra Swan
8. American Wigeon
9. Mallard
10. Northern Shoveler
11. Northern Pintail
12. Greater Scaup
13. Spectacled Eider
14. Common Eider
15. King Eider
16. Long-tailed Duck
17. Red-breasted Merganser
18. Willow Ptarmigan
19. Common Loon
20. Red-throated Loon
21. Pacific Loon
22. Red-necked Grebe
23. Osprey
24. Bald Eagle
25. Rough Legged Hawk
26. Merlin
27. Peregrine Falcon
28. Sandhill Crane
29. Semipalmated Plover
30. Black-bellied Plover
31. Greater Yellowlegs
32. Semipalmated Sandpiper
33. Pectoral Sandpiper
34. Long-billed Dowitcher
35. Red-necked Phalarope
36. Mew Gull
37. Herring Gull
38. Glaucous Gull
39. Glaucous-winged Gull
40. Bonaparte's Gull
41. Arctic Tern
42. Parasitic Jaeger
43. Long-tailed Jaeger
44. Black Guillemot
45. Rock Pigeon
46. Short-eared Owl
47. Downy Woodpecker
48. Hairy Woodpecker
49. Steller's Jay
50. Gray Jay
51. Black-billed Magpie
52. Common Raven
53. Violet-green Swallow
54. Black-capped Chickadee
55. Boreal Chickadee
56. Red-breasted Nuthatch
57. American Robin
58. Bohemian Waxwing
59. Orange-crowned Warbler
60. Yellow-rumped Warbler
61. Savannah Sparrow
62. Lincoln's Sparrow
63. White-crowned Sparrow
64. Dark-eyed Junco
65. Lapland Longspur
66. Snow Bunting
67. Common Redpoll
68. Pine Siskin
 
lintworm said:
Update from Kitulo National Park and from being on the road.

95. Pied crow
96. Diederik cuckoo
97. Yellow bishop
98. Montane marsh widowbird
99. African stonechat
100. European quail
101. Denham's bustard
102. Augur buzzard
103. Yellow-browed seedeater
104. Malachite sunbird
105. White-necked raven
106. Wing-snapping cisticola
107. Cape canary
108. White-rumped swift
109. Rufous-naped lark
110. Banded martin
111. Bronzy sunbird
112. Variable sunbird
113. Livingstone's turaco
114. Red-winged francolin
115. Starred robin
116. Yellow-bellied waxbill
117. Bar-throated apalis
118. Baglafecht's weaver
119. House sparrow


Mammals
22. African lion
23. Lichtensteins hartebeest
24. Kipunji
25. Common duiker
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Ruaha National Park

Birds

120. Variable sunbird
121. Lesser masked weaver
122. Crowned lapwing
123. Goliath heron
124. Mourning collared dover
125. Glossy ibis
126. White-headed buffalo weaver
127. Abyssinian scimitarbill
128. African paradise flycatcher
129. Purple-crested turaco
130. Bohm's spinetail
131. Rufous chatterer
132. Wattled starling
133. Green-winged pytillia
134. Slate-coloured boubou
135. Blue-naped mousebird
136. Dark-backed weaver
137. African pygmy kingfisher
138. Pearl-spotted owlet
139. Crowned hornbill
140. Crested francolin
141. White-browed scrub robin
141. (African) Hoopoe
142. Nubian woodpecker
143. Blue-cheecked bee-eater
144. Red-eyed dove
145. Lesser kestrel
146. Jameson's firefinch
147. Yellow-collared lovebird
148. Abdim's stork
149. Speckle-fronted weaver
150. Von-der-Decken's hornbill
151. Lesser striped swallow
152. Wahlberg's eagle
153. Red-billed buffalo weaver
154. Buff-crested bustard
155. D'arnauds barbet
156. Grey-capped social weaver
157. White-bellied bustard
158. European roller
159. Pygmy falcon
160. Isabelline shrike
161. Giant kingfisher
162. Greater painted snipe
163. Pied kingfisher
164. Lesser honeyguide
165. Superb starling
166. White-browed sparrow-weaver
167. Ashy starling


Mammals
26. Greater kudu
27. Black-backed jackal
28. Thomas's dikdik
29. Grant's gazelle
30. Lesser kudu
31. Ochre bush squirrel
32. Yellow-spotted bush hyrax
33. Bat-eared fox
34. Neumanns grass rat
35. Lesser free-tailed bat
 
Spent yesterday evening on a crepuscular excursion to the fringes of Sherwood Forest, in the hope of seeing woodcock and at least hearing a nightjar. A very slow start suddenly became one of the most exciting half hours of wildlife watching I've had so close to home. Big thanks to the three local birders I ran into who supplied valuable local knowledge (and extra eyes and ears!). Three new year birds and among them two long-standing members of the Heard But Not Seen Club have been converted to proper sightings at last - and at one point I had all three species calling at once within about a 50m radius of where I was standing. I'll certainly be back.

Birds:
173. Eurasian Woodcock - Scolopax rusticola
174. Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
175. European Nightjar - Caprimulgus europaeus


:)
 
Maguari said:
Spent yesterday evening on a crepuscular excursion to the fringes of Sherwood Forest, in the hope of seeing woodcock and at least hearing a nightjar. A very slow start suddenly became one of the most exciting half hours of wildlife watching I've had so close to home. Big thanks to the three local birders I ran into who supplied valuable local knowledge (and extra eyes and ears!). Three new year birds and among them two long-standing members of the Heard But Not Seen Club have been converted to proper sightings at last - and at one point I had all three species calling at once within about a 50m radius of where I was standing. I'll certainly be back.

Birds:
173. Eurasian Woodcock - Scolopax rusticola
174. Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
175. European Nightjar - Caprimulgus europaeus


:)
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I presume you went to budby.
 
Hevden said:
I presume you went to budby.
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Yes indeed. Action was up the pumphouse end of the heath near the vestigial bit of MoD land. First time I've been there 'nocturnally' and I really don't know why - wonderful place.
 
Maguari said:
Spent yesterday evening on a crepuscular excursion to the fringes of Sherwood Forest, in the hope of seeing woodcock and at least hearing a nightjar.

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If the place is right and the weather good/calm, Nightjar will almost never let you down, usually with great visuals including wing-clapping and also circling around you if you are standing in a prominent position. Great spectacle- I usually make sure I see them a couple of evenings every year. Must go out soon...
 
Maguari said:
Yes indeed. Action was up the pumphouse end of the heath near the vestigial bit of MoD land. First time I've been there 'nocturnally' and I really don't know why - wonderful place.
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If you walk from the pumphouse there are usually a couple of nightjars churring from the first clearing on the right. The fenced off mod area is usually good for woodlark too although they are also regularly seen/heard all over the common.
 
LaughingDove said:
Today I decided to try yet again to find a Black Stork and again I failed despite traveling to a location where they're supposed to be quite reliable. I'm beginning to think the whole species is made up just to play a joke on me. :p

There was other cool stuff around though:
439) Red-backed Shrike
440) Common Grasshopper-warbler
441) Great Grey Shrike
And another really nice species seen was a Hoopoe which was my first clear and photographable sighting in Europe and my second sighting ever in Europe, though I saw the species earlier in the year in Thailand.

And the afterwards I visited a location about an hour's walk away from my house because I had heard that there was a breeding pair of Little Bitterns around there, which turned out to be correct!

442) Little Bittern
443) Syrian Woodpecker
444) European Serin
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I spent quite a lot of time today in an area of woodland that is just about a comfortable walking distance from my house and saw lots of really nice stuff. Mostly stuff that I had already seen for the year but I got a really good prolonged view of a pair of nesting kingfishers that were only about 50m away, and getting long-awaited lifers (especially the two birds) within walking distance of my house is awesome!

445) Common Nightingale
446) Eurasian Golden Oriole
447) Spotted Flycatcher
448) Eurasian Wryneck

35) Sand Lizard

36) Wild Boar
37) Bank Vole

The Wild Boar sighting was really cool. I first saw something smallish in the middle of the path a few metres ahead of me which at first I thought was a domestic cat or something until I realised it was a wild boar piglet. I had obviously startled the rest of the family which was off to the side of the path a few metres ahead of me so they all ran off. Baby wild boars are so cute! :P
 
Chlidonias said:
TLD seems not to have any mammals. I'm not sure if this is his oversight or mine, or maybe he's just decided that mammals are too uninteresting.
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I've merely not updated my list in several months :p really need to get around to doing so.......
 
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