ZooChat Big Year 2017

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3/10/2017
220. BAILLON'S CRAKE*
221. Australian spotted crake
222. plum headed finch
223. white winged triller
 
I still have a vast number of species to update my year list with..... however, I managed to get one today which should provide me with a fair amount of motivation to do so :p

 
Went quite far out to a place where a lot of very interesting highlights have been seen this year, mainly to find vipers and snake-eagles. Not much luck on either of those because of the horrible weather, but I did manage to find the following:

BIRDS:
247) Redwing, Turdus iliacus
248) Redpoll, Acanthis flammea
249) European golden plover, Pluvialis apricaria
250) Common linnet, Linaria cannabina

A very notable heard-only species was a little bunting (Emberiza pusilla) that hung around the entire morning and called often, but unfortunately we couldn't manage to see it.

 
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Vision said:
Went quite far out to a place where a lot of very interesting highlights have been seen this year, mainly to find vipers and snake-eagles. Not much luck on either of those because of the horrible weather, but I did manage to find the following:

BIRDS:
247) Redwing, Turdus iliacus
248) Redpoll, Acanthis flammea
249) European golden plover, Pluvialis apricaria
250) Common linnet, Linaria cannabina

A very notable heard-only species was a little bunting (Emberiza pusilla) that hung around the entire morning and called often, but unfortunately we couldn't manage to see it.
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A visit to the same place today got me another bunch of very nice additions:

BIRDS:
251) Eurasian siskin, Spinus spinus
252) Black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius
253) Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
254) Mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus
255) Lesser spotted woodpecker, Dryobates minor
 
Macaw16 said:
A few nights in the Dales (28-31/8/2017), got me a few new birds, including one I've heard a lot this year, but only just managed to see!

125. Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus
126. Tawny Owl Strix aluco
127. Barn Owl Tyto alba
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One more from Flamborough Head (7/10/2017):

128. European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola
 
lintworm said:
A few additions from a week in Lisbon:

396. Spotless starling
397. Spanish sparrow
398. Zitting cisticola
399. Blue-crowned parakeet
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Small update from a visit to the Netherlands with some bird additions from Schiermonnikoog (I was stupid enough to forget my binoculars though...) and a sighting of my favorite European mammal in Zuid-Limburg:

400. Common wheatear
401. Brent goose
402. Northern shoveler
403. Meadow pipit
404. Barn owl
405. Greater black-backed gull
406. Black-tailed godwit
407. Curlew
408. Eider
409. Common scoter

Mammals:

83. Hazel dormouse
 
A day-and-a-half of birding this weekend in Derbyshire and Norfolk produced one new year bird:

Birds:
212. Merlin - Falco columbarius

(UK total: 197)

Also saw my first wild Black Brant (B. b. nigricans), which was nice, if not a count addition (being actually the third Brent Goose subspecies of the year!).
 
DesertRhino150 said:
A trip out to both Abberton Reservoir and RSPB Old Hall this morning got me four new birds for the year (plus a rather unusual carcass - a Manx shearwater on a grassy bank along the seawall at Old Hall), thus bringing me equal to my entire bird total for last year:

154. Osprey Pandion haliaetus
155. Willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
156. Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo
157. Pectoral sandpiper Calidris melanotos
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And finally, after over a month, I have added a new bird to my list making 2017 my most successful birdwatching year so far:

158. Little stint Calidris minuta
 
lintworm said:
Are you sure it was a quail, normally European quails are well on their way to Africa by now, so a Partridge would be a lot more logical.
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Yes it would be a grey partridge. I assumed it was quail because of how it looked like in flight and the way it blended into the light brown background.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
And finally, after over a month, I have added a new bird to my list making 2017 my most successful birdwatching year so far:

158. Little stint Calidris minuta
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Finally got back from a trip to North Norfolk. I managed to add one other new bird plus a new mammal and a new butterfly (I don't expect to add anymore of those this year):

159. Sanderling Calidris alba

25. Chinese water deer Hydropotes inermis (Vu)

24. Wall butterfly Lasiommata megera
 
A long overdue update (prompted by a very satisfying double-lifer day):

221. Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
222. Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
223. Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
224. Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
225. Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
226. Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
227. Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
228. Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
229. Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus)
230. Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
231. Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)
232. Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
233. Rose-coloured Starling (Pastor roseus)
 
Some extra birds before the end of the month, mostly from the Cook Strait ferry the other week:

613) South Island Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus finschi
614) Black-billed Gull Larus bulleri
615) Australasian Gannet Morus serrator
616) Fluttering Shearwater Puffinus gavia
617) Fairy Prion Pachyptila turtur
618) NZ White-capped Mollymawk Thalassarche steadi
 
86) House Mouse Mus musculus

... in my futile attempt to stop @lintworm from overtaking me in mammals in the very near future.
 
KevinVar said:
141. Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)
142. Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
143. Dulin (Calidris alpina)
144. Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)
145. Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
146. Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
147. Coal Tit (Periparus ater)
148. Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus)

MAMMALS
11. Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)
12. Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
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Probably the most random list of additions over the last one and a half month, including a quick holiday to Rome.
149. Ross's Goose (Anser rossii)
150. Tawny Owl (Strix aluco)
151. Eurasian Skylark (Alauda arvensis)
152. Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
153. Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus)
154. Italian Sparrow (Passer italiae)

MAMMALS
13. Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
14. Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)
15. Coypu (Myocastor coypus)

HERPTILES
4. Western Whip Snake (Hierophis viridiflavus)
5. Italian Wall Lizard (Podarcis siculus)
 
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