ZooChat Big Year 2020

A day of casual birding at Rainham Marshes (and twitching the turtle dove in Valentine Park in Ilford)

Mammals
4. Brown rat
5. Common seal

Birds
28. Turtle dove (!)
29. Little grebe
30. Greylag goose
31. Canada goose
32. Mute swan
33. Common shelduck
34. Northern shoveller
35. Gadwall
36. Eurasian wigeon
37. Northern pintail
38. Common pochard
39. Tufted duck
40. Common moorhen
41. Eurasian coot
42. Northern lapwing
43. Eurasian curlew
44. Common snipe
45. Common redshank
46. Herring gull
47. Great black-backed gull
48. Great cormorant
49. Grey heron
50. Western marsh harrier
51. Common kestrel
52. Chaffinch
53. Water pipit
 
Najade said:
Being back home I now remember why I was never all that interested in passerines. LBJs are so f-ing frustrating.

Birds
33. Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
34. Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
35. Stock Dove (Columba oenas)
36. Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
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Birds
37. Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
 
this weckend was the swedish national winter bird count. you count all birds at your bird feaders and this gives a bether understnding of what birds stay during the winter i went to a fedar colse to me and saw some new thing for the year
48 long tailed tit
49 marsh tit Poecile palustris
50 common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
51 euroasian sparowhawk Accipiter nisus
52 whopper swan Cygnus cygnus)
53 black heded gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
 
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Birds
55. Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus
56. Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus
57. White-throated Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis
For once I went with somebody else who (identified most of these)...
58. Indian White-eye Halcyon smyrnensis
59. Jungle Prinia Prinia sylvatica
60.Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
61. Yellow-eyed Babbler Chrysomma sinense
62. Indian Golden Oriole Oriolus kundoo
63. Indian Robin Copsychus fulicatus
64. Oriental Honey-buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus
65. Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis
66. Pies Bush Chat Saxicola caprata
Reptiles
2. Bloodsucker Calotes versicolor
 
birdsandbats said:
A great day of birding day today, mostly along Lake Michigan:

Birds
46. American Kestrel Falco sparverius
47. Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
48. Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
49. Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
50. Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
51. American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea
52. Great Tit Parus major
53. Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
54. Greater Scaup Aythya marila
55. Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
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Birds
56. Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
 
Catchup post alert - a mammal from a zoo visit, and three birds - the first two the sole additions from two quick birding excursions on the weekend (Idle Valley and Linacre Reservoir), the last a species that has been hanging around nearby for a few days and I finally got a brief view of this lunchtime (at the third attempt).

Birds:
103. Great White Egret - Ardea alba
104. Mandarin Duck - Aix galericulata
105. Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus

Mammals:
6. House Mouse - Mus musculus

:)
 
Dannelboyz said:
All seen wild at Healesville Sanctuary today :)

BIRDS
153 - Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii)
-- Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) [heard]

MAMMALS
13 - Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)

REPTILES
6 - Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus)
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A few more birds at Dandenong Valley Wetland, Victoria.

BIRDS
154 - Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus)
155 - European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)*
156 - Bell Miner (Manorina melanophrys)
157 - Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor)
 
Najade said:
Birds
37. Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
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Birds
38. Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
39. Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
40. Common Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
41. Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
 
birds
54 rough legged buzzard Buteo lagopus
55 white tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla
56 yelowhammer Emberiza citrinella
59 grelag gose Anser anser)
 
Ituri said:
BIRDS:

This weekend I tried to clean up some of the missing waterfowl on my list, plus chase after a few rarities.

At La Farge Sandpits, I couldn't find the vagrant White-winged Scoter, but I did pick up:

72 Canvasback - Aythya valisineria

At Lake Afton, I missed the Townsend's Solitaire, but I did find:

73 Red-breasted Merganser - Mergus serrator
74 Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon
75 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum

One more shot at La Farge Sandpits for the scoter as well as a vagrant Long-tailed Duck that showed up earlier in the day:

76 American Wigeon - Mareca americana
77 Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus

As you can see I'm doing GREAT at chasing rarities so far!
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A little weekend birding landed me a few more year birds. On Saturday I went out to Lyons State Fishing Lake north of Emporia to a location that is known for wintering Long-eared Owls. Success! The rest of the birds were picked up at a few hotspots in and around Wichita.

78 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus
79 Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
80 Western Meadowlark - Sturnella neglecta
81 Ross's Goose - Anser rossii
82 Northern Pintail - Anas acuta
83 Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca

On Saturday, it was over 70 degrees Farenheit so I got my first herp of the year.

1 Red-eared Slider - Trachemys scripta elegans
 
Crowthorne said:
Birds
32. Eurasian Jay, Garrulus glandarius

Unfortunately, the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker that lives in Russell Square continues to elude me...
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Some from earlier in the week

Sunday
Birds
33. Sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus
34. Redwing, Turdus iliacus

Monday
Birds
35. Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus
36. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (yep, the one in Russell Square!), Dryobates minor
 
Najade said:
Birds
38. Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
39. Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
40. Common Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
41. Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
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Birds
42. Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
43. Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
 
Have just arrived in Sri Lanka. The first couple of days were spent in an ecolodge called The Mudhouse at Anamuduwa. Birdlife was prolific, we saw 71 species in two days.

Mammals

4. Gray slender loris Loris lydekkerianus
5. Indian palm squirrel Funambulus palmarum
6. Grizzled giant squirrel Ratufa macroura
7. Indian (black-naped) hare Lepus nigricollus
8. Indian gray mongoose Herpestes edwardsii
9. Sri Lanka spotted chevrotain Moschiola meminna

Birds

58. Little cormorant Phalacrocorax niger
59. Indian darter Anhinga melanogaster
60. Black-headed ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus
61. Grey heron Ardea cinerea
62. Eastern great egret Ardea modesta
63. Purple heron Ardea purpurea
64. Indian pond heron Ardeola grayii
65. Little egret Egretta garzetta
66. Asian open-bill Anastomus oscitans
67. Little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
68. Lesser whistling duck Dendrocygna javanica
69. Brahminy kite Haliastur indus
70. White-breasted waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
71. Sri Lankan junglefowl Gallus lafayetii
72. Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus
73. Whiskered tern Chlidonias hybrida
74. Black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus

More later.
 
Mudhouse continued.

Mammals

10 Indian flying fox Pteropus medius

Birds

75. Red-wattled lapwing Vanellus indicus
76. Emerald dove Chalcophaps indica
77. Green imperial pigeon Ducula aenea
78. Orange-breasted green pigeon Treron bicinctus
79. Sri Lankan green pigeon Treron pompodora

Have to get to bed for another early morning so will continue later. Sri Lankan green pigeon was the 600th bird on my list although I have not listed them here in order that they were seen,
 
A 5 day trip to Poland wasn't quite as birdy as I had hoped it to be, but got me some additions regardless! In most of the national parks I spent hours without seeing a single bird (not exaggerating), but luckily the one bird I had really been hoping for miraculously showed up. 2020 will have to be a very good year for ural owl not to be one of my top 10 birds overall!

BIRDS:
106) Eurasian skylark, Alauda arvensis
107) Eurasian nuthatch, Sitta europaea
108) Eurasian treecreeper, Certhia familiaris
109) Hooded crow, Corvus cornix
110) Brambling, Fringilla montifringilla
111) Ural owl, Strix uralensis
112) Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella
113) Hawfinch, Coccothraustes coccothraustes

MAMMALS:
2) Red deer, Cervus elaphus

My totals for Poland are 36 birds and 2 mammals - Winter doesn't seem to be the best time of year to visit this amazing country. :)
 
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