Zoochat Big Year 2025

BerdNerd said:
2/25/25

55. Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
56. Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)
57. Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
58. Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
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This morning, I took a two hour trip to Lumber River State Park to continue searching for a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker. The park mainly consists of pine forests, so it’s a great place to look for woodpeckers, warblers, other passerines, etc. Unfortunately, no luck with the sapsucker, but I did pick up three new lifers:


59. Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
60. Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)
61. Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis)


Total:

Mammals: 3
Birds: 61
Reptiles: 1
 
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February 27, 2025

Birds

30. Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)

Mammals: 4
Birds: 30
Invertebrates: 1
Total: 35
 
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Chlidonias said:
@DaLilFishie - if it helps, I saw one this morning at Kasai Rinkai. I'll put a photo below of the map-board where I saw it but it is the junction north of the circles on the map of @Dr. Wolverine, above the ponds and directly left of the SeaLife Park (on his map - on the photo I have put below the spot is below the SeaLife Park, just to the left of the number 2). I saw it at about 8.30am and it was in the same place when I went back past about 10am so it may be a regular spot. It was very relaxed and not afraid of people at all, just hanging out on the side of the road.

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Excellent!! Thanks for the detailed info!
 
DaLilFishie said:
BIRDS
68 - Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
69 - Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris
70 - Golden-headed Cisticola Cisticola exilis
71 - Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
72 - Australian Pipit Anthus australis

INVERTS
33 - Bathroom Moth Fly Clogmia albipunctata
34 - Black Soldier Fly Hermetia illucens
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HERPS
7 - Slaty-grey Snake Stegonotus australis

INVERTS
35 - Blue Garden Flatworm Caenoplana coerulea
36 - Tetragnatha rubriventris
37 - Dodd's Bunyip Tamasa doddi
 
On Thursday upon returning to the uni accommodation, another owl species:

108) Tawny Owl Strix aluco

This weekend I have returned home and whilst doing a lot of overdue propagation of numerous native plant species, the warm sunny weather brought out these two familiar pollinators:

8) Tapered Dronefly Eristalis pertinax
9) Western Honey Bee Apis mellifera
 
Bisonblake said:
2/7/25
Birds:
51. Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

Total species: 57
Birds: 51
Mammals: 6
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A few updates over the past month. I finally bought a scope a couple of weeks ago, hoping I could use it for waterfowl, but the lakes are still frozen. This past week has been warm, but the water has re-frozen over a little bit because the past two days have felt like mid-winter. I've been able to find pockets of open water but nothing has been far enough that a scope was needed. Today has been the best day for waterfowl this year so far, but I'm expecting much better the rest of the month.

Birds:
2/10/25
52. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
2/23/25
53. Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator
54. Redhead Aythya americana
55. Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
56. Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo
3/2/25
57. Northern Pintail Anas acuta
58. Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
59. Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
60. Gadwall Mareca strepera
61. Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
62. Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis

Mammals:
2/24/25
7. Northern short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda
2/27/25
8. Eastern chipmunk Tamias striatus
3/2/25
9. Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
10. Groundhog Marmota monax

Total species: 72
Birds: 62
Mammals: 10
 
CarnotaurusSastrei said:
Only one species to add to my list from earlier today, though I did also see a Mallard x American wigeon hybrid in the wild, which I'd say was rather neat

Birds
12. American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)
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Saw a couple new aquatic bird species the other day, including a new entry for my life list (Green-Winged Teal).
Birds
13. Green-Winged Teal (Anas carolinensis)
14. Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
15. American Coot (Fulica americana)
16. Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)

Current Totals: 16 birds, 3 mammals
 
With the brilliant weather of the last few days I couldn't stay indoors of course, so I toured my local patch a few times in the past week. Despite a number of very good sightings (including all five resident woodpeckers of the Netherlands) I only got a few new birds from there: most spring migrants have not arrived yet and I've now seen almost all resident species except willow tit and a few owls. A short drive through the farmland around the river brought produced also a handful of new species for the year list.

Birds
133. Eurasian Bullfinch, Pyrrhula pyrrhula
134. Western Cattle Egret, Bubulcus ibis
135. European Stonechat, Saxicola rubicola
136. Caspian Gull, Larus cachinnans
137. Black-tailed Godwit, Limosa limosa
138. Common Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita

Mammals
9. Common Wood Mouse, Apodemys sylvaticus

Moths
2. Winter Shade, Tortricodes alternella*

* almost certainly a 'technical lifer', as I seem to remember having seen it before but it was not registered on my list yet. I may have see it before I kept good track of my moths.
 
DaLilFishie said:
HERPS
7 - Slaty-grey Snake Stegonotus australis

INVERTS
35 - Blue Garden Flatworm Caenoplana coerulea
36 - Tetragnatha rubriventris
37 - Dodd's Bunyip Tamasa doddi
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Catchup for the last few days :p

BIRDS
73 - Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
74 - Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
75 - Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer
76 - White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae

FISHES
127 - Blackspotted Longtom Strongylura strongylura
128 - Longfin Batfish Platax tiera
129 - Humpback Batfish Platax batavianus
130 - Squaretail Mullet Ellochelon vaigiensis

INVERTS
38 - a box jelly, Chiropsella bronzie
39 - Snotty Jelly Cyanea barkeri
 
BerdNerd said:

3/1/25

62. Great Egret (Ardea alba)
63. Common Raven (Corvus corax)
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After taking another morning birdwatching trip, I finally managed to find a few Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers, one of the last few common species in my area missing from my life list. I also found another long-awaited lifer: a small group of Purple Martins, as well as having a brief (but very clear) sighting of a Barred Owl.


3/4/25

64. Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
65. Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
66. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)
67. Barred Owl (Strix varia)
68. Golden-Crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)
69. Purple Martin (Progne subis)
70. Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)


BerdNerd said:

2/9/25

Reptiles:

1. Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)
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3/3/25


2. Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)


Total:

Mammals: 3
Birds: 70
Reptiles: 2
 
March 1-4, 2025

Mammals

5. Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
6. Raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Birds

31. Red Winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
32. Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
33. Red Breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)

Invertebrates

2. House fly (Musca domestica)

Totals
Birds: 33
Mammals: 6
Invertebrates: 2
Total: 41
 
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CarnotaurusSastrei said:
Saw a couple new aquatic bird species the other day, including a new entry for my life list (Green-Winged Teal).
Birds
13. Green-Winged Teal (Anas carolinensis)
14. Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
15. American Coot (Fulica americana)
16. Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)

Current Totals: 16 birds, 3 mammals
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Mammals
4. White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Current Totals: 16 birds, 4 mammals
 
Been pretty slow so far this year, especially considering it was Dec 30th when I saw my only recent Raccoon- an unsettling daytime encounter right near near our house actually. About to go on a short trip this weekend, so hope to add a few more, plus some new captive lifers!

Long Island, NY:
1. Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) (Jan 7) *
2. White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (Feb 9)
3. Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) (Feb 22)
4. Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)

*I'm sure I saw a Gray Squirrel earlier than January 7th, but I forgot to write it down before that day haha.
 
amur leopard said:
London Wetland Centre

26. Gadwall, Mareca strepera
27. Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope
28. Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus
29. Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago
30. Canada goose, Branta canadensis
31. Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
32. Great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus
33. Green woodpecker, Picus viridis
34. Eurasian jackdaw, Coloeus monedula
35. Blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus
36. Dunnock, Prunella modularis
37. European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis
38. Reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus.

Not a bad day!
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Been a while since I've updated, had some really nice sightings since. One really does stick out for me though.

For a good long while I've wanted to see a wild badger. They're probably my favourite mustelids and I've been out looking for them a number of times. Over these attempts I've come pretty close - I've seen abandoned setts, seen badger scat and so on, but to no avail when it came to actually seeing one. There is only a single recorded badger sighting where I am now, and it's camera trap footage, so I wasn't really holding out any hope of seeing one while over here. So it came as a bit of a surprise when one appeared last night as I was walking back to my accommodation :P.

Mammals:
2. Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
3. House mouse, Mus musculus
4. European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus
5. European badger, Meles meles (!)

Otherwise, short-eared owls seem to only show up for me when I'm in a train. Weird.

Birds:
39. Short eared owl, Asio flammeus
40. Red kite, Milvus milvus
41. Pied wagtail, Motacilla alba
42. Long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus
 
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