ZooChat Big Year 2014

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In the company of robmv and Mr and Mrs zoospud, Manchester (SLC and Museum/Vivarium) in the morning today and an afternoon at Pennington Flash - giving a couple of additions:

264. Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus
265. Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
 
The aforementioned outing also added two for me, but not the same two:
189. Willow Tit (Poecile montana)
190. Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
 
Maguari said:
Deliberately vague on bat details in order to maintain as much of a mystery location as possible for the amazing roadside bird sighting I had on the drive back, scrapping with a Carrion Crow. These are a rare fish indeed around here these days. (To the point that there's an RSPB hotline, who I have notified!)

263. Hen Harrier - Circus cyaneus

:)
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Lucky devil!
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Had a pretty good night exploring the garden last night; as well as hearing the hedgehog out and about also managed to see:

Birds:
93. Tawny owl

Mammals:
19. Common noctule bat
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Managed to add two pretty common local birds that I had missed until now:

94. Blackcap
95. Yellowhammer
 
Courtesy of a quick dash to Avenue Washlands in the two dry hours today:

266. Eurasian Reed Warbler - Acrocephalus scirpaceus


Finally! I've had several near-misses. Another 'technical' lifer that hadn't been noted down before, but I'm sure I've seen in the past.
 
Much nicer day so chanced my luck on Black-necked Grebes at Potteric Carr - plenty of grebes seen, but all Little or Great Crested. Great day though - and I was able to bring home two wadery additions:

267. Ruff - Philomachus pugnax
268. Common Greenshank - Tringa nebularia


Also Green Sandpiper - you wait years for a Green Sandpiper...
 
Ituri said:
257 Black-throated Sparrow
258 Forster's Tern
259 Lincoln's Sparrow
260 Gray Jay
261 Northern Hawk Owl
262 Red-necked Grebe
263 Williamson's Sapsucker
264 Lewis's Woodpecker
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Last weekend I took a quick trip to the Puget Sound area. I did not have much time for birding, but I did manage to squeeze in a trip to Anacortes to take a "poor man's pelagic" aka the ferry to San Juan Island. My primary goal was to seek out some of the resident orcas that are frequently seen in the area. Unfortunately, we missed the whales (they had been seen earlier in the day) but I did net some life species.

265 Rhinoceros Auklet
266 Heermann's Gull

30 Dall's Porpoise

Not added to the tally, but I also saw a large number of jellies from the ferry (looked like moon jellies and Pacific sea nettles, but who knows).

Yesterday I joined a birding group on a trip to Silver City, an abandoned former mining camp in the Owyhee Mountains of southwest Idaho. The highlight was four species of hummingbird visiting the same feeders. Lots of birds seen including some new ones for the list.

267 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
268 Rufous Hummingbird
269 Green-tailed Towhee
 
Ituri said:
Last weekend I took a quick trip to the Puget Sound area. I did not have much time for birding, but I did manage to squeeze in a trip to Anacortes to take a "poor man's pelagic" aka the ferry to San Juan Island. My primary goal was to seek out some of the resident orcas that are frequently seen in the area. Unfortunately, we missed the whales (they had been seen earlier in the day) but I did net some life species.

265 Rhinoceros Auklet
266 Heermann's Gull

30 Dall's Porpoise

Not added to the tally, but I also saw a large number of jellies from the ferry (looked like moon jellies and Pacific sea nettles, but who knows).

Yesterday I joined a birding group on a trip to Silver City, an abandoned former mining camp in the Owyhee Mountains of southwest Idaho. The highlight was four species of hummingbird visiting the same feeders. Lots of birds seen including some new ones for the list.

267 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
268 Rufous Hummingbird
269 Green-tailed Towhee
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Just a couple from around town today.

270 Trumpeter Swan
271 Cattle Egret
 
291. Wandering Albatross
292. Black Browed Albatross
293. Shy Albatross
294. Indian Yellow Nosed Albatross
295. Buller's Albatross
296. Fairy Prion
297. Fluttering Shearwater
298. Providence Petrel
299. Brown Skua
300. White Fronted Tern
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26/7/2014 wollongong pelagic trip.
 
Mammals
16. Brushtailed Possum

:p

Hix
 
mstickmanp said:
After five days of birding and visiting zoos around Southern California with jbnbsn99 I was able to add 24 life birds to my list.

214. Abert's Towhee
215. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
216. Gull-billed Tern
217. Yellow-footed Gull
218. Neotropic Cormorant
219. Inca Dove
220. Black Skimmer
221. Burrowing Owl
222. Heermann's Gull
223. Canyon Wren
224. Wood Duck
225. American Bittern
226. Least Tern
227. Brandt's Cormorant
228. Sooty Shearwater
229. Pelagic Cormorant
230. Greater Roadrunner
231. Tricolored Blackbirds
232. Calliope Hummingbird
233. Black Swift
234. Townsend's Solitaire
235. White-headed Woodpecker
236. Western Screech-owl
237. Common Ground-dove
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So I went back to the Salton Sea again, but this time with the local Audubon chapter and I got 10 new species.

238. White-tailed Kite
239. Black-bellied Plover
240. Snowy Plover
241. Red-necked Phalarope
242. Laughing Gull
243. Black Tern
244. Lesser Nighthawk
245. Gila Woodpecker
246. Peregrine Falcon
247. Bank Swallow
 
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boof said:
291. Wandering Albatross
292. Black Browed Albatross
293. Shy Albatross
294. Indian Yellow Nosed Albatross
295. Buller's Albatross
296. Fairy Prion
297. Fluttering Shearwater
298. Providence Petrel
299. Brown Skua
300. White Fronted Tern
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26/7/2014 wollongong pelagic trip.
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Blimey - good trip!
 
Ituri said:
Last weekend I took a quick trip to the Puget Sound area. I did not have much time for birding, but I did manage to squeeze in a trip to Anacortes to take a "poor man's pelagic" aka the ferry to San Juan Island. My primary goal was to seek out some of the resident orcas that are frequently seen in the area. Unfortunately, we missed the whales (they had been seen earlier in the day) but I did net some life species.

265 Rhinoceros Auklet
266 Heermann's Gull

30 Dall's Porpoise

Not added to the tally, but I also saw a large number of jellies from the ferry (looked like moon jellies and Pacific sea nettles, but who knows).

Yesterday I joined a birding group on a trip to Silver City, an abandoned former mining camp in the Owyhee Mountains of southwest Idaho. The highlight was four species of hummingbird visiting the same feeders. Lots of birds seen including some new ones for the list.

267 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
268 Rufous Hummingbird
269 Green-tailed Towhee
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Missed a new mammal from the trip

31 Douglas's Squirrel

Ituri said:
Just a couple from around town today.

270 Trumpeter Swan
271 Cattle Egret
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Found another new bird recently, as well as another mammal.

272 Eastern Kingbird

32 Bushy-tailed Woodrat
 
Hix said:
I agree!

Were any of them lifers, Boof?

:p

Hix
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no lifers but one yellow nosed albatross may have been an atlantic YN. A submission to BARC is being prepared. That would be an awesome bird to add to my list. not often reported in aussie waters. fingers crossed. I havent added it to my list yet.
 
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