ZooChat Big Year 2015

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LaughingDove said:
53) Syrian Woodpecker
54) Grey-headed woodpecker

This now means that I have seen all European woodpeckers - apart from white-backed and wryneck - in the wild :)
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Good job on the woodpecker front, I also miss white-backed, though I have seen a wryneck once, but that's it, though I have only heard an Iberian green woodpecker, I have seen the rest. Hopefully I will see white-backed this summer in the Dadia forest in Greece....
 
LaughingDove said:
I took a fairly long bus ride to a nice area for birds south of Warsaw and saw a very nice year bird and two great lifers:
52) Eurasian Kingfisher
53) Syrian Woodpecker
54) Grey-headed woodpecker

6) European Hedgehog
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Flying over the park near to my school
55) Great Cormorant

In the rubbish/recycling area of my apartment building (alive:p)
7) Brown rat (so there is an advantage to having to take the rubbish out after all:D)
 
Today has been a very mammal-y day, with the following all seen in or from my back garden (the latter animal in a live trap):

5. Pygmy shrew Sorex minutus
6. Red fox Vulpes vulpes
7. Short-tailed field vole Microtus agrestis
8. Common shrew Sorex araneus

Two live traps are still out, so there may be another update if a wood mouse or bank vole blunder into one at some point this afternoon.

As an aside - red fox sighting is the best mammal sighting of the year. Saw it investigating rabbits trapped by the edge of a flood pond and twenty minutes later saw it again eating one of those rabbits, freshly killed.
 
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cloudedleopard said:
I identified it as a house mouse. What is this all about that I cannot identify it?
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No, it's about it not being alive.

For it to count you need to:
-Actually see it with your own eyes,
-It has to be seen within the time frame given (January 1st, 2015 to December 31, 2015),
-It needs to be from a known wild population and not an escapee or a free-roaming pet,
-And it needs to be a living, breathing specimen.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Managed a coastal trip to Heybridge Basin yesterday, where I got ten new birds for the year list:

74. Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
75. Black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa
76. Common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula
77. Great black-backed gull Larus marinus
78. Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata
79. Dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla
80. Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
81. Grey plover Pluvialis squatarola
82. Dunlin Calidris alpina
83. Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis
 
Hevden said:
Just one more today

105. Bittern
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An excellent days birding gave me another 10 year ticks yesterday

106. Purple Sandpiper
107. Snow Bunting
108. Great White Egret
109. Water Pipit
110. Skylark
111. Black-tailed Godwit
112. Bewick's Swan
113. Whooper Swan
114. Greenland White-fronted Goose
115. Black-necked Grebe
 
lintworm said:
57. Magpie
58. European kingfisher
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I finally managed to do something that looks like birding this year (bicycling around with a binocular :p) and not just looking at birds from the bus / train / camel / my room.

59. Blue tit
60. Herring gull
61. Common gull
62. Common pheasant
63. Teal
64. Stock dove
65. Merganser
66. Greater white-fronted goose
67. Northern shoveler
68. Northern lapwing
69. Pintail
70. Fieldfare
71. Crested grebe

Mammals
3. Red squirrel
4. European roe deer
5. European hare
 
LaughingDove said:
Flying over the park near to my school
55) Great Cormorant

In the rubbish/recycling area of my apartment building (alive:p)
7) Brown rat (so there is an advantage to having to take the rubbish out after all:D)
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Today, I made a day trip to the relatively nearby Kampinos National Park. I wasn't as successful as I'd hoped after missing a few species that I wanted to see (raven, wild boar, bullfinch, crossbill, goldfinch) but I did get a few species for my year list:

Birds:
56) Common buzzard (can't believe this took a whole month!)
57) Crested lark

Mammals: (was more successful on this front)
8) Fallow deer
9) Roe deer
10) Red fox

:)
 
A handful of additions today - the first spotted while touring Knowsley Safari Park, the other two from Pennington Flash.

80. Red-legged Partridge - Alectoris rufa
81. Stock Dove - Columba oenas
82. Goosander - Mergus merganser

:)
 
First month's round-up!!

BIRDS:
mstickmanp – 168
jbnbsn99 –121
Ituri – 120
robmv – 117
Hevden – 115
nanoboy – 91
DesertRhino150 – 83
Maguari – 82
boof – 81
lintworm – 71
Hix – 68
TeaLovingDave – 58
LaughingDove – 57
Chlidonias – 47
zooboy28 – 36
Javan Rhino – 19
AverageWalrus – 16
ThylacineAlive – 10
Pleistohorse – 8
BeardsleyZooFan – 6

MAMMALS:
Ituri – 13
LaughingDove – 10
DesertRhino150 – 8
lintworm – 5
Pleistohorse – 4
Maguari – 3
zooboy28 – 3
AverageWalrus – 3
ThylacineAlive – 3
Hix – 2
mstickmanp – 2
Chlidonias – 2
BeardsleyZooFan – 1

HERPTILES:
nobody yet....

FISH:
LaughingDove – 1
 
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