ZooChat Big Year 2015

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Another good weekend with one lifer and two of last year's bogey species chalked up:

121. Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) - 2014 bogey
122. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
123. Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
124. Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla) - LIFER
125. Long-eared Owl (Asio otus) - 2014 bogey
126. Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
 
mstickmanp said:
Got 12 new birds, including two lifers today during an Audubon trip.

157. Wood Duck
158. Greater Scaup
159. Barrow's Goldeneye
160. California Quail
161. Common Loon
162. Lewis's Woodpecker
163. Steller's Jay
164. Mountain Chickadee
165. Oak Titmouse
166. California Thrasher
167. Phainopepla
168. Golden-crowned Sparrow
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After 3 weeks of no birding I finally got a chance yesterday.

169. Brown-headed Cowbird
170. Green Heron
171. Tropical Kingbird
172. Northern Parula
 
Got one new bird early last week:

84. Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

Also added another five new birds today at Old Hall Marshes:

85. Northern pintail Anas acuta
86. Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus
87. Red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator
88. Ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres
89. Hen harrier Circus cyaneus

Also heard bearded reedling several times and may have seen one briefly, but was unable to confirm it.
 
nanoboy said:
We have only done two birding outings this year: the Western Treatment Plant on 6 January, and Mill Park Lakes on 18 January.

Western Treatment Plant
1 Australasian Pipit
2 Australian Magpie
3 Australian Pelican
4 Australian Pied Oystercatcher
5 Australian Shelduck
6 Australian Spotted Crake
7 Australian White Ibis
8 Banded Stilt
9 Black Swan
10 Black-shouldered Kite
11 Black-winged Stilt
12 Blue-billed Duck
13 Brolga
14 Cape Barren Goose
15 Chestnut Teal
16 Common Bronzewing (saw this one near home on the way to the plant)
17 Common Myna
18 Common Starling
19 Crested Pigeon
20 Crested Tern
21 Curlew Sandpiper
22 Eastern Great Egret
23 Eurasian Coot
24 Eurasian Skylark
25 Eurasian Tree Sparrow
26 European Goldfinch
27 Fairy Martin
28 Glossy Ibis
29 Golden-headed Cisticola
30 Great Crested Grebe
31 Grey Teal
32 Hardhead
33 Hoary-headed Grebe
34 Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo
35 House Sparrow
36 Little Black Cormorant
37 Little Pied Cormorant
38 Little Raven
39 Magpie-lark
40 Marsh Sandpiper
41 Masked Lapwing
42 Musk Duck
43 Nankeen Kestrel
44 Pacific Black Duck
45 Pink-eared Duck
46 Purple Swamphen
47 Red Wattlebird
48 Red-capped Plover
49 Red-kneed Dotterel
50 Red-necked Avocet
51 Red-necked Stint
52 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
53 Silver Gull
54 Spotted Dove
55 Spotted Harrier
56 Striated Fieldwren
57 Superb Fairy-wren
58 Swamp Harrier
59 Welcome Swallow
60 Whiskered Tern
61 Whistling Kite
62 White-faced Heron
63 White-fronted Chat
64 White-winged Black Tern
65 Willie Wagtail
66 Yellow-billed Spoonbill
67 Yellow-rumped Thornbill
68 Zebra Finch

Mill Park Lakes
69 Australasian Grebe
70 Australasian Shoveler
71 Australian Reed-Warbler
72 Australian Wood Duck
73 Black-fronted Dotterel
74 Common Blackbird
75 Common Greenfinch
76 Crimson Rosella
77 Dusky Moorhen
78 Freckled Duck
79 Galah
80 Great Cormorant
81 Latham's Snipe
82 New Holland Honeyeater
83 Northern Mallard
84 Rainbow Lorikeet
85 Red-rumped Parrot
86 Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)
87 Sacred Kingfisher
88 Straw-necked Ibis
89 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
90 Tree Martin
91 White-plumed Honeyeater
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92 Grey Butcherbird (Banyule Flats)
93 Spotless Crake (Banyule Flats)
94 Powerful Owl (Ivanhoe)

The Powerful Owls (mum and juvenile) were seen in a tree in suburbia and its location had been widely reported on social media, so it was a relatively easy tick.

I haven't been birding in the last three weeks because the weekends have been too hot. We have a Labour Day long weekend in early March, plus Easter in April, so here's hoping I can increase the tally then.
 
lintworm said:
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
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Still a lot of working inside all day, without any real opportunity to go outside, but I managed 2 new bird species when bicycling to and from the train station

72. Song trush
73. Goldfinch
 
I just thought that I would mention that tomorrow I will be going for a short trip to Tanzania, and although it will be a largely community service trip, I am hoping to fit a bit of birding and maybe some mammaling in as well. So I will be back in 8 days with hopefully a few species to add to my year list and life list.
:)
 
nanoboy said:
92 Grey Butcherbird (Banyule Flats)
93 Spotless Crake (Banyule Flats)
94 Powerful Owl (Ivanhoe)

The Powerful Owls (mum and juvenile) were seen in a tree in suburbia and its location had been widely reported on social media, so it was a relatively easy tick.

I haven't been birding in the last three weeks because the weekends have been too hot. We have a Labour Day long weekend in early March, plus Easter in April, so here's hoping I can increase the tally then.
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95 White-throated Needletail

I saw these flying over my house today as a storm front approached.
 
131 American Robin - Turdus migratorius
132 Marsh Wren - Cistothorus palustris
133 Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
134 Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
135 Merlin - Falco columbarius
 
mstickmanp said:
After 3 weeks of no birding I finally got a chance yesterday.

169. Brown-headed Cowbird
170. Green Heron
171. Tropical Kingbird
172. Northern Parula
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Did some birding before work today.

173. Yellow-headed Parrot
174. Red-crowned Parrot
175. Mitred Parakeet
176. Blue-crowned Parakeet
177. Red-breasted Merganser
178. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Today was parrot morning. They were everywhere!
 
For my zoochat list I'm keeping non-countable birds...It always messes me up since Ebird doesn't make that distinction.
 
A few additions from a slightly damp Potteric Carr:

83. Western Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus
84. Eurasian Treecreeper - Certhia familiaris

4. Bank Vole - Myodes glareolus

:)
 
93. superb lyrebird
94. little raven
95. yellow-rumped thornbill
96. red-rumped parrot
97. noisy friarbird
98. wedge-tailed eagle
99. white-necked heron
 
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