ZooChat Big Year 2014

[ThylacineAlive]

Darn, Thylo's gotten the lead on me just as I was about to add a few birds.

Sorry

And as it just so happens:

6) Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus



~Thylo

 

[boof]

270. White winged chough

 

[lintworm]

A quick update, birds will follow later, I still have to translate all those names from dutch to english

Mammals
34. House Mouse
35. European hare
36. European rabbit
37. European roe deer
38. Common pipistrelle
39. Eptesicus serotinus
40. Bank vole
41. Whiskered/brandts bat
42. House shrew

Herpetofauna
54. Common frog

Birds, a total of 199 species.

 

[DesertRhino150]

Been able to see a few migrants since my last update:

Birds:
66. European bullfinch
67. Common house martin
68. Sedge warbler
69. Eurasian linnet
70. Common reed warbler
71. Common whitethroat
72. Eurasian hobby

Fish:
2. Eurasian minnow
3. Three-spined stickleback

The hobbies are likely the bird highlight of the year- no less than half a dozen of them chasing house martins under the sunset in the middle of Cambridge. It's not very often you see a lifer from an urban block of student flats.

Birds:
73. Common tern
74. Grey wagtail

Reptiles:
3. Viviparous lizard

Also heard the first cuckoo of the year and heard my first ever turtle dove call- seriously exotic sounding.

 

[Hix]

185. Pied Butcherbird
186. Brown Falcon



Hix

187. Brown-headed Honeyeater



Hix

 

[Ituri]

180 Chipping Sparrow
181 Caspian Tern
182 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
183 Lazuli Bunting
184 Bullock's Oriole
185 Dusky Flycatcher
186 Cassin's Vireo
187 Yellow-breasted Chat
188 Virginia's Warbler

189 Lark Sparrow
190 Grasshopper Sparrow
191 Black-chinned Hummingbird
192 Black-headed Grosbeak

And the other classes have gotten lost a bit so here's a full accounting.
Mammals
1 Eastern Fox Squirrel
2 Western Red Fox
3 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer
4 Coyote
5 American Pronghorn
6 White-tailed Antelope Squirrel
7 Piute Ground Squirrel
8 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
9 Yellow-bellied Marmot
10 Yellow Pine Chipmunk
11 Northwestern White-tailed Deer
12 Wapiti
13 American Bison
14 American Red Squirrel
15 Common Muskrat
16 Mountain Cottontail
17 Idaho Ground Squirrel

Reptiles
1 Painted Turtle
2 Red-eared Slider
3 Side-blotched Lizard
4 Western Fence Lizard
5 Western Yellow-bellied Racer

Amphibians
1 American Bullfrog

 

[jbnbsn99]

Call me Ursa Major, because today, I am the Big Dipper. I missed all 5 of my target birds in East Texas (most notably the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker). I did manage few few birds though.

277 Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga
278 Fish Crow - Corvus ossifragus
279 Red-headed Woodpecker - Melanerpes erythrocephalus

 

[ThylacineAlive]

All from the Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center at Milford Point:

Birds
33) Brant Goose Branta bernicla
34) Purple Martin Progne subis
35) Great Egret Ardea alba
36) Osprey Pandion haliaetus
37) Greater Black-Backed Gull Larus marinus
38) Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
39) Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
*40) Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
41) Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
42) Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
43) Least Tern Sternula antillarum
44) Blue-Winged Teal Anas discors

Birds
45) Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

Mammals
7) Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus

Reptiles
1) Black Rat Snake Pantherophis obsoletus

~Thylo

 

[mstickmanp]

I haven't been keeping up with my list, but I have seen 9.

1. California Ground Squirrel
2. Western Gray Squirrel
3. Eastern Fox Squirrel
4. Coyote
5. Raccoon
6. Desert Cottontail
7. Brush Rabbit
8. Mule Deer
9. Woodrat spp. (most likely Dusky-footed)

Went birding yesterday, but no new birds...but I did get one new mammal.

10. Gray Fox

 

[Hix]

Mammals
13. Common Wombat



Hix

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Mammals
13. Common Wombat



Hix

Yeah well I saw a rabbit so ha!



~Thylo

 

[DesertRhino150]

Birds:
73. Common tern
74. Grey wagtail

Reptiles:
3. Viviparous lizard

Also heard the first cuckoo of the year and heard my first ever turtle dove call- seriously exotic sounding.

Birds:
75. Common swift

Mammals:
14. Common pipistrelle bat

 

[robmv]

A few additions from the weekend:

157. Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
158. Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix)
159. Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
160. Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin)

I'm off on my annual Spring pilgrimage to Norfolk this weekend so that should give me a decent boost.

 

[Hix]

Yeah well I saw a rabbit so ha!



~Thylo

If you look back you'll notice I already have rabbit on my mammals list, so ha ha!



Hix

 

[ThylacineAlive]

If you look back you'll notice I already have rabbit on my mammals list, so ha ha!



Hix

But my rabbit is a different species and native to my country so ha ha ha!



~Thylo

 

[Maguari]

My occasional lunchtime wanders over the fields near work hadn't added a new species for the year since January but today they were able to add:

247. Common House Martin - Delichon urbicum

 

[Hix]

But my rabbit is a different species and native to my country so ha ha ha!



~Thylo

And so is my wombat, so ha ha ha ha!

Birds
188. Scarlet Robin
189. Buff-rumped Thornbill



Hix

 

[ThylacineAlive]

And so is my wombat, so ha ha ha ha!

Birds
188. Scarlet Robin
189. Buff-rumped Thornbill



Hix

Well.... Bobcat!



~Thylo

 

[Hix]

Well.... Bobcat!



~Thylo

Well...... echidna - twice!



Hix

 

[boof]

271. Bell miner
272. Striated Pardalote
273. Varied Sittella
274. White-eared Honeyeater*
.
Mulgoa nature reserve looking for swift parrots. The second time this year I have missed them.