ZooChat Big Year 2015

[AverageWalrus]

Mammals

3) Raccoon

 

[Ituri]

BIRDS
99 Mountain Chickadee
100 Clark's Nutcracker
101 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
102 Black Rosy-Finch
103 Hairy Woodpecker
104 Pileated Woodpecker
105 Steller's Jay
106 Bohemian Waxwing
107 Harris's Sparrow
108 American Tree Sparrow

MAMMALS
10 American Red Squirrel

11 Piute Ground Squirrel

 

[nanoboy]

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

 

[LaughingDove]

I went down to the Vistula river today one my way to Warsaw Zoo and right in the centre of the city were at least 10

49) Goosanders

I also spotted an otter's den so will be back when I have more time to look for otters!

Then within Warsaw Zoo was

50) Greater Spotted woodpecker
Surprised I didn't see this sooner actually

Was walking from the bus stop to school today and I saw
51) Sparrowhawk

 

[lintworm]

57. Magpie
58. European kingfisher

 

[Ituri]

109 Turkey Vulture
110 Pine Grosbeak

111 Thayer's Gull

 

[Maguari]

Finally a chance for some actual birding! A couple of hours' potter at Avenue Washlands successfully completed today, then a bit more of a mission tomorrow, all being well.

49. Eurasian Bullfinch - Pyrrhula pyrrhula
50. Common Reed Bunting - Emberiza schoeniclus
51. Barnacle Goose - Branta leucopsis
52. Yellowhammer - Emberiza citrinella
53. Eurasian Jay - Garrulus glandarius
54. Willow Tit - Poecile montanus
55. Eurasian Wigeon - Anas penelope
56. Gadwall - Anas strepera
57. Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago

 

[Hevden]

A very long drive to Aberdeen gave me another life tick this weekend but managed to miss yet another King Eider (4th time)

82. Eider
83. Harlequin Duck
84. Long-tailed Duck
85. Shag
86. Red-necked Grebe
87. Grey Plover
88. Knot
89. Bar-tailed Godwit
90. Curlew
91. Spotted Sandpiper
92. Razorbill
93. Dipper
94. Rock Pipit
95. Yellowhammer
96. Reed Bunting

I'll hopefully reach 100 next weekend.

Certainly over a hundred but fatigue from last weekend is starting to cath up with me so I think a quiet day for tomorrow.

97. Pink-footed Goose
98. Golden Plover
99. Dunlin
100. Pomarine Skua
101. Iceland Gull
102. Shore Lark
103. Cetti's Warbler
104. Twite

 

[boof]

79. Striated heron

 

[Pleistohorse]

Birds:
8. Boreal Chickadee

Mammals:
3. Moose

 

[Ituri]

111 Thayer's Gull

BIRDS
112 White-breasted Nuthatch
113 Pygmy Nuthatch
114 Gray Jay
115 American Dipper

11 Piute Ground Squirrel

MAMMALS
12 Long-tailed Weasel

 

[LaughingDove]

Was walking from the bus stop to school today and I saw
51) Sparrowhawk

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

This now means that I have seen all European woodpeckers - apart from white-backed and wryneck - in the wild

This is by far my best year for birding so far. By this point last year my total was under 20. This is also the first time I have birded seriously, in previous years I have kept a list but not gone out of my way to look for birds and I didn't have binoculars; which is why my total for last year was under 200 even though I visited 3 continents.

 

[robmv]

Another productive weekend. A dawn-to-dusk assault on Anglesey and north-west Wales yesterday filled in some gaps with coastal specialties:

105. Brent Goose (Branta bernicla)
106. Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
107. Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
108. Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
109. Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
110. Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
111. Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
112. Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle) - sorry Maguari!
113. Guillemot (Uria aalge)
114. Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
115. Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus)

A much more leisurely visit to Belvide Reservoir this afternoon:

116. Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
117. Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)

 

[jbnbsn99]

117 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus
118 Franklin's Gull - Leucophaeus pipixcan
119 Monk Parakeet - Myiopsitta monachus
120 Winter Wren - Troglodytes hiemalis
121 White-winged Dove - Zenaida asiatica

 

[Maguari]

Frampton Marsh and Freiston Shore today - could only stay until about 2.30 but managed a decent haul of new additions:

58. Fieldfare - Turdus pilaris
59. Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata
60. Common Redshank - Tringa totanus
61. Tree Sparrow - Passer montanus
62. Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa
63. Dunlin - Calidris alpina
64. Common Ringed Plover - Charadrius hiaticula
65. Brent Goose - Branta bernicla
66. Eurasian Curlew - Numenius arquata
67. Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
68. Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis
69. Eurasian Skylark - Alauda arvensis
70. Greylag Goose - Anser anser
71. European Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula
72. Northern Pintail - Anas acuta
73. Common Shelduck - Tadorna tadorna
74. European Pochard - Aythya ferina
75. European Golden Plover - Pluvialis apricaria
76. Pink-footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchos
77. Ruff - Philomachus pugnax
78. Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
79. European Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus

 

[Hevden]

Certainly over a hundred but fatigue from last weekend is starting to cath up with me so I think a quiet day for tomorrow.

97. Pink-footed Goose
98. Golden Plover
99. Dunlin
100. Pomarine Skua
101. Iceland Gull
102. Shore Lark
103. Cetti's Warbler
104. Twite

Just one more today

105. Bittern

 

[Maguari]

112. Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle) - sorry Maguari!

Grrrrr!

I'm in Bangor for two nights next month for a Uni reunion. I will track one of the little sods down!

 

[Chlidonias]

2) House Mouse Mus musculus/domesticus

 

[cloudedleopard]

I saw a house mouse with long teeth (tusklike) in our basement and it was dead. Does it count?

 

[Hix]

I saw a house mouse with long teeth (tusklike) in our basement and it was dead. Does it count?

No. Dead things don't count.