ZooChat Big Year 2015

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Chlidonias said:
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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I know this is late news, but you forgot to list me on this list- "cloudedleopard"- 13 birds.
 
Ituri said:
Took a very quick trip over to the Seattle area and back. Didn't have much time for birding but I did pick up a few year birds and mammals.

From the waterfront near Olympic Sculpture Park:

128 Surf Scoter
129 Horned Grebe
130 Red-necked Grebe
131 Pelagic Cormorant
132 Pigeon Guillemot
133 Bushtit

From the Seattle-Winslow Ferry
134 Common Loon
135 Glaucous-winged Gull

From Fort Ward State Park on the south end of Bainbridge Island:
136 Harlequin Duck
137 Western Gull
138 Anna's Hummingbird
139 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
140 Golden-crowned Sparrow



Also picked up a few year mammals:
13 Douglas's Squirrel
14 Harbor Seal
15 California Sea Lion
16 Eastern Gray Squirrel
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141 Red-naped Sapsucker
 
Bit of a potter this afternoon around a few local sites where interesting things have been seen produced a lifer, a second nice year bird and a mammal that had to happen eventually!

98. Great Grey Shrike - Lanius excubitor
99. Brambling - Fringilla montifringilla

6. Brown Rat - Rattus norvegicus


:)
 
well February flew by!

Current totals:

BIRDS:
jbnbsn99 –185
LaughingDove – 184
mstickmanp – 180
robmv – 141
Ituri – 141
Hevden – 139
boof – 116
Maguari – 99
DesertRhino150 – 97
nanoboy – 95
lintworm – 86
Hix – 78
zooboy28 – 72
TeaLovingDave – 58
Chlidonias – 55
Javan Rhino – 19
AverageWalrus – 19
ThylacineAlive – 11
Pleistohorse – 9
BeardsleyZooFan – 6

MAMMALS:
LaughingDove – 32
Ituri – 16
zooboy28 – 9
DesertRhino150 – 8
lintworm – 6
Maguari – 6
Pleistohorse – 4
jbnbsn99 – 4
Hix – 4
AverageWalrus – 3
ThylacineAlive – 3
mstickmanp – 2
Chlidonias – 2
BeardsleyZooFan – 1

HERPTILES:
Hix – 2 Herptiles total (0 Amphibians, 2 Reptiles)
Ituri – 2 Herptiles total (0 Amphibians, 2 Reptiles)
LaughingDove – 2 Herptiles total (0 Amphibians, 2 Reptiles)

FISH:
LaughingDove – 2
 
87. Common pochard
88. Smew
89. Long-eared owl

I did some small birding yesterday in the small flood plain next to my house and I was happy to see a pair of smews over there. Afterwards I went to a winter roost of long-eared owls, in that tree about 10 birds should be present, but I found only 2. But this is also the time they are leaving their winter roosts.

Except for the strong winds, the first signs of spring are clearly visible with Galanthus and Crocus flowers flowering everywhere. It probably won't be long before the summer visitors return :)
 
I didn't venture too far from home this weekend, but still managed to see some nice birds:

141. Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
142. Scaup (Aythya marila)
143. Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus)
144. Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
145. Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra)
146. Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus)
 
186 Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater
187 House Finch - Haemorhous mexicanus
 
BeardsleyZooFan said:
BIRDS:
5. Blue Jay
6. Rock Dove

MAMMALS:
1. Eastern Gray Squirrel

I have seen a few hawks, but I haven't gotten very good views of them, though I suspect one is a juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk. But I don't know for sure, so for now, it stays off the list.
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Chlidonias, on the February tally, I have two mammals, White-Tailed Deer and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
BIRDS:
7. Mourning Dove
8. Herring Gull
9. Northern Cardinal
10. Cooper's Hawk
11. Turkey Vulture
12. Black-Capped Chickadee
13. American Robin
14. House Sparrow
15. Canada Goose
 
After dithering over whether to zoo or to bird today, given I've no free days after today for at least a fortnight, I eventually decided not to make a decision and just go to Slimbridge, which I could count as both! Turned out to be a very good decision - for the third time in the last fortnight, a species I've been bested by before on multiple occasions (the goose) has put in an appearance - and I got a bonus duck lifer into the bargain, alongside some Slimbridge classics.

100. Bewick's (Tundra) Swan - Cygnus columbianus
101. Common Crane - Grus grus
102. Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus
103. Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons
104. Ferruginous Duck - Aythya nyroca
105. Pied Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta


:)
 
Hevden said:
A long drive to cornwall this weekend gave me what might be the best days birding this year and included my first two tick day for many years.

128. King Eider
129. Fulmar
130. Gannet
131. Ring-billed Gull
132. Slavonian Grebe
133. Great Northern Diver
134. Pacific Diver
135. Little Bunting
136. Stonechat

And a few more on the way home today

137. Avocet
138. Greenshank
139. Cirl Bunting (thanks to Robmv for an excellent site for what can be a difficult species)
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Some more in the Nottingham area this weekend

140. Great Grey Shrike
141. Ringed Plover
142. Glossy Ibis
143. American Wigeon
 
Spent the weekend at my brothers farm and picked up a few birds (including a lifer), and on the drive home I got a mammal and a reptile.

Birds
79. White-eared Honeyeater
80. Grey Fantail
81. Rufous Whistler
82. Wedgetailed Eagle
83. Brown Thornbill
84. Striated Thornbill
85. Crimson Rosella
86. Scarlet Robin
87. White-throated Treecreeper
88. Red-browed Firetail Finch
89. Grey Currawong
90. Australasian Pipit
91. Diamond Firetail Finch
92. Grey Shrike Thrush


Mammals
5. Red-necked Wallaby

Reptiles
3. Eastern Bluetongue Lizard

:p

Hix
 
118. Eastern Osprey.
I missed this bird last year and it's the first one I've seen in the Illawarra.
 
I don't know how I missed this off, only noticed because I was going through updating lists
185) African Fishing-eagle
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Had another pleasant trip to Heybridge Basin this morning. I managed to see over forty species of birds, but only two of them were new for the year.

96. Red knot Calidris canutus
97. Bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica
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Another new bird seen in the garden today:

98. Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea
 
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