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Picked up a couple more at work yesterday.

Birds:
87 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula

Reptiles
4 Brown Anole - Anolis sagrei

Birds:
88 Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax
89 Sandhill Crane - Antigone canadensis
90 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
91 Florida Scrub-Jay - Aphelocoma coerulescens
92 Pine Warbler - Setophaga pinus
93 Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus
94 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens

Reptiles
5 Green Anole - Anolis carolinensis
 
An even more productive lunchtime wander today (in a direction chosen due to repeated waxwing reports, so not entirely coincidental!):

63. Feral Pigeon - Columba livia
64. Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
65. Grey Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

:)
 
Didn't get much of a chance to birdwatch today, but a one-hour walk down the river gave me five new birds, while a new mammal was in the field behind the garden:

28. Stock dove Columba oenas
29. Redwing Turdus iliacus (Nt)
30. Eurasian teal Anas crecca
31. Canada goose Branta canadensis
32. Great spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos major

4. Reeve's muntjac deer Muntiacus reevesi

I have mucked up on my count somewhat. I was on 42 total birds, until this morning when I went on a walk at Heybridge Basin and then added another bird in my local area:

43. Feral pigeon Columba livia
44. Common gull Larus canus
45. Meadow pipit Anthus pratensis (Nt)
46. Greylag goose Anser anser
47. Common pochard Aythya ferina (Vu)
48. Bearded reedling Panurus biarmicus
49. Northern shoveler Anas clypeata
50. Common redshank Tringa totanus
51. Dunlin Calidris alpina
52. Lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus
53. Common reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
54. Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata (Nt)
55. Eurasian wigeon Anas Penelope
56. Common shelduck Tadorna tadorna
57. Common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula
58. Black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa (Nt)
59. Cetti's warbler Cettia cetti
60. Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
61. Dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla
62. European golden plover Pluvialis apricaria
63. Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea
64. Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus
65. Grey plover Pluvialis squatarola
66. Common snipe Gallinago gallinago
67. European greenfinch Chloris chloris
68. Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis
69. Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus

5. Red fox Vulpes vulpes
 
Birds
53. Brown Cuckoo-Dove
54. Crimson Rosella
55. Green Catbird
56. White-browed Scrubwren
57. Rufous Fantail
58. Black-faced Monarch

:p

Hix
Birds
59. Galah
60. Silver Gull

Mammals
2. Grey-headed Fruit Bat

:p

Hix
 
Here we go again. Good luck everyone. I hope the year is full of lifers.
1/1/17
1. silver gull
2. european goldfinch
3. white face heron
4. Australian magpie
5. australian pelican
6. common myna
7. crested pigeon
8. crimson rosella
9. eastern koel
10. little wattlebird
11. noisy miner
12. rainbow lorikeet
13. red whiskered bulbul
14. satin bowerbird
15. spotted dove
16. sulphur crested cockatoo
2/1/17
17. brown thornbill
18. great cormorant
19. little pied cormorant
20. house sparrow
21. magpie lark
22. masked lapwing
23. sooty oystercatcher
24. australian raven
25. willie wagtail
3/1/17
26. australasian figbird
27. black swan
28. black winged stilt
29. eurasian coot
30. glossy ibis
31. pacific black duck
32. purple swamphen
33. royal spoonbill
34. common blackbird
4/1/17
35. yellow tailed black cockatoo
36. galah
37. welcome swallow
38. little corella
39. long billed corella
40. channel billed cuckoo
41. nankeen kestrel
5/1/17
42. dollarbird
43. black faced cuckoo shrike
44. black shouldered kite
 
Day one and I'm already behind:p

Birds
1) Dark-Eyed Junco Junco hyemalis

Mammals
1) Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

~Thylo

Just a few I've picked up over the past few days:

Birds
2) American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
3) Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis
4) Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
5) Canada Goose Branta canadensis
6) Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
7) Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
8) Red-Breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
9) Mute Swan Cygnus olor
10) American Black Duck Anas rubripes
11) House Sparrow Passer domesticus
12) Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

Mammals
2) House Mouse Mus musculus

~Thylo
 
Birds:
88 Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax
89 Sandhill Crane - Antigone canadensis
90 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
91 Florida Scrub-Jay - Aphelocoma coerulescens
92 Pine Warbler - Setophaga pinus
93 Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus
94 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens

Reptiles
5 Green Anole - Anolis carolinensis

Doesn't make the statement false.

Reptiles:
6 Florida Softshell Turtle - Apalone ferox

95 Eurasian Collared Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
96 Marsh Wren - Cistothorus palustris
 
Just a few I've picked up over the past few days:

Birds
2) American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
3) Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis
4) Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
5) Canada Goose Branta canadensis
6) Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
7) Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
8) Red-Breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
9) Mute Swan Cygnus olor
10) American Black Duck Anas rubripes
11) House Sparrow Passer domesticus
12) Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor

Mammals
2) House Mouse Mus musculus

~Thylo

Two I missed off yesterday:

Birds
13) Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
14) Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

~Thylo
 
More additions from one of Warsaw's city parks:

32) Hooded Crow
33) Mandarin Duck
34) Goldcrest
35) Eurasian Jay
36) Caspian Gull
37) Mute Swan
38) Eurasian Coot
39) Black Redstart
40) Eurasian Nuthatch
41) Middle Spotted Woodpecker
42) Greenfinch

4) Red Squirrel
5) Striped Field-mouse

I actually went out birding properly today, but unfortunately temperatures had dropped and it was getting down to about -16 which got seriously unpleasant after a couple of hours. A fair few additions nonetheless.

43) Bearded Reedling
44) European Goldfinch
45) Eurasian Siskin
46) Short-toed Treecreeper
47) Marsh tit
48) Common Redpoll
49) Common Kingfisher
50) Hawfinch
 
Just one more from today (all of the geese in York seem to be hiding from me):

29. Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Just the one more from today, still no Greylags though....

30. Canada Goose Branta canadensis
 
A quick visit to Antwerp got me the following:

BIRDS

26) Feral pigeon, Columba livia
27) Common moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
28) Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos
29) Grey heron, Ardea cinerea

MAMMALS

1) House mouse, Mus musculus
 
  1. Wood pigeon
  2. Blackbird
  3. Robin
  4. Collard dove
  5. Pheasant
  6. Carrion crow
  7. Jackdaw
  8. Greylag goose
  9. Black-headed gull
  10. Red-legged partridge
  11. Lesser-black backed gull
  12. Mallard
  13. Pink-footed goose
  14. Lapwing
  15. Golden plover
  16. Moorhen
  17. White-fronted goose
  18. Water rail
  19. Goldfinch
  20. Chaffinch
  21. Greenfinch
  22. Blue tit
  23. Great tit
  24. Teal
  25. Wigeon
  26. Shoveller
  27. Gadwall
  28. Brent goose
  29. Marsh harrier
  30. Buzzard
  31. Little egret
  32. Redshank
  33. Ringed plover
  34. Dunlin
  35. Knot
  36. Black-tailed godwit
  37. Avocet
  38. Reed bunting
  39. Grey plover
  40. Long-tailed duck
  41. Common scoter
  42. Velvet scoter
  43. Sanderling
  44. Curlew
  45. Oystercatcher
  46. Herring gull
  47. Little stint
  48. Snipe
  49. Little grebe
  50. Brambling
  51. Jay
  52. Magpie
  53. Bullfinch
  54. Starling
  55. Wren
  56. Chiffchaff
  57. Stonechat
  58. Turnstone
  59. Cormorant
  60. Shelduck
  61. Bean goose
  62. Pintail
  63. House sparrow
  64. Kestrel
  65. Tufted duck
  66. Great black-backed gull
  67. Common gull
  68. Red-throated diver
  69. Egyptian goose
  70. Shore lark
  71. Merlin
  72. Hen harrier
  73. Gannet
  74. Goldeneye
  75. Red-breasted merganser
  76. Bar-tailed godwit
  77. Skylark
  78. Linnet
  79. Feral pigeon
  80. Great northern diver
  81. Black-throated diver
  82. Great-crested grebe
  83. Coot
  84. Eider
  85. Long-tailed tit
  86. Woodcock
  87. Golden pheasant
  88. Hedge sparrow
  89. Slavonian grebe
  90. Mute swan
  91. Pochard
  92. Redwing
  93. Great white egret
  94. Grey heron
  95. Kingfisher
  96. Nuthatch
  97. Marsh tit
  98. Coal tit
  99. Goosander
  100. Rook
  101. Waxwing
  102. Mistle thrush
  103. Red grouse
  104. Song thrush
  105. Dusky thrush
  106. Goldcrest
  107. Great spotted woodpecker
  108. Siskin
  109. Tawny owl
 
1. Eurasian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
2. Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
3. Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
4. European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
5. Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
6. Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)
7. Common Blackbird (Turdus merula)
8. Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
9. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
10. Gadwall (Anas strepera)
11. Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
12. Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
13. Great Tit (Parus major)
14. Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
15. Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
16. Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
17. Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
18. Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
19. Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
20. European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
21. Eurasian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
22. Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
23. European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
24. Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope)
25. Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)

Additions over the last few days:
BIRDS
26. Feral Pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
27. Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
28. Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
29. Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)
30. House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
31. Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
32. Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
33. Great Egret (Ardea alba)
34. Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
35. Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
36. Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
37. White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
38. Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
39. Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
40. European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

MAMMALS
1. European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)
2. European Hare (Lepus europaeus)
 
I have mucked up on my count somewhat. I was on 42 total birds, until this morning when I went on a walk at Heybridge Basin and then added another bird in my local area:

43. Feral pigeon Columba livia
44. Common gull Larus canus
45. Meadow pipit Anthus pratensis (Nt)
46. Greylag goose Anser anser
47. Common pochard Aythya ferina (Vu)
48. Bearded reedling Panurus biarmicus
49. Northern shoveler Anas clypeata
50. Common redshank Tringa totanus
51. Dunlin Calidris alpina
52. Lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus
53. Common reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
54. Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata (Nt)
55. Eurasian wigeon Anas Penelope
56. Common shelduck Tadorna tadorna
57. Common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula
58. Black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa (Nt)
59. Cetti's warbler Cettia cetti
60. Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
61. Dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla
62. European golden plover Pluvialis apricaria
63. Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea
64. Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus
65. Grey plover Pluvialis squatarola
66. Common snipe Gallinago gallinago
67. European greenfinch Chloris chloris
68. Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis
69. Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus

5. Red fox Vulpes vulpes

Added another two birds and a mammal on a walk this afternoon:

70. Common buzzard Buteo buteo
71. Common goosander Mergus merganser

6. Bank vole Myodes glareolus
 
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