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  1. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Still working the guidebook and photo file to get my bird count up.
     
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  2. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    In the company of robmv and Mr and Mrs zoospud, Manchester (SLC and Museum/Vivarium) in the morning today and an afternoon at Pennington Flash - giving a couple of additions:

    264. Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus
    265. Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
     
    Maguari, 13 Jul 2014
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  3. robmv

    robmv Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    The aforementioned outing also added two for me, but not the same two:
    189. Willow Tit (Poecile montana)
    190. Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
     
    robmv, 13 Jul 2014
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  4. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Lucky devil!
     
    TeaLovingDave, 13 Jul 2014
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  5. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Managed to add two pretty common local birds that I had missed until now:

    94. Blackcap
    95. Yellowhammer
     
    DesertRhino150, 14 Jul 2014
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  6. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Courtesy of a quick dash to Avenue Washlands in the two dry hours today:

    266. Eurasian Reed Warbler - Acrocephalus scirpaceus


    Finally! I've had several near-misses. Another 'technical' lifer that hadn't been noted down before, but I'm sure I've seen in the past.
     
    Maguari, 20 Jul 2014
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  7. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Much nicer day so chanced my luck on Black-necked Grebes at Potteric Carr - plenty of grebes seen, but all Little or Great Crested. Great day though - and I was able to bring home two wadery additions:

    267. Ruff - Philomachus pugnax
    268. Common Greenshank - Tringa nebularia


    Also Green Sandpiper - you wait years for a Green Sandpiper...
     
    Maguari, 20 Jul 2014
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  8. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Last weekend I took a quick trip to the Puget Sound area. I did not have much time for birding, but I did manage to squeeze in a trip to Anacortes to take a "poor man's pelagic" aka the ferry to San Juan Island. My primary goal was to seek out some of the resident orcas that are frequently seen in the area. Unfortunately, we missed the whales (they had been seen earlier in the day) but I did net some life species.

    265 Rhinoceros Auklet
    266 Heermann's Gull

    30 Dall's Porpoise

    Not added to the tally, but I also saw a large number of jellies from the ferry (looked like moon jellies and Pacific sea nettles, but who knows).

    Yesterday I joined a birding group on a trip to Silver City, an abandoned former mining camp in the Owyhee Mountains of southwest Idaho. The highlight was four species of hummingbird visiting the same feeders. Lots of birds seen including some new ones for the list.

    267 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
    268 Rufous Hummingbird
    269 Green-tailed Towhee
     
    Ituri, 20 Jul 2014
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  9. BeardsleyZooFan

    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    BIRDS:
    58. Willet

    AMPHIBIANS:
    2. Eastern Newt
     
    BeardsleyZooFan, 22 Jul 2014
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  10. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Just a couple from around town today.

    270 Trumpeter Swan
    271 Cattle Egret
     
    Ituri, 22 Jul 2014
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  11. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    One more from Frodsham on sunday

    207. Red-necked Grebe
     
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  12. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    290. Bassian Thrush
     
    boof, 23 Jul 2014
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  13. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Amphibians
    1) Eastern Newt Notophthalmus viridescens

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
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  14. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    291. Wandering Albatross
    292. Black Browed Albatross
    293. Shy Albatross
    294. Indian Yellow Nosed Albatross
    295. Buller's Albatross
    296. Fairy Prion
    297. Fluttering Shearwater
    298. Providence Petrel
    299. Brown Skua
    300. White Fronted Tern
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    26/7/2014 wollongong pelagic trip.
     
    boof, 26 Jul 2014
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  15. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    16. Brushtailed Possum

    :p

    Hix
     
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  16. mstickmanp

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    So I went back to the Salton Sea again, but this time with the local Audubon chapter and I got 10 new species.

    238. White-tailed Kite
    239. Black-bellied Plover
    240. Snowy Plover
    241. Red-necked Phalarope
    242. Laughing Gull
    243. Black Tern
    244. Lesser Nighthawk
    245. Gila Woodpecker
    246. Peregrine Falcon
    247. Bank Swallow
     
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    mstickmanp, 27 Jul 2014
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  17. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Blimey - good trip!
     
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  18. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    I agree!

    Were any of them lifers, Boof?

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 28 Jul 2014
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  19. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Missed a new mammal from the trip

    31 Douglas's Squirrel

    Found another new bird recently, as well as another mammal.

    272 Eastern Kingbird

    32 Bushy-tailed Woodrat
     
    Ituri, 28 Jul 2014
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  20. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    no lifers but one yellow nosed albatross may have been an atlantic YN. A submission to BARC is being prepared. That would be an awesome bird to add to my list. not often reported in aussie waters. fingers crossed. I havent added it to my list yet.
     
    boof, 28 Jul 2014
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