ZooChat Big Year 2016

11/1/2016
113. eastern koel

 

Mammals:

4) Tundra Vole

 

12/1/2016
114. white headed pigeon
115. nanken kestrel
116. wedge tailed eagle

 

One bonus bird today from a supermarket car park:

72. Lesser Black-backed Gull - Larus fuscus

 

Mammals:

5) Caribou

 

15/1/2016
117. lewin's honeyeater
118. black faced monarch
119. large billed scrubwren
120. golden whistler
121. eastern whipbird
122. yellow throated scrubwren

 

15/1/2016
123. striated heron
124. eastern culew

 

BIRDS:
1 Common Raven - Corvus corax
2 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis
3 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
4 Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia
5 American Coot - Fulica americana
6 House Finch - Haemorhous mexicanus
7 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
8 Canada Goose - Branta canadensis
9 Ring-necked Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus
10 Sharp-tailed Grouse - Tympanuchus phasianellus
11 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
12 Northern Shrike - Lanius excubitor
13 Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris
14 Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus
15 Juniper Titmouse - Baeolophus ridgwayi
16 Bewick's Wren - Thryomanes bewickii
17 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris
18 Common Redpoll - Acanthis flammea
19 Trumpeter Swan - Cygnus buccinator
20 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos
21 Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula
22 Mountain Chickadee - Poecile gambeli
23 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis
24 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos
25 Rough-legged Hawk - Buteo lagopus
26 Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
27 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis
28 Common Loon - Gavia immer
29 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa
30 Red Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra
31 American Kestrel - Falco sparverius
32 Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus
33 Townsend's Solitaire - Myadestes townsendi
34 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis
35 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia
36 Mute Swan - Cygnus olor
37 Wood Duck - Aix sponsa
38 American Wigeon - Anas americana
39 Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris
40 Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola
41 Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus
42 Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias
43 Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura
44 Red-breasted Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus ruber
45 Brown Creeper - Certhia americana
46 Gadwall - Anas strepera
47 Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata
48 Redhead - Aythya americana
49 American Robin - Turdus migratorius
50 Merlin - Falco columbarius
51 Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
52 White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys
53 Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus
54 Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus
55 Brewer's Blackbird - Euphagus cyanocephalus
56 Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis
57 American Pipit - Anthus rubescens
58 Western Meadowlark - Sturnella neglecta
59 Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis
60 Common Merganser - Mergus merganser
61 Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps
62 Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus
63 American White Pelican - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
64 Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus
65 Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon
66 White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis
67 Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos
68 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens
69 Rock Wren - Salpinctes obsoletus
70 Canyon Wren - Catherpes mexicanus
71 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula
72 Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana
73 Spotted Towhee - Pipilo maculatus
74 Prairie Falcon - Falco mexicanus
75 Ferruginous Hawk - Buteo regalis
76 Yellow-rumped Warbler - Setophaga coronata
77 Pine Siskin - Spinus pinus
78 Lesser Goldfinch - Spinus psaltria
79 Ross's Goose - Chen rossii
80 Cackling Goose - Branta hutchinsii
81 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus
82 California Quail - Callipepla californica
83 Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
84 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum
85 Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata
86 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus
87 Purple Finch - Haemorhous purpureus

MAMMALS: UNCHANGED
1 Mountain Cottontail - Sylvilagus nuttallii
2 Eastern Fox Squirrel - Sciurus niger
3 Common Muskrat - Ondatra zibethicus
4 House Mouse - Mus musculus
5 Yellow-bellied Marmot - Marmota flaviventris
6 Piute Ground Squirrel - Spermophilus mollis

 

Despite the rather deep snow, I managed to add a few more birds on a trip today, including my first lifer of the year (and a whole new family for me)

49) Bohemian Waxwing
50) Eurasian Siskin
51) Long-tailed Tit
52) White-throated Dipper
53) Common Buzzard
54) Lesser-spotted Woodpecker
55) Short-toed Treecreeper

 

Pottering around today - the following are variously from Queen's Park in Chesterfield, Carsington Water and Ogston Reservoir.

73. Goosander - Mergus merganser
74. Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
75. Tree Sparrow - Passer montanus
76. Great Northern Diver - Gavia immer
77. Meadow Pipit - Anthus pratensis
78. Willow Tit - Poecile montanus
79. Greater Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus

4. European Rabbit - Oryctolagus cuniculus

 

16/1/16
125. yellow faced honeyeater
126. white bellied sea eagle
127. common bronzewing
17/1/16
128. olive backed oriole

 

Fish
133. Masked Moray
134. Variegated Lizardfish
135. White-tip Soldierfish
136. Coral Rockcod
137. Whitley's Basslet
138. Giant Trevally
139. Bluefin Trevally
140. Midnight Snapper
141. Neon Fusilier
142. Oriental Sweetlips
143. Goldsaddle Goatfish
144. Brassy Drummer
145. Kleins Butterflyfish
146. Spotbanded Butterflyfish
147. Pyramid Butterflyfish
148. Horned Bannerfish
149. Cocos Angelfish
150. Golden Damsel
151. Indian Ocean Twotone Chromis
152. Yellowbreasted Wrasse
153. Lyretail Pigfish
154. Diana's Pigfish
155. Yellowback Tubelip
156. Ringtail Wrasse
157. Eightline Wrasse
158. Red Firegoby
159. Mimic Surgeonfish
160. Yellowfin Surgeonfish
161. Sleek Unicornfish
162. Bulbnose Unicornfish
163. Dogtooth Tuna
164. Clown Triggerfish
165. Pinktail Triggerfish

Invertebrates
7. Banded Coral Shrimp
8. Christmas Tree Worms
9. Bennett's Featherstar
10. Redspotted Starfish



Hix

 

Went out Birding again today, this time to Kampinos National Park:

56) Green Woodpecker
57) Common Raven
58) European Crested Tit
59) Northern Goshawk
60) Crested Lark
61) Eurasian Treecreeper (two treecreepers in two days!)

8) Fallow Deer
9) Red Deer

Next major update will be from the Maasai Mara in three weeks

 

An enjoyable day in north Wales today:

96. Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
97. Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata)
98. Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
99. Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
100. Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus)
101. Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
102. Twite (Carduelis flavirostris)
103. Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)

 

96 Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola
97 Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus

 

Birds:
1) Common Raven
2) Black-billed Magpie
3) Rock Dove
4) Willow Ptarmigan

Mammals:
1) Red Fox
2) Arctic Fox
3) Collared Lemming
4) Tundra Vole
5) Caribou

 

Spent today at Slimbridge (and paid the price later on the M5, but never mind!). For complicated reasons we travelled down the night before, and made an evening stop near Kempsey to try to catch up with a family of owls that had been showy lately in the hope of an overdue lifer! On the way back we tried to similarly drop in on some Penduline Tits, but no joy. We did see Stonechat though (and a kingfisher), so not a wasted stop by any means. All of the following from Slimbridge except the first and last birds:

80. Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus
81. Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons
82. Common Crane - Grus grus
83. Bewick's Swan - Cygnus columbianus
84. Dunlin - Calidris alpina
85. Barnacle Goose - Branta leucopsis
86. Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus
87. European Stonechat - Saxicola rubicola

5. Bank Vole - Myodes glareolus
6. Least Weasel - Mustela nivalis

 

18/1/16
129. australian hobby