ZooChat Big Year 2020

BIRDS
-- Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus striatus)
149 - Mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum)
150 - Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla)

INVERTEBRATES
8 - Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)

 

One great thing about year-listing is always the weird order in which you see things! Only just now saw a redwing, which is usually the very first or second thrush I see in a year, but is now already the 6th!
In comparison, I didn't even see 6 thrushes total in Europe last year.

BIRDS:
93) Redwing, Turdus iliacus

 

Went out to Cheney State Park west of Wichita again this weekend. In a 30 second span I saw a Short-eared Owl, a herd of White-tailed Deer and about half a dozen bald eagles.

68 Snow Goose - Anser caerulescens
69 Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus
70 Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos
71 Common Merganser - Mergus merganser

 

Since my last update, I have added six new species of bird to my year list with the latter two coming from wild birds seen at Colchester Zoo today:

60. Rook Corvus frugilegus
61. Canada goose Branta canadensis
62. Little egret Egretta garzetta
63. Goosander Mergus merganser
64. Common gull Larus canus
65. Common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

 

Birds:
58. Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)
59. Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis)
60 Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus)
61. Striated Pardolote (Pardalotus striatus)
62. Channel Billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)
63. Pale Headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus)
64. Mistltoe Bird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum)
65. Australian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae)

 

Frustrating time since the start of the new year. Every plan to go birdwatching has fallen through because of meetings etc. I have yet to see a single bird through binoculars. At the same time many birds that were seen almost daily before Christmas around Moonlit seem to have disappeared. Anyway, things are due to change big time next month.

Mammals

2. Eastern ringtail possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus

Birds

42. Wedge-tailed eagle Aquila audax
43. Swamp harrier Circus approximans
44, Willy wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys

Invertebrates

2. Small white Pieris rapae

 

I haven't been out much yet this year as I've had exams, but here is what I've seen so far just from going about life.

Mammals
1. Brown hare Lepus europaeus
2. Grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
3. Roe deer Capreolus capreolus
4. European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus

Birds
1. European herring gull Oryctolagus cuniculus
2. Feral pigeon Columba livia domestica
3. Lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus
4. Carrion crow Corvus corone
5. Eurasian magpie Pica pica
6. Common wood pigeon Columba palumbus
7. Common Blackbird Turdus merula
8. Red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa
9. Common pheasant Phasianus colchicus
10. Blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus
11. Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus
12. Coal tit Periparus ater
13. Dunnock Prunella modularis
14. Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto
15. European robin Erithacus rubecula
16. Great tit Parus major
17. House sparrow Passer domesticus
18. Rook Corvus frugilegus
19. Black-headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
20. Greylag goose Anser anser
21. Common starling Sturnus vulgaris
22. Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus
23. Common reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
24. Common buzzard Buteo buteo
25. Canada goose Branta canadensis
26. Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
27. Eurasian wren Troglodytes troglodytes
28. European greenfinch Chloris chloris
29. Western jackdaw Corvus monedula
30. Common moorhen Gallinula chloropus
31. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
32. Barnacle goose Branta leucopsis
33. Song thrush Turdus philomelos
34. Goldcrest Regulus regulus
35. Pied wagtail Motacilla alba

 

Birds
45. Grey Teal
46. Royal Spoonbill
47. Channel-billed Cuckoo
48. Crimson Rosella
49. White-browed Scrub Wren
50. Grey Fantail
51. Red-whiskered Bulbul
52. Silvereye

Mammals
3. Eastern Grey Kangaroo



Hix

 

BIRDS
-- Bell Miner (Manorina melanophrys) [heard]
151 - Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata)

 

BIRDS
152 - Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

FISH
3 - Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)*

 

A few additions, nothing out of the ordinary. It was about time I saw the local Ravens again, they have been unreasonably secretive for the last few months!

Birds
100. Red-Crested Pochard, Netta rufina
101. Northern Raven, Corvus corax

Mammals
4. Eurasian Red Squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris
5. European Roe Deer, Capreolus capreolus

Invertebrates
2. Silverfish, Lepisma saccharina

 

Heavy rainfall last night must have encouraged a lot of insects to come out of the wetland as today lots of swifts and swallows were hunting over it.

45. Fork-tailed swift Apus pacificus
46. Welcome swallow Hirundo neoxena
47. Fairy martin Petrochelidon ariel
48. Tree martin Petrochelidon nigricans

 

My first ever fork tailed swift was seen at moonlit too. I’ve never seen fairy or tree martins though.

 

Today it was mostly tree martins, with a couple of fairy martins and one swift and swallow also seen. I can't recall seeing so many before, at least in recent years.

 

A couple invertebrates I’ve forgotten to add

3. European Honey Bee
4, Variable Carpet Beetle

 

Birds

13. Eurasian Jackdaw - Corvus monedula

 

It would be really good if people could mention in their posts where they saw the animals they see, especially if it was somewhere different or special. It would help others plan their own wildlife watching. Just a personal suggestion from me.

 

19/1/2020
77. Major Mitchell cockatoo
78. Pink-eared duck
79. Noisy Friarbird
80. Dollarbird
81. Noisy miner
20/1/2020
82. Australian king parrot
83. Pied currawong
24/1/2020
84. Eastern rosella
85. Sulphur-crested cockatoo