Anybody else keep checklists?

I enjoy keeping written lists of birds I have observed. Writing them down causes me to remember the conditions under which the bird was observed (and other factors) which keeps my aging brain reasonably nimble. This is a list compiled over two days spent outside which were not entirely dedicated to birding only - a fair amount of time was spent fishing on the Mattaponi River. Wielding a fly rod does not lend itself to aiming binoculars so I probably missed more than one. Then again; one can cover a lot of real estate floating the tide in a canoe. None of these sightings are rare with one exception: flocks of migrating Bobolinks stopping over in a barley field. The list:

Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Whip-poor-will
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Chipping Sparrow
Indigo Bunting
Bobolink!!!
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
American Goldfinch

Wow! That's quite a list! I was planning on doing that and including butterflies. Up until now I've been able to keep track by the pics I took, which has the date on each that I took them. My lifer list is on E-Bird too. But I want to start keeping track of them daily...it's difficult sometimes when one gets busy doing other things...lol
Today I saw a Morning Cloak butterfly fly from our front yard and into our backyard and didn't stop for me to take a pic...darn! Next time :D

Very nice list Bob!!
I guess it would be good if we kept our list here too. My list.


Snow Goose x
Brant x
Canada Goose x
Mute Swan x
Muscovy Duck x
Wood Duck x
Gadwall x
Eurasian Wigeon x
American Wigeon x
American Black Duck x
Mallard x
Blue-winged Teal x
Northern Shoveler x
Northern Pintail x
Green-winged Teal x
Ring-necked Duck x
Common Eider x
Surf Scoter x
Black Scoter x
Bufflehead x
Hooded Merganser x
Common Merganser x
Ruddy Duck x
Red-throated Loon x
Common Loon x
Pied-billed Grebe x
Northern Gannet x
Brown Pelican x
Double-crested Cormorant x
American Bittern x
Least Bittern x
Great Blue Heron x
Great Egret x
Snowy Egret x
Little Blue Heron x
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret x
Green Heron x
Black-crowned Night-Heron x
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron x
Glossy Ibis x
Roseate Spoonbill x
Black Vulture x
Turkey Vulture x
Osprey x
Swallow-tailed Kite x
Bald Eagle x
Northern Harrier x
Sharp-shinned Hawk x
Cooper's Hawk x
Northern Goshawk x
Red-shouldered Hawk x
Broad-winged Hawk x
Swainson's Hawk x
Red-tailed Hawk x
American Kestrel x
Merlin x
Peregrine Falcon x
Clapper Rail x
Common Moorhen x
American Coot x
Black-bellied Plover x
Semipalmated Plover x
Piping Plover x
Killdeer x
American Oystercatcher x
Spotted Sandpiper x
Solitary Sandpiper x
Greater Yellowlegs x
Willet x
Lesser Yellowlegs x
Whimbrel x
Marbled Godwit x
Ruddy Turnstone x
Red Knot x
Sanderling x
Semipalmated Sandpiper x
Western Sandpiper x
Least Sandpiper x
White-rumped Sandpiper x
Pectoral Sandpiper x
Dunlin x
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher x
Wilson's Snipe x
Common Snipe x
Laughing Gull x
Bonaparte's Gull x
Ring-billed Gull x
Herring Gull x
Lesser Black-backed Gull x
Great Black-backed Gull x
Ivory Gull x
Least Tern x
Gull-billed Tern x
Caspian Tern x
Black Tern x
Common Tern x
Forster's Tern x
Royal Tern x
Sandwich Tern x
Black Skimmer x
Rock Pigeon x
Mourning Dove x
Common Nighthawk x
Chimney Swift x
Ruby-throated Hummingbird x
Belted Kingfisher x
Red-headed Woodpecker x
Red-bellied Woodpecker x
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker x
Downy Woodpecker x
Hairy Woodpecker x
Northern Flicker x
Eastern Wood-Pewee x
Willow Flycatcher x
Eastern Phoebe x
Eastern Kingbird x
White-eyed Vireo x
Red-eyed Vireo x
Blue Jay x
American Crow x
Fish Crow x
Horned Lark x
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow x
Bank Swallow x
Cliff Swallow x
Barn Swallow x
Carolina Chickadee x
Black-capped Chickadee x
Tufted Titmouse x
Red-breasted Nuthatch x
White-breasted Nuthatch x
Carolina Wren x
House Wren x
Marsh Wren x
Golden-crowned Kinglet x
Ruby-crowned Kinglet x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher x
Eastern Bluebird x
Gray-cheeked Thrush x
Wood Thrush x
American Robin x
Gray Catbird x
Northern Mockingbird x
Brown Thrasher x
European Starling x
American Pipit x
Cedar Waxwing x
Blue-winged Warbler x
Northern Parula x
Yellow Warbler x
Magnolia Warbler x
Black-throated Blue Warbler x
Yellow-rumped Warbler x
Black-throated Green Warbler x
Pine Warbler x
Prairie Warbler x
Palm Warbler x
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler x
American Redstart x
Northern Waterthrush x
Common Yellowthroat x
Scarlet Tanager x
Eastern Towhee x
Chipping Sparrow x
Field Sparrow x
Savannah Sparrow x
Fox Sparrow x
Song Sparrow x
Swamp Sparrow x
White-throated Sparrow x
White-crowned Sparrow x
Dark-eyed Junco x
Northern Cardinal x
Rose-breasted Grosbeak x
Blue Grosbeak x
Indigo Bunting x
Bobolink x
Red-winged Blackbird x
Eastern Meadowlark x
Rusty Blackbird x
Common Grackle x
Boat-tailed Grackle x
Brown-headed Cowbird x
Orchard Oriole x
Hooded Oriole x
Baltimore Oriole x
Purple Finch x
House Finch x
Pine Siskin x
American Goldfinch x
House Sparrow x

Not sure if you guy's are doing life-lists or? but if you are...I will just post my count and latest bird. I can always edit to update it though.

167-Blackburnian Warbler

Bob, that is an incredible list for two days. What a great trip!

Yes they are called Life Lists. Bob, that is incredible for 2 days! Is that your full Life List? I envy the Owl sighting as I don't have one yet.

No, Pelletory. It's not my full life list - just an example of the way I keep periodic lists. Before I retired, my job enabled me to travel (and bird) around the world so my life list is extensive. And, no, I don't keep track of totals any more. Here are some examples of my favorite sightings:

White-bellied Sea Eagle - Singapore

Fairy Tern & Madagascar Fody - Diego Garcia.

Jungle Crow - Misawa, Japan. Spring, 2000

Osprey - (One of three breeding pairs in the British Isles at the time) - Midnight - Cromarty Firth, Scotland. August 1975.

Northern Gannet - On patrol in a P3-C over the Atlantic (Area Carnival)

Immature Peregrine Falcon (only second sighting) - 2008 Christmas
Count - on Pamunkey River in Hanover County, VA.

Physical limitations prevent me from being as active as I'd like to be, but I still maintain an active interest in birding (and all things natural). BTW, if I never set foot on an airplane again, it will be too soon! When I retired I had 475,000 frequent flier miles on Northwest airlines alone.

Wow very cool!

Yeah, got loads of lists, life list (everything seen everywhere), West Palearctic list, Europe list, British list, various other country lists for the countries I've been to, county list, site lists for various reserves, year lists, day lists, and so on ;-)

My longest day list (24-hour 'bird race', on 15 May 2005) is 144 species.

Resin

Speaking of 24 Hour Bird Race, the "World Series of Birding" starts in just over 9 hours!

http://www.birdcapemay.org/wsob.shtml#gameplan