2014 yearlists

17 Wild Turkey I saw 3 of the in a horse paddock when returning from the dentist. I would not have seen them if snow was not on the ground. they stood out against the white. They must be in the woods during the winter.

Elphaba - RE Hummingbirds - Male & Female? Or all male? Especially curious about the Rufous. And is this unusual, or has their range changed to winter in Texas?

Rufous, 2 Calliopes and Allen's were all males. The Ruby-throated was a female. I saw a second Rufous/Allen's but wasn't able to tell for sure which one it was. The Allen's was obvious but also banded and known to be at that particular feeder. Rufous have started showing up more and more, and I just bought a new bird guide that now says "winters regularly in the southeast."

Here's the only pic I got of a Rufous and a pic of one of the Calliopes. It was so much fun to be in a garden where hummers were zipping around. I don't have them in my yard this winter as I just moved here and have not turned it into a hummer magnet yet, but I'm working on it!

The reason I asked about the Rufous is that the males and females migrate separately. Out of the hummers that are found in the U.S., the Rufous is the one that the numbers have dropped. It has been blamed on habitat loss, but I think it would help if the males and females ran into each other more often. Also they are so pugnacious and territorial - I think it would help if they would tolerate other Rufous as neighbors, too.

148 Iceland Gull

Resin

30 Common Goldeneye
31 Common Merganser

Lookout Elphalba, Resin and David, I'm hot on your trail! ;)

18 blue jay
19 Carolina wren.

149 Marsh Harrier 26 Feb
150 Egyptian Goose 26 Feb

Resin

Here is February's tally. No 3-digit numbers, but I am pleased with it. Still missing common easy Quail & Pine Siskins.
27 Gadwall
28 Northern Shoveler
29 Green-winged Teal
30 Hooded Merganser
31 Pied-billed Grebe
32 Western Grebe
33 Great Blue Heron
34 Bald Eagle
35 Red-tailed Hawk
36 Killdeer
37 Downy Woodpecker
38 Hairy Woodpecker
39 Northern Flicker
40 Western Scrub Jay
41 Horned Lark
42 Juniper Titmouse
43 Bushtit
44 Mountain Bluebird
45 Townsend's Solitaire
46 Canyon Towhee
47 Song Sparrow
48 White-crowned Sparrow
49 Steller's Jay

This message was edited Feb 27, 2014 9:19 PM

pollengarden, you are just one shy of me, so not a bad list at all. :)

The Pine Siskins have been absent here, as well, but I read a report that says there are abundant food sources up north this year. I am still hoping for Redpolls. Last year, we had them until April 1.

151 Blackcap
152 Velvet Scoter
153 Common [Red] Crossbill

Resin

After a very successful birding trip to Phillip Island, I think it is time I joined in here. I will start with my Phillip Island list from Saturday:
1 Hoary-headed Grebe
2 Little Penguin
3 Australasian Gannet
4 Black-faced Shag
5 Great Cormorant
6 Little Pied Cormorant
7 White-necked Heron
8 White-faced Heron
9 Australian White Ibis
10 Straw-necked Ibis
11 Royal Spoonbill
12 Yellow-billed Spoonbill
13 Black Swan
14 Cape Barren Goose
15 Australian Shelduck
16 Grey Teal
17 Chestnut Teal
18 Australasian Shoveller
19 Hardhead
20 Maned Duck
21 Whistling Kite
22 Swamp Harrier
23 Nankeen Kestrel
24 Black-tailed Native-hen
25 Purple Swamphen
26 Eurasian Coot
27 Pied Oystercatcher
28 Masked Lapwing
29 Black-fronted Plover
30 Black-winged Stilt
31 Bar-tailed Godwit
32 Silver Gull
33 Pacific Gull
34 Kelp Gull
35 Crested Tern
36 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
37 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
38 Galah
39 Rainbow Lorikeet
40 Crimson Rosella
41 Laughing
42 Kookaburra
43 Welcome Swallow
44 Blackbird
45 Grey Shrike-thrush
46 Grey Fantail
47 Superb Fairy-wren
48 Brush Wattlebird
49 Spotted Pardalote
50 Common Starling
51 Australian Magpie-lark
52 Australian Magpie
53 Little Raven
on the way back I also saw
54 Indian Mynah
55 Spotted Turtle-dove
then I can add the following seen earlier in the year
56 Emu
57 Great Egret
58 Pacific Black Duck
59 Black-shouldered Kite
60 Wedge-tailed Eagle
61 Dusky Moorhen
62 Sooty Oystercatcher
63 Common Bronzewing
64 Gang-gang Cockatoo
65 Little Corella
66 Musk Lorikeet
67 Eastern Rosella
68 Brush Cuckoo
69 Southern Boobook
70 White-throated Needletail
71 Superb Lyrebird
72 Richard's Pipit
73 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
74 Flame Robin
75 Scarlet Robin
76 Eastern Yellow Robin
77 Jacky Winter
78 Golden Whistler
79 Rufous Fantail
80 Eastern Whipbird
81 Spotted Quail-thrush
82 Clamorous Reed-warbler
83 White-browed Scrub-wren
84 Brown Thornbill
85 Yellow-rumped Thornbill
86 Striated Thornbill
87 White-throated Treecreeper
88 Red Wattlebird
89 Noisy Miner
90 Yellow-faced Honeyeater
91 White-eared Honeyeater
92 Brown-headed Honeyeater
93 White-naped Honeyeater
94 Crescent Honeyeater
95 New Holland Honeyeater
96 Eastern Spinebill
97 House Sparrow
98 European Goldfinch
99 Red-browed Firetail
100 Dusky Wood-swallow
101 Grey Butcherbird
102 Pied Currawong
103 Grey Currawong
104 Forest Raven

Ken

154 Jack Snipe
155 Green Sandpiper

Resin

Ken… 104 in one trip? Holy cow!!!

successful trip!

Not 104 in one trip, only the first 55, the rest were accumulated through January and February!

Ken

156 Kingfisher

Resin

32 Herring Gull
33 Ring-billed Gull
34 Long-Tailed Duck

A couple of trips to add on. First to Werribee Water Treatment Plant on the west side of Melbourne. Lots of migratory waders.
149. Red-rumped Parrot
150. Musk Lorikeet
151. Black Kite
152. Little Egret
153. Common Greenshank
154. Black-winged Stilt
155. Brolga
156. Bar-tailed Godwit
157. Zebra Finch
158. Whiskered Tern
159. Red-necked Avocet
160. Pectoral Sandpiper
161. White-winged Black Tern
162. Red Knot
163. Fairy Martin
164. Australasian Grebe
165. Pink-eared Duck
166. Banded Stilt
167. Musk Duck
168. Australian Hobby
169. Brown Goshawk
170. Great Crested Grebe

20 Black Duck
21 Bufflehead duck There were a couple of hawks soaring, but too far away to ID. I must say that the buffleheads can stay underwater for some time on a fishing dive.

2 more #22 Canada goose & 22 Red winged blackbird. One benefit of ice is that the small pond in the local park has been frozen all winter so geese have not been there. the town has trouble with them trying to monopolize the local playing fields.

157 Mandarin Duck ▬ pic
158 Raven
159 Short-eared Owl

Resin

160 Black-necked [a.k.a. Eared] Grebe

Resin

First full day of spring and I saw a Red-winged Blackbird! (35) Love hearing those calls.

36- Common Grackle
37- Tundra Swan

some other ducks to come, if I can ID from horrible pix.

Trip to Tasmania early in March. Several lifers.
171. Forest Raven
172. Kelp Gull
173. Yellow-throated Honeyeater
174. Tasmanian Native-hen
175. Yellow Wattlebird
176. Shy Albatross
177. Black-headed Honeyeater
178. Olive Whistler
179. Green Rosella
180. Dusky Robin
181. Pink Robin
182. Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
183. Swift Parrot
184. Tasmanian Scrub-wren
185. Beautiful Firetail
186. Black-faced Cormorant
187. Short-tailed Shearwater
188. Mallard
189. Grey Goshawk
190. Black Currawong
191. Strong-billed Honeyeater
192. Forty-spotted Pardalote
193. Double-banded Plover
194. Australasian Gannet
195. Little Penguin
196. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
197. Collared Sparrowhawk
1. Tasmanian Native-hen. 2. Black-faced Cormorant. 3. Green Rosella.

38 - Turkey Vulture

161 Sand Martin

Resin

162 Long-eared Owl

Resin

39 - Kildeer

24 cattle egret

Wow! Great lists everyone. So many birds on your lists that I'd love to see like Iceland Gull and Black Duck and all those Tasmanian ones!

I haven't posted in a long while, so there will be mixture of South Dakota and Texas birds:

212 - Horned Lark
213 - Snow Bunting
214 - Lapland Longspur
215 - American Tree Sparrow
216 - Fox Sparrow
217 - Longtailed Duck
218 - Northern Shrike
219 - California Gull
220 - Barn Swallow
221 - Black and White Warbler (Pic 1)
222 - Yellow-throated Warbler (Pic 2 - in my backyard!)
223 - American Golden Plover
224 - Greater Roadrunner (Saw one sitting in a tree!)
225 - Louisiana Waterthrush
226 - Northern Parula
227 - Scissortailed Flycatcher
228 - Wilson's Plover
229 - Gray Catbird
230 - Green Heron
231 - Nashville Warbler
232 - Field Sparrow
233 - Northern Waterthrush
234 - Purple Martin
235 - Cave Swallow
236 - Winter Wren
237 - Cattle Egret
238 - Black-chinned Hummingbird (I was putting out another feeder and it flew up to the feeder while I was holding it with it its indigo band glowing as it hovered in front of me!)
239 - American Bittern
240 - Northern Rough-winged Swallow
241 - Hooded Warbler (Pic 4)
242 - Chimney Swift
243 - Blue-headed Vireo
244 - Worm-eating Warbler (Pic 3)
245 - Prothonotary Warbler
246 - Black-throated Green Warbler
247 - Swallow-tailed Kite (flew low over the road this morning after I pulled over to fiddle with my GPS!)

Yay Warblers!!! Keep them down there for a while though, still frozen up here.

Gladly! I'm watching a hummingbird right now. I wouldn't mind if they stayed down here for a bit too!

163 Atlantic Puffin (15 March, forgot to add it before)
164 Mealy [Common] Redpoll

Resin

Summer birds starting to arrive!

165 Sandwich Tern
166 Black Redstart
167 Northern Wheatear

Resin

Yay Summer birds!

105 Latham's Snipe
106 Yellow Thornbill

39 Gadwall
40 American Wigeon
41 Canvasback
42 American White Pelican
43 American Coot
44 Hooded Merganser
45 Bufflehead