233 Caspian Gull
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2014 yearlists part 2
39 catbird I usually see one before this, but it hasn't been saying anything.
305. Red-browed Treecreeper
David
Autumn seawatching reaching its best!
234 Sooty Shearwater
235 Cory's Shearwater
236 Pomarine Skua
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Have not seen warblers through here. Bummer.
306. Black-tailed Native-hen
237 Long-tailed Skua
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August birds
95 Osprey
96 Calliope Hummingbird
97 White-breasted Nuthatch
September 1st:
98 Turkey Vulture
99 Chipping Sparrow
238 Blue-winged Teal
A nice American rarity over here!
Resin
lost?
Yep, likely!
239 Barred Warbler.
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I have seen what appears to be a female blue- throated hummingbird. Twice. It is an accidental or vagrant here, very rare. I have not been able to get a photo or get it confirmed by anyone but myself, and I am not 100% confident on female/immature hummer IDs. It did look different enough for me to notice, but there is a possibility it is an odd marked immature black-chinned. To count or not to count?
I was just looking through images of black-chinned and blue-throats. The markings on the head & neck look like a female blue-throat, but I saw it from the same side both times so I can't confirm the markings were symmetrical. And it was back-lit both times so I can't confirm the breast was light gray/grey and not white.
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Really good birding at Werribee Sewerage works with my son on the weekend. 90+ birds.
307. Baillon's Crake
308. Glossy Ibis
309. Lewin's Rail
310. Black Falcon
David
Forgot before: 240 Ruddy Shelduck (5 July)
Today:
241 Red-breasted Flycatcher
242 Yellow-browed Warbler
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243 Fea's Petrel
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244 Sabine's Gull
The last two showing seabird watching at its best!
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A very productive weekend at Portland produced several new species for the year, including two very rare in southern Victoria, namely the Osprey and the Black-faced Woodswallow.
115 Little Black Cormorant
116 Pied Cormorant
117 Black-faced Cormorant
118 Osprey
119 Shy Albatross
120 Black-faced Woodswallow
121 Reed Warbler
122 Caspian Tern
123 Red-necked Stint
124 Mallard
Great news to hear of an osprey sighting in southern Victoria, Ken. Congratulations. Any sign of a nest or a mate?
No Margaret, Ii was just a solitary bird. We were going out of Portland Harbour on a trip to Lawrence Rocks and I spotted it on top of a tower at the end of the breakwater and the harbour mouth. The skipper of the boat took us back round into the harbour and the much calmer water to give us all a better look, and to give me the chance to photogarph it.
Ken
Good sign.
September brings me to an even
100 American Kestrel
not counted this month: vagrant stray Hummingbird with a distinct light/white eyeline, but without a dark throat.
311. Shining Bronze Cuckoo
David
David's cuckoo reminds me of two more that I saw during my weekend at Portland:
125 Shining-bronze Cuckoo
126 Fan-tailed Cuckoo
245 Balearic Shearwater
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246 Shore Lark (a.k.a. Horned Lark, for the moment, though reported to be a potential future species split from that)
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I usually see red tailed hawks soaring quite high. but this afternoon one flew low across the garden, about 30 ft away from me. quite a thrill.
247 Olive-backed Pipit. Another rarity from Siberia :-)
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39 red breasted nuthatch Massachusets bird book says they are sometimes present & sometimes not, so I was glad to see it.
79. Red-winged Fairy Wren
A birding visit to the APM wetlands produced
127 Sacred Kingfisher
and then a week in Tasmania, added 10 of which the first 8 are all endemic to Tasmania
128 Tasmanian Native-hen
129 Yellow-throated Honeyeater
130 Black-headed Honeyeater
131 Yellow Wattlebird
132 Brown Scrub-wren
133 Dusky Robin
134 Green Rosella
135 Black Currawong
136 Bar-tailed Godwit
137 Tawny Frogmouth
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248 Little Auk
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I just realised that I omitted one from the homeward journey from Portland back in September
138 Long-billed Corella
I did not realize that auks came that far south.
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I did not realize that auks came that far south.
Little Auk (a.k.a. Dovekie) actually comes further south in winter on the US/Canadian side of the Atlantic, down to around 40°N; I'm at 55°N, same latitude as Labrador ;-)
249 Eastern Crowned Warbler - another mega-rarity, only the 3rd ever in Britain, and only an hour's drive from home
250 Rough-legged Buzzard [Hawk]
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ok
1 Canada Goose
2 Mallard
3 Brewer's Blackbird
4 Western Gull
5 Brown Pelican
6 Red-winged Blackbird
7 American Avocet
8 White Pelican
9 Barn Swallow
10 Black-crowned Night-Heron
11 California Gull
12 California Towhee
13 Double-crested Cormorant
14 Great Blue Heron
15 Great Egret
16 House Finch
17 House Sparrow
18 Great-tailed Grackle
19 White-winged Dove
20 American Robin
21 Black-chinned Hummingbird
22 Black-necked Stilt
23 Bullock's Oriole
24 Cliff Swallow
25 Forster's Tern
26 Green Haron
27 Lesser Goldfinch
28 Mourning Dove
29 Snowy Egret
30 European Starling
31 Acorn Woodpecker
32 Dark-eyed Junco
33 Nuttall's Woodpecker
34 Western Bluebird
35 Western Scrub-Jay
36 Red-shouldered Hawk
37 Herring Gull
38 Tree Swallow (or might be a Violet-green Swallow)
39 Glaucous-winged Gull
40 Bald Eagle
41 Black-billed Magpie
42 Blue Jay
43 Common Raven
44 Killdeer
quite a list
251 Pallas's Leaf Warbler
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252 Hen Harrier
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October/November birds have been the same as my January/February birds. I had given up on seeing something new until I saw a confused
101 Snow Goose !
In the middle of some Canadian Geese grazing near the parking lot at work.
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