dragon49 Posted November 12 Share Posted November 12 Audubon Everglades Guided Field Trip: https://ebird.org/checklist/S154297301 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted November 13 Share Posted November 13 https://ebird.org/tripreport/171387 A trip around Lake Mead has yielded a FOY Yellow-footed Gull, a rarity this far north. (I did get a chance to see this bird early last year as well.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted November 13 Author Share Posted November 13 https://ebird.org/checklist/S154374680 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted November 17 Share Posted November 17 Been a while since I posted here, but the activity this morning was absolutely insane! If I had actually gone birding as my main focus, I probably could have easily gotten over 50 species and 1000 individuals! https://ebird.org/checklist/S154622364 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 17 Share Posted November 17 (edited) Seawatches at the inlet this November have been slower than the same time last year, but things look like they are picking up. Had a great day with the Franklin's Gull (rare as well) lifer, and all the Pomarine Jaegers: https://ebird.org/checklist/S154585265 Edited November 17 by dragon49 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 Good seawatch with two FOYs: https://ebird.org/checklist/S154643034 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 The plan was to get at least one sparrow lifer, but it's possible I may have been at fault for having failed, as one of our best birders told me to show up at sunrise, but I had problems separating myself from my mattress, and ended up showing up 25-minutes after the sun came up.  In spite of the setback, I have to consider this my best solo birding day! Currently, the checklist stands at 50 species + 3 additional taxa. So, even if I decide to keep the mystery hawk at hawk.sp, this still sets a personal species count record for me. Not sure whether I care to go through all my checklists to see what the previous solo record was, but I'm pretty certain it was between 47-49 species. It was also an awesome day, as the refuge is my favorite place in the world. See the checklist notes for more details. https://ebird.org/checklist/S154705658 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 Not too much going on at the pier this time of day: Â https://ebird.org/checklist/S154772995 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 https://ebird.org/checklist/S154787728 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 Dipped on the Large-billed Tern. Hopefully it will be there tomorrow https://ebird.org/checklist/S154866304 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 22 Share Posted November 22 Decent checklist for the place. Probably would have gotten more species and more birds at low tide but couldn't get there at the time. Always nice to make the County Rare Bird Alert, as I found one of our Great Blue Heron (Great White) individuals: https://ebird.org/checklist/S154914455 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 https://ebird.org/checklist/S155037161 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 Decent checklist for the place. Always nice to get pics of a Least Bittern: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155039958 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 I ran down to get a county lifer Bufflehead. It was a very easy chase. Thirteen species would normally be awful for this hotspot, but I was only here for the one goal which I accomplished instantly. I could have walked around another hour and finished with >40 species. One day in December I'll submit an awesome checklist for this hotspot.  https://ebird.org/checklist/S155112319 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 https://ebird.org/checklist/S155133575 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 https://ebird.org/checklist/S155171303 Came to check on my favorite Tufted gal, as well as a nice looking Barrow’s Goldeneye male. No luck on the other rarities though, none of the 3 Eurasian Wigeons were present and I was unable to find the BWTE x NOSH among the shovelers. Beautiful sunrise on the Bay Trail though. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 26 Share Posted November 26 One of those great days!  As I'm getting better at this, my species count is consistently going up: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155187174 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted November 26 Share Posted November 26 Been a few months since I've had a 100 species list https://ebird.org/checklist/S155193271 Â 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 26 Share Posted November 26 My initial plan was to just run down here, take photos of the anticipated lifer Rusty Blackbird, submit a short, stationary checklist, and call it a day. I ran into a number of birding friends, also on the chase, and one of them got me on a Gadwall which I needed for the year. On the way to the Gadwall, I made the County Rare Bird Alert the second time today with the Bufflehead. I submitted my observations from the time I showed up at the Rusty Blackbird spot, until I left the park. I can get tons more here, but this was pretty decent for the time spent and ground covered: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155263803 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted November 28 Share Posted November 28 Amazing day, having found the rare Snow Geese (Lifer!) I also got two FOYs, the Northern Pintail and Marsh Wren.  Audubon Everglades guided field trip. The guide split this into different checklists: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155368024 https://ebird.org/checklist/S155368023 The main one: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155368027 This one, just to get the rare Tropical Kingbird for a different county: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155368029  3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted November 29 Share Posted November 29 One of the greatest experiences in my birding life. Â 10 Short-eared Owls with one that flew right at, and over me. Â https://ebird.org/checklist/S155398897 Â 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted December 1 Share Posted December 1 Great afternoon and early evening on the refuge. I followed Ebird's best practices and started a second checklist as soon as it was twenty minutes past sunset, in order to adhere to the "nocturnal" protocol: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155498596 https://ebird.org/checklist/S155499420 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted December 2 Share Posted December 2 I don't share too many six species checklists, but this was one of those special seawatches. Yesterday, one of our top birders got the first county record of a King Eider, so I ran down to chase it after work. I also got my FOY Surf Scoter which was also marked as rare: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155556784 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 A Greater Pewee had been reported an hour and a half away as the second state record. I knew what I had to do this weekend. It was very little trouble finding the bird with its extensive vocalizations. A photo and audio recording were a slam dunk. I played tag with several birders hitting hotspots on the way back home in an attempt to also add a Tropical Kingbird to the county list. (I failed.) I did, however, snag an additional lifer with a Ferruginous Hawk (with an awful photo). The important list: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155598695 The whole day: https://ebird.org/tripreport/175900 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted Sunday at 08:24 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:24 PM Got the Long-tailed Duck! Observed from the Arizona side: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155681603 (It was on the Nevada side of the river, though, so I counted it there too: https://ebird.org/checklist/S155681853) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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