Kevin Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 Very good morning! Photo and Audio lifer Bell's Vireo, along with some really good views of a Dickcissel! https://ebird.org/checklist/S112850281 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 A little slow, but noise from lawnmowers and construction prevented me from picking up a lot of calls that I would have otherwise normally heard. https://ebird.org/checklist/S112865156 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Good day as usual. It was nice to see a Snowy Egret, which is rare for my area (based on my sightings, not Ebird Mobile's classification). Sorry for the garbage in the pic, but my Photoshop skills aren't good enough to erase the discarded Styrofoam cup without butchering the photo.  https://ebird.org/checklist/S112924797 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 14, 2022 Author Share Posted June 14, 2022 https://ebird.org/checklist/S112917819 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Kevin said: https://ebird.org/checklist/S112917819 Your're pretty fit. When I'm not birding, my walking pace is around 2.5 MPH, much slower when I'm keeping count. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 1 hour ago, dragon49 said: Your're pretty fit. When I'm not birding, my walking pace is around 2.5 MPH, much slower when I'm keeping count. He's also around a third to a quarter of my age, and probably yours too! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 https://ebird.org/checklist/S112655259 If confirmed, the White-rumpeds are lifers, county firsts, and only the second ones seen in a six-county area. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 hours ago, dragon49 said: Your're pretty fit. When I'm not birding, my walking pace is around 2.5 MPH, much slower when I'm keeping count. I was on a dirt bike today, but my walking pace is about 4 MPH. I'm over 6'3" with very long legs to match, my normal stride is just over 4 feet, and if I am running it is well over 6. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Any day with a lifer is a great day! I saw two Swallow-tailed Kites pass me by, but their flight patterns were odd and unpredictable, and I was therefore unable to capture any photos. I guessed better with the third flyover: https://ebird.org/checklist/S112991296 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 The Great Egret didn't show up for the first time in a while, but I have a feeling that the tractor presence and sound scared it away, as well as a lot of other birds, as today was slow. https://ebird.org/checklist/S113055348 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 The Great Egret was back, but it was otherwise a little slow: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113126037 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 This time of year is awful for birding here, so until shorebird migration starts again, I’m focusing more on photography. https://ebird.org/checklist/S113127851 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 9 hours ago, IKLland said: This time of year is awful for birding here, so until shorebird migration starts again, I’m focusing more on photography. https://ebird.org/checklist/S113127851 I have a long way to go on the exciting path. ? Twenty-two of your forty species would have been lifers for me. Awful is also a relative term. I think my daily record is 28 species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Any day with two lifers (Laughing Gull and Royal Tern) is a great day! https://ebird.org/checklist/S113199695 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 3 hours ago, dragon49 said: Any day with two lifers (Laughing Gull and Royal Tern) is a great day! https://ebird.org/checklist/S113199695 Laughing gull is a lifer?!?! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aidan B Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 (edited) Had a crazy good day today! Went up to a high elevation lake in the Sierra Nevadas, than hiked up even further to another lake which was in the desolation wilderness. Highlights included at least four Gray-crowned Rosy-finches, a Black-backed Woodpecker, three Pine Grosbeak, five Sooty Grouse, a Williamson's Sapsucker, and a Golden Eagle. https://ebird.org/checklist/S113227837 Edited June 19, 2022 by Aidan B 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 19, 2022 Author Share Posted June 19, 2022 27 minutes ago, IKLland said: Laughing gull is a lifer?!?! I remember you getting a lifer, California Gull. Every one starting out gets common birds as lifers, and as you go on birding slowly starts getting rare/harder to find/out of normal range birds. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 39 minutes ago, Kevin said: I remember you getting a lifer, California Gull. Every one starting out gets common birds as lifers, and as you go on birding slowly starts getting rare/harder to find/out of normal range birds. Thanks for the reminder. I know, it just seemed that they were so abundant down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, IKLland said: Laughing gull is a lifer?!?! At one point, it was for you too. They may be abundant but gulls is gulls until one starts paying attention. Edited June 19, 2022 by Charlie Spencer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 A good day as usual. A small section of the boardwalk was closed because of aggressive honey bees. I don't understand their aggressiveness, but I almost got stung on that portion once, and that same day, at least one person did get stung. I'm guessing the path is very close to a nest. I'm still learning my point and shoot, but am realizing that with stationary birds, like the Double-crested Cormorant that I got some great photos of, auto mode gets better pictures than the sports mode burst that I normally leave on: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113299590 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) On 6/18/2022 at 6:42 PM, IKLland said: Laughing gull is a lifer?!?! On 6/18/2022 at 7:15 PM, Kevin said: I remember you getting a lifer, California Gull. Every one starting out gets common birds as lifers, and as you go on birding slowly starts getting rare/harder to find/out of normal range birds. The Common Loon was an eBird lifer for me this year. I absolutely have heard them before, and I even remember where, but I have no record of when. Some may be amused that the Black-capped Chickadee was a lifer for me last year when I have lists spanning back into the '90s, and I haven't seen it yet this year. As I'm closing in on 400 life birds, I'm still missing the Baltimore Oriole and Purple Finch. Edited June 20, 2022 by Zoroark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, Zoroark said: The Common Loon was an eBird lifer for me this year. I absolutely have heard them before, and I even remember where, but I have no record of when. Some may be amused that the Black-capped Chickadee was a lifer for me last year when I have lists spanning back into the '90s, and I haven't seen it yet this year. As I'm closing in on 400 life birds, I'm still missing the Baltimore Oriole and Purple Finch. I’m still missing common loon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Nice weather and still being on Eastern Time from the trip to SC led to a visit to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve right at opening. After two weeks of mostly quiet birding, it's noticeable just how bad the noise pollution is there, between the housing construction project to the north and being directly below a major flight path for aircraft, plus the occasional maintenance truck or golf cart. Regardless, while I didn't see anything new for the year, I did get a decent recording of a Crissal Thrasher and two out-of season rarities: a Horned Grebe and four Northern Pintails. https://ebird.org/checklist/S113370584 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Good day as usual. I hadn't been to the reserve in a while: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113364782 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon49 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Good day. My first Royal Tern in this area: https://ebird.org/checklist/S113458198 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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