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21 hours ago, blackburnian said:

White-winged Tern today. Second NC record.

 

36 minutes ago, blackburnian said:

White-tailed Tropicbird off Hatteras.

Wow! You sure had a good day!

I got my lifer Royal Tern and Least Tern in Delaware County PA today.

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I went back to NC to do two Hatteras pelagic trips.  First trip went out, but the second was cancelled due to rough seas.  Before the trip I got a lifer Chuck-will's-widow, but no photos.

Five lifers on the boat.  Only had a few Audubon's Shearwaters, and they stayed really far away so I only got a terrible photo:

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Audubon's Shearwater by mattgrube, on Flickr

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Band-rumped Storm-petrel by mattgrube, on Flickr

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Black-capped Petrel by mattgrube, on Flickr

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Cory's Shearwater by mattgrube, on Flickr

We actually had at least two Trindade Petrels as well!

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Trindade Petrel by mattgrube, on Flickr

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Trindade Petrel by mattgrube, on Flickr

 

The day of the cancelled boat was when the White-winged Tern was reported, so that turned into an excellent consolation prize for my 7th lifer of the trip.

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White-winged Tern by mattgrube, on Flickr

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Finally got lifer Scott's Oriole! There's been a small population of them in southern Idaho for a while now in a small area of good habitat. They're extremely difficult to find and the roads are bad, so this has taken 3 years of attempts to get. I saw 5 of them today!

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I got a four lifers on a trip to Oklahoma. Hairy Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatch, Tree Swallow, and Louisiana Waterthrush!

The White-breasted Nuthatch flew before I could get a photo.?

We all know how easy it is to photograph swallows...

Hmm... My Hair Woodpecker photo did not turn out too good.

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My Louisiana Waterthrush photos did turn out good considering that it was in bad lighting.

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