Kevin Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 BURROWING OWL!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Yikes! Changing my profile photo even has me confused! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 38 minutes ago, Kevin said: Yikes! Changing my profile photo even has me confused! You and @Trevor L.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 On 4/3/2021 at 9:03 AM, BlueJay said: Just got back from a road trip to Florida and ended up getting 28 lifers. They were House Wren, Anhinga, Northern Harrier, Glossy Ibis, Common Gallinule, Blue-winged Teal, Royal Tern, Dunlin, Wilson's Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, Black-necked Stilt, Semipalmated Plover, American Oystercatcher, Cattle Egret, Indian Peafowl, Black-crowned Night-heron, Sandhill Crane, Purple Gallinule, Loggerhead Shrike, Eastern Screech-Owl, Swallow-tailed Kite, Reddish Egret, Florida Scrub-Jay, Mottled Duck, Tree Swallow, Sora, and Northern Shoveler. congrats! Awesome birds! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Western-Screech owl(heard only), Red-crowned parrot, Lilac-crowned parrot, Warbling Vireo, Lawrence's Goldfinch, continuing white-throated sparrow, rufous-crowned sparrow, and yellow warbler! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 yesterday: Black-Headed Grosbeak(female), Downy Woodpecker(female), Western Tanager(female), Golden crowned sparrow(female). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colton V Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Mountain Bluebird! They are a rare bird in my county. Photo conditions were crap but I still got photos so I'm happy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 8 hours ago, Colton V said: Mountain Bluebird! They are a rare bird in my county. Photo conditions were crap but I still got photos so I'm happy. My goodness, your life list is 194 and mine is 193. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colton V Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 31 minutes ago, IKLland said: My goodness, your life list is 194 and mine is 193. I would say let's race to 200, but you live in California so you'd win by default. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Just now, Colton V said: I would say let's race to 200, but you live in California so you'd win by default. Sure! But I’m not going to be doing much birding coming up, can you send a CASJ to my house, please? Where are they? They are regularly seen in my town, and I haven’t seen one anywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colton V Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Just now, IKLland said: Sure! But I’m not going to be doing much birding coming up, can you send a CASJ to my house, please? Where are they? They are regularly seen in my town, and I haven’t seen one anywhere! I see them the most in neighborhoods. My advice is just walk around a neighborhood with a good amount of trees and bushes in it and listen for their distinct calls. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 1 hour ago, IKLland said: Sure! But I’m not going to be doing much birding coming up, can you send a CASJ to my house, please? Where are they? They are regularly seen in my town, and I haven’t seen one anywhere! It's certainly possible you've heard them eand called the Spotted Towhee. The calls confused me when I was starting out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 9 hours ago, Connor Cochrane said: It's certainly possible you've heard them eand called the Spotted Towhee. The calls confused me when I was starting out. Possibly, but shouldn’t I have seen one by now? They are not secretive, right? I hear they are very friendly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Just now, IKLland said: They are not secretive, right? I hear they are very friendly! They aren't that secretive 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Another random flyby yardbird. Belted Kingfisher! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 On 4/10/2021 at 9:28 AM, Avery said: Belted Kingfisher! that's a lifer?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 (edited) 15 minutes ago, IKLland said: that's a lifer?? No, yardbird. Couldn't find a thread for that kind of thing Edited April 11 by Avery 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 1 hour ago, Avery said: No, yardbird this is the lifer topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 My most recent. Puts me at 195. CASJ finally! Two of them! https://ebird.org/checklist/S85275564 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Little Gull showed up at this small marshy area south of Kalamazoo today. Waited over an hour for it. I almost didn't put my glass on it thinking it was just another Killdeer flying over the water at first. Bird hung around for about 7 minutes and then gained a bunch of altitude and headed North. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Woke up Sunday morning with plans to do hit a couple local birding spots with no target birds in mind but...After checking ebird alerts I saw that a Fork-tailed Flycatcher was being seen about 3 1/2 hours away. Seven hours round trip driving is a lot so I talked my husband into a spur of the moment overnight road trip. We ran around throwing things in a suitcase, closed up the house and were on the road in 1/2 hour. We got the Fork-tailed Flycatcher fairly easily and set off towards Celery Fields a birding hotspot, I have been curious about for sometime. It was raining when we got there but we had raincoats and were going to bird it any way but then lightening started up so we traveled a bit further and got a House Crow in Sarasota County. I guess it has been hanging out on a beach there for years but it was a life bird for us. Lightening was still a problem so we birded by car for most it. Played a "lightening" round of miniature golf near our Hotel. When we got to the Miniature golf place the rain had let up and there was no lightening. About 7 holes in we were told lightening was within 5 miles and they highly suggest for people to stop play and come in but told us we could finish if we wanted to risk it. We risked it and finished in record time. I won but our score card was too soggy to calculate by how much. Back in the car ready to go it started to pour. Had a fun dinner at a hole in the wall pizza joint across from our hotel. Birded some of Celery Fields yesterday and came home. Our spur of the moment road trip netted us two life birds and few year birds. Photos of the Fork-tailed Flycatcher below. Photos of the House Crow are horrible due to rain and lens fogging and won't be posted. All in all even with the all the rain we had a great time. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Brant and Piping Plovers! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/327968821 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/327971821 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floraphile Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 10 hours ago, floraphile said: Yellow-billed Cuckoo Congrats, and nice shot of one too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floraphile Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 23 minutes ago, Birding Boy said: Congrats, and nice shot of one too! Thank you! He was really curious about me, too. Cute bird. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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