** I’m sorry shorebirds I’ll never forget you!!! **
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Finally!
You know that woodpecker that I mentioned earlier? Well, I photographed** it yesterday! I even knocked it off my target birds!
Observation is at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314385541.
** Let’s just say that it belongs to the “Worst photos you uploaded to iNat” thread too.
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Finally! (not soon, but…)
Ended out pretty well! (many thanks to a wonderful-placed bush)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314619139
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Nah, the head is in it!
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My eternal nemeses, the Cedar and Bohemian Wax-wings. I always seem to find out where they are after they’ve been and gone. 
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honestly since iv got most birds in the midwest and im going to Hawaii this winter, probably palila. Them or boreal owl
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That’s like the Snow buntings for me! I have driven to places they were half an hour ago to find none!
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I was looking after a friend’s house for a week and got to see these guys come past twice a day. So cute.
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In the monsoon, when I didn’t see lot of birds, I was more than a little scared that I had stopped photographing birds and instead was too focused on Lepidoptera. Now that the monsoon has receded a bit and I have already got a new lifer bird and knocked six of them off the missed list, I have somewhat regained my confidence again. I have stopped the missed list from growing significantly recently but it still is too big for my liking. But I guess that just makes it more fun!
This is the one that I could finally photograph yesterday after 5 years of torture.
Indian Scimitar Babbler: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314832435.
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Small-berried fruit trees seem to attract them a lot, which makes sense I guess.
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Adjutants are quite hard to find in most of India other than in Assam and the Northeast and some areas of Central India. Surprisingly, there is a population in North Goa (where I went an saw it last year, didn’t get great photographs)
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Just now, I was outside drawing on rocks (because I was kinda bored) and I heard a little clicking. I went inside and grabbed my binoculars, as I saw a bird in a eucalyptus tree not far from me. When I had a closer look, I didn’t recognise it, until I realised it was a Pardalote! I think it was a Striated Pardalote, but it flew away! So I got a lifer!
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I’ve noticed that in the last few years I wasn’t seeing as many black kites but this year they seem to be back. I was overseas for a few months so missed all the burn offs in our area so that may be a reason they are closer to town. Talking to a friend about it she had noticed the kites have been copying the crows and have learned to flip over our (feral) cane toads to eat them safely. Hope that’s the case!
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Come on, y’all, we can’t let this topic close. I know it’s 2 months until it officially closes, but I just want to get some flow through here again.
Now, would you rather get:
- 10 county lifers (a bird you haven’t seen in that county before)
- 1 lifer (a new bird for your life list)
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Ooh, this is hard. I’ll say 10 county lifers, but it might depend on what the bird species would be.
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Oh, why does the topic close in 2 months?
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That does apply for states too? I have had a lot of lifers recently!
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Because if it is unused for 2 months, then it is useless and might as well be closed, and I agree with @whistlingduck, we can’t let this topic close!
I was wondering what I could post to get it flowing again, but I didn’t have any ideas, so thank you @whistlingduck!
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I don’t care too much about county lifers, state lifers, yard lifers, country lifers, etc. Too many lists to keep track of.
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The best thing about using eBird is that it tracks all of this for you.
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