Northern Rough-Winged Swallow

82. Northern Rough-winged Swallow -- Ft O, GA

Hog Jowl Rd

I read on GA Birders list GABO that there were two birds that I hadn't gotten on my list yet this year. One bird if seen would be a lifer. So since I would be on Hog Jowl Rd to try look up a member that recently stopped coming to church I'd continue on it which was a short distance to Daughtery gap Rd which was a short distance to GA Hwy 157. Little did I realize that mileage is nothing in this area of Walker county. My 15 minute detour turned out to be successful but a "little way" in the fog turned out to be quite a distance in both miles and time. Not good on a Friday afternoon.

But first I got a:
80. Loggerhead Shrike
81. Tundra Swan -- two immature in the pond that GABO had listed. This ones a lifer -- how cool!

Bob White

79. Bob White -- First of the season -- two crossed in front of me as I was traveling down GA Hwy 2 from Varnell, GA toward Ringgold almost directly across from Tiger Elementary school.

Wow Dave you're killing me this year! I'll be in TX in late April and then Costa Rica in mid May so I'm counting on 100 plus newbies by then. So if you can make it to 180 by late May we may be tied. Then again. . . I may not see that many. . .

Backyard/Riverwalk/Guineafowl

140. Wood Thrush Backyard
141. Hermit Thrush Backyard
142. Carolina chikadee Backyard
143. Ring-necked Duck Ringold, GA pond
144. Ring-Billed gull Riverwalk
145. Common Grackle Riverwalk
146. Yellow-rumped Warbler Riverwalk
147. Coot Riverwalk
148. Purple Martin Riverwalk
149. Dark-eyed Junko Along our driveway
150. Helmeted Guineafowl Apison TN

I believe that last year we had a dispute as to whether the Guineafowl could be counted. I don't believe we allowed it. HOWEVER, I think it was based on the fact that it wasn't in either of our books. WELL, I just discovered that it is listed in Sibley's. And it is not even considered a domestic. It is an exotic species that has been released by hunters and has developed feral populations. So there. :>)

A forgotten bird

139. Song Sparrow--my backyard

Belize Birds-IVORY-BILLED WOOD

Well, here comes my shot in the arm. I realize by doing this I have really shot myself in the foot, but I just can't help it. I can't stand that all those birds I saw in Belize go to waste. And besides, at least I'll be ahead for a few days! Also, I saw some REALLY cool birds this time. I saw a hummingbird that has a long thin tail that is half again as long as it's body! You can see it here: the Long Billed Hermit (shouldn't that be the long TAILED hermit?). Oh and check out my IVORY-BILLED WOOD . . . (#111)







February 27



37. Great-tailed Grackle
38. Gray Hawk
39. Tropical Mockingbird
40. Great Blue Heron
41. Little Blue Heron
42. Brown Jay
43. Magnificent Frigatebird
44. Cattle Egret
45. Great Egret
46. Orchard Oriole
47. Baltimore Oriole


Feb. 28


48. Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
49. Melodious Balckbird
50. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
51. Boat-billed flycatcher
52. Black and White Warbler
53. Groove-billed Ani
54. Clay-Colored Robin
55. Ruddy Ground Dove
56. Osprey



March 1

57. Social Flycatcher
58. Collared Seed-eater
59. Blue-gray Tanager
60. Great Kiskadee
61. Rose-breasted Grossbeak
62. Yellow-breasted Chat
63. Retstart
64. Mangrove Swallow
65. Hooded Warbler
66. Northern Waterthrush
67. Black Phoebe
68. Neotropic Cormorrant



March 2

69. Blue-Crowned Motmot




















70. Common Black Hawk
71. Summer Tanager
72. Hepatic Tanager
73. Golden-crowned Warbler
74. Eye-ringed Flatbill

75. Magnolia Warbler

March 3

76. Yellow-throated Euphonia
77. Palm Walber
78. Brown-crested Flycatcher
79. Masked Tityra



March 4

80. Red-billed Pigeon
81. White Hawk
82. Wood Thrush
83. Violet Sabor-wing
84. Red-legged Honeycreeper
85. Olivacious Woodcreeper
86. Nashville Warbler
87. Catbird
88. Black-headed Trogan
89. Red-throated Ant Tanager
90. Spot-breasted Wren
91. Blue-black Grossbeak
92. Black-throated Green Warbler
93. Long-billed Hermit
94. Hooded Warbler
95. Vermillion Flycatcher
96. Purple-crowned fairy
97. Black Vulture
98. Northern Harrier
99. Collared Aricari (a small Toucan!)
100. Amazon Kingfisher



March 5

101. Indigo Bunting
102. Blue-black seedeater
103. Tri-coloerd Heron
104. Forked-tailed flycatcher



March 6

105. Gray-breasted Martin
106. White-fronted Parrot
107. Moscovy Duck
108. Snowy Egret
109. Northern Jacana
110. Variable Seedeater
111. Ivory-billed Wood . . . creeper (oh well)
112. Blue-Winged Warbler
113. Barred-Ant Shrike
114. Anhinga
115. White Ibis




March 8

116. Green-Breasted Mango
117. Tree swallow
118. Laughing Gull
119. Royal Tern
120. Bananaquit
121. Sandwich Tern
122. Brown Pelican
123. Ruddy Turnstone
124. Cinnamon Hummingbird
125. Yucatan Vireo
126. White-eyed dove
127. Short-billed Dowitcher
128. Black-bellied plover
129. Double-crested Cormorant
130. White Ibis
131. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (babies)
132. Spotted Sandpiper
133. Long-billed Curlew
134. Green Heron
135. Black-Whiskered Vireo
136. Belted Kingfisher
137. Sanderling



March 9

138. Acorn Woodpecker



Whew!

More Local Birds since January

27. Chipping Sparrow
28. Red-bellied woodpecker
29. Sandhill Crane
30. Carolina Wren
31. Mallard
32. House Sparrow
33. Domesticated Goose
34. Canada Goose
35. Eastern Phoebe
36. Turkey Vulture

Swan Goose

78. Swan Goose -- Cookeville, TN at Cane Creek Park (its wild but from the domesticated page in my bird book) Seen on Sabbath afternoon

Turkey

77. Wild Turkey

Cowbird

76. Brown Headed Cowbird -- at the feeder

Nuthatch

75. White Breasted Nuthatch -- Summerville, GA

"Sloppy" Floyd State Park

I spent a personal day at "Sloppy" Floyd State Park. Here's the result:
71. Purple Martin -- Earliest ever record for me for a year.
72. Pine Warbler
73. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
74. Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco- Latest ever recorded for me for a year.

Storm

Twas a stormy morning but the yard was full of birds pecking for worms both of these were highly unusual earth worm eaters:
69. Northern Flicker
70. Red-tailed Hawk