Monday 12 January 2009

Cold



It certainly is. Arrived back in the UK on Sunday 11th mid afternoon and spent the rest of the day trying to get back into "normal mode". Retired to bed early evening and woke up at 03.30 - jet lag has set in!



Ok, down to business - here's a rough list of the species seen while I was away. Departed UK on 29th December for 2 nights in Los Angeles - birding was restricted to a morning at Santa Monica beach, then onto Hawaii (the Big Island) for seven nights at the Hilton Waikoloa Village. During the stay on Hawai'i we were able to take a full day excursion with Hawai'i Forest & Trail to the permit only Hakalau reserve - more on this great biring day in another post. Departing Hawaii on the morning of the 7th we headed to San Francisco for 3 nights via a few hours stop over at Honolulu on Oahu.

I've taken a heap of photographs, these will creep onto the blog over the next few weeks.

The unofficial "list", probably with spelling mistakes etc:
  1. great white egret


  2. american crow


  3. anna's hummingbird


  4. black phoebe


  5. yellow rumped warbler


  6. western gull


  7. western scrub jay


  8. bushtit


  9. house sparrow


  10. starling


  11. mourning dove


  12. sanderling


  13. brewers blackbird


  14. heermann's gull


  15. double crested cormorant


  16. brandt's cormorant


  17. pacific diver


  18. surf scoter


  19. marbled godwit


  20. willet


  21. brown pelican


  22. glaucous-winged gull (SM/Hawaii (Waikoloa imm on 3rd Jan, rare but annual on Big Island)/SF))


  23. herring gull


  24. forster's tern


  25. california gull


  26. common myna


  27. nutmeg mannikin


  28. spotted dove


  29. zebra dove


  30. pacific golden plover - unbelievably common and tame on Hawaii: car parks, grass verges on roads, garage roofs.... !


  31. saffron finch


  32. wandering tattler


  33. black-crowned night heron


  34. japanese white-eye


  35. yellow billed cardinal


  36. northern cardinal


  37. african silverbill


  38. bristle-thighed curlew (star bird on trip, single at Waikoloa throughout stay - oblivious to humans, many, many photographs taken!!)


  39. short-eared ("hawaiian") owl - seen at close range on Saddle Road


  40. ring-necked pheasant (inc green morph)


  41. erckel's francolin


  42. skylark


  43. hawaiian hawk - pale and dark morph seen


  44. wild turkey


  45. kalij pheasant


  46. red-billed leiothrix


  47. house finch


  48. yellow fronted canary


  49. 'elepaiao - ridgwayi form


  50. 'omao


  51. 'akepa


  52. 'amakihi


  53. hawaiian creeper


  54. 'apanane


  55. 'i'wii


  56. nene


  57. java sparrow


  58. ruddy turnstone


  59. hawaiian stilt - 5 on pools north of hotel


  60. grey francolin


  61. red-vented bulbul


  62. red-whiskered bulbul


  63. red-crested cardinal


  64. mew gull


  65. ring-billed gull


  66. western grebe


  67. orange-crowned warbler


  68. red-masked parakeet


  69. great blue heron


  70. greater scaup


  71. ruddy duck


  72. bufflehead


  73. pied billed grebe


  74. eared (black-necked) grebe


  75. killdeer


  76. least sandpiper


  77. song sparrow


  78. white-crowned sparrow


  79. goldened-crowned sparrow


  80. california towhee


  81. american coot


  82. snowy egret


  83. northern mockingbird


  84. red-winged blackbird


  85. mallard


  86. canada goose


  87. chestnut backed chickadee


  88. american robin


  89. common yellowthroat


  90. townsends warbler


  91. ruby crowned kinglet


  92. dark eyed junco


  93. hermit thrush


  94. raven


  95. red-tailed hawk


  96. red-shouldered hawk


  97. american wigeon


  98. pygmy nuthatch


  99. red-breasted nuthatch


Annoyingly 'akiapola'au was only heard in Hakalau.


No comments: