Sunday, 21 October 2018

Corvo 2018, Day 8 -A quiet day

The easterly wind has built today but a couple of new American birds have still managed to push through- a Chimney Swift and an American Great White Egret. The Chimney Swift now takes the total number of Nearctic species to 28 (one away to match the record set in 2017).

I stayed in the guesthouse today as I over did it on the war wound yesterday but still managed to see Chimney Swift, Barn Swallow and Great White Egret from the Veranda.

I didn't take any pics today so here's a few shots of the star birds over the last few days from Vincent.

 White-eyed Vireo (Vincent Legrand) 
 Eastern Wood Pewee (Vincent Legrand) 
Lincoln's Sparrow (Vincent Legrand) 

Darryl and I worked out our Azores lists today. Trying to resurrect the Azores List rankings which will post on the Corvo blog HERE

2 comments:

Tim said...

Hi Peter, we were on Corvo in September for 10 days, lots of easterly winds so not the best birding for yanks, however we did have 2 Buff-breasted Sands (and 2 possibly 4 White-rumps). I presume these contribute to Corvo's nearctic year list? Link to pics here:
https://twitter.com/migrantbirder/status/1040304886292901889?s=21

Regards Tim

Peter Alfrey said...

Thanks Tim,
will get the records added.
Cheers
Peter