The work continues on working out the gaps in my world list to plan next trips. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just going to have to up upload all my old trip reports onto Ebird as that will make it a lot easier to work out the gaps so I'll probably see how I can find time to do that. Will probably use the same exercise to work out my world mammal list and other taxa too. I guess will be good to get all my old records onto these new big data systems anyway.
I've done a bit of North America including Point Pelee migration, British Columbia, California and Arizona so still need to do Texas, Alaska, Florida and would also like to do an autumn migration trip to Cape May.
In the meantime I've been going through old trip reports and the latest one was a trip to Arizona with Sam Woods, another one of the recees for Tropical Birding that we did.
Surfbirds Trip Report HERE. Plenty of deep south specialities, highlights including Montezuma Quail, Red-faced, Olive, Virginia's, Grace's, McGillvray's, Townend's, Black-throated Grey and Lucy's Warblers, Painted Redstart, ten species of hummingbird, Elegant Trogon, eleven species of Woodpecker, California Condor, Roadrunners and Wild Turkeys, Vermillion Flycatcher, Bendire's, Curve-billed and Crissal Thrashers, some very smart Tanagers and some decent yank sparrows too.
A few trip photos below.
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