Time to get a trip bird list....

After camping and driving, A LOT (3900+ miles so far), plus poor weather here near Mt. Rushmore, I have time to get a updated trip list up. To put it very bluntly, these past 2 weeks have been stupid hectic, so actually resting on a bed and typing is relaxing.

Here is what I've gotten so far (again, going by Sibley's taxonomy):

1. Common Loon
2. Red-necked Grebe
3. Horned Grebe
4. Eared Grebe (lifer)
5. Pied-billed Grebe
6. Western Grebe
7. Am. White Pelican
8. DC Cormorant
9. Am. Bittern
10. Least Bittern
11. GB Heron
12. Great Egret (seen near CT/NY border... still counts!)
13. Green Heron
14. BC Night-heron
15. Tundra Swan
16. Canada Goose
17. Cackling Goose
18. GWF Goose
19. Snow Goose
20. Wood Duck
21. Mallard
22. Am. Black Duck
23. Gadwal
24. No. Pintail
25. Am. Wigeon
26. No. Shoveler
27. BW Teal
28. GW Teal
29. Canvasback
30. Redhead
31. RN Duck
32. Lesser Scaup (it is SO neat to see 'our' winter waterfowl up here in breeding plumage)
33. Co. Goldeneye
34. Bufflehead
35. Hooded Merganser
36. Co. Merganser
37. Ruddy Duck
38. Turkey Vulture
39. Black Vulture
40. No. Harrier
41. Sharp-shinned Hawk
42. Cooper's Hawk
43. No. Goshawk
44. Red-shouldered Hawk
45. Broad-winged Hawk
46. Swainson's Hawk
47. Red-tailed Hawk
48. Ferruginous Hawk (lifer)
49. Golden Eagle (3 so far)
50. Bald Eagle
51. Osprey
52. Merlin
53. Am. Kestrel
54. Peregrine Falcon
55. Gray Partridge
56. RN Pheasant
57. Ruffed Grouse
58. Sharp-tailed Grouse
59. Wild Turkey
60. Common Moorhen (lifer)
61. American Coot
62. Virginia Rail
63. Sora
64. Sandhill Crane
65. Am. Golden Plover
66. Semipal Plover
67. Killdeer
68. Am. Avocet (lifer)
69. Gr. Yellowlegs
70. Lesser Yellowlegs
71. Solitary Sandpiper
72. Spotted Sandpiper
73. Upland Sandpiper
74. Dunlin
75. Pectoral Sandpiper
76. White-rumped Sandpiper
77. Semipal Sandpiper
78. Least Sandpiper
79. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
80. Am. Woodcock
81. Wilson's Snipe
82. Wilson's Phlarope (lifer)
83. Boneparte's Gull
84. Franklin's Gull
85. Ring-billed Gull
86. California Gull
87. Herring Gull
88. GB-backed Gull (again, still counts as I was on the road)
89. Caspian Tern
90. Common Tern
91. Forster's Tern
92. Black Tern
93. Mourning Dove
94. Rock Dove
95. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
96. Black-billed Cuckoo
97. Short-eared Owl
98. GH Owl
99. Barred Owl
100. E. Screech Owl
101. Whip-poor-will
102. Co. Nighthawk
103. Chimney Swift
104. RT Hummingbird
105. Belted Kingfisher
106. RH Woodpecker
107. RB Woodpecker
108. YB Sapsucker
109. Downy Woodpecker
110. Hairy Woodpecker
111. No. Flicker (red and yellow)
112. Pileated Woodpecker
113. Olive-sided Flycatcher
114. E. Wood-Pewee
115. YB Flycatcher
116. Willow Flycatcher
117. Least Flycatcher
118. E. Phoebe
119. Say's Phoebe (lifer)
120. GC Flycatcher
121. E. Kingbird
122. W. Kingbird (lifer)
123. Loggerhead Shrike (lifer)
124. Red-eyed Vireo
125. Warbling Vireo
126. White-eyed Vireo
127. YT Vireo
128. Blue-headed Vireo
129. Blue Jay
130. Black-billed Magpie
131. Co. Raven
132. Am. Crow
133. Fish Crow
134. Horned Lark
135. Purple Martin
136. NRW Swallow
137. Bank Swallow
138. Tree Swallow
139. Cliff Swallow
140. Barn Swallow
141. Tufted Titmouse
142. BC Chickadee
143. RB Nuthatch
144. WB Nuthatch
145. Brown Creeper
146. Carolina Wren
147. House Wren
148. Winter Wren
149. Sedge Wren
150. Marsh Wren
151. RC Kinglet
152. BG Gnatcatcher
153. Mountain Bluebird (lifer)
154. E. Bluebird
155. Am. Robin
156. Wood Thrush
157. Veery
158. Swainson's Thrush
159. Hermit Thrush
160. Gray Catbird
161. No. Mockingbird
162. Brown Thrasher
163. Euro. Starling
164. Sprague's Pipit
165. Am. Pipit
166. Cedar Waxwing
167. No. Parula
168. OC Warbler
169. Tennessee Warbler
170. Blue-winged Warbler
171. Nashville Warbler
172. Yellow Warbler
173. Chestnut-sided Warbler
174. Magnolia Warbler
175. Cape May Warbler
176. BTB Warbler
177. Cerulean Warbler
178. Blackburnian Warbler
179. YR Warbler
180. BTG Warbler
181. Palm Warbler (brown and yellow)
182. Pine Warbler
183. Bay-breasted Warbler
184. Blackpoll Warbler
185. Yellow-throated Warbler
186. Worm-eating Warbler
187. Prothonotary Warbler
188. B&W Warbler
189. Am. Redstart
190. Ovenbird
191. No. Waterthrush
192. Mourning Warbler
193. Co. Yellowthroat
194. Wilson's Warbler
195. Canada Warbler
196. Hooded Warbler
197. Yellow-breasted Chat (lifer)
198. Scarlet Tanager
199. No. Cardinal
200. RB Grosbeak
201. Lazuli Bunting (lifer)
202. Dickcissel
203. Spotted Towhee (lifer... 'great plains')
204. E. Towhee
205. Field Sparrow
206. Clay-colored Sparrow
207. Chipping Sparrow
208. Baird's Sparrow (lifer)
209. Grasshopper Sparrow
210. Henslow's Sparrow (lifer)
211. Savannah Sparrow
212. Vesper Sparrow
213. Lark Bunting (lifer)
214. Lark Sparrow (lifer)
215. WT Sparrow
216. WC Sparrow
217. Fox Sparrow
218. Song Sparrow
219. Lincoln's Sparrow
220. Swamp Sparrow
221. Chestnut-collared Longspur (lifer)
222. W. Meadowlark (lifer)
223. E. Meadowlark
224. Bobolink
225. BH Cowbird
226. YH Blackbird
227. RW Blackbird
228. Brewer's Blackbird (lifer)
229. Co. Grackle
230. Bullock's Oriole (lifer)
231. Baltimore Oriole
232. Orchard Oriole
233. House Finch
234. Am. Goldfinch
235. House Sparrow

-MoJo-