My Personal Birding Report for 2008

My Personal Birding Report for 2008

Jan 4, '09 5:05 PM

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Happy 2009!!!






Here's my birding report for 2008.






Clock time are starting times. I usually do birding for about 2 hours.






October 2, 2008


9am


San Manuel wetland


Little Egret (3) [territorial birds]






October 8, 2008


4pm


San Manuel Coast


Kingfisher sp. (1 heard)


Copper-throated Sunbird (1)


White-collared Kingfisher (1)


Brown Shrike (1)






October 12, 2008


4pm


San Manuel tidal flat


Olive-backed Sunbird (1)


Black-capped Kingfisher [duPont 45 F] (2) [smaller than white-collared kingfisher]


White-collared Kingfisher (1 seen, 1 heard)


Sandpiper sp. [gray upper / white underparts] (2)


Sandpiper sp. [black beak / gray upper / white underparts] (2) [gray “kwintas” around neck / smaller than item 2]






October 13, 2008


after sunrise


San Manuel Mangroves/coast


Egret sp. [large flock roosting on the mangroves flanking the macadam road to coast]


Pied Fantail (2)


Iora (>10)


unidentified [white underside + blue-striped gray wings, size a bit larger than iora] (2)


Rufous-tailed Tailorbird (1)


Pied Triller (2)


Sandpiper sp. [same as item 5 in October 12] (2)


White-collared Kingfisher (2)






October 14, 2008


8am


San Manuel Mangroves


Stork-billed Kingfisher (1)


Kingfisher sp. (1)






October 15, 2008


7am


San Manuel Mangroves


Brown Shrike (1)


Pied Fantail (3)


White-breasted Wood-swallow (1)


White-collared Kingfisher (1 seen, 2 heard)


Olive-backed Sunbird (2)


Parrot sp. (2)


Olive Three-pipit (???) (2)






October 16, 2008


10am


San Manuel Coast


White-collared Kingfisher (4)






October 17, 2008


7am


San Manuel Coast


Pied Triller (3)


Stork-billed Kingfisher (1)


White-collared Kingfisher (5)


Pied Fantail (3)


Olive-backed Sunbird (6)






October 18, 2008


6am


San Manuel Coast


Shrike sp. (2)


Copper-throated Sunbird (1)


Pied Fantail (1)


Rufous-tailed Tailorbird (1) [in a mixed flock with 2 Ioras]






October 21, 2008


8am


San Manuel Coast


Asian Glossy-starling (3)


White-collared Kingfisher (3)


Iora (>10)


Pied Triller (1)






November 14, 2008


4pm


San Manuel Coast


Pied Triller (3)






December 26, 2008


3pm


San Manuel Mangroves/coast


Olive-winged Bulbul (2)


Kingfisher sp. (2 heard)


White-collared Kingfiser (1)


Kingfisher sp. [with orange flush in underparts when in flight] (1)


Sandpiper sp or Plover sp. [yellow legs, white underparts, gray wings, black cross-tipped tails, white border around eyes, very noisy when approached] (1)


White-breasted Wood-swallow (2)


Pied Fantail (1)


Wood-swallow sp. [golden-brown throat, looks like White-breasted Wood-swallow, perched on leaf-less tall tree facing the strong wind] (3)






I forgot the exact dates when I saw the coucal and the Chestnut-breasted Malkoha at the path near the back of our house. I saw the Coucal in October. While I saw the Malkoha a week before my Dad died (November 22).






I saw a Rufous Night Heron before noon time today (January 4, 2009) at the swampland under the acacias 300 meters from the back of our house. It's resting on the high branch of one of the acacia trees.