Details of sighting dates and states can be seen at web site: www.lynnbarber.com (final total for year)

Updated: 12/30/08 - Good year end in New England: European Golden Plover, Black-tailed Gull, Snowy Owls, Barnacle Goose, Saltmarsh ST Sparrow. Major misses this year; Black-billed Cuckoo (!!), Hammond's Flycatcher in the West, several southern TX species. Still a very good and enjoybale year though: - California in Sept and Arizona in July/August; July Pelagic Highlights from MA - Band-rumped, Wilson's and Leach's SPs, Cory's Shearwater, Bridled Tern. AK in June, not including Barrow. Additions in MA - Saw-whet Owl, Mourning, Worm-eating and Cerulean Warblers; from TX April in A: CC Robin, Swainson's Warbler, Black Rail: Yellow-billed and Pacific Loons (AZ/CA), plus FL in Feb (Masked Booby, Snail Kite, Limpkin, Yellow Rail, Bananaquit): MA/AZ: Highlights; Nortern Jacana (AZ), Slaty-backed Gull, Pine Grosbeak, Dovekie, King Eider, Thayer's Gull - all MA. Pics at http://pioneerbirding.blogspot.com/

12/30/08. Best Birds... Barnacle Goose, Tufted duck, Bahama Mockingbird, Piratic Flycatcher, Forktailed Flycatcher, Flame-colored Tanager.

12/31 - (All Lower 48 & no S. TX) - FINAL 2008 BIRD: Red-breasted Sapsucker (San Diego) - HIGHLIGHTS: (CA) RED-THROATED PIPIT, RED-FOOTED BOOBY, RED-NECKED STINT, YELLOW-GREEN VIREO, Arctic Tern, Craveri's Murrelet, LeConte's Thrasher, Spotted Owl, Yellow-footed Gull, Spotted Dove; (AZ) Lucifer, Violet-crowned & White-eared Hummers, Thick-billed Kingbird, Black-capped GC, Flame-colored Tanager, Elegant Trogon, Mexican Chickadee; (TX) Harris's Sparrow, Neotrop Corm, Least Grebe; (DE) WOOD SANDPIPER, Yellow Rail, WHITE-WINGED TERN; (MD) White-winged Crossbill; (FL) WW Parakeet, Mangrove Cuckoo, Black-whiskered Vireo, FL Scrub-Jay; (Niagara) Black-headed Gull; (PA) Henslow's Sparrow

Latest-Hawk Owl.Snowy Owl,Purple Sandpiper,Brant,Dipper#550,Clark's Nutcracker,Mountain Quail (finally!!!!)Sooty Grouse,Wood Sandpiper!!!(OR)Surfbird,W-H.Woodpecker,Least Storm-Petrel,Xantu's Murrelet,Yellow-footed Gull, BB Woodpecker,WW Crossbill,Kirtland's Warbler,Green Violet-ear(UP of MI),Conn. Warbler,Spuce Grouse, OS Fly.,Henslow's Sparrow(UP MI)Black Rail(seen & heard), Fea's & Trinidade Petrel, SP Skua, Swainson's Warbler, Bachman's Sparrow, Tufted Duck( a mile from home),Red-footed, Brown and Maked Booby,Black & Brown Noddy, Sooty, Bridled & Roseate Terns,Mangrove Cuckoo, Antillean Nighthawk, SB Ani (feeding young)-Lesser Prairie Chicken, Colima Warbler, WC Seedeater,Golden-cheeked Warbler, F-P Owl, Tropical Parula & amazing fall-out at Laguna Atascosa 19/04,Green Breasted Mango(GA),Bannanaquit, Brown Booby,Masked Duck,N. Jacana,Baird's Sparrow, Smith's,C.C, & McCown's Longspurs, 3 Rosy-Finches

Highlight of ABA Year: Chuck-will's-widow in Alabama to complete project of seeing at least one life bird in every state!

Green Jay, Altamira Oriole, Grey Hawk

total no heard birds

Hoary Redpoll, Wood Sandpiper, Most Lower Rio Grande Specialties, Rock Sandpiper, Surfbird, Berylline Hummningbird, Colima Warbler, Flame-colored Tanager, Black-capped Gnatcatcher

Tufted Duck, Yellow Rail, Little Gull, Flammulated Owl, Snowy Owl, Northern Hawk-Owl, Chuck-will's Widow, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Black-capped Vireo, Tropical Parula, Connecticut Warbler, Bachman's Sparrow, Baird's Sparrow, Lark Bunting, McCown's Longspur, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Hoary Redpoll, Buller's Shearwater, South Polar Skua, Spotted Dove, Ashy Storm-Petrel, Yellow-footed Gull

Eastern US, CA and OR- Much thanks to Jennifer Rycenga, Jeff Gilligan and Ida Giriunas. They took me to the birds.

Latest year birds: Sabine's Gull, Red-throated Loon Best year birds found as of 4/3: Buff-bellied hummingbird (lifer #400), Flame-colored Tanager (lifer #500)

Bermuda and Fea's Petrels, Gray Vireo, Fulvus w-duck, Y-f Gull, Bery Humm, Mtn Quail, Hermit Warb

Chicago area birding, the Southwest, Portland, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley

AK, AZ, CA, NM, MO, and TX; updated Nov 8th

just added 20 or so new birds for the year on St. Paul including Tufted Duck, Red-necked Stint, Slaty-backed Gull, Fork-tailed Storm Petrel and Yellow-billed Loon

Wood Sandpiper (OR), Northern Jacana (AZ), Slaty-backed Gull (CA), Colima Warbler (TX), Arctic Loon (CA)

ND/MI/Manitoba: Baird's Sparrow, WW Crossbills, Kirtland's Warblers. AZ: FC Tanager, BC Gnatcatcher, WE Hummingbird :: 12-21-08: Pomarine Jaeger

thru 12/5 Michigan, Arizona, RosyFiches in NM, Mottled Duck in Ontario + last 3 in VA

(12/24) AZ, NM, CO, ID, DC, VA, NC, CA - Blackburnian warbler, Pacific loon, Ross's goose, Dunlin, Baird's sparrow, Varied Thrush, Mexican chickadee, Northern parula, Black-backed woodpecker, Red-breasted sapsucker, white-headed woodpecker, Clark's nutcracker

(Last updated 4/11/09)

Final. Last: Northern Hawk-Owl, White-Winged Crossbill, Great Gray owl, Sharp-tailed Grouse in Duluth (-3)

Wood Sandpiper (DE)

Updated 12/25/08

Trip to Cape May. Purple Sandpiper, White-winged Scoter and American Oystercatcher

NC Highlights: Fea's + Trindade Petrels, SP Skua, Black Rail seen, nearly all the SE warblers including Swainson's, Bachman's Sparrow, RC Woodpecker: MB Highlights: Loggerhead Shrike, Sprague's Pipit, Prairie Falcon, 23 shorebird sp. including Hudsonian Godwit and Piping Plover - Last 5: Red-throated Loon, Dickcissel, Black-legged Kittiwake, Cave Swallow, Snowy Owl - Nov 15, 2008

SC Mourning Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Pine Siskin Updated 11/19/08

Michigan, Long Island, S. Texas, Central Texas, Barrow Alaska (YB Loon, 4 Eiders, Slaty-backed Gull, Sabine's Gull, 3 Jaegers, B. Guillemot, Thick-billed Murre)

Took the wife to NYC in May and had some good times in Central Park early mornings. Had proper birding trip with my dad to CA/NV in May/June. Highlights many, mental birding at Salton Sea, Monterey Bay & Point Reyes. Got 5 new warblers (which I care about over all others), Hermit, Black-throated Gray, Lucy's, Grace's & Virginia's.

Mostly birded in Washington state.

New Jersey + S. Texas

Jabiru!!!!! 8/24/08

Tropical Kingbird, Northern Hawk Owl

Just Indiana so far. 2008 ABA Area lifers: Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Latest bird: Prairie Falcon (12/17/08).

Snowy Owl 12/24/08