Animal Log of your native fauna

[Isidro]

Yesterday I saw:
-First earwig of the year
-First swallow of the year
-First greenfinch of the year

And a not so pleasant animal record: a tick found in myself. Probably my boyfriend brought it as he has been in a rural village a couple of days before. Fortunately I caught it before being pierced by it.

[Isidro]

Yesterday I saw the pug moth Eupithecia centaureata. While probably the most common of the pugs here, I only saw this species in five occasions including this one, and last one was in 2014.

[bmathison1972]

My Saturday night Zoom chat/movie night was canceled so I did a quick birding trip up into Memory Grove Park (bottom part of City Creek Canyon). I got a lifer, the belted kingfisher (although many years ago I saw a kingfisher in Arizona that was probably a belted).

Otherwise, other birds including turkey vulture, common raven, mallard, American robin.

The only mammal I saw was fox squirrels

Didn't document insects much, but saw a couple western swallowtails (Papilio rutulus).

Tomorrow I am going to bird along the Jordan River Parkway. Someone on eBird documented 32 species there yesterday along the same 5 mile stretch I plan to visit, 6 of which would be lifers for me if I get to see them!

[Gwangi]

My Saturday night Zoom chat/movie night was canceled so I did a quick birding trip up into Memory Grove Park (bottom part of City Creek Canyon). I got a lifer, the belted kingfisher (although many years ago I saw a kingfisher in Arizona that was probably a belted).

Otherwise, other birds including turkey vulture, common raven, mallard, American robin.

The only mammal I saw was fox squirrels

Didn't document insects much, but saw a couple western swallowtails (Papilio rutulus).

Tomorrow I am going to bird along the Jordan River Parkway. Someone on eBird documented 32 species there yesterday along the same 5 mile stretch I plan to visit, 6 of which would be lifers for me if I get to see them!

Good luck on your trip, I eagerly await your report!

[JimoAi]

I spotted 2 estuarine crocodiles, one which does not have a tail, a few malayan water monitors including one scavenging on a snakehead, a couple of young mangrove horseshoe crabs , some needlefish and unknown tadpoles

[Lanthanotus]

Nice one, JimoAi, though that Saltie will sure have a hard time. Did you ever seen Rough Neck Monitors (Varanus rudicollis) at your state?

Here April is uncommonly cold and the sun shines only now and then, so not much new on my side... I worked over our society`s entry display (it was formerly a display at a restaurant with
traditional cuisine, so the look of it is a bit... "old school")... bird models are by Netherland artist Johan Scherft, assembled by me. Due
to Corona restrictions our park can unfortunately not be opened at the moment.







All those birds are or can be present within the borders of our district, but especially the hoopoe and the wryneck are extremely rare and hard to observe.

[JimoAi]

Nice one, JimoAi, though that Saltie will sure have a hard time. Did you ever seen Rough Neck Monitors (Varanus rudicollis) at your state?

Here April is uncommonly cold and the sun shines only now and then, so not much new on my side... I worked over our society`s entry display (it was formerly a display at a restaurant with
traditional cuisine, so the look of it is a bit... "old school")... bird models are by Netherland artist Johan Scherft, assembled by me. Due
to Corona restrictions our park can unfortunately not be opened at the moment.







All those birds are or can be present within the borders of our district, but especially the hoopoe and the wryneck are extremely rare and hard to observe.

We only have the malayan water monitor and rarely, clouded monitors

[Lanthanotus]

Yeah, I spotted both species in Singapore, but I heard of sightings of the Rough Neck in Pulau Ubin or the more eastern Tekong Military Area.

[Advicot]

It looks wonderful Lanthanotus! The models of the birds are gorgeous. 

On my 4 mile walk home from school on Friday I noted many species down:

6 male and 2 female blackbirds near the canal in hedgerows, and the school chapel's walled garden
The regular pair of common merganser, who live on the river near my school
The regular pair of buzzards who nest in my woodland
A single cormorant drying its feathers off in the afternoon sun 
Plenty of passerines in the hedgerows, I could hear: goldfinches, house sparrows, robins, song thrushes, etc and I saw many of them too
The local parakeets (ring neck) in the woods

[bmathison1972]

@Gwangi - here it is! Eight miles over four hours.

BIRDS:
Canada goose
mallard
California quail
pied-billed grebe
eared grebe [new species for me]
rock dove
Eurasian collared dove
mourning dove
American coot
killdeer
gull, Larus sp. [they were all in flight and hard to ID; given our local fauna, probably California gulls, ring-billed gulls, or both]
double-crested cormorant
turkey vulture
red-tailed hawk
belted kingfisher
downy woodpecker
northern flicker
American kestrel
American crow
northern rough-winged swallow [new species for me]
barn swallow [new species for me]
ruby-crowned kinglet
red-breasted nuthatch
European starling
American robin
house sparrow
house finch
lesser goldfinch
dark-eyed junco
white-crowned sparrow
song sparrow
red-winged blackbird

there is a warbler/vireo I am still trying to ID; my working theory is Tennessee warbler, but I need to snoop around

MAMMALS:
brown rat
nutria
fox squirrel

[JimoAi]

Yeah, I spotted both species in Singapore, but I heard of sightings of the Rough Neck in Pulau Ubin or the more eastern Tekong Military Area.

You're from the area?

[Gwangi]

A solid list @bmathison1972. Makes me think I need to take my binoculars with me more often. I've become lazy about bird watching and don't often have the binoculars with me on my excursions.

[bmathison1972]

A solid list @bmathison1972. Makes me think I need to take my binoculars with me more often. I've become lazy about bird watching and don't often have the binoculars with me on my excursions.

I decided to report the warbler on eBird as an orange-capped. It will flag a rare bird report on eBird so I'll see what their reviewers have to say. The Tennessee warbler is my differential.

I have my annual baseball trip planned for the Kansas City area in June, so I hope to bird there in a new state!

[Lanthanotus]

Yeah, I spotted both species in Singapore, but I heard of sightings of the Rough Neck in Pulau Ubin or the more eastern Tekong Military Area.

You're from the area?

Unfortunately not.... I dwell in Germany, been to Singapore three times while on the way to Australia. Spotted both monitor species in Mac Ritchie Reservoir,
and the Malayian also in the Botanical Garden, never seen a saltie in Singapore or flying lizards (or Hornbills while we are at it), those all are on my list
for the next time (undated yet).

Well, been to the near forest today but did not look out for birds much, but spotted a slow worm Anguis fragilis and some Bufo bufo spawn.

[Isidro]

Today:
-First swift of the year! Still only one
-A lifer!!! New pug moth for my photo archive!! Eupithecia ultimaria at the exit of my workplace

[Gwangi]

Spent the day in the kayak, here's what I saw to the best of my memory.

Birds
Laughing Gull
Bald Eagle
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Wood Duck
Canada Goose
Red-Winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Northern Cardinal
White-Throated Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker
Greater Yellowlegs

Mammals
Muskrat

Fishes
Chain Pickerel
Northern Snakehead
Largemouth Bass
Bluegill
Channel Catfish
Mummichog

Amphibians
Green Frog (heard, not seen)
Cope's Gray Treefrog (heard, not seen)

Reptiles
Eastern Painted Turtle
Northern Red-Bellied Cooter

[bmathison1972]

Ooooo I want to see a wood duck in the wild. I'll be in the Kansas City area in June for baseball and it's been recorded there!

Walked home today; nothing out of the ordinary, but among the birds saw two raptors: Cooper's and red-tailed hawks; the red-tail was a first-year juvenile.

[Gwangi]

Ooooo I want to see a wood duck in the wild. I'll be in the Kansas City area in June for baseball and it's been recorded there!

Walked home today; nothing out of the ordinary, but among the birds saw two raptors: Cooper's and red-tailed hawks; the red-tail was a first-year juvenile.

They're quite abundant where I'm at, I see more wood ducks in the places I kayak than I do mallards. I hope you get to see one while in Missouri.

I had to edit my last post. I accidently put the channel catfish in there twice and forgot the bluegill, also forgot to list the laughing gull.

[bmathison1972]

Ooooo I want to see a wood duck in the wild. I'll be in the Kansas City area in June for baseball and it's been recorded there!

Walked home today; nothing out of the ordinary, but among the birds saw two raptors: Cooper's and red-tailed hawks; the red-tail was a first-year juvenile.

They're quite abundant where I'm at, I see more wood ducks in the places I kayak than I do mallards. I hope you get to see one while in Missouri.

I had to edit my last post. I accidently put the channel catfish in there twice and forgot the bluegill, also forgot to list the laughing gull.

This weekend I am going to Decker Lake, off the Jordan River where I birded this past weekend. Every day someone documents 30-50 species there, and there are usually 5-10 lifers for me (if I see them).

[bmathison1972]

Went out for pizza tonight, which was near Liberty Park. So, after eating made a quick trip around the pond at the park to check out to see if the waterfowl fauna has changed now that it is getting warmer. No new waterfowl, but I did get a lifer: Brewer's blackbird!!!!

mallard (with chicks)
Canada goose (with chicks)
domestic goose, feral
ring-billed gull
California gull
song sparrow
Brewer's blackbird*
red-winged blackbird
European starling
rock dove
mourning dove