Pedro does it again, 2nd Year!!

[Tdgraves]

Congratulations on the single country double century 

[Zim Girl]

Well done on getting to 200!

[Galana]

Nice to see you reach #200 especially with our National Bird.

[michael-ibk]

Super Pedro, getting 200 species in a single country is a fantastic achievement!

[Soukous]

34 minutes ago, michael-ibk said:

Super Pedro, getting 200 species in a single country is a fantastic achievement!

 

Yes, it certainly is. Well done.

[TonyQ]

Well don on reaching 200 for Portugal!

[Peter Connan]

Congratulations! Great effort.

[xelas]

Congratulations, @pedro maia! Reaching 200 species in any European country is an excellent achievement. I hope you will get to your new target.

[Dave Williams]

Cracking achievement Pedro, well done indeed.

[elefromoz]

@pedro maia, well Ive really enjoyed catching up with your home sightings, you've highlighted some wonderful locations for a future trip. Portas de Rodao looks a fabulous spot for Griffin Vulture spotting, like you I love seeing them soaring at eye level. Also, Ive picked up a few tips on separating Mistle and Song Thrush, Black and Red Kites, tactics for spotting Dippers and a few "BIF, how to improve" hints as well from the experts. Glad you can get out and about a bit now.

[pedro maia]

Thanks @Tdgraves, @Zim Girl, @Galana, @michael-ibk, @Soukous, @TonyQ, @Peter Connan, @xelas, @Dave Williams and @elefromoz.

[shazdwn]

Congratulations from me too

 

[Kitsafari]

wow congrats on reaching your goals - 200 in a single country, and exceeding your target to see 20 new birds.  hats off to you for raising your target to 240 - undoubtedly you'll achieve it in no time. 

[pedro maia]

Thanks @shazdwn and @Kitsafari.

[pedro maia]

This morning I went to try a new spot less than half an hour drive from home and even if I missed my main goal I saw one of my favourite birds, one I saw only once last year.

 

#201, 3/7, Northern goshawk, Ribeira da Cabrela

 

 

 

[pedro maia]

I also saw this Red-billed leiothrix, a new bird for me, but it´s a species from Asia that is not settled here, there are some escapes but not a real wild population and because of that it´s not in the bubo.org list and in the Portuguese forum we agreed that we would only use species in that list so I´m not going to count it.

 

Edited July 4, 2020 by pedro maia

[PeterHG]

Congratulations on reaching a fantastic total of 200 for your country already and challenging yourself by setting a new target! A great thread to follow and looking forward to seeing you reach you goal.

[Kitsafari]

The red-billed leiothrix is such a pretty bird. do they migrate there or an escapee - i didn't know caged bird trade is a thing in Portugal?

 

[Galana]

On 7/3/2020 at 6:50 PM, pedro maia said:

I´m not going to count it.

That is very noble of you. There are free-winged populations across the world now as a result of several introductions some of which failed (UK) but others such as in France and Spain succeeded.

[pedro maia]

On 7/3/2020 at 6:55 PM, PeterHG said:

Congratulations on reaching a fantastic total of 200 for your country already and challenging yourself by setting a new target! A great thread to follow and looking forward to seeing you reach you goal.

Thanks Peter.

[pedro maia]

4 hours ago, Kitsafari said:

The red-billed leiothrix is such a pretty bird. do they migrate there or an escapee - i didn't know caged bird trade is a thing in Portugal?

 

They are escapees, but I don’t really know how is the caged bird trade here, I’m sure it’s not like in some places in Asia.

[pedro maia]

35 minutes ago, Galana said:

That is very noble of you. There are free-winged populations across the world now as a result of several introductions some of which failed (UK) but others such as in France and Spain succeeded.

I’m just adhering to the rules I voluntarily agreed .

[pedro maia]

I´m not making any progresses as I´m loosing a lot of time trying to see a species without results and now we are in the high 30º´s here so I don´t expect many additions in the next few days.

 

This one is a duplicate, not a great picture but still much better than the one I have in my count:

 

 

Edited July 13, 2020 by pedro maia

[Galana]

Good enough!

[pedro maia]

58 minutes ago, pedro maia said:

I´m not making any progresses as I´m loosing a lot of time trying to see a species without results

 

I´m very glad to be wrong .

 

A special species was seen at the spot where I saw the Goshawk, it´s half an hour from home so I returned there a few times without success, a couple of sightings were registered at ebird with photos, at site I could identify the exact place where the photos were taken but I couldn´t see the damn birds.

 

Yesterday I went there early in the morning and again I didn´t see nothing, some other birders showed up and tried to see them but weren´t able as well. Already at home I saw in ebird that after I left they were seen again, no photos this time but still I decided to go back there before sunset, but again I didn´t see them, I started to get frustrated.

 

The place of the sightings has some rock formations with trees and other vegetation, you are facing those rock formations from a distance, what I did yesterday afternoon was, without any hope, to take pictures of all the parts where the rocks are exposed, and after my last post I remembered that I still hadn´t checked the photos, which I did and, Bingo!!

 

Where´s Waldo?

 

 

 

#202 (N33), 12/7, Eurasian eagle owl, Ribeira da Cabrela

 

 

Hard work for two EBC´s, one of them of a bird facing a rock, but totally worth it .