Neils Lancashire and UK list '08

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1/1/08 garden, drive to Blackburn then a walk around my patch

In order seen.

1. Robin
2. Blackbird
3. Great tit
4. Dunnock
5. Coal tit
6. Blue tit
7. Black headed gull
8. Collared dove
9. Carrion crow
10.Starling
11.Magpie
12.Jackdaw
13.Feral pigeon
14.Wood pigeon
15.Kestrel
16.Rook
17.Mallard
18.Coot
19.Grey heron
20.Chaffinch
21.Grey wagtail
22.Wren
23.Goldfinch
24.Greenfinch
25.Nuthatch
26.House sparrow
27.Little owl
28.Dipper
29.Meadow pipit
30.Sparrowhawk
31.Pheasant
32.Redwing
33.Mistle thrush
34.Great spotted woodpecker

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3/1/08 garden

35.Siskin
36.Mealy redpoll

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4/1/08 driving to preston with a very brief stop at newton marsh pool in terrible weather

37.Moorhen
38.Wigeon
39.Teal

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5/1/08 Drove up to Stocks reservoir for a look in still terrible weather.

40.Cormorant
41.Jay
42.Greylag goose
43.Bullfinch
44.Northern pintail
45.Tufted duck
46.Pochard

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5/1/08 Billington in the garden added another 2 really common birds that should have been on day 1.

47. Pied wagtail
48. Long tailed tit

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06/1/08 Padiham

49 Great grey shrike
50. Red breasted merganser

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7/1/08 Dean clough reservoir

51. Goldeneye

Upper barrow lodge

52. Great crested grebe

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11/01/08 Leighton Moss

53. Lapwing
54. Shoveller
55. LBB Gull
56. Oystercatcher
57. Song Thrush (how did this take so long to turn up?)
58. Treecreeper (also expected first day)
59. Canada goose
60. Gadwall
61. Snipe
62. Mute swan
63. Common gull
64 GBB Gull
65. Marsh tit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
66. Greenshank
67. Redshank
68. Dunlin
69. Shelduck
70. Little egret
71. Black tailed godwit

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15/01/08 Blackpool

72. Herring Gull

Barrow Lodge (lower)

73. Slavonian Grebe :t:

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19/01/08 Barrow Lodge (lower)

74. Common Kingfisher :king: (some dodgyscoped photos on my blog below)

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23/01/08 Barrow

75. Woodcock - flushed (not the best of views)

29/01/08 Billington

76. Pink footed goose (100's over in skeins)

07/01/08 Marton mere

77. Ruddy duck
78. Reed bunting



07/01/08 Fairhaven lake, Lytham

79. Linnet
80. Little grebe

07/01/08 Lytham moss

81. Whooper swan
82. Stonechat

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10/02/08 Burnley

83. Waxwing:t:

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18/02/08 Garden

84. Buzzard (over, uncommon around here, also a patch tick I think)

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Ooops|^|Just been browsing my own list and noticed a couple of screaming omissions!
I've def. seen plenty of each this year so I'll just add them to my list now, even though they're not in correct order.

85. Fieldfare
86. Curlew

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01/03/08 Pendle hill

87. Raven
88. Black redstart
89. Golden plover
90. Skylark

Marshside

91. Avocet

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9/3/08 RSPB Vane farm, Fife

92. Smew :t:
93. Goosander

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17/03/08 Brockholes quarry

94. Sand martin

17/03/08 Grannies bay, Lytham

95. Ringed plover
96. Knot

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01/04/08 Garden

97. Chiffchaff

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11/04/08 Ferry crossing Ardrossan to Brodick

98. Rock pipit
99. Eider
100. Black guillemot
101. Guillemot
102. Gannet
103. Razorbill

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12/04/08 Kildonan, Isle of Arran

104. Turnstone
105. Red-throated diver
106. Purple sandpiper
107. Shag

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13/04/08 Machrie moor, Isle of Arran

108. Willow warbler
109. Hen harrier

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14/04/08 Lochranza, Isle of Arran

110. Wheatear
111. Golden eagle:t:

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15-16/04/08 Mull of Kintyre and Isle of Gigha

112. Great northern diver
113. Black throated diver
114. Arctic tern
115. Whimbrel
116. Common scoter
117. Fulmar

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19/04/08 Aragaty kite feeding station, nr Callander, Stirlingshire

118. Red kite

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24/04/08 Farm near Preston

119. Tree sparrow

Fairhaven lake, Lytham

120. Ross's Gull :t:
121. Grey plover

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25/04/08 Spring wood, Whalley

122. Blackcap (f) alarm call helped me find it

(expected to see this species earlier than this, but better late than never!)

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26/04/08 River calder, Whalley

123. Common sandpiper

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29/04/08 Billington Viaduct/River Calder

124. Swift

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30/04/08 Moor Piece nr Bashall hall

125. Pied flycatcher

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02/05/08 Pendle hill

126. Red-legged partridge
127. Dotterel

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05/05/08 Worston nr Clitheroe

128. Garden warbler (heard last week but 3 seen today)

Aspinall arms pub nr Whalley

129. House martin (expected this well b 4 now)

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11/05/08 Forest of Bowland

130. Whinchat
131. Red grouse
132. Peregrine falcon
133. Cuckoo (male seen, two heard)
134. Short eared owl

In Garden/field

135. Tawny owl (havent seen here since fireworks night)

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18/05/08 Barrow, nr Clitheroe (my patch)

136. Spotted flycatcher

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20/06/08 Sherwood forest, Nottinghamshire

137. Green woodpecker
138. Yellowhammer
139. Tree pipit

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29/06/08 Fowey, Cornwall
140. Common whitethroat

30/06/08 Fowey
141. Hobby

2/7/08 Mawgan Porth, Cornwall
142. Barn owl

3/7/08 Mawgan Porth, Cornwall
143. Mediterranean gull