Gareth_Blockley's 2008 list

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Here goes my first serious year list, lets see how i do!

Only counting birds on the BOU list. Lifers are in BOLD.


01/01/08 - Ratley, Upton and Edgehill in Warks:

1 Peregrine
2 Pheasant
3 Stock Dove
4 Woodpigeon
5 Collared Dove
6 Great Spotted Woodpecker
7 Skylark
8 Meadow Pipit
9 Wren
10 Dunnock
11 Robin
12 Blackbird
13 Song Thrush
14 Redwing
15 Mistle Thrush
16 Goldcrest
17 Long-tailed Tit
18 Blue Tit
19 Great Tit
20 Coal Tit
21 Nuthatch
22 Jay
23 Magpie
24 Jackdaw
25 Rook
26 Carrion Crow
27 Starling
28 House Sparrow
29 Chaffinch
30 Greenfinch
31 Goldfinch
32 Yellowhammer

03/01/08 - Driving around Warks:

33 Common Buzzard
34 Kestrel

03/01/08 - Marsh lane, West Mids:

35 Tawny Owl
36 Treecreeper
37 Tree Sparrow
38 Siskin
39 Common Redpoll (UK lifer)
40 Lesser Redpoll
41 Bullfinch

03/01/08 - Draycote water, Warks:

42 Lesser Scaup (same bird UK lifer 2007)
43 Long-tailed Duck (UK lifer)
44 Smew
45 Mute Swan
46 Greylag Goose
47 Greater Canada Goose
48 Wigeon
49 Gadwall
50 Teal
51 Mallard
52 Pochard
53 Tufted Duck
54 Goldeneye
55 Goosander
56 Little Grebe
57 Great Crested Grebe
58 Cormorant
59 Coot
60 Lapwing
61 Black-headed Gull
62 Common Gull
63 Lesser Black-backed Gull
64 Herring Gull
65 Great Black-backed Gull
66 Pied Wagtail

05/01/08 - Driving around Oxon:

67 Golden Plover

05/01/08 - Farmoor, Oxon:

68 Snipe
69 Kingfisher
70 Water Pipit
71 Grey Wagtail
72 Marsh tit
73 Reed bunting

05/01/08 - Dix pit, Oxon:

74 Shoveler
75 Pintail
76 Grey Heron
77 Moorhen
78 Yellow-legged Gull
- Caspian Gull (UK lifer)
79 Iceland Gull
- Thayer's Gull

05/01/08 - Stanton harcourt, Oxon:

80 Sparrowhawk

05/01/08 - Otmoor RSPB, Oxon:

81 Pink-footed Goose
82 White-fronted Goose

06/01/08 - Bury down, Berks:

83 Red Kite
84 Short-eared Owl
85 Stonechat
86 Linnet
87 Corn Bunting

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88 Great-northern diver
89 Red-necked grebe (UK lifer)

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90 Marsh harrier
91 Brent goose (Pale)
92 Shelduck
93 Oystercatcher
94 Redshank
95 Grey plover
96 Curlew
97 Little egret

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Undisclosed site, Warks

98 Barn owl


Teeside, Cleveland

99 Woodcock
100 Ruddy duck

Broke the January 100 target B (:

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Lea marston, Warks

101 Scaup (UK lifer)

Laundry lane, Warks

102 Firecrest

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103 Cetti's warbler
104 Avocet
105 Bar-tailed godwit
106 Knot
107 Dunlin
108 Sanderling
109 Turnstone

28/01/08 - Isle of Sheppey, Kent

110 Rough legged buzzard (UK lifer)
111 Hen harrier
112 Green sandpiper
113 Red-legged partridge

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02/02/08 - Banbury, Oxon

114 Willow tit

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03/02/08 - Cliff, Warks

115 Brambling

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04/02/08 - Undisclosed site, Lincs

116 Jack snipe (UK lifer)
117 Black-tailed Godwit
118 Ringed plover

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Saltfleet, Lincs

119 Glossy Ibis (UK Lifer)

Legbourne, Lincs

120 Cattle Egret

Draycote Water, Warks

121 Glaucous Gull (UK Lifer)
- Kumliens Gull (UK Lifer)

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Cromford, Derbys

122 Hawfinch

Allestree, Derbys

123 Waxwing (UK Lifer)

Hartshill, Warks

124 Great White Egret (UK Lifer)

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15/02/08 - Lisvane reservoir, Glamorgan

125 Spotted Sandpiper (UK Lifer)

15/02/08 - Forest of Dean, Glos

126 Raven
127 Great Grey Shrike
128 Goshawk
129 Mandarin
130 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

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17 to 19/02/08 - Norfolk and Suffolk

Three days of birding in east anglia produced the following species:

131 Whooper Swan
132 Crossbill
133 Golden Pheasant
134 Red Throated Diver
135 Fulmar
136 Lapland Bunting
137 Ruff
138 Mediterranean Gull
139 Bearded Tit (UK Lifer)
140 Spotted redshank
141 Eider
142 Red Breasted Merganser
143 White Crowned Sparrow (UK Lifer)
144 Snow Bunting
145 Gannet
146 Dartford Warbler (UK Lifer)
147 Water Rail
148 Common Scoter
149 Bittern
150 Merlin

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15/03/08 to 18/03/08 Hampshire

151 Chiffchaff
152 Sand martin
153 Black-necked grebe
154 Rock pipit
155 Woodlark

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19/03/08 to 29/03/08 Ireland*

* yeah yeah Ireland isn't Britain so BOU list dosn't count but its my list - like it or lump it!

156 Hooded Crow
157 Black Guillemot
158 Shag
159 Chough
160 Kittiwake
161 Wheatear
162 Sand Martin
163 Manx Shearwater
164 Razorbill
165 Dipper
- Pale bellied Brent Goose
166 Greenshank
167 Guillemot
168 Puffin
169 Common Sandpiper

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03/04/08 - Lockerley, Hants

170 Little owl

06/04/08 - Banbury, Oxon

171 Swallow
172 House martin
173 Yellow wagtail
- White wagtial
174 Little plover

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07/04/08 - Elmley marshes RSPB, Kent

175 Willow warbler

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08/04/08 - Dungeness, Kent

176 Sedge Warbler
177 Bluethroat, White-spotted (UK Lifer)
178 Dark-eyed Junco (UK Lifer)

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10/04/08 - Oare marshes, Kent

179 Whimbrel

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12/04/08 - Banbury, Oxon

180 Blackcap

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15/04/08 - Northward hill, Kent

181 Whitethroat

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17/04/08 - Banbury, Oxon

182 Common tern

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20/04/08 - Foxholes, Oxon

183 Cuckoo

20/04/08 - Napton, Warks

184 Ring ouzel

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25/04/08 - Brandon marsh, Warks

185 Garganey
186 Reed Warbler
187 Grasshopper Warbler

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26/04/08 - Wyre forset, Worcs

188 Tree Pipit
189 Redstart
190 Pied flycatcher (UK lifer)
191 Garden Warbler


26/04/08 - Upton warren, Worcs

192 Little gull
193 Winchat

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27/04/08 - Farmoor reservoir, Oxon

194 Black Tern (UK lifer)
195 Arctic Tern
196 Swift

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29 & 30/04/08 - Grain & Sheppey, Kent

197 Sandwich tern
198 Nightingale
199 Lesser whitethroat

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05/05/08 - Weymouth area, Dorset

200 Whiskered tern (UK Lifer)
201 Roseate tern (UK Lifer)
202 Spoonbill
203 Hoopoe


07/05/08 - New forest, Hants

204 Hobby


08/05/08 - Keyhaven, Hants

205 Little tern (UK Lifer)
206 Pomerine skua
207 Temminck's stint (UK Lifer)


10/05/08 - Draycote water, Warks

208 White-winged Black Tern (UK Lifer)

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24/05/08 - Ingleby, Derbys

209 Red-footed Falcon (UK Lifer)

24/05/08 - Neumann's flash, Cheshire

210 Black-winged stilt (UK Lifer)

24/05/08 - Cannock chase, Staffs

211 Nightjar
212 Long-eared owl (heard only, not seen!) (UK Lifer)

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06/06/08 - Telscombe cliffs, Sussex

213 Trumpeter finch (UK Lifer)

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09/06/08 - Suffolk/Norfolk

214 Golden Oriole (UK Lifer)
215 Common Crane
216 Stone Curlew (UK Lifer)
217 Spotted Flycatcher


11/06/08 - Petworth, Sussex

218 Red-backed Shrike (UK Lifer)


17/06/08 - Kent

219 Turtle Dove


27/06/08 - Manchester

220 Black Redstart


28/06/08 - Rutland

221 Osprey
222 Egyptian goose

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16/07/08 - Oxfordshire downs

223 Quail (heard only, not seen!) (UK Lifer)

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26/07/08 - Norfolk

224 Montagu's Harrier (UK Lifer)
225 Honey Buzzard (UK Lifer)
226 Little stint
227 Curlew sandpiper


29/07/08 - Norfolk

228 Pectoral sandpiper (UK Lifer)

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08/08/08 - Norfolk

229 Arctic Skua

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11/08/08 - Kent

230 American Golgen Plover (UK Lifer)

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02/09/08 - Kent

231 Icterine Warbler (UK Lifer)



06/09/08 - Oxfordshire

232 Grey Phalarope

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14/09/08 - Bucks

233 Wryneck (UK Lifer)

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02/10/08 - Norfolk

234 Great Skua
235 Sooty Shearwater (UK Lifer)
236 Sabine's Gull (UK Lifer)

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07/10/08 - Devon

237 Cirl Bunting (UK Lifer)


08/10/08 - Cornwall

- ALDER FLYCATCHER!!!


09/10/08 - Cornwall

- Azorian Yellow-legged gull??
238 Rose Coloured Starling (UK Lifer)

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19/10/08 - Worcestershire

239 Shore Lark (UK Lifer)

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29/10/08 - Kent

240 Green Heron (UK Lifer)

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18/11/08 - Cheshire

241 Purple sandpiper

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30/11/08 - Bedfordshire

241 Slavonian Grebe

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02/12/08 - Lancs

242 Twite (UK Lifer)