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gayleboa
Saturday 19th January 2008, 19:52
In order of sightings:

The first list all seen on New Year's Day in North Ayrshire:

1. Dunnock
2. Chaffinch
3. Song Thrush
4. Blue Tit
5. Jackdaw
6. Starling
7. Magpie
8. Carrion Crow
9. Whooper Swan
10. Blackbird
11. Mute Swan
12. Tufted Duck
13. Goldeneye
14. Cormorant
15. Moorhen
16. Mallard
17. Great Tit
18. Robin
19. Black Headed Gull
20. Common Gull
21. Buzzard
22. Kestrel
23. Pheasant
24. Oystercatcher
25. Lesser Black Backed Gull
26. Redshank
27. House Sparrow
28. Shag
29. Great Black Back Gull
30. Herring Gull
31. Eider
32. Dipper
33. Curlew
34. Wigeon
35. Greenfinch
36. Goldcrest
37. Collared Dove
38. Wren
39. Greenshank
40. Red Breasted Merganser
41. Bullfinch
42. Woodpigeon
43. Rook
44. Golden Plover
45. Turnstone
46. Rock Pipit
47. Pied Wagtail
48. Stonechat
49. Coot
50. Ringed Plover
51. Reed Bunting
52. Lapwing
53. Greylag Geese
54. Shelduck
55. Dunlin
56. Grey Heron
Seen around Lochwinnoch area 6/1
57. Goldfinch
58. Mistle Thrush
59. Redwing
60. Great Crested Grebe
61. Long Tailed Tit
Culzean / Maidens 12/1
62. Little Grebe
63. Siskin
64. Knot
65. Pochard
66. Coal Tit
67. (Pale Bellied) Brent Geese
68. Twite
Kinneil Kerse / Grangemouth 19/1
69. Spotted Sandpiper
70. Teal
71. Firecrest
Still missing some easy ones esp grey wagtail which has been a regular to our "garden" (really an old closed off churchyard outside the bedroom window which in a flat is the closest thing we get to a garden!) for the last 6/7 months.

gayleboa
Sunday 20th January 2008, 12:43
Seamill 20/1
72. grey wagtail (at last!)
73. Purple Sandpiper
74. Meadow pipit
Also saw either snipe or jack snipe but couldn't be sure on ID (have seen both there before) - I always get such a fright when they're flushed and they're off before i get the bins onto them! better luck next time!

gayleboa
Saturday 26th January 2008, 19:36
Gosford Bay 26/1
75. Bar-Tailed Godwit
Musselburgh 26/1
76. Velvet Scoter
77. Red Throated Diver
78. Goosander

gayleboa
Friday 8th February 2008, 19:45
Greenan 2/2
79. Grey Partridge
Progressing slowly - hoping for better weather this weekend!

gayleboa
Sunday 10th February 2008, 08:04
Great day today. Bright & sunny for a change and heard the first song-thrush of the year singing in the evening.
Stevenston Point 9/2
80. Sanderling
Troon Harbour 9/2
81. Long-tailed Duck
Rozelle Park 9/2
82. Nuthatch
Greenan Shore 9/2
83. Stock Dove

gayleboa
Saturday 16th February 2008, 19:17
all on 16/2
Rozelle Park
84. Great Spotted Woodpecker
Culzean CP
85. Raven
86. gadwall
Maidens
87. Gannet
88. Guillemot
89. Mediterranean Gull

gayleboa
Sunday 24th February 2008, 10:26
Vane Farm RSPB / Loch Leven 23/2
90. Slavonian Grebe
91. Pink-footed Geese
92. Smew
Also forgot this one from earlier in the year at Seamill
93. Jack Snipe

gayleboa
Saturday 1st March 2008, 17:49
1/3 Seamill
94. Black-throated diver
95. Black redstart

gayleboa
Saturday 15th March 2008, 19:08
15/3 Mugdock Country Park
96. Jay
97. Great Grey Shrike

gayleboa
Monday 17th March 2008, 07:33
16/3 Fairlie Moor
98. Skylark

gayleboa
Tuesday 18th March 2008, 17:46
18/3 Culzean CP
99. Mandarin Duck
Rozelle Park, Ayr
100. Pintail

gayleboa
Wednesday 19th March 2008, 17:37
19/3 Largs
101: Black Guillemot

gayleboa
Saturday 22nd March 2008, 19:34
18/3 Doonfoot
102. Water Pipit
22/3 Erskine Newshot Island
103. Iceland Gull
22/3 Glen Fruin
104. Hen Harrier
105. Canada Geese
106. Mistle Thrush
22/3 Gartocharn area
107. Barnacle Geese

gayleboa
Saturday 29th March 2008, 21:09
29/3 Musselburgh Lagoons
108. Grey Plover
109. Northern Wheatear

gayleboa
Saturday 5th April 2008, 20:15
5/4 Girvan
110. King Eider
Heard a lot of chiffchaffs but they were proving remarkably elusive to actually see! So not quite on the list yet!

gayleboa
Saturday 12th April 2008, 19:43
12/4 Irvine
111. Willow Warbler
112. Sand Martin
12/4 Troon
113. Chiff Chaff
114. Swallow

gayleboa
Sunday 13th April 2008, 16:52
13/4 Meigle Bay, Largs
115. Razorbill
13/4 near Beith
116. Linnet

gayleboa
Thursday 17th April 2008, 09:07
16/4 Lochwinnoch
117. House Martins

gayleboa
Sunday 20th April 2008, 14:05
First of all, deduct the house martin listing as they were sand martins! Oops!
So ...
18/4 Troon
117. Sandwich Tern
118. Blackcap

gayleboa
Tuesday 22nd April 2008, 23:04
22/4 Loch of the Lowes
119. Osprey
120. Tree Pipit
121. Yellowhammer
nr Amulree
122. Black Grouse

gayleboa
Wednesday 23rd April 2008, 18:17
23/4 Muirshiel Country Park
123. Peregrine Falcon
124. Snipe
Lochwinnoch
125. Lesser Redpoll

gayleboa
Saturday 26th April 2008, 18:24
26/4 between Bowling and Milton on A82
126. Ring Ouzel
Ross Wood, Loch Lomond
127. Pied Flycatcher
128. Wood Warbler
129. Common Sandpiper

gayleboa
Sunday 27th April 2008, 13:00
27/4 Barr Loch, Lochwinnoch
130. Sedge warbler
131. Grasshopper warbler

gayleboa
Wednesday 30th April 2008, 20:56
30/4 West Ferry
132. Whimbrel

gayleboa
Friday 2nd May 2008, 12:29
2/5 Glengarnock
133. House Martin

gayleboa
Saturday 3rd May 2008, 07:28
3/5 Portencross
134. Fulmar

gayleboa
Tuesday 6th May 2008, 06:38
5/5 Lochwinnoch
135. Whitethroat

gayleboa
Saturday 10th May 2008, 17:25
10/5 Beith
136. Swift
Muirshiel Country Park
137. Cuckoo

gayleboa
Monday 26th May 2008, 08:54
16/5 Forsinard
134. Merlin
135. Hooded Crow
17/5 Ferry to Orkney
136. Arctic Skua
137. Great Skua
138. Puffin
18/5 Birsay
139. Arctic Tern
140. Rock Dove
141. Common Tern
Stenness, Orkney
142. Short-eared Owl
20/5 Burray, Orkney
143. Black-tailed Godwit
21/5 Marwick Head, Orkney
144. Kittiwake
23/5 Aikerness beach, Orkney
145. Twite
The Breck, Orphir
146. Great Northern Diver