Florall's 2007 List

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Last year I had a really good year and saw about 40 more species than in 2005, ending up with something like 161 species. I would be surprised if I see so many in 2007, because I’m not planning to holiday in such good places as I chose last year, and we won’t be able to get up to Norfolk this winter, (although there might be a possibility right at the end of the year), so I’ll miss out on an awful lot of interesting birds.

In order of seeing them

1 January 2007

1 My first bird of the year was a robin, heard singing from the house when it was still completely dark.

At the River Mole, Surrey, by Gatwick Airport, I saw:

2 blackbird
3 moorhen
4 mallard
5 woodpigeon
6 carrion crow
7 jackdaw
8 starling
9 wren
10 magpie
11 jay
12 blue tit

On the way home

13 pied wagtail

At home

14 dunnock
15 collared dove

Holmethorpe sand pits, Merstham, Surrey

16 stonechat (a real surprise here, and a pleasing bird to see)
17 long tailed tit
18 mute swan
19 coot
20 fieldfare
21 snipe (16 of them, on a small island in the water)
22 little grebe
23 gadwall
24 tufted duck
25 black headed gull
26 treecreeper
27 great tit
28 cormorant
29 greater Canada goose
30 teal
31 feral pigeon

At home

32 goldcrest
33 goldfinch
34 house sparrow

Back at the River Mole on the 5th

35 bullfinch
36 green woodpecker
37 pheasant

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Yesterday at Wakehurst Place, Sussex

38 coal tit
39 chaffinch
40 brambling (still two there, they've been there for over a month now).
41 redwing
42 mistle thrush
43 song thrush

At Redhill, Surrey

44 rose-ringed parakeet (at least 600 of them in the roost there)

This morning at home, Surrey

45 greenfinch (the first I've seen for several weeks. I'd started to get worried.)

[florall]

Just three more to add, from Wakehurst Place yesterday:

46 nuthatch
47 marsh tit
48 great spotted woodpecker.