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My BOU area list for 2007...

Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

1st January 2007 (Travelling home to Manchester from North Yorkshire)

1. Jackdaw Ravenscar
2. Blue Tit Ravenscar
3. Magpie Ravenscar
4. Great Tit Ravenscar
5. Chaffinch Ravenscar
6. Great Spotted Woodpecker Ravenscar
7. House Sparrow Ravenscar
8. Song Thrush Ravenscar
9. Blackbird Ravenscar
10. Coal Tit Forge Valley
11. Robin Forge Valley
12. Marsh Tit Forge Valley
13. Collared Dove Forge Valley
14. Wood Pigeon Wykeham
15. Rook Wykeham
16. Black-headed Gull Brompton
17. Carrion Crow Snainton
18. Starling Davyhulme

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

2nd January 2007 (Back to work)

19. Feral Pigeon Rochdale
20. Long-tailed Tit Davyhulme

Tim

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

6th January 2007 (Conwy and around)

21. Dunnock Davyhulme
22. Mute Swan Nr. Abergele
23. Herring Gull Llanddulas
24. Oystercatcher Rhos Point
25. Turnstone Rhos Point
26. Dunlin Rhos Point
27. Cormorant Rhos Point
28. Wigeon Kinmel Bay
29. Common Scoter Kinmel Bay
30. Lesser Black-backed Gull Kinmel Bay
31. Short-eared Owl Kinmel Bay
32. Grey Heron Kinmel Bay
33. Goldfinch Kinmel Bay
34. Greater Black-backed Gull Rhyl
35. Redshank Rhyl
36. Curlew Rhyl
37. Kestrel Tan Lan
38. Whooper Swan S. of Burton Marsh
39. Common Buzzard Shotwick

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

7th January 2007 (Marton Mere)

40. Long-eared Owl (BOU Lifer No.228) Marton Mere

Tim

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

14th January 2007 (Anglesey)

41. Lapwing Nr. Jct. 10 M56
42. Common Pheasant Nr. Halkyn
43. Mallard Beddmanarch Bay
44. Moorhen Beddmanarch Bay
45. Shelduck Beddmanarch Bay
46. (Pale-bellied) Brent Goose Beddmanarch Bay
47. Ringed Plover Beddmanarch Bay
48. Black-throated Diver Holyhead
49. Black Guillemot Holyhead
50. Raven South Stack
51. Chough South Stack
52. Little Egret Nr. Beddmanarch Bay
53. Coot Cemlyn Bay
54. Little Grebe Cemlyn Bay

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

21st January 2007 (Leighton Moss and around)

55. Greenfinch LM Visitor Centre
56. Canada Goose LM Lillian's Hide
57. Teal LM Lillian's Hide
58. Wren LM Causeway
59. Tufted Duck LM Public Hide
60. Pochard LM Public Hide
61. Gadwall LM Public Hide
62. Greylag Goose LM Public Hide
63. Water Rail LM Causeway
64. Peregrine LM Lower Hide
65. Pied Wagtail Nr. Galgate

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

27th January 2007 (A brief dash to Bingley)

66. American Robin (BOU Lifer No.229) Dowley Gap
67. Redwing Dowley Gap

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

28th January 2007 (Wigan and around)

68. Bullfinch Pennington Flash
69. Reed Bunting Pennington Flash
70. Goldeneye Pennington Flash
71. Great Crested Grebe Pearson's Flash
72. Ruddy Duck Pearson's Flash

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

4th February 2007 (The War of the Roses)

- . Pacific Diver Farnham, Yorks (C'mon BOU!)
73. Red Grouse Barden Moor, Yorks
74. Black Redstart (BOU Lifer No.230) Fleetwood Marina, Lancs
75. Stonechat Fleetwood Marina, Lancs

Norfolk here I come...

Tim

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

10th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 1 - Travelling)

76. Fieldfare Flitcham
77. Red Legged Partridge Flitcham Abbey Farm

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

11th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 2 - Warham Peace)

78. Stock Dove Houghton St. Giles
79. Jay Lynford Arboretum

No Hawfinches...yet.

80. Pintail Welney
81. (Tundra) Bean Goose (BOU Lifer No.231) Welney
82. Bewick's Swan Ten Mile Bank
83. Barn Owl Warham Greens

The first of many that week.

84. Hen Harrier Warham Greens


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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

12th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 3 - West from the East Bank)

85. Skylark Cley
86. A poor, limping Meadow Pipit Cley
87. Snow Bunting Cley
88. Glaucous Gull (BOU Lifer No.232) Cley
89. Grey Plover Cley
90. Egyptian Goose Cley
91. Shore Lark Cley
92. Waxwing Nr. Holkham
93. Mistle Thrush Choseley Barns
94. Corn Bunting Choseley Barns
95. Yellowhammer Choseley Barns
96. Sparrowhawk Holme NWT

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

13th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 4 - The Broads)


97. American Wigeon (BOU Lifer No.233) Buckenham Marshes
98. Mediterranean Gull Great Yarmouth
99. Common Gull Nr. California
100. Marsh Harrier Horsey Mill
101. Pink-footed Goose Horsey Corner
102. Common Crane Hickling Broad


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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

14th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 5 - Titchwell)

103. Avocet
104. Golden Plover
105. Bar-tailed Godwit
106. Spotted Redshank
107. Sanderling


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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

15th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 6 - The - Lynford - Wolferton - Walsingham - Triangle)

108. Hawfinch Lynford Arboretum
109. Nuthatch Lynford Arboretum
110. Green Woodpecker Santon Downham (Where have the swings gone?)
111. Golden Pheasant Wolferton Triangle


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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

16th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 7 - Cley to Holme)

112. Water Pipit (BOU Lifer No. 234) Cley
113. Snipe Cley
114. Red-throated Diver Holme NWT


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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

17th February 2007 (Norfolk Day 8 - Holme NWT to Home)

115. Grey Partridge Great Walsingham
116. Slavonian Grebe Gore Point
117. Long-tailed Duck (BOU Lifer No. 235) Gore Point

Four drakes and a Black Guillemot meant that the holiday ended on a real high. B (:

118. Goosander Langtoft Gravel Pits


Tim

106 birds for the Norfolk trip list (plus 1 in Lincs)

Also heard only:

Water rail (several)
Tawny Owl (3)

I'll be back...in May...but first I have an appointment in the Highlands.

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

25th February 2007 (At home)

119. Goldcrest Davyhulme

Despite not getting out birding at all this weekend (taking the children to parties and decorating are to be blamed), I managed to glance out into the garden and see two Goldcrests in a bush right beside the window. Very nice.

Tim

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

4th March 2007 (Before the rains came...)

120. Willow Tit Woolston Eyes

Tim

Slowly, slowly......

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

11th March 2007 (North Wales)

121. Red Kite World's End
122. Black Grouse World's End

Four male Black Grouse at 3pm was a nice surprise... ...saves having to get up too early!

Also had a female Hen Harrier over the car.

A great day! B (:

Makes up for missing that Desert Wheatear... ...after all, there'll be another one (if not in Irlam).

Tim

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

17th March 2007 (Pasty time)

123. White-billed Diver (BOU Lifer No. 236) Hayle
124. Great Northern Diver Hayle
125. Lesser Whitethroat Lelant
126. Chiffchaff Penzance
127. Shag Mousehole
128. Iceland Gull (BOU Lifer No. 237) Mousehole

Tim

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

18th March 2007 (Enough pasties already)

129. Sand Martin Exeter
130. Black-tailed Godwit Exeter

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

31st March 2007 (About time I updated this. Scotland Day 1 - En route to Nairn)

131. Golden Eagle NW of Aviemore
132. Grey Wagtail Lochindorb
133. Treecreeper Nairn (from cottage, along with Red Squirrels)
134. Hooded Crow Nairn

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

1st April 2007 (Scotland Day 2 - Inverness and around)

135. Ring Ouzel Strathdearn
136. Crested Tit Culbin Forest

A pair of Ouzels, four Cresties and six Slavonian Grebes (at Loch Ruthven), the latter in full breeding plummage, rather than the drab winter outfits of earlier this year.

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Lifers in Red.
Honourable Mentions in Orange.

3rd April 2007 (Scotland Day 4 - The Moray Coast)

137. Velvet Scoter Burghead Bay
138. Common Eider Burghead Bay

Also at Burghead Bay, we picked up a further four Slavonian Grebes, loads of Long-tailed Ducks, a few Red-throated Divers and a Great Northern Diver. Popped into Roseisle Forest on the way back to the cottage, which produced a further two Crested Tits.

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5th April 2007 (Scotland Day 6 - Cairngorm)

139. Ptarmigan (BOU Lifer No. 238) Cairngorm

Two, still in mostly white plumage.

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6th April 2007 (Scotland Day 7 - The North West coast)

140. Rock Pipit Scourie Bay

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7th April 2007 (Scotland Day 8 - Back to the Moray Coast)

141. King Eider (BOU Lifer No. 239) Burghead
142. Purple Sandpiper Lossiemouth Harbour

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9th April 2007 (Scotland Day 10 - Around Nairn)

143. Twite Kingsteps

Plus a male Reeves's Pheasant, also at Kingsteps.

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10th April 2007 (Scotland Day 11 - Abernethy Forest)

144. Capercaillie (BOU Lifer No. 240) Abernethy Forest

First a male, perched by the side of the road, early morning. That afternoon, a female, exploding out of the bushes whilst we were out walking.

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11th April 2007 (Scotland Day 12 - Gairloch area)

145. Greenshank Badachro
146. Razorbill Gairloch
147. Gannet Gairloch
148. Wheatear Gairloch

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12th April 2007 (Scotland Day 13 - Inverness and around)

149. Dipper Nethy Bridge
150. Peregrine Strathdearn

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13th April 2007 (Scotland Day 14 - Glen Strathfarrar)

151. Swallow Glen Strathfarrar
152. Corn Bunting Kintessack

Plus a couple of Golden Eagle and Peregrine.

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14th April 2007 (Scotland Day 15 - Going home)

153. Barrow's Goldeneye (BOU Lifer No. 241) Loch Venachar

Plus a female Hen Harrier and two Red Kite.

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21st April 2007 (Pendle Hill)

154. Dotterel (BOU Lifer No. 242) A nice female and a juvenile.

Plus a couple of Ring Ouzel.

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22nd April 2007 (Woolston Eyes)

155. Black-necked Grebe (14)
156. Swift
157. Sedge Warbler
158. Willow Warbler

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28th April 2007 (Norfolk)

159. Whitethroat Salthouse Heath
160. Nightingale (BOU Lifer No. 243) Salthouse Heath
161. Bearded Tit Cley East Bank
162. Sandwich Tern Cley East Bank
163. Linnet Titchwell
164. Common Tern Titchwell
165. Grasshopper Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 244) Holme Dunes NWT
166. Black Tern Pentney Gravel Pits
167. Fulmar Hunstanton

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29th April 2007 (World's End)

168. Cuckoo (3)
169. Lesser Redpoll (4+)
170. Siskin (2)
171. Common Crossbill (9+) (BOU Lifer No. 245)
172. Whinchat
173. Merlin

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5th May 2007 (Haweswater)

174. Pied Flycatcher (3)

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6th May 2007 (Lake District)

175. Wood Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 246) Ullswater
176. Blackcap Ullswater

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7th May 2007 (Lake District)

177. House Martin Rampsbeck Hotel
178. Garden Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 247) Haweswater

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13th May 2007 (Birthday in Norfolk (and Suffolk))

179. Turtle Dove Littleport
180. Garganey (Male) Lakenheath
181. Spotted Flycatcher Lakenheath
182. Golden Oriole (BOU Lifer No. 248) Lakenheath
183. Stone Curlew Weeting Heath
184. Whimbrel Brancaster Beach Car Park

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19th May 2007 (Yorkshire)

185. Kittiwake Flamborough Head
186. Guillemot Flamborough Head
187. Puffin Flamborough Head
188. Tree Pipit Wykeham
189. Tree Sparrow Forge Valley

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20th May 2007 (The North West)

190. Woodchat Shrike Marshside
191. Common Redstart World's End

Plus 20+ Common Crossbill, Tree Pipit and 12 male Black Grouse, in flight three times and amongst the heather.

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26th May 2007 (Norfolk... ...but first to Suffolk)

192. Dartford Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 249) Minsmere
193. Bittern Minsmere
194. Purple Heron (BOU Lifer No. 250) Minsmere
195. Barnacle Goose (Ahem!) Minsmere
196. Cetti's Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 251) Minsmere

3 lifers in one day... ...when will that happen again?

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27th May 2007 (Norfolk Day 2)

197. Montagu's Harrier (2) Everyboby knows where by now...

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28th May 2007 (Norfolk Day 3 - 24 hours of rain)

198. Arctic Skua Cley Beach
199. Manx Shearwater (4) (BOU Lifer No. 252) Cley Beach
200. Arctic Tern Cley Beach

The Skua came in off the sea and right by the car, chasing a Sandwich Tern over the marshes.

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29th May 2007 (Norfolk Day 4 - Not again... ...surely?)

201. Iberian Chiffchaff (BOU Lifer No. 253) Colney
202. Common Sandpiper Minsmere
203. Knot Minsmere
204. Little Tern Minsmere
205. Reed Warbler Hickling Broad
206. Temminck's Stint (BOU Lifer No. 254) Hickling Broad
207. Red-backed Shrike (BOU Lifer No. 255) Weybourne Camp

3 more lifers!

Also made first call in to RBA of the 3 drake Garganey at Hickling.

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30th May 2007 (Norfolk Day 5 - The North Coast)

A cracking male Red-backed Shrike at Cley was the highlight on a day which saw only one addition to the year list.

208. Little Gull (4) Titchwell

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31st May 2007 (Norfolk Day 6 - We're all going to the zoo today)

209. Little Owl Flitcham
210. Nightjar (3) Salthouse Heath

Also a male Golden Pheasant at Wolferton, the male Woodchat Shrike at Holme NWT, four Turtle Dove at Choseley and 5 different Barn Owls.

By the way, Banham Zoo seems to have one less Black Kite than last year - might this explain the Creakes bird?

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1st June 2007 (Norfolk Day 7 - Red Hot)

211. Curlew Sandpiper (2) (BOU Lifer No. 256) Cley
212. Little Stint Cley
213. Little Ringed Plover Cley

And a real highlight...

214. Quail (2) (BOU Lifer No. 257) Choseley

C'MON!!!

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8th June 2007 (The North West)

215. White-tailed Plover (BOU Lifer No. 258) Caerlaverock
216. Tawny Owl Martin Mere

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9th June 2007 (Inner Marsh Farm)

217. Spoonbill (2)

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17th June 2007 (Yorkshire)

218. Green Sandpiper Tophill Low
219. Goshawk Wykeham
220. Whiskered Tern (BOU Lifer No. 259) Wintersett Reservoir

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23rd June 2007 (Clifton Marsh)

221. Glossy Ibis

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I thought I'd add a few (amateur) photos:

(I can't edit the original posts to include them as I'm out of time to do so)

Dartford Warbler plus Stonechat and Sedge Warbler, all at Minsmere/Dunwich Heath on the 26th May 2007.

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A couple of photos from the 17th March 2007

White-billed Diver (BOU Lifer No. 236) Hayle
Great Northern Diver Hayle


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8th July 2007 (Cumbria)

222. Storm Petrel (3) (BOU Lifer No. 260) Workington

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22nd July 2007 (Yorkshire)

223. Night Heron (BOU Lifer No. 261) Fairburn Ings

Plus a nasty big Arctic Skua in off the coast (see entry for the 28th May) and into the tern colony at Beacon Lagoons, Spurn. Also some Grey Seals and 3+ Harbour Porpoises.

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29th July 2007 (Martin Mere)

224. Ruff
225. Kingfisher

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30th July 2007 (Northumberland)

226. Roseate Tern (BOU Lifer No. 262) East Chevington

Plus an Arctic Skua along the coast and a Spoonbill on the North Pool.

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1st August 2007 (Wales)

227. Black Stork Alaw Estuary

Much better views than I got of the Grantshouse bird.

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11th August 2007 (Cambridgeshire)

228. Squacco Heron (BOU Lifer No. 263) Earith Pits

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21st August 2007 (Norfolk)

Oh dear! Just realised that I've counted Corn Bunting twice (94 & 152) but missed off Black Kite which was seen at Titchwell on the 30th May 2007 (I mistakenly thought I'd seen the Black-eared Kite this year - I haven't, it was 29th Decmber last year) so, everything numbered above between 153 and 207 (inclusive) - should be 152 to 206. The Black Kite should be 207 and the numbering is correct thereafter. Phew!

229. Great Skua Holme NWT

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23rd August 2007 (Suffolk)

230. White-winged Black Tern (BOU Lifer No. 264) Minsmere

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24th August 2007 (Norfolk)

231. Yellow Wagtail Choseley Barns

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28th August 2007 (Northumberland)

232. Sooty Shearwater (BOU Lifer No. 265) Howker

Three in total, plus twenty four Manx Shearwater, nine Arctic Skua and a Bonxie.

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1st September 2007 (Cleveland)

233. Blue-winged Teal (BOU Lifer No. 266) Haverton Hole

Hmmm, not looking at his best.

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19th September 2007 (Lancashire)

234. Hobby Leigh
235. Grey Phalarope (BOU Lifer No. 267) Leigh

A lovely bird, showing down to ten feet. Must start taking my camera out more!

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22nd September 2007 (Yorkshire)

236. Bluethroat (BOU Lifer No. 268) Spurn
237. Jack Snipe (BOU Lifer No. 269) Spurn

Loved the Bluethroat! The journey between Hull and Spurn seems to get longer every time I go. Well worth it though. Went home and decided to take it easy the day after.

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23rd September 2007 (Everywhere)

238. Buff-breasted Sandpiper (BOU Lifer No. 270) Blacktoft Sands
239. Long-tailed Skua (BOU Lifer No. 271) East Bridgford
240. Wilson's Phalarope (BOU Lifer No. 272) Upton Warren

Bit of a crazy driving day really, but, there could be plenty of birdless days around in the coming months, so best to make the most of it. Best bird of the day was the BB Sandpiper, very smart looking indeed. No dips, now that's what I like! It won't last.

Three lifers for my British list in one day, the chances of that happening again (without a trip to the Scillies or Fair Isle) must be getting slimmer and slimmer. ;) (Heh, heh, I know what's coming next...)

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29th September 2007 (Norfolk)

241. Barred Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 273) Holme NWT
242. Wryneck (BOU Lifer No. 274) Holkham Pines
243. Red-necked Phalarope (BOU Lifer No. 275) Cley

All right! Another three birds off the 'dip list'.

Barred Warbler - huge! Spent a good hour waiting for it to show properly and then, when the sun came out, it decided to hop out into the open and have a little snooze for ten minutes or so.

At Holkham Pines a Redstart, Kingfisher and my first Redwing of the autumn, were nice bonuses. I've been after a Wryneck for ages and whilst this one was rather distant, it was still every bit as special as I thought it would be.

And to finish off, my third species of Phalarope in 11 days - having never seen one prior to that. Nice to see this one next to the Grey Phalarope to compare size, bill shape etc.

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Corrections...

I've buggered this up this year. Got to think of a way to get it right first time next year (like learning to count for starters).

The following should be inserted as stated:

80. Shoveler 11th February at Welney WWT
113. Red-breasted Meganser 15th February at Hunstanton
141. Osprey 5th April at Loch Garten
209. Black Kite 30th May at Titchwell
211. Woodcock 30th May at Dersingham Bog
237. Great White Egret 9th September at Leighton Moss

I could explain the reasons I missed these off (like I thought I'd seen the Black-eared Kite this year, so hadn't counted the Black Kite at first) but... ... well, there you go.

And I counted these twice, which should be deleted from where stated:

150. Peregrine on the 12th April
152. Corn Bunting on the 13th April

So, as at the end of the 29th September, the correct year list total was 247.

Tim

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30th September 2007 (Yorkshire)

248. Isabelline Shrike (BOU Lifer No. 276) Buckton
249. Wood Sandpiper Buckton
250. Yellow-browed Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 277) Kilnsea
251. Greenish Warbler (BOU Lifer No. 278) Kilnsea

Back on track...

Tim

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7th October 2007 (Norfolk)

252. Lesser Grey Shrike (BOU Lifer No. 279) Holkham

An unexpected bonus - dipped on the Great Grey, picked up the Lesser Grey - can't argue with that!

Tim

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21st October 2007 (Yorkshire)

An early start on a trip to see the folks gave us chance to make a brief detour through the fog to Flamborough for...

253. Red-flanked Bluetail (BOU Lifer No. 280) Flamborough

Then onto Filey for a breakfast sandwich and...

254. Lapland Bunting (BOU Lifer No. 281) Filey



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11th November 2007 (Yorkshire)

After dipping at the same place, at the end of October...

255. Firecrest (BOU Lifer No. 282) Old Moor

Two birds, really close up views. It's been a long time coming.

256. Mandarin The Strid

At least 13 birds.

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25th November 2007 (Lancashire)

257. Great Grey Shrike Waddington Fell

The 5th Shrike species of the year.

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1st December 2007 (Norfolk)

258. Desert Wheatear (BOU Lifer No. 283) Horsey

Also the (escaped) Ross's Goose with the Pinkfooted Geese on the way back from the Wheatear and 10+ Snow Buntings and 5+ Lapland Buntings at Salthouse.


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24th December 2007 (Yorkshire)

259. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (BOU Lifer No. 284) Fairburn Ings


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31st December 2007 (Suffolk)

260. Red crested Pochard (BOU Lifer No. 285) Flixton GPs
261. Lesser Yellowlegs (BOU Lifer No. 286) Southwold
262. White fronted Goose Southwold

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