Birds you would most like to see in the UK in 2014 (1 Viewer)

[Cornish Chough]

I am interested to know what UK based birders would most like to see this year in the UK. Rarities can be included but most of us have bogey birds that we just can't seem to connect with so what are your "most wanted" of 2014?

Please limit your choices to a maximum of five species, mine are:-

1) Woodcock
2) Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
3) Shore Lark
4) Nightingale
5) Corncrake.

None of which I have seen in the UK.|=@|

 

[Cliff1002]

A cuckoo would be nice, had Greater Spotted Cuckoo on my list for several years but not Eurasian Cuckoo so...
1. Cuckoo
2. Cuckoo
3. Cuckoo
4. Cuckoo
5. Cuckoo

 

[auchinbowie]

While I have seen hundreds of Eurasian Cuckoos, I have NEVER found a Great Spotted Cuckoo, my European bogey bird. My UK wish list:

1 Spoonbill breeding at Old Hall. (3 birds spent the summer there a couple of years ago)
2 Corncrake (It is over 40 years since I last saw one in the UK.)
3 Dotterel (It is several years since I last saw any.)
4 Fan-tailed Warbler/Zitting Cisticola (They have been in Northern France for about 20 years but do not seem to cross the Sleave.)
5 Red Kite breeding in Essex, preferably near my village. (Most likely of the 5)

 

[Telephoto Paul]

Golden Eagle
White-tailed Eagle
Bee-eater
Goshawk
Hoopoe

The odds of even crossing one off the list is rather slim...

 

[Ratal]

Stellers Eider Drake
Swallow tailed kite
Bee Eater
Hoopoe
Nutcracker

 

[John Cantelo]

Having been birding for eons I find myself in the happy position of having seen all the birds mentioned thus far (all in UK and most in Kent except for Swallow-tailed Kite which I saw in Texas). Hence my five, which seems to be the obligatory number, is more ambitious than most -
i) Black Woodpecker in the UK - it'd be good to settle that argument
ii) Pygmy Owl
iii) Hawk Owl - yes, I know they're both in Holland, but I can't get there!
iv) Siberian Rubythroat
v) Needle-tailed Swift

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

1. Grey Partridge
2. Snowy Owl
3. Long Eared Owl
4. Merlin
5. Hobby

Rich

 

[punkskaphil]

1. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
2. Jack Snipe
3. Grasshopper Warbler
4. Nightjar
5. Twite

I've had very brief in-flight views of LSW and Jack Snipe before, but so brief that I wouldn't even tick them off.

 

[Clive A]

1. Firecrest
2. Cattle Egret
3. Hoopoe
4. Wood bloody Sandpiper
5. Temmink's Stint.

 

[DaveN]

1. Firecrest
2. Cattle Egret

Do you want some help counting to 5? :t:

 

[DaveN]

1. Firecrest
2. Cattle Egret
3. Hoopoe
4. Wood bloody Sandpiper
5. Temmink's Stint.

Well edited, I knew you could do it.

 

[Clive A]

Do you want some help counting to 5? :t:

No hit the wrong button when I was on 2.

 

[Farnboro John]

1. Lanceolated Warbler (bogey No 1)
2. Steller's Eider - drake! (Lifer but please not a female)
3. European Bee-eater (close enough for crippling photos)
4. Cory's Shearwater (somewhere near my lens.... seen loads, no pix!)
5. Bearded Tit (male, point-blank, please!)

John

 

[Cornish Chough]

1. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
2. Jack Snipe
3. Grasshopper Warbler
4. Nightjar
5. Twite

I've had very brief in-flight views of LSW and Jack Snipe before, but so brief that I wouldn't even tick them off.

I have tried extensively around Norfolk for LSW (and Nightingale) with no luck, as for Woodcock definitely my top "bogey bird"!

 

[Zheljko]

Well, if I went to UK:

1.Siberian this
2.Siberian that
3.North American this
4.North American that
5.Dunnock

 

[mafu]

would be very happy with any of

1) ptarmigan
2) long tailed duck
3) hoopoe
4) great grey shrike
5) osprey

 

[John Cantelo]

1. Lanceolated Warbler (bogey No 1)

John

Blimey, John, I've seen summat in the UK that you've not!

 

[Ratal]

1. Lanceolated Warbler (bogey No 1)
2. Steller's Eider - drake! (Lifer but please not a female)
3. European Bee-eater (close enough for crippling photos)
4. Cory's Shearwater (somewhere near my lens.... seen loads, no pix!)
5. Bearded Tit (male, point-blank, please!)

John

1, 2 and 5 STUN me.

Seriously, with what you have hunted down and ticked off, I'd of thought a Beardie, Steller's and Lanceolated were an absolute given to have fallen to your scope.

 

[Boro Birder]

(1) Green Woodpecker (Bogey Bird) heard one, never seen one.
(2) Goshawk
(3) Scottish Crossbill
(4) Crested Tit
(5) Cappercallie.
I could go on to pick a few more birds but stuck to the agreed 5, but Bee-Eater and Hoopoe come a very close 6 and 7.

 

[Bananafishbones]

Crested Tit
Goshawk
Bittern
Honey Buzzard
Barred Warbler