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  1. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    25 June 2015. Clogcaenog Forest. Nth Wales. 709 Eur Nightjar Back in UK ( for a bit ) so I checked out areas of clearfell in the largest Forestry Commission plantation in Nth Wales. I would have normally gone to Nercwys but the Mosquitoes there can be vicious.
  2. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    08 - 12 June. Petropavlovsk -Kamtchatki, Russia. Another week struggling with beaurocracy, but I still managed to get some birding in in the evenings and a full day today. :t: 690 Pelagic Cormorant 691 Stellers Sea Eagle ( A single sub-adult in the harbour. ) 692 Aleutian Tern (After...
  3. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    20 May, BMW, Burton, Cheshire, UK. 668 Garganey 04 June, Losiny Ostrov, Moscow, Russia. A superb morning ( from first light ) around this reserve in the southern suburbs of Moscow. 669 Ferruginous Duck. It makes a change to see "real" ones. 670 Spotted Crake. 671 Corn Crake. Heard...
  4. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Wood Warbler at Manifold Valley, Derbyshire today takes me to 667.
  5. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    :t:
  6. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    I had a nice Hobby harassing the life out of passing hirundines and Swifts at the back of the house this morning taking me up to 645 for the year. Eur Turtle Dove, a NW mega, turned up at Leasowe so ........ it's 666 now. There's a feral population of Chilean, at least, in Germany.
  7. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Checked out the fields etc at the back of the house today and added Spotted Flycatcher. 664 for the year.
  8. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    A trip over to Anglesey today added another 9 species ( including some I should have got earlier in the year ). There were plenty of auks back on the ledges but, despite walking all the way down the steps to the lighthouse at South Stack ( and all the b****y way back up ), there were no signs...
  9. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    A couple of hours seawatching, and a wander through the marsh / dunes at Red Rocks, Hoylake, Wirral, turned up Manx Shearwater, Nthn Gannet, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Eur Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler and Common Whitethroat . There were plenty Barn Swallow belting northward as well. My year...
  10. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    After work in Beijing, and a couple of days at Xiolangmen, I'm up to 647 for the year. http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3212450&postcount=27
  11. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Thanks Andy. It was one of those ( many ) birds on my "I'm going to see one of them before I even think of dying " list. ;) Regarding places other than Japan and UK, I've only got Beijing ( with a couple of days at Xiolangmen ) and Sydney ( probably try to sqeeze a day in at Royal NP ) left...
  12. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Back at Enbetsu-cho, Hokkaido, checking out an ongoing research project. Spring migration has started ( 7ºC yesterday :t: ) so yesterday was spent around the marshes, estuary of the Teshio and in the foothills of Teshio-sanchi. 20 new species for the year ( including Red-crowned Crane...
  13. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    A trip out to Tansa WLS, 40 km outside Mumbai today takes me up to 571 for the year. It could have been higher if I had spent less time searching for Forest Owlet ( and then even more time just drooling over a species that has been 'extinct' for most of my birding life :t: )...
  14. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    I finally got out early this morning and trudged over the sands to the tideline at Hoylake for Surf Scoter. I also managed to add Tree Pipit, my first Willow Warbler and Ring Ouzel on the Langfields, taking me up to 499 for the year. I'm working in Mumbai next week so, with a lot of luck, I'll...
  15. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Sailed over to Amami-oshima for the weekend. I managed to get all the Amami endemics ( apart from the near-endemic Woodcock ) today, including 5 singing Thrushes. Another 5 species this month and I'll be on 500 for the first quarter of the year. :t...
  16. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    18 March, Okinawa, Japan 484 Black Wood Pigeon I had 2 fly over the road this morning, which woke me up, as I very rarely ( as in, not even annually ) see them.
  17. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Spent this morning and early part of this afternoon testing the ROV's over a reef off Okinawa so I managed some pelagic species as well as "land stuff" 474 Japanese Quail 475 Black-footed Albatross 476 Streaked Shearwater 477 Black-faced Spoonbill 478 Black-crowned Night Heron 479 Brown...
  18. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    A wander around the West Kirby area, on my way to the shops, turned up my first incoming summer migrants. 473 Sand Martin / Bank Swallow 474 White Wagtail
  19. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    06 March. North Wales As it was the first really springy-type spring day today a trip over to Wales for a couple of specialities I dipped on last time takes me to 472 with the addition of Black Grouse, Dartford Warbler, Atlantic Fulmar and Long-tailed Duck.
  20. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Glad to hear that you managed a trip out Larry. Just take it easy, the birds will still be there when you're 100%. :t:
  21. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Making soup out of Robins isn't something you should admit to Larry. ;)
  22. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    A quick trip to Monterey, CA to sort out bureaucracy - and a day off to do some birding around Moss Landing / Elkhorn Slough puts me on 468 for the year. I've got work in Beijing, Mumbai and Sydney to come so I'm wondering how close to 1000 I can get, without a birding holiday this year. :-O...
  23. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    As it was the first time I'd had the chance to do any birding in DC I checked the local Adubon site http://audubondc.org/where-to-go-birding/ and decided on starting at Constitution Gardens ( nearest to my hotel ) then went to Hains Point / Tidal Basin, and finished at Theo. Roosevelt Island...
  24. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Who'd have thunk Washington had a damn fine selection of birding sites accessible by public transport? Up to 312 for the year. :t: http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3168055&postcount=16
  25. chris butterworth

    How Is Your 2015 List Going?

    Dashed home from Manchester airport ( keeping within the speed limits, of course ;) ) and shot off down to New Brighton for Laughing Gull, taking me to 352 for the year.
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