My Yearly List (1 Viewer)

I have never made a yearly list before but I will do so this year. I live in East Lancashire and have seen all breeding birds of Lancashire barring Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Hawfinch, Quail and Honey Buzzards - if the later breed in Lancashire.


I am not a twitcher unless if anything turns up locally. I will not go out of my way to add birds to my yearly list. I tend to visit favoured areas and add some new reserves in there. I may make some trips abroad too!

British birds which are either regular passage migrants or breeders I hope to add to my life list this year:-

1. Black Grouse
2. Long-Tailed Skua
3. Pomarine Skua
4. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

I am hoping for at least 200-250 birds this year - closer to 250. That is a mission statement of sorts!

Here goes:-


1. Mute Swan
2. Whooper Swan - seen at Martin Mere
3. Bewick’s Swan - seen at Martin Mere
4. Pink-footed Goose
5. Greylag Goose
6. Canada Goose
7. Brent Goose - the Wirral
8. Shelduck
9. Mallard
10. Gadwall
11. Pintail
12. Shoveler
13. Wigeon
14. Teal
15. Pochard
16. Tufted Duck
17. Long-tailed Duck - Leighton Moss and Marshside
18. Goldeneye
19. Goosander
20. Pheasant
21. Black-throated Diver - Audenshaw Res in Greater Manchester
22. Great Northern Diver - Southport Marine Lake
23. Little Grebe
24. Great Crested Grebe
25. Cormorant
26. Little Egret - the Wirral, the Ribble, Leighton Moss and Rainham Marshes
27. Great Egret - the Wirral
28. Grey Heron
29. Marsh Harrier - Leighton Moss
30. Hen Harrier - Martin mere
31. Buzzard
32. Sparrowhawk
33. Kestrel
34. Peregrine
35. Water Rail - The Wirral
36. Moorhen
37. Coot
38. Oystercatcher
39. Ringed Plover
40. Grey Plover
41. Golden Plover
42. Lapwing
43. Knot
44. Sanderling
45. Turnstone
46. Dunlin
47. Green Sandpiper
48. Redshank
49. Black-tailed Godwit
50. Bar-tailed Godwit
51. Curlew
52. Woodcock
53. Snipe
54. Jack Snipe - Locally
55. Ruff
56. Black-headed Gull
57. Common Gull
58. Herring Gull
59. Yellow Legged Gull - Tunisia, Audenshaw Res in Greater Manchester and Rainham Marshes
60. Lesser Black-Backed Gull
61. Great Black Backed Gull
62. Caspian Tern - Tunisia
63. Woodpigeon
64. Stock Dove
65. Collared Dove
66. Laughing Dove - Tunisia
67. Short-eared Owl
68. Barn Owl
69. Pallid Swift
70. Kingfisher
71. Great Spotted Woodpecker
72. Green Woodpecker
73. Skylark
74. Meadow Pipit
75. Pied Wagtail
76. Grey Wagtail
77. Dipper
78. Waxwing - Blackburn
79. Dunnock
80. Robin
81. Stonechat
82. Redwing
83. Song Thrush
84. Fieldfare
85. Mistle Thrush
86. Blackbird
87. Sardinian Warbler - Tunisia
88. Chiffchaff
89. Cetti’s Warbler - Rainham Marshes
90. Goldcrest
91. Great Tit
92. Blue Tit
93. Coal Tit]
94. Long Tailed Tit
95. Nuthatch
96. Treecreeper
97. Great Grey Shrike - Tunisia
98. Magpie
99. Jay
100. Rook
101. Carrion Crow
102. Jackdaw
103. Raven
104. Starling
105. Spotless Starling - Tunisia
106. House Saprrow
107. Tree Sparrow
108. Chaffinch
109. Linnet
110. Goldfinch
111. Greenfinch
112. Serin - Tunisia
113. Bullfinch
114. Reed Bunting
115. Marsh Tit - Leighton Moss
116. Spotted redshank - Leighton Moss
117. Common Sandpiper – Leighton Moss
118. Bearded Tits – Leighton Moss
119. Siberian Chiffchaff - Martin Mere

The 'Great Grey Shrike' you saw in Tunisia is Southern Grey Shrike now, the Black Grouse at World's End / Ruabon Moor are showing really well and a trip to Moore NR, on the Mersey, should give you Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. Good luck.