Gibbo 92's 2012 Year List (2 Viewers)

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1st January 2012. In the garden, Bletchley.
1) Wood Pigeon
2) Blackbird
3) House Sparrow
4) Feral Pigeon
5) Collared Dove
6) Blue Tit
7) Starling
8) Magpie
9) Carrion Crow
10) Blackcap - 1 male in the back garden
11) Chaffinch
12) Robin

Caldecotte Lake, Milton Keynes

13) Black-headed Gull
14) Mute Swan
15) Coot
16) Mallard
17) Canada Goose
18) Lesser Black-backed Gull
19) Cormorant
20) Great Crested Grebe
21) Tufted Duck
22) Pied Wagtail
23) Great Northern Diver - 1 juv on North Lake
24) Grey Heron
25) Common Gull - 1 on South Lake
26) Little Grebe - 1 adult winter
27) Herring Gull
28) Goosander - 1 male and 1 female on South Lake
29) Long-tailed Tit
30) Goldfinch
31) Greenfinch
32) Great Tit

 

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2nd January, Willen Lake
33) Song Thrush
34) Rook
35) Lapwing
36) Gadwall
37) Wigeon
38) Greylag Goose
39) Teal
40) Shoveler
41) Pochard
42) Moorhen
43) Common Buzzard
44) Bullfinch
45) Little Egret - 2 on spit
46) Redshank - 1
47) Goldeneye - 3 males and 2 females on South Basin
48) Dunnock
49) Green Woodpecker
50) Sparrowhawk - 1 over Stadium MK

 

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6th January Caldecotte Lake
51) Jay
52) Jackdaw
53) Reed Bunting

 

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15th January, back to Lancaster University.
54) Kestrel

 

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16th January
55) Oystercatcher - 2 on the way back home from campus

 

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20th January Leighton Moss
56) Pheasant
57) Nuthatch
58) Marsh Tit
59) Coal Tit
60) Redwing
61) Water Rail - 1 at Lillian's Hide
62) Snow Goose - 3
63) Mistle Thrush
64) Shelduck
65) Glossy Ibis - 1 in Barrow Scout Fields
66) Curlew
67) Pintail
68) Bittern - 1 from Public Hide
69) Treecreeper
70) Fieldfare

 

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21st January, Leighton Moss.
71) Great Spotted Woodpecker
72) Wren
73) Smew - 1 redhead at Lillian's hide
74) Great Black-backed Gull
75) Red-breasted Merganser
76) Marsh Harrier
77) Peregrine Falcon

 

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24th February, Leighton Moss
78) Pink-footed Goose
79) Spotted Redshank

 

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27th February Aldcliffe Marsh
80) Greater White-fronted Goose - 6 albifrons

 

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28th February Heysham North Harbour Wall
81) Ruddy Turnstone
82) Kittiwake
83) Knot
84) Ringed Plover
85) Dunlin
86) Shag
87) Mediterranean Gull - 2 adults, 1 was a Czech ringed bird
88) Twite - 2 at feeding station

 

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6th March Aldcliffe
89) Goldcrest

 

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10th March Leighton Moss
90) Cetti's Warbler - 1 heard from Public hide
91) Stonechat - 1 male
92) Meadow Pipit
93) Avocet
94) Merlin
95) Black-tailed Godwit
96) Snipe

 

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11th March Aldcliffe Marsh
97) Stock Dove
98) Tundra Bean Goose - 1 with c35 pink-footed Goose all flew north at 09:20
99) Skylark
100) Whooper Swan - 1

Then onto Heysham
101) Linnet - 1 at feeding station

Then Morecambe
102) Eider

 

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21st March Aldcliffe Marsh
103) Chiffchaff
104) Green Sandpiper

 

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27th March back in Milton Keynes for Easter. A little walk to Furzton Lake
105) Rose-ringed Parakeet - 1 female
106) Little Gull - 3 adults, 1 in summer plumage

 

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1st April Willen Lake
107) Common Tern

 

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A week birding in The Gambia.
3rd April Banjul Airort to Footsteps Eco Lodge, Gunjur
108) Hooded Vulture - several at Banjul Airport
109) Pied Crow - 1 at airport
110) Western Red-billed Hornbill - 1 seen flying
111) African Palm Swift - several flying

Footsteps Eco Lodge

112) Common Bulbul - very common in the gardens
113) Yellow-crowned Gonolek - frequent
114) Laughing Dove - common
115) Brown Babbler - common
116) Village Weaver - common
117) Western Plantain-eater - common
118) Splendid Sunbird - frequent
119) Vinaceous Dove - common
120) African Wattled Lapwing - common
121) African Thrush - common
122) Yellow Wagtail
123) Green Wood Hoopoe - 1 seen
124) Lavender Waxbill - common
125) Red-eyed Dove - common
126) Norther Grey-headed Sparrow - common
127) Palm-nut Vulture - 1 seen flying over
128) Fanti Saw-wing - several seen by the freshwater pool
129) Bronze Manakin - numerous in the reeds by the pool
130) Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu - common
131) Orange-cheeked Waxbill - numerous in the reeds by the pool
132) Black-billed Wood Dove - common
133) Beautiful Sunbird - common
134) Cattle Egret
135) Long-tailed Glossy Starling - 10 flying over the garden

 

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4th April, walks around Footsteps Eco Lodge to the beach and then to woodland opposite the lodge
136) Melodious Warbler - 1 in tree next to my room
137) Yellow-fronted Canary - several around the gardens
138) Blackcap Babbler - common
139) Senegal Eremomela - 2
140) Tawny-flanked Prinia - frequent
141) Senegal Parrot - common, especially in flight
142) Variable Sunbird - common
143) African Grey Hornbill - common
144) Blue-spotted Wood Dove - common in the gardens
145) Black-headed Heron - 1
146) Singing Cisticola - seen by the bird hide
147) Willow Warbler
148) Fork-tailed Drongo - common
149) Grey-backed Camaroptera - frequent
150) Woodchat Shrike
151) African Pied Hornbill - several
152) Pin-tailed Whydah - common
153) Village Indigobird - 1 male with some breeding plumage
154) Red-chested Swallow - common by pool
155) Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat - common
156) Osprey
157) Great White Pelican - 5 flying over
158) Red-billed Firefinch - common
159) Swallow-tailed Bee-eater - 2
160) Black-crowned Tchagra - common
161) Senegal Coucal - common
162) Black Scimitarbill - common
163) Northern Black Flycatcher - common
164) Little Bee-eater - common
165) Yellow-billed Shrike - common
166) Pearl-spotted Owlet - 1 seen at roost on the way to the beach
167) African Green Pigeon - 2 in fig tree
168) Abyssinian Roller - 1
169) Caspian Tern
170) Whimbrel
171) Grey-headed Gull - several flying along the beach
172) Royal Tern - 2 on the beach
173) Spur-winged Lapwing - 2
174) Northern Crombec - 1 flying
175) Fine-spotted Woodpecker - 1
176) Wire-tailed Swallow - seen by the pool
177) African Harrier Hawk - 1 flying
178) Piapiac - common
179) Western Olivaceous Warbler - 1 by the hide in the garden
180) Brubru - 1
181) Copper Sunbird - 2 seen outside entrance of footsteps
182) Blue-bellied Roller - frequent
183) Cardinal Woodpecker - 1
184) Green Turaco - 3 in private woodland
185) Northern Puffback - 1
186) Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike -1

 

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5th April Lamin Lodge
187) Stone Partridge - several
188) Lizard Buzzard - frequent especially on wires
189) Double-spurred Francolin - several
190) White-faced Whistling Duck - c10 flying over Lamin
191) Mourning Collared Dove - 1
192) Gull-billed Tern - 1 over the mangroves
193) Sandwich Tern
194) Common Sandpiper
195) Great Egret
196) Yellow-billed Kite - several
197) Grey Kestrel - 1
198) Yellow-throated Leaflove - 1
199) Hamerkop - 1 seen in vegetable gardens
200) Northern Red Bishop - frequent in non-breeding plumage
201) African Paradise Flycatcher - 1 female
202) Speckled Pigeon - frequent
203) Purple Glossy Starling - 1
204) Shikra - 1
205) Blue-cheeked Bee-eater - 3 flying over mangroves
206) Western Reef Egret - 1 in mangroves dark morph

Abuko Nature Reserve
207) Pied Kingfisher - common
208) Squacco Heron
209) Intermediate Egret
210) Purple Heron
211) African Jacana - 1 juv.
212) Black-crowned Night Heron
213) Black-necked Weaver - several
214) Common Wattle-eye - 2
215) Western Bluebill - 1 female
216) Collared Sunbird - 1 male and female
217) Black Kite
218) Vitelline Masked Weaver - 1

Footsteps Eco Lodge
219) Violet Turaco - 4
220) Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird - 1 seen from the hide
221) Namaqua Dove - 1 female on road
222) Western Violet-backed Sunbird - 1 female
223) Black-headed Lapwing - 1 in field
224) White-billed Buffalo Weaver - frequent

 

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6th April Brufut Woods
225) Bearded Barbet - 2
226) Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher - 1 female
227) Violet-backed Starling - 1
228) Klaas's Cuckoo - 1 female
229) Mottled Spinetail - 2 flying over
230) Northern White-faced Owl -1 at roost
231) Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike - 1
232) Long-tailed Nightjar - 3 seen all in close proximity
233) Senegal Batis - heard and then seen
234) Verreaux's Eagle Owl - 2 at roost
235) Red-winged Warbler - 1
236) Vieillot's Barbet - 1

Tanji Beach
237) Barn Swallow
238) Long-tailed Cormorant - common

Bijol Island
239) Little Tern
240) Grey Plover
241) Marsh Sandpiper
242) Sanderling
243) Bar-tailed Godwit
244) Slender-billed Gull - common

Tanji Bird Reserve
245) Pink-backed Pelican - 3 flying over
246) Greenshank

Footsteps Eco Lodge
247) Tawny Eagle - 1
248) African Grey Woodpecker - 1 in garden
249) African Spoonbill - c15 flying over