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January 1st joint Birdforum list (2019 edition) (1 Viewer)

A couple of garden birds seen over breakfast to kick of Europe's campaign:

House Sparrow
Great Tit

I'm off out shortly hopefully to increase it somewhat!

Chris
 
First, tawny owl at 2.00 am

pheasant,
red legged partridge.
Blackbird
Mistle thrush
Robin
dunnock
Blue tit
great tit
Long tailed fit
Coal tit
Wren
Chaffinch
Rook
Jackdaw
Common buzzard
now into car for an eight hour round trip to family... so maybe more later.
Have a great day
 
Tawny owl's one we sometimes miss, if I remember right.

Meanwhile I can add
Barn Owl
Twite
Lapwing
Shelduck

... and that Thornham Harbour is a great place. And that my autocorrect needs some education.
 
30 species in and around our garden in Spain so far this morning, a few of them I can add to the European list!:
Song Thrush
Common Woodpigeon
European Goldfinch
Black Redstart
Sardinian Warbler
Common Crossbill
Eurasian Wryneck- a garden first, what a start to the year!
Common Starling
European Stonechat
Common Chiffchaff
Zitting Cisticola
Blue Rock Thrush
Collared Dove
Common Firecrest
European Greenfinch
Western Cattle Egret
Booted Eagle
Yellow-legged Gull
White Wagtail
Cirl Bunting
Thekla Lark
Red Kite

(Also European Robin, Eurasian Blackcap, Common Blackbird, Common Chaffinch, House Sparrow, European Blue Tit, Great Tit, Red-legged Partridge)

Hopefully a few more to add through the rest of the day.
 
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Some scores from Oz....

Freckled Duck
Australian Shelduck
Australian Wood Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Hardhead
Hoary-headed Grebe
Rock Dove
Spotted Dove
Common Bronzewing
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Australasian Swamphen
Masked Lapwing
Red-kneed Dotterel
Latham's Snipe
Silver Gull
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
White-necked Heron
Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis
Laughing Kookaburra
Galah
Long-billed Corella
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Eastern Rosella
Musk Lorikeet
Rainbow Lorikeet
Superb Fairywren
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Little Wattlebird
Red Wattlebird
White-plumed Honeyeater
Spotted Pardalote
White-browed Scrubwren
Brown Thornbill
Pied Currawong
Grey Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
Golden Whistler
Willie Wagtail
Grey Fantail
Little Raven
Magpie-Lark
Eastern Yellow Robin
Eurasian Skylark
Welcome Swallow
Fairy Martin
Australian Reed Warbler
Silvereye
Common Blackbird
Common Starling
Common Myna
Eastern Yellow Wagtail This was a nice one, a rare overshoot down into Victoria. Been kicking around since christmas but my first chance to get out for it :)
Australasian Pipit
European Goldfinch
 
30 species in and around our garden in Spain so far this morning, a few of them I can add to the European list!:
Song Thrush
Common Woodpigeon
European Goldfinch
Black Redstart
Sardinian Warbler
Common Crossbill
Eurasian Wryneck- a garden first, what a start to the year!
Common Starling
European Stonechat
Common Chiffchaff
Zitting Cisticola
Blue Rock Thrush
Collared Dove
Common Firecrest
European Greenfinch
Western Cattle Egret
Booted Eagle
Yellow-legged Gull
White Wagtail
Cirl Bunting
Thekla Lark
Red Kite

(Also European Robin, Eurasian Blackcap, Common Blackbird, Common Chaffinch, House Sparrow, European Blue Tit, Great Tit, Red-legged Partridge)

Hopefully a few more to add through the rest of the day.

What a great garden list!

A few more for the European list!

Sparrowhawk
Brambling
Fieldfare
Coot
Mallard
Cormorant
Common Pochard
Great Crested Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Green Woodpecker
Wren
Hooded Crow

Hoping to get out again this afternoon!

Chris
 
Here's the ones I saw today that I haven't seen posted yet:

European herring gull, Larus argentatus
Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Eurasian magpie, Pica pica
Common gull, Larus canus
Greylag goose, Anser anser
Eurasian curlew, Numenius arquata
Common snipe, Gallinago gallinago
Canada goose, Branta canadensis (cat C)
Great egret, Ardea alba
Stock dove, Columba oenas
Common kestrel, Falco tinnunculus
Cetti's warbler, Cettia cetti
Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiaca (cat C)
Gadwall, Mareca strepera
Common moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
Little egret, Egretta garzetta
Mute swan, Cygnus olor
Eurasian teal, Anas crecca
Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope
Hen harrier, Circus cyaneus
Water pipit, Anthus spinoletta
Grey heron, Ardea cinerea
Bearded reedling, Panurus biarmicus
Eurasian spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia
Tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus
Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
Redwing, Turdus iliacus
 
Decided to cut short my day before I got too stressed about idiot New Year's Day walkers who can't comprehend the meaning of the words "No Access".

Species not already listed (I think) for UK.

Canada Goose (self sustaining pop).
Brent Goose.
Barnacle Goose.
Mallard.
Northern Pintail.
Eurasian Wigeon.
Eurasion Teal.
Greater Scaup.
Common Goldeneye.
Red-breasted Merganser.
Common Eider.
Great Crested Grebe.
Little Grebe.
Great Cormorant.
Little Egret.
Common Kestrel.
Great Black-backed Gull.
Black-headed Gull.
Common Gull.
Herring Gull.
Eurasian Oystercatcher.
Ruddy Turnstone.
Red Knot.
Dunlin.
Common Redshank.
Common Greenshank.
Eurasian Curlew.
Common Snipe.
Common Starling.
Common Magpie.

All from Walney Island, Cumbria, UK.
 
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I just stepped onto the front porch and here is my first report from Maryland, USA:
House Sparrow
Blue Jay
Northern Cardinal (three perched in some vines)
American Crow
Morning Dove
Fish Crow
 
From the Spey Valley in Scotland that I don't think have been mentioned yet for the UK list;

Golden Eagle
Crested Tit
Greenfinch
Lesser Redpoll
 
Have we had ring-necked parakeet yet? The buggers woke me up far too early this morning (helped by a couple of jays and a magpie).
 
Have we had ring-necked parakeet yet? The buggers woke me up far too early this morning (helped by a couple of jays and a magpie).

That's exactly the sort of record we're after. Easy to miss unless someone from London joins in, in which case impossible to miss.
 
Adding a couple of species from my local patch in Corsica (all seen this morning) :
-Mediterranean Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii)
-Audouin's Gull (Icthyaetus audouinii)
-Italian Sparrow (Passer italiae)
-Corsican Finch (Carduelis corsicana)
 
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