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How is your 2020 List Going? (3 Viewers)

It has been a little slow lately, but today, after getting a year bird in the yard (the hawk), I tried a change of scenery in a neighboring county and picked up five additional birds.

57. Cooper’s Hawk
58. Common Merganser
59. Bald Eagle
60. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
61. Eastern Towhee
62. Killdeer

Dave
 
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Haha, killdeer. it will be a month or more before I see one. We had a lake freeze quickly and the small group of coots are sitting on the ice with the geese.
 
I didn't do a vast amount of birding last year and I suspect that this year will be the same. However I did manage two days in Norfolk last week to give me a few bonus birds. List so far.

01/01/2020

Garden
01. Wood Pigeon
02. Blue Tit
03. Magpie
04. Blackbird
05. Dunnock
06. Chaffinch
07. Goldfinch
08. Great Tit
09. Long-tailed Tit
10. Robin
11. Carrion Crow
12. Great Spotted Woodpecker
13. Greenfinch
14. Coal Tit

On my dog walk
15. Canada Goose
16. Black-headed Gull
17. Jackdaw
18. Kingfisher

02/02/2020

Seeswood Pool, Nuneaton
19. Song Thrush
20. Ferruginous Duck
21. Mallard
22. Tufted Duck
23. Coot
24. Greylag Goose

On way to Norfolk.
25. Kestrel
26. Rook

03/03/2020

Sedgford
27. Blue-headed Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Lifer)
28. Linnet
29. Pied Wagtail
30. Fieldfare
31. Pheasant

Hunstanton
32. Turnstone
33. Fulmar
34. Oystercatcher
35. Herring Gull

Thornham Harbour
36. Bar-tailed Godwit
37. Twite
38. Redshank
39. Great Black-backed Gull
40. Brent Goose
41. Moorhen

Titchwell
42. Wigeon
43. Shelduck
44. Gadwall
45. Grey Plover
46. Black-tailed Godwit
47. Little Egret
48. Cormorant
49. Pintail
50. Teal
51. Sanderling
52. Great Crested Grebe
53. Little Grebe
54. Avocet
55. Ringed Plover
56. Mute Swan
57. Marsh Harrier
58. Water Rail

Choseley
59. Pink-footed Goose
60. Barnacle goose
61. Red-legged Partridge
62. Yellowhammer

Burnham Overy Staithe
63. Lapwing (Northern)
64. Cattle Egret
65. Barn Owl
66. Dunlin

Holkham
67. White-fronted Goose

Wells
68. Rough-legged Buzzard
69. Buzzard

Warham Greens
70. Lesser Black-backed Gull
71. Short-eared Owl
72. Grey Heron

04/03/2020

Cley
73. Snow Bunting
74. House Sparrow

Ingham
75. Bewick Swan
76. Whooper Swan

Eccles on Sea
77. Desert Wheatear

Billockby
78. Crane

Great Yarmouth
79. Mediterranean Gull
80. Starling

12/01/2020

Garden
81. Collared Dove
82. Wren
 
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A happy new year and happy birding to all!

2019 was not a great birding year for me with only 229 birds (vs 358 in 2018) mainly due to a relative lack of travel. We'll see how this year pans out, and I hope to spend more time birding my local patch although with two active kids that's not always a priority.

January 1-4
Sossusvlei, Solitaire & Windhoek, Namibia
1. Pale Chanting-Goshawk
2. Gabar Goshawk
3. Pied Crow
4. Common Ostrich
5. Namaqua Dove
6. Gray Go-away-bird
7. Sociable Weaver
8. Helmeted Guineafowl
9. Speckled Pigeon
10. White-backed Mousebird
11. Rosy-faced Lovebird
12. Cape Wagtail

January 5
Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13. Common Pochard
14. Tufted Duck
15. White Stork
16. Great Cormorant

January 6
Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
17. Mourning Dove
18. Black Vulture
19. Blue Jay
20. American Robin
21. Northern Cardinal

Latest Lifer: : 808 Namaqua Sandgrouse (Solitaire, Khomas, Namibia, December 2019)
 
Tero said:
Haha, killdeer. it will be a month or more before I see one. We had a lake freeze quickly and the small group of coots are sitting on the ice with the geese.
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I usually don’t get one this early either, but so far we’ve had a strange winter. Very little snow, and the last couple of weeks have been in the 50s and 60s, and this past weekend it even hit 70. I’m not complaining!

Dave
 
One that I forgot from last week:

94. Canada Goose

A couple of new ones today at Venus Pool, Shropshire:

95. Gadwall
96. Eurasian Bullfinch
 
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One in Chester a few days ago:

97. European Herring Gull

Back in Uppsala now:

98. Hooded Crow
99. Bohemian Waxwing
100. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
101. Hawfinch

The Hawfinches were particularly early, I dont usually see them until early spring. A sign of the horrible warm winter we are experiencing here...
 
Went for a walk this morning into Hågadalen-Nåsten on the outskirts of Uppsala to look for the Great Grey Owl that is in residence. Missed my target, but I did end up with a nice surprise in the form of a couple of singing Pygmy Owls, one of which I saw very well.

102. Eurasian Pygmy Owl
103. European Crested Tit
104. Willow Tit
105. European Green Woodpecker
106. Brambling
 
Odd cold and warm weather has turned our neighborhood streets into ice, so have not got very far out of the house for a week. Only three to add.
38 Bald Eagle Pawnee Lake
39 Lapland Longspur
40 Snow Bunting (the very same bird I had in Nov)

still missing horned lark and shrike for the entire winter (I had them in early Jan 2019)
 
Birding has been extremely slow lately. This morning I picked up two new birds for the year, the first in 12 days.

64. American Black Duck
65. Lesser Scaup

Dave
 
Some nice birds around Uppsala today:


108. White-throated Dipper
109. Tawny Owl
110. Marsh Tit
111. Goosander
112. Great Grey Shrike
113. Rough-legged Buzzard
 
Two new birds this morning.

71. Evening Grosbeak
72. Green-winged Teal

The grosbeak was my first self-found Evening Grosbeak in West Virginia.

Dave
 
Went to the eastern panhandle of West Virginia today to try to find some birds that will be common in my part of the state in a couple of months, but are mostly absent now. Gale-force winds made birding almost impossible, so I didn’t find most of my targets. However, I did find a couple of regional rarities.

73. Mute Swan
74. Long-tailed Duck

Dave
 
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