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How is your 2011 List Going? (1 Viewer)

Gill Osborne said:
He dragged you into the pub at THAT age ;) He's gonna be a rebel that one :-O
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Well, I hope so!! His father was surfing earlier, which is why we went round to help out! Well, Grandma helped out, I went birding..... B :)

Have added a few more and now up to 87. London next weekend so a slow drive back on Sunday taking in whatever is best.... That is providing the weather doesn't deteriorate any more. Wet snow here this afternoon.
 
Good day today :)
Nipped out for an hour to my local spot and had Scaup and Water Rail - the rail was eating bread about 8ft away from me :t:

Being stuck at home with the child whilst OH at work has meant that the year list is off to a low start so far (only 27!)!

Claire
 
Ten more birds at work and in a nearby park over lunchtime:

55. Gadwall
56. Northern Shoveler
57. Pied-billed Grebe
58. Snowy Egret
59. White-faced Ibis
60. Willet
61. Ring-necked Duck
62. Ring-billed Gull
63. American Coot
64. Black-bellied Whistling Duck.

So the week is picking up!

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
 
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up to 64 over the past three days, all seen in Shropshire so far.

1. blackbird
2. chaffinch
3. dunnock
4. coal tit
5. robin
6. blue tit
7. great tit
8. wood pigeon
9. jackdaw
10. brambling
11. rook
12. carrion crow
13. collared dove
14. nuthatch
15. greenfinch
16. house sparrow
17. magpie
18. starling
19. mute swan
20. pheasant
21. black-headed gull
22. pied wagtail
23. buzzard
24. herring gull
25. sparrowhawk
26. canada goose
27. bewick's swan
28. whooper swan
29. goldcrest
30. wigeon
31. mistle thrush
32. redwing
33. song thrush
34. cormorant
35. goldfinch
36. teal
37. reed bunting
38. mallard
39. skylark
40. marsh tit
41. stock dove
42. lesser black backed gull
43. goosander
44. little grebe
45. coot
46. yellowhammer
47. linnet
48. pochard
49. kestrel
50. moorhen
51. great spotted woodpecker
52. bullfinch
53. wren
54. rock dove
55. red-legged partridge
56. jay
57. treecreeper
58. fieldfare
59. raven
60. grey partridge
61. long-tailed tit
62. siskin
63. redpoll
64. waxwing
 
Relatively quiet day at the coast today but I find that with Stag Rocks - it's either SO busy and heaving with birds that you just don't know where to look first or it's quiet with nowt but cuddy ducks :-O Today was a quiet day but I still managed some nice additions to the Year List and nice birds overall :t:

51: Common Scoter
52: Shag
53: Purple Sandpiper
54: Goldeneye
55: Knot
56: Mute Swan
57: Hen Harrier *lifer No. 206* :loveme:
 
Some new species today... finally found some buzzards!
34. Hawfinch
35. Chaffinch
36. Raven
37. Snow Bunting
38. Rough-legged Buzzard
39. Goldeneye
40. Treecreeper
41. Common Buzzard
 
After looking at a photo of my Song Sparrow from yesterday, I've decided it could equally well be a Savannah. So my total went down to 64.

15 minutes in the rain in a local park this morning helped:
65. Cedar Waxwing (actually about 250 of them)
66. Red-headed Woodpecker
67. Eastern Bluebird
68. Tufted Titmouse
69. Golden-crowned Kinglet.

Jeff
 
More Shropshire birding:

65. Goldeneye
66. Willow Tit
67. Great Black-backed Gull
68. Tufted Duck
69. Great Crested Grebe
70. Shelduck
71. Common Gull
72. Grey Heron
73. Greylag Goose
 
January 4th, added seven more Missouri Year Birds.

44. Eurasian Collared-Dove, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph
45. Trumpeter Swan, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph
46. Swamp Sparrow, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph
47. Lapland Longspur, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph
48. Belted Kingfisher, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph
49. Gadwall, Mud Lake, Saint Joseph
50. Northern Mockingbird, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph
 
Returned to T&T in the wee hours of the morning today. Decided to take advantage of being out and about at that time and drove home via a slight detour through Caroni Rice Fields -
#1. Barn Owl
 
a trip to Leicestershire/Rutland netted me to Nearctic duck lifers amongst others:

74. Gadwall
75. Red Kite
76. Lapwing
77. Redshank
78. Smew
79. Slavonian Grebe
80. Red-crested Pochard
81. American Wigeon
82. Green-winged Teal
 
January 4th
51. American Black Duck, on the lake at 12 Oaks Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri
52. American Coot, 12 Oaks Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri
53. Cooper's Hawk, Mark Youngdahl Urban CA, Saint Joseph, Missouri
54. Great Horned Owl, Mark Youngdahl CA
55. Common Grackle, Mark Youngdahl CA

January 5th
56. Greater White-fronted Goose, Lake Contrary, Saint Joseph, Missouri
57. Herring Gull, Lake Contrary
58. Sedge Wren, Lake Contrary
59. Northern Flicker (red-shafted), Lake Contrary
60. Harris's Sparrow, Lake Contrary
61. Wood Duck, Mud Lake, Saint Joseph
62. Green-winged Teal, Mud Lake
63. Redhead, Sugar Lake, Platte County
64. Canvasback, Sugar Lake
65. Ring-necked Duck, Sugar Lake
66. Brown Creeper, Sugar Lake
 
Birding cut short at midday by loads of snow which cut visibility to practically zero, but got some year birds before that.

January 6
42. Golden Eagle
43. Goldcrest
44. Mute Swan
45. Pheasant
 
January 6th at Bluff Woods Conservation Area, Halls, Missouri (just a few miles south of Saint Joseph, Missouri)

67. Yellow-rumped Warbler
68. Hermit Thrush
69. Golden-crowned Kinglet
 
Looked out my window yesterday to see:
73. House Sparrow
74. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.

A visit with my wife to a Houston park added:
75. Vermilion Flycatcher
76.Common Yellowthroat
77. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
78.Blue-headed Vireo
79. Ruddy Duck
80. Blue-winged Teal.

This is turning out to be a good start to the year!

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
 
Yesterday on the Shropshire/Wales border:

83. Peregrine

Today from the train down to Cornwall:

84. Oystercatcher
85. Curlew
 
Went to Stockholm today which made me reach my target of 50 birds seen the first week of the year. Yay!

January 7
46. Water Rail
47. Robin
48. Canada Goose
49. Grey Heron
50. Herring Gull
51. Goosander
52. Moorhen
53. Pochard
 
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