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Lifers this year? (1 Viewer)

First trip to Scotland netted the following life ticks for us:
Great Northern Diver (did already have Pacific Diver)
Slavonian Grebe
Shag (yes, pathetic to only just be adding this one)
Gold Eagle
White-tailed Eagle
Red Grouse
Ptarmigan
Black Grouse
Capercaillie (two seperate male birds)
Purple Sandpiper (a first for my partner, but not for me)
Black Guillemot
Rock Dove (proper ones, not feral pigeons)
Crested Tit
Hooded Crow
Parrot Crossbill (I am reliably assured that it was Parrot Crossbill and not Scottish Crossbill)

Not a bad haul even though there's no real rarities in there.
 
Lifes this year...

American Robin (Bingley)
Pacific Diver (Farnham GP's)
Glossy Ibis (Slimbridge and Marshside)
Wilsons Phalarope (Garfham)
Long tailed skua (Cley)
Great Shearwater (Flamborough)
Melodoius Warbler (Flamborough)
Wryneck (Holkham)
Blyth's Reed Warbler (Flamborough and glimpsed Salthouse)
Brown Flycatcher (Flamborough)
 
jimmy2faces said:
Lifes this year...

American Robin (Bingley)
Pacific Diver (Farnham GP's)
Glossy Ibis (Slimbridge and Marshside)
Wilsons Phalarope (Garfham)
Long tailed skua (Cley)
Great Shearwater (Flamborough)
Melodious Warbler (Flamborough)
Wryneck (Holkham)
Blyth's Reed Warbler (Flamborough and glimpsed Salthouse)
Brown Flycatcher (Flamborough)
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Another for Flam - Red Flanked Bluetail
 
Update (was up to lifer number 12 before):
I started the year with a life list of 173.
Now I am on 195 (took off a couple, if I left it it would be 198 or something)
22 Lifers this year
1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
2 Rough-legged Buzzard
3 Great Northern Diver
4 Arctic Tern
5 Great Skua
6 Cuckoo
7 Garganey
8 Slavonian Grebe
9 Black-necked Grebe
10 Hen Harrier
11 Squacco Heron
12 Turtle Dove
13 Shag (Wales)
14 Chough (Wales)
15 Raven (Wales)
16 Dipper (Wales)
17 Manx Shearwater (Wales)
18 Guillemot (Wales)
19 Fulmar (Wales)
20 Pectoral Sandpiper
21 Great Grey Shrike
22 Snow Bunting
23 Caspian Gull
24 Yellow legged Gull
 
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Can't compete with some of you but these are my lifers for 2007:

Azure Tit - Oulu, Finland
Siberian Tit - Kuusamo, Finland
Siberian Jay - Kuusamo, Finland
Pacific Diver - N Yorks
Hudsonian Godwit - Anahuac, Texas
White-tailed Plover - Caelaverock
Fea's Petrel - Bridges of Ross

Hopefully improve on this in Brazil next month.....

Stuart
 
4 for me this year, with 2 more potentials:

Iberian Chiffchaff - Norfolk
Scops Owl - Oxfordshire
White-tailed Plover - Dumfries & Galloway
Great Shearwater - East Yorkshire

Pacific Diver - North Yorkshire
Brown Flycatcher - East Yorkshire

I've missed/not tried for the following that have been tickable:

Gyr Falcon
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-browed Albatross
Little Bittern(s) - dipped the first Titchwell bird
Chimney Swift - dipped the York bird
Cory's Shearwater(s) - dipped on Cornwall seawatch
Wilson's Petrel(s)
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper(s)
Buff-bellied Pipit(s)
Swainson's Thrush
Pechora Pipit(s)
Grey-cheeked Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
 
A trip to Scilly brought 7 more + 1 the next day in Devon.

Blackpoll Warbler
Pallas's Warbler
Yellow-browed Warbler (finally!)
Rose-coloured Starling
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Blyth's Pipit

Wilson's Snipe (potential split)
Siberian Chiffchaff (non-BOU)

and in Devon Long-billed Dowitcher
 
Away from Scotland (6 lifers) have had the following: Wilson's Phalarope, Little Bittern, Iberian Chiffchaff, Killdeer, Great-white Egret, Lesser Grey Shrike, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Dark-eyed Junco (pending acceptance), Chough (!) and Greenish Warbler, bringing my BOU Britsh List to 308.

Cheers,

Connor
 
Lawts said:
4 for me this year, with 2 more potentials:

Pacific Diver - North Yorkshire
Brown Flycatcher - East Yorkshire
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Go on, stick 'em on, you know you want to!

The others all have to go through a committee and you've stuck them on, what matter if another bunch have to look at these as well....

John
 
Lawts said:
4 for me this year, with 2 more potentials:

Iberian Chiffchaff - Norfolk
Scops Owl - Oxfordshire
White-tailed Plover - Dumfries & Galloway
Great Shearwater - East Yorkshire

Pacific Diver - North Yorkshire
Brown Flycatcher - East Yorkshire

I've missed/not tried for the following that have been tickable:

Gyr Falcon
Glaucous-winged Gull
Black-browed Albatross
Little Bittern(s) - dipped the first Titchwell bird
Chimney Swift - dipped the York bird
Cory's Shearwater(s) - dipped on Cornwall seawatch
Wilson's Petrel(s)
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper(s)
Buff-bellied Pipit(s)
Swainson's Thrush
Pechora Pipit(s)
Grey-cheeked Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
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Little Bittern - you tart! Never knew I had one on you Lawts :t:
 
robinm said:
You made it then :t: So did we.

We did miss the LT Duck at Dawlish but picked up Purple Heron in Somerset on the way through.

Good to meet you :t:
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The painfully slow crawl to 400 goes on. Five this year:

White Billed Diver
Gyrfalcon
Little Bunting
Roller
Buff Bellied Pipit

brings it to 375. or 381 on the Mickey Mouse Club unless he's split Partial Albino Blackbird and Brownsea Wren yet.


Of much more importance Squacco Heron and Wilson's Phalarope take me to 311 for Dorset.

And it looks like 2008 will get a push start for both lists courtesy of splitting of American Herring Gull
 
jimmy2faces said:
Little Bittern - you tart! Never knew I had one on you Lawts :t:
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Marcus, don't! I hate the little chap. I've missed several over the years including the pair that bred down the road just at the time I was starting to get info. I can't remember if I heard during the first year, or when the male returned to further torment me. I also missed the Leighton Moss bird on at least two occasions. I suspect that's the one you got?

I know they exist cos I've seen one in Portugal but I know that doesn't count.

Next year!
 
4 more in Yorkshire weekend before last with:

barred warbler
yellow browed warbler
lapland bunting
red flanked bluetail (my first mega)
 
Lawts said:
Marcus, don't! I hate the little chap. I've missed several over the years including the pair that bred down the road just at the time I was starting to get info. I can't remember if I heard during the first year, or when the male returned to further torment me. I also missed the Leighton Moss bird on at least two occasions. I suspect that's the one you got?

I know they exist cos I've seen one in Portugal but I know that doesn't count.

Next year!
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Yeah I got the LM bird. Went on the Saturday dipped in the morning so went up to the lakes came back 13 hours later for the 108th bird of the day. The hide stunk by that point, and there was a domestic in the hide too, which was hilarious. Sure we can find another in Yorkshire.
 
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