Anthony Bentley Year list (1 Viewer)

This is my first attempt at year listing. Only 19 and passed my driving test in July. This has helped no end! My UK life list was 199 before the start of this year and my target was to get 150 for this year but 175 would be awesome! I Do 90% of my birding in Lincolnhire, Were I recently got my 200th bird for the county. But I do a little bit of twitching but I have only twitched in Yorkshire this year so far. Anyway at the minute my year list at 184, most recent Ferruginous Duck at Far Ings. And my life list is 219 now. Getting 200 on my first year list would be amazing especially if you consider that before the year I hadn't even seen 200 birds in Britain. Getting the 200th of the year will be hard so a mega twitch might be needed. Then new years eve B This is my year list so far.


Arctic Skua
Arctic Tern
Avocet
Barn Owl
Barnacle Goose
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bittern
Black Tern
Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed Gull
Black-necked Grebe
Black-tailed Godwit
Black-winged Stilt
Blue Tit
Brent Goose
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Common Sandpiper
Common Scoter
Common Tern
Coot
Cormorant
Corn Bunting
Cuckoo
Curlew
Curlew Sandpiper
Desert Wheatear
Dipper
Dunlin
Dunnock
Eider
Ferruginous Duck
Fieldfare
Fulmar
Gadwall
Gannet
Garden Warbler
Garganey
Glaucous Gull
Goldcrest
Golden Plover
Goldeneye
Goldfinch
Goosander
Goshawk
Grasshopper Warbler
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Crested Grebe
Great Skua
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Green Sandpiper
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Greenshank
Grey Heron
Grey Partridge
Grey Plover
Grey Wagtail
Greylag Goose
Guillemot
Hen Harrier
Herring Gull
Hobby
House Martin
House Sparrow
Iceland Gull
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Kittiwake
Knot
Lapwing
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Redpoll
Lesser Whitethroat
Linnet
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Gull
Little Owl
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Marsh Harrier
Marsh Warbler
Meadow Pipit
Mediterranean Gull
Merlin
Mistle Thrush
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Nightjar
Nuthatch
Oystercatcher
Pectoral Sandpiper
Peregrine
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Pink-footed Goose
Pintail
Pochard
Puffin
Razorbill
Red Grouse
Red Kite
Red-crested Pochard
Red-legged Partridge
Red-necked Phalarope
Redshank
Redstart
Red-throated Diver
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Reed Warbler
Ring Ouzel
Ringed Plover
Robin
Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon
Roller
Rook
Rough-legged Buzzard
Ruddy Shelduck
Ruff
Sand Martin
Sanderling
Sandwich Tern
Scaup
Sedge Warbler
Shag
Shelduck
Short-eared Owl
Shoveler
Siskin
Skylark
Smew
Snipe
Snow Bunting
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Spoonbill
Spotted Flycatcher
Spotted Redshank
Starling
Stock Dove
Stonechat
Swallow
Swift
Tawny Owl
Teal
Tree Pipit
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Tufted Duck
Tundra Bean Goose
Turnstone
Turtle Dove
Wheatear
Whimbrel
Whinchat
White Wagtail
White-fronted Goose
White-rumped Sandpiper
Whitethroat
Whooper Swan
Wigeon
Willow Tit
Willow Warbler
Wood Sandpiper
Woodcock
Woodpigeon
Wren
Yellow Wagtail
Yellowhammer
Yellow-legged Gull

185 Yellow-Browed Warbler
186 Red-backed Shrike
187 Pied Flycatcher
188 Long-Tailed Skua
189 Sooty Shearwater
190 Velvet Scooter

All at spurn This Weekend

191 Rock Pipit
192 Slavonion Grebe

Both at Covenham Reservoir on Thursday

193 Red-breasted Merganser (Also a Lifer on 224 now)

Going North at Donna Nook

194 Pale-bellied Brent Goose
195 Dark-bellied Brent Goose
196 Brambling
197 Lapland Bunting (Lifer 225)
198 Black Redstart

2 away from my ultimate target

199 Twite

I have now seen the same amount of birds this year than I had previously in my whole life

It had to be. For the last 5 Years I have spent plenty of time at Far ings, Alkborough Flats and a few trips to Blacktoft Sands. 1 Bird has alaways eluded me, and it was my bogey bird. I even tried twitching them. At my last twitch of this species I thought it would be absolutly amazing if I saw this as my 200th bird of the year and I did.

I parked up at Alkborough Flats walked down the path, I heard a very well known pinging. My eyes stuck on the sky, I quickly got onto 6 flying Bearded Tit and they settled in the distance, 4 even flew right past the main hide later on.

I dipped Lesser Yellowlegs and Long-billed Dowitcher but I really didnt care, I got my 200th bird and what a bird!

Onto my next target 231, 1 more than my friends best year list

201 Purple Sandpiper, Covenham Reservoir