gi2012 2006 list (1 Viewer)

I've never kept a year list before, but there is always a first time for something. As I don't drive most of my birding is done via foot or bicycle with occasional travel on public transport.

January

1. Blackbird
2. House sparrow
3. Robin
4. Blue tit
5. Great tit
6. Collared dove
7. Woodpigeon
8. Redwing
9. Chaffinch
10. Starling
11. Black-headed gull
12. Carrion crow
13. Jackdaw
14. Magpie
15. Grey Heron
16. Jay
17. Great spotted woodpecker
18. Moorhen
19. Mallard
20. Coal tit
21. Goldcrest
22. Long-tailed tit
23. Pied wagtail
24. Mistle Thrush
25. Cormorant
26. Little grebe
27. Redshank
28. Canada goose
29. Mute swan
30. Turnstone
31. Wigeon
32. Shelduck
33. Herring gull
34. Lapwing
35. Common pochard
36. Great crested grebe
37. Dunlin
38. Fieldfare
39. Feral pigeon
40. Rook
41. Goldfinch
42. Meadow pipit
43. Grey wagtail
44. Knot
45. Ringed plover
46. Black-tailed godwit
47. Avocet
48. Common gull
49. Lesser black-backed gull
50. Tufted duck
51. Oystercatcher
52. Song thrush
53. Greenfinch
54. Sparrowhawk
55. Common sandpiper
56. Wren
57. Pheasant
58. Kingfisher
59. Linnet
60. Reed bunting
61. Bullfinch
62. Curlew
63. Coot

A cycle ride out to Alton Water and a quick look round Ipswich Docks on 8th January added a few more to the list.

64. Teal
65. Gadwall
66. Goldeneye
67. Smew
68. Red-necked grebe
69. Great black-backed gull
70. Lesser redpoll
71. Waxwing
72. Dunnock
73. Shag

A visit to Lowestoft for the Ross's gull, which I dipped, but a few others to add from the train and in Lowestoft.

74. Red-legged partridge
75. Green woodpecker
76. Stock dove
77. Shoveler
78. Kestrel
79. Greylag goose
80. Red-breasted merganser
81. Rock pipit
82. Mediterranean gull
83. Red-throated diver
84. Greenshank
85. Pintail
86. Brent goose
87. Little egret
88. Grey plover
89. Snipe
90. Golden plover
91. Stonechat
92. Skylark

Another trip to Lowestoft and along the Suffolk coast, this time more successful.

93. Little gull
94. Ross's gull (lifer)
95. Purple sandpiper
96. Scaup
97. Marsh harrier
98. Sanderling
99. Whooper swan (250th Suffolk species)

Briefest birding day so far this year, with a short stroll through the local park and a little patience bought up the 100 mark.

100. Treecreeper

The finch a new species for my local patch at work.

101. Siskin
102. Yellowhammer

Another overwintering sandpiper, both Green and Common were on the same stretch of river.

103. Green sandpiper

Two more this week.

104. Marsh tit
105. Mandarin duck

Finished January on 105.

February

106. Red-crested Pochard
107. Corn bunting
108. Spotted redshank
109. Snow bunting
110. Twite
111. Dartford warbler
112. Hen harrier
113. Bewick's swan
114. Little owl
115. Chiffchaff
116. Mealy redpoll
117. Artic redpoll (lifer)
118. Peregrine
119. Water pipit
120. Jack snipe
121. Slavonian grebe
122. Bean goose
123. Shore lark
124. Kittiwake
125. Ruff

Two months gone and now on 129. A couple of trips to the coast by bicycle allowed to catch up with a few more winter visitors.

126. Nuthatch
127. Wood lark
128. Short-eared owl
129. Merlin

Well March has been a lot quieter for new birds to the list - I did wonder if I would see any new ones at all, but a day out last Saturday added three more.

March

130. Ruddy duck
131. Bittern
132. Black redstart

One more from my local patch.

133. Sand martin

After not adding a lot in March - mainly regular stuff on local patch, a few summer migrants now arriving there and a trip to Lackford/Brecks has added a few more including a UK lifer.

134. Swallow
135. Blackcap
136. Willow warbler
137. Brambling
138. House martin
139. Stone curlew (lifer)
140. Common buzzard

More summer migrants to add to the list. I have now gone past last years back-counted year total - I am finding that now I'm keeping a year list for the first time I'm that much more keen to go to see birds for the sake of the adding to the list - for example there were Firecrests at Landguard recently and although I was busy I was itching to go to find them, plus they are a smart bird as well.


141. Reed warbler
142. Sedge warbler
143. Yellow wagtail
144. Whitethroat
145. Cuckoo
146. Whimbrel
147. Wheatear
148. Nightingale

3 more from Saturday.

149. Hobby
150. Common scoter
151. Common redstart

One more from my local patch.

152. Turtle Dove

A family trip to the seaside.

153. Gannet
154. Fulmar

Start of the month and a year tick on the first. The next day a patch and year tick on my local patch at work.

155. Swift
156. Egyptian goose

An early morning walk along the river on the 4th.

157. Common tern

158. Lesser whitethroat

Quite a week (2nd week of May) with 3 lifers (nearly 4), my first sightings of Otters in the wild and a whole weekend birding on the Suffolk coast.

159. Lesser scaup (lifer)
160. Cetti's warbler
161. Crossbill
162. Red kite (lifer)
163. Little tern
164. Tawny owl
165. Nightjar
166. Ring ouzel
167. Garden warbler
168. Spotted flycatcher
169. Sandwich tern
170. Grasshopper warbler
171. Barnacle goose
172. Garganey
173. Wood sandpiper
174. Woodchat shrike (lifer)

From a day trip to London

175. Rose-ringed parakeet