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January 1st joint Birdforum list (1 Viewer)

Swindon Addick

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Last year we did some collective bird lists for the 1st of January, following a suggestion from dantheman. By combining sightings by various BirdForum members we totalled 155 UK species, despite uniformly dreadful weather, and I think it ended up as 185 in the US.

The idea is for people either to post their lists for the day, or even better to just post a list of what they saw that no-one else has reported yet. Obviously it helps if you've seen something unusual, but someone somewhere will need to add robin to the list, so it might as well be you. Last year I was the only person to report a tawny owl and there were several relatively common species that no-one saw, so this really is open to all ability levels (and none).

It's just a bit of fun, so don't go drastically changing your plans for the day, but if we persuade one or two people to go out birding then so much the better.

The "rules" last year was that birds could be seen or heard, as long as the id was firm and it was on the right date (no sneaking in some incredible mega you saw at dawn on the 2nd).

Last year's thread here, if you're interested.
 
Count me in! I am intending to do a century run in Southern England (could all go awry if a Steller's Eider turns up on 31st of course) and happy to contribute to either or both list(s).

John
 
I'm working from 6am until 10.30am but will still have eyes and ears peeled from the minute I wake up! Should easily tick off the easy birds like gulls, crows, robin and blackbirds and then plan to head to the coast :t:
 
Count me in hope to be out and about trying to reach a 100 species in Dorset probable will not get any where near that though as I am only on a 150 to date.
 
whoa, how about a joint Birdforum world year list??:eek!: everyone wherever they are could contribute to something totally nuts (even if it would be just Alan Lewis's year list plus one or two more ;)).
 
Unofficial Team Finlands January First bird list

Ok, because here in Finland is dark all ready, I start. I started my birding year for a 1 hour garden watch and then 4 hours walk to neighborhood. And the list is here:

#1 Great Tit
#2 Magpie
#3 Hooded Crow
#4 Jackdaw
#5 Fieldfare
#6 Tree Sparrow
#7 Blue Tit
#8 Blackbird
#9 Waxwing
-First 9 was in the garden.
#10 Greater Spotted Woodpecker
#11 Eurasian Jay (heard only)
#12 Bullfinch
#13 Coal Tit
#14 Goosander
#15 Goldeneye
#16 Mallard
#17 Goldcrest
#18 Dipper
#19 Sparrow Hawk
 

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Beginning with feeder birds in our yard:
Blue Jay
Red-bellied Woodpecker
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Northern Cardinal
European Starling
Downy Woodpecker
White-breasted Nuthatch

On to my local patch (Oxbow lakes south of St. Joseph, Missouri)
* None yet, I'm still at our yard.
 
Despite constant rain, I got out for a couple of hours; the list below is my garden and a trip to Insh Marshes. Highlight was the White-tailed Eagle at Insh Marshes.

1 Blackbird
2 Robin
3 Dunnock
4 Chaffinch
5 Blue Tit
6 Coal Tit
7 Great Tit
8 Goldfinch
9 Lesser Redpoll
10 Collared Dove
11 Starling
12 Jackdaw
13 Rook
14 Red-legged Partridge
15 Herring Gull
16 Carrion Crow
17 Buzzard
18 Feral Pigeon
19 Greylag Goose
20 Mallard
21 Teal
22 White-tailed Eagle
23 Whooper Swan
24 Wigeon
25 Goldeneye
26 Siskin
27 Greenfinch
28 House Sparrow


Regards, Audrey.
 
I've been travelling from Norfolk to Dorset today, so not much birding, but I can add the following to Audrey's list for the British total:
Long-tailed Tit
Kestrel
Little Egret
Stock Dove
Black-headed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Magpie
 
I can add:

Reed Bunting
Pochard
Pintail
Goosander
Gadwall
Lesser Scaup
Great Crested Grebe
Redwing
Fieldfare
Mute Swan
Pied Wagtail
Mistle Thrush
Song Thrush
Red Kite
Common Buzzard
Raven
Dipper
Pied Wagtail
Black Tailed Godwits
Lapwings
Wood Pigeon
Pheasant
Bullfinch

Rich
 
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Another "New Years Day Bash" around Haute-Marne. ...... and this time I managed to break 100, so everything is back to normal. ;) I dipped on some species I should really have got, and there weren't any Bohemian Waxwing about. :C

1 Mute Swan
2 Whooper Swan
3 Tundra Swan
4 White-fronted Goose
5 Taiga Bean Goose ( no Taiga Beans, that I could see. )
6 Greylag Goose
7 Canada Goose
8 Northern Shelduck
9 Egyptian Goose
10 Mallard
11 Gadwall
12 Northern Pintail
13 Northern Shoveler
14 Eur. Wigeon
15 Common Teal
16 Red-crested Pochard
17 Common Pochard
18 Tufted Duck
19 Smew
20 Goosander ( Common Merganser for our colonial cousins ;) )
21 Grey Partridge
22 Common Pheasant
23 Reeves Pheasant
24 Little Grebe
25 Great Crested Grebe
26 Great Cormorant
27 Little Egret
28 Great Egret
29 Grey Heron
30 White-tailed Eagle
31 Red Kite
32 Hen Harrier
33 Common Buzzard
34 Rough-legged Buzzard
35 Northern Goshawk
36 Water Rail
37 Common Moorhen
38 Eur. Coot
39 Common Crane
40 Eur Golden Plover
41 Northern Lapwing
42 Green Sandpiper
43 Eur Woodcock
44 Common Snipe
45 Black-headed Gull
46 Mediterranean Gull ( I wasn't expecting that, today ).
47 Common Gull
48 Eur Herring Gull
49 Rock Pigeon
50 Stock Pigeon
51 Common Wood Pigeon
52 Eur Collared Dove
53 Barn Owl (s.l.)
54 Eur Eagle Owl ( 1st bird of the year at c.0030hrs )
55 Tawny Owl
56 Little Owl
57 Long-eared Owl ( no Tengmalms this year )
59 River Kingfisher
60 Black Woodpecker
61 Eur Green Woodpecker
62 Great Spotted Woodpecker
63 Middle Spotted Woodpecker ( no Little Spotted or Grey-headed, although the latter has been increasingly difficult to find over the last 5 years or so )
64 Common Kestrel
65 Peregrine
66 Sky Lark
67 Crested Lark
68 Water Pipit
69 Meadow Pipit
70 Grey Wagtail
71 Dunnock
72 Eur Robin
73 Common Blackbird
74 Redwing
75 Fieldfare
76 Mistle Thrush ( dipped on Song Thrush )
77 Common Longtailed-tit
78 Goldcrest
79 Firecrest
80 Great Tit
81 Eur Blue Tit
82 Coal Tit
83 Marsh Tit
84 Willow Tit
85 Crested Tit
86 Bearded-tit
87 Eur Nuthatch
88 Short-toed Treecreeper
89 Great Grey Shrike
90 Eur Magpie
91 Eur Jay
92 Western Jackdaw
93 Rook
94 Carrion Crow
95 Hooded Crow
96 Common Starling
97 House Sparrow
98 Tree Sparrow
99 Common Chaffinch
100 Brambling
101 Lesser Redpoll
102 Mealy Redpoll
103 Eur Goldfinch
104 Eur Siskin
105 Common Linnet
106 Eur Greenfinch
107 Common Bullfinch
108 Hawfinch
109 Corn Bunting
110 Reed Bunting
111 Yellowhammer.
 
Lesser Scaup is a cracking bird for January 1 Rich. :t:
Come on Larry. Can't let Brenda and you hang around in your yard all day. ;)

Happy New Year to all those daft enough to drag themselves out of bed this morning and go birding. :clap: :clap: :clap:
 
Lesser Scaup is a cracking bird for January 1 Rich. :t:
Come on Larry. Can't let Brenda and you hang around in your yard all day. ;)

Happy New Year to all those daft enough to drag themselves out of bed this morning and go birding. :clap: :clap: :clap:
Cheers Chris. It was the Potugese bird at Llangasty. Not sure if they could tell it was Portugeses from the nasal tags or the fact that it kept diving:eek!:

100+ ain't too shabby for yourself there Chris. Sounds like a great place.

Rich
 
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