January 1st joint Birdforum list (2021 edition) (1 Viewer)

[Trystan]

My list from the UK today:

1. Kestrel
2. Carrion crow
3. Blackbird
4. Woodpigeon
5. Black headed gull
6. Redwing
7. Mute swan
8. Tufted duck
9. Mallard
10. Wigeon
11. Great black backed gull
12. Canada goose
13. Pied wagtail
14. Pochard
15. Goldeneye
16. Great crested grebe
17. Great northern diver
18. Robin
19. Greylag goose
20. Shoveler
21. Coot
22. Fieldfare
23. Blue tit
24. Chaffinch
25. Lapwing
26. Nuthatch
27. Teal
28. Grey heron
29. Bittern
30. Feral pigeon
31. Magpie
32. Song thrush
33. Dunnock
34. Cormorant
35. Pintail
36. Curlew
37. Golden plover
38. Gadwall
39. Goosander
40. Moorhen
41. Great tit
42. Reed bunting
43. Stock dove
44. Stonechat
45. Bearded tit
46. Green sandpiper
47. Meadow pipit
48. Water pipit
49. Lesser redpoll
50. Wren
51. Jay
52. Pheasant
53. Red legged partridge
54. Coal tit
55. Long tailed tit
56. Snipe
57. Willow tit
58. Red kite
59. Great spotted woodpecker
60. Collared dove
61. House sparrow
62. Common gull
63. Herring gull
64. Buzzard
65. Little egret
66. Mistle thrush
67. Goldcrest
68. Grey wagtail
69. Shelduck
70. Starling
71. Goldfinch
72. Bullfinch
73. Greenfinch
74. Jackdaw

Sorry about the weird order, hopefully a few useful ones amongst.

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Here's what I saw at Girdle Ness, Aberdeen today.

Mallard

Teal

Eider

Goosander

Red-breasted Merganser

Feral Pigeon

Stock Dove

Woodpigeon

Water Rail

Moorhen

Oystercatcher

Ringed Plover

Curlew

Turnstone

Purple Sandpiper

Snipe

Redshank

Black-headed Gull

Common Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Herring Gull

Guillemot

Red-throated Diver

Gannet

Cormorant

Shag

Grey Heron

Sparrowhawk

Magpie

Jackdaw

Rook

Carrion Crow

Coal Tit

Blue Tit

Great Tit

Long-tailed Tit

Chiffchaff (Siberian - tristis)

Wren

Treecreeper

Starling

Blackbird

Robin

House Sparrow

Dunnock

Grey Wagtail

Pied Wagtail (yarrellii)

Rock Pipit

Goldfinch

Siskin

Reed Bunting

 

[Microtus]

Am I the first to check in from the US? These are from Maryland, mostly from a local park before the rain started

1. Canada Goose
2. Mallard
3. Red-tailed Hawk
4. Red-bellied Woodpecker
5. Hairy Woodpecker
6. Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
7. American Crow
8. Fish Crow
9. Carolina Chickadee
10. White-breasted Nuthatch
11. Eastern Bluebird
12. American Robin
13. European Starling
14. Song Sparrow
15. White-throated Sparrow
16. Dark-eyed Junco
17. House Sparrow

Forgive the out-of-date sequence.

 

[Jacana]

69 species for me today:

1. Eurasian Blue Tit
2. Great Spotted Woodpecker
3. Common Blackbird
4. Great Tit
5. Common Wood Pigeon
6. Northern Raven
7. Common Chaffinch
8. European Robin
9. Dunnock
10. Eurasian Wren
11. Common Buzzard
12. Common Pheasant
13. Eurasian Jay
14. European Greenfinch
15. Carrion Crow
16. Mistle Thrush
17. Rook
18. Fieldfare
19. Eurasian Magpie
20. Stock Dove
21. Western Jackdaw
22. Common Linnet
23. Song Thrush
24. Long-tailed Tit
25. Goldcrest
26. European Goldfinch
27. Eurasian Siskin
28. White Wagtail
29. Eurasian Collared Dove
30. Black-headed Gull
31. Lesser Black-backed Gull
32. House Sparrow
33. Grey Heron
34. Mallard
35. Mute Swan
36. Greylag Goose
37. Tufted Duck
38. Great Cormorant
39. Common Kingfisher
40. Great Crested Grebe
41. Eurasian Coot
42. Northern Lapwing
43. Eurasian Bullfinch
44. Great Northern Diver
45. Canada Goose
46. Redwing
47. Meadow Pipit
48. Eurasian Skylark
49. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
50. Eurasian Nuthatch
51. Common Snipe
52. Eurasian Teal
53. Common Kestrel
54. Water Rail
55. Jack Snipe
56. Common Moorhen
57. Grey Wagtail
58. Marsh Tit
59. Eurasian Treecreeper
60. Rock Dove
61. European Herring Gull
62. Goosander
63. Little Egret
64. Whooper Swan
65. Common Shelduck
66. Northern Shoveler
67. Yellowhammer
68. Common Reed Bunting
69. Little Grebe

 

[RafaelMatias]

I can add only Spotless Starling to the European list

 

[cafe birder]

Some of these from a walk on my local coastal patch may be additions for UK. Knot, Avocet, Grey Plover, Golden Plover, Merlin, Buzzard, Wigeon

 

[mtn]

Not sure how many more I will get today, hoping to see a few more to add to the USA count but for now it's these below:

Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrow
European Starling
Tufted Tutmouse
Goldfinch
Carolina Chickadee
White Breasted Nuthatch
House Finch
Blue Jay
Downy Woodpecker
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Hooded Merganser
American Crow
Mourning Dove
Carolina Wren (heard but not yet seen)

Holding out hope for another 1/2 dozen or so but the weather is not on my side... We'll see.

Cheers

 

[Debbie1905]

Hi, from Gunners Park in Southend I can add:

Dark-bellied Brent Goose

 

[Debbie1905]

Oh, also:
Sanderling

 

[gerald762]

My contributions from today, from SW Spain. I had hoped to include Eagle owl, Bald headed ibis and Little bustard but no luck there.
Cattle egret
Little egret
Great white egret
House sparrow
Spanish sparrow
Stonechat
Redstart
Black redstart
White wagtail
Yellow wagtail
Sardinian warbler
Corn bunting
Crested lark
Meadow pipit
Black winged kite
Starling
Black headed gull
Grey heron
Zitting cisticola
Jackdaw
Buzzard
Crane, about 200
Marsh harrier
Cormorant
Kingfisher
Kestrel
White stork, about 500
Crag martin

 

[Swindon Addick]

Here's my first go at a UK list. 120 species unless there's any double-counting going on (there usually is).

Avocet
Bearded tit
Bittern
Blackbird
Blackcap
Black-headed Gull
Black-tailed Godwit
Blue Tit
Brent Goose (dark-bellied)
Bullfinch
Buzzard
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Cetti’s Warbler
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Coot
Cormorant
Crossbill
Curlew
Dipper
Dunnock
Egyptian Goose
Eider
Feral Pigeon
Fieldfare
Gadwall
Gannet
Goldcrest
Golden Plover
Goldeneye
Goldfinch
Goosander
Goshawk
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Crested Grebe
Great Northern Diver
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Green sandpiper
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Greenshank
Grey Heron
Grey Plover
Grey Wagtail
Greylag Goose
Guillemot
Herring Gull
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Knot
Lapwing
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Redpoll
Linnet
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Long tailed tit
Magpie
Mallard
Mandarin
Marsh Tit
Meadow Pipit
Merlin
Mistle Thrush
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Nuthatch
Oystercatcher
Peregrine
Pheasant
Pied Wagtail
Pintail
Pochard
Purple Sandpiper
Raven
Red Kite
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-legged Partridge
Redshank
Red-throated Diver
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Ringed Plover
Ring-necked Parakeet
Robin
Rock Pipit
Rook
Sanderling
Shag
Shelduck
Shoveler
Siskin
Snipe
Song Thrush
Sparrowhawk
Starling
Stock Dove
Stonechat
Tawny owl
Teal
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Tufted Duck
Turnstone
Water pipit
Water Rail
Wigeon
Willow tit
Woodcock
Woodpigeon
Wren

 

[RafaelMatias]

Redstart

Amazing!

 

[gerald762]

There are at least 8 hanging around here, enjoying the mealworms!!

 

[CARERY]

Managed a local 5 hours birding trip along the Baltic Sea shore and some forrest patch here in NE Germany. Nice windless day... Here my list:

Tundra Bean Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Greylag Goose
Barnacle Goose
Mute Swan
Whooper Swan
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Common Teal
Common Eider
Common Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Great Cormorant
Grey Heron
Great Egret
Common Buzzard
Common Kestrel
Water Rail
Common Coot
Common Crane
Eurasian Woodcock
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Feral Pigeon
Wood Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
Lesser Spotted Wooodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian Magpie
Western Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Norther Raven
Bearded Reedling
Marsh Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Eurasian Nuthatch
Short-toead Treecreeper
Eurasian Wren
Goldcrest
Blackbird
Fieldfare
Song Thrush
Common Starling
Dunnock
White Wagtail
Rock Pipit
Yellowhammer
Reed Bunting
Chaffinch
Brambling
Greenfinch
Lesser Redpoll
Linnet
European Goldfinch
Bullfinch
Hawfinch
House Sparrow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Can't wait to see the final numbers

 

[birdmeister]

One to add from the US, a Northern Mockingbird in the yard.

 

[Alan henry]

1​	Silvery Grebe
2​	Chiloe Wigeon
3​	Variable Hawk
4​	Black-chinned Siskin
5​	Kelp Goose
6​	Yellow-billed Teal
7​	Blackish Oystercatcher
8​	Black-browed Albatross
9​	Black-crowned Night-Heron
10​	Blackish Cinclodes
11​	Austral Thrush
12​	Ruddy-headed Goose
13​	Silver Teal
14​	Rufous-chested Dotterel
15​	White-rumped Sandpiper
16​	South American Snipe
17​	Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant
18​	Upland Goose
19​	Falkland Steamer-Duck
20​	Crested Duck
21​	Magellanic Oystercatcher
22​	Two-banded Plover
23​	Brown Skua
24​	Dolphin Gull
25​	Kelp Gull
26​	South American Tern
27​	King Penguin
28​	Gentoo Penguin
29​	Magellanic Penguin
30​	Southern Rockhopper Penguin
31​	Southern Giant-Petrel
32​	Sooty Shearwater
33​	Magellanic Cormorant
34​	Imperial Cormorant
35​	Turkey Vulture
36​	Sedge Wren
37​	Correndera Pipit
38​	Long-tailed Meadowlark
39​	White-bridled Finch

 

[dantheman]

There are at least 8 hanging around here, enjoying the mealworms!!

Is that a recent thing? Shouldn't they be in Africa right now?

 

[Swindon Addick]

Europe (excluding UK) so far: 126. I'm always grateful to the people who helpfully look for duplicates in this list, as different countries use different names for some species and I don't always spot them all.

Barnacle Goose
Bearded Reedling
Black Redstart
Black Woodpecker
Black-headed Gull
Black-necked Grebe
Black-throated Diver
Black-winged kite
Brambling
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Cattle egret
Common Blackbird
Common Buzzard
Common Chaffinch
Common Coot
Common Crane
Common Eider
Common Goldeneye
Common Gull
Common Kestrel
Common Kingfisher
Common Linnet
Common Moorhen
Common Pheasant
Common Reed Bunting
Common Scoter
Common Shelduck
Common Snipe
Common Starling
Common Treecreeper
Common Wood Pigeon
Corn Bunting
Crag martin
Crested lark
Dipper
Dunnock
Eurasian Blue Tit
Eurasian Bullfinch
Eurasian Collared Dove
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian Magpie
Eurasian Nuthatch
Eurasian Siskin
Eurasian Skylark
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Teal
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Eurasian Treecreeper
Eurasian Wigeon
Eurasian Woodcock
Eurasian Wren
European Crested Tit
European Goldfinch
European Greenfinch
European Herring Gull
European Robin
Fieldfare
Gadwall
Goldcrest
Goosander
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Cormorant
Great Crested Grebe
Great Northern Diver
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Great White Egret
Greater White-fronted Goose
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Greylag Goose
Hawfinch
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
Jack Snipe
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Redpoll
Lesser Spotted Wooodpecker
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Owl
Long-tailed Duck
Long-tailed Tit
Mallard
Marsh harrier
Marsh Tit
Meadow Pipit
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Mistle Thrush
Mute Swan
Northern Great Grey Shrike
Northern Lapwing
Northern Pintail
Northern Raven
Northern Shoveler
Red-breasted Merganser
Redstart
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon
Rock Pipit
Rook
Sardinian warbler
Short-toed Treecreeper
Song Thrush
Spanish sparrow
Spotless Starling
Stock Dove
Stonechat
Syrian Woodpecker
Tufted Duck
Tundra Bean Goose
Water Rail
Western Jackdaw
White Stork
White Wagtail
Whooper Swan
Wood Pigeon
Yellow wagtail
Yellowhammer
Yellow-legged Gull
Zitting cisticola

 

[gerald762]

Is that a recent thing? Shouldn't they be in Africa right now?

Perhaps they should. There are usually some here all winter, they must like the feeding arrangements!!

 

[dantheman]

Perhaps they should. There are usually some here all winter, they must like the feeding arrangements!!

Unfortunately that's a Black Redstart though isn't it? ... female (or imm male?) Sorry!

Cracking pic though!