Markpie's 2024 List (1 Viewer)

[markpie]

Happy new year! Here we go again!

1/1/24:
Home:
1: Black-headed Gull
2. Woodpigeon
3. Collared Dove
4. Blackbird
5. Starling
6. Great Tit
7. Blue Tit
8. House Sparrow
9. Magpie
10. Blackcap
11. Lesser Black-backed Gull
12. Carrion Crow
13. Robin

1. Grey Squirrel

2/1/24:
Amwell:
14. Coot
15. Moorhen
16. Canada Goose
17. Mallard
18. Gadwall
19. Tufted Duck
20. Pochard
21. Cormorant
22. Red-crested Pochard
23. Great Crested Grebe
24. Little Grebe
25. Herring Gull
26. Red Kite
27. Buzzard
28. Lapwing
29. Wren
30: Jackdaw
31: Shoveler
32: Wigeon
33: Greylag Goose
34: Grey Heron
35: Mute Swan
36: Song Thrush

2. Muntjac

Stort Valley from train:
37. Little Egret

 

[markpie]

7/1/24:
Lee Valley Country Park:
38. Redwing
39. Treecreeper
40. Long-tailed Tit
41. Goldcrest
42. Bittern
43. Feral Pigeon
44. Pheasant
45. Great Spotted Woodpecker
46. Goldfinch
47. Chaffinch
48. Barnacle Goose (feral pop.)
49. Chiffchaff
50. Fieldfare
51. Kingfisher
52. Goosander

3. Fallow Deer

10/1/24:
Bramfield, Herts:
53. Greenfinch
54. Hawfinch
55. Jay

12/1/24:
Stort Valley:
56. Kestrel
57. Cetti's Warbler
58. Dunnock

4. Rabbit

25/1/24:
Stortford to Great Hallingbury:
59. Linnet
60. Skylark

26/1/24:
Stortford to Farnham:
61. Pied Wagtail
62. Rook
63. Barn Owl

5. Brown Hare

 

[markpie]

30/1/24:
Kings Mead:
64. Teal

Amwell:
65. Water Rail
66. Great White Egret
67. Common Gull
68. Goldeneye (2f)
69. Ring-necked Parakeet

 

[markpie]

28/2/24, Amwell:
70. Raven

7/3/24, Stort Valley:
71. Siskin
72. Mistle Thrush
73. Grey Wagtail
74. Green Woodpecker

19/3/24, Amwell:
75. Snipe
76. Jack Snipe

22/3/24, Amwell to Harlow:
77. Egyptian Goose
78. Stock Dove
79. Reed Bunting
80. Mandarin Duck (my 100th tick for Stort Valley)

28-29/3/24, Adur Estuary to Worthing:
81. Turnstone
82. Redshank
83. Great Black-backed Gull
84. Oystercatcher
85. Curlew


Other:
6. Red Fox - 22/3/24, Parndon Lock Meadows, Harlow

1. Brimstone - 15/2/24, Home
2. Twenty-plume Moth - 21/3/24, Home

 

[Paul Chapman]

28/2/24, Amwell:
70. Raven

7/3/24, Stort Valley:
71. Siskin
72. Mistle Thrush
73. Grey Wagtail
74. Green Woodpecker

19/3/24, Amwell:
75. Snipe
76. Jack Snipe

22/3/24, Amwell to Harlow:
77. Egyptian Goose
78. Stock Dove
79. Reed Bunting
80. Mandarin Duck (my 100th tick for Stort Valley)

28-29/3/24, Adur Estuary to Worthing:
81. Turnstone
82. Redshank
83. Great Black-backed Gull
84. Oystercatcher
85. Curlew


Other:
6. Red Fox - 22/3/24, Parndon Lock Meadows, Harlow

1. Brimstone - 15/2/24, Home
2. Twenty-plume Moth - 21/3/24, Home

My old stomping grounds. 40 years ago Raven and Egyptian Goose would have been unheard of (as with Buzzard, Red Kite & Little Egret) but I have a copy of Birds of Hatfield Forest around here somewhere that would have had multiple territories of birds that I suspect are now extinct - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Willow Tit, Turtle Dove, Tree Sparrow, etc...

Edit - memories pricked so I dug both of these off the shelf & took some pics.

All the best

Paul

 

[markpie]

My old stomping grounds. 40 years ago Raven and Egyptian Goose would have been unheard of (as with Buzzard, Red Kite & Little Egret) but I have a copy of Birds of Hatfield Forest around here somewhere that would have had multiple territories of birds that I suspect are now extinct - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Willow Tit, Turtle Dove, Tree Sparrow, etc...

Edit - memories pricked so I dug both of these off the shelf & took some pics.

All the best

Paul

Thanks for digging those out and uploading, was very interesting to see. Certainly never seen those four species there and a couple of the others mentioned, I used to see the odd LSW in Birchanger Woods but not recently