Mark's 2023 list (1 Viewer)

[markpie]

A lazy start to the year at home:

1/1/23:

1. Feral Pigeon
2: Woodpigeon
3. Carrion Crow
4. House Sparrow
5. Blue Tit
6. Magpie
7. Song Thrush
8. Blackbird
9. Robin
10. Long-tailed Tit
11. Redwing
12. Black-headed Gull
13. Great Tit
14. Starling
15. Collared Dove
16. Red Kite

 

[markpie]

6/1/23 (along Stort Valley):

17. Moorhen
18. Mallard
19. Jay
20. Wren
21. Chaffinch
22. Goldfinch
23. Cormorant
24. Jackdaw
25. Grey Heron
26. Mute Swan
27. Coot
28. Little Grebe
29. Teal
30. Shoveler
31. Ring-necked Parakeet
32. Great Spotted Woodpecker
33. Kestrel
34. Tufted Duck

First fox of the year too, great views of it hunting

 

[markpie]

9/1/23 (Hatfield Forest):

35. Fieldfare
36. Bullfinch
37. Green Woodpecker
38. Gadwall
39. Little Egret
40. Goldcrest
41. Marsh Tit

 

[markpie]

A pair of dunnocks in the garden gave me the meaning of life

42. Dunnock

 

[markpie]

43. Sparrowhawk

 

[markpie]

18/1/23 (Hatfield Forest):

44. Mistle Thrush
45. Buzzard
46. Canada Goose
47. Stock Dove
48. Nuthatch

 

[markpie]

A local walk this morning produced a flock of 35 siskins and a pied wagtail in a car park, bringing me to 50.

49. Siskin
50. Pied Wagtail

 

[markpie]

One from the garden watch:

51. Blackcap

 

[markpie]

2/2/23 (River Stort):

52. Herring Gull
53. Rook
54. Kingfisher

 

[markpie]

7/2/23 (Birchanger Woods):

55. Coal Tit
56. Linnet
57. Lesser Black-backed Gull

 

[markpie]

8/2/23 (Birchanger Woods):

58. Treecreeper

 

[markpie]

12/2/23:

59. Greenfinch

16/2/23 (Amwell):

60. Lapwing
61. Great Crested Grebe
62. Common Gull
63. Great Black-backed Gull
64. Egyptian Goose
65. Pochard
66. Greylag Goose
67. Pheasant

 

[markpie]

20/2/23 (field next to Birchanger Wood):

68. Skylark (several being very active)

21/2/23 (River Stort):

69. Grey Wagtail

 

[markpie]

23/2/23 (Rye Meads):

70. Chiffchaff
71. Green Sandpiper
72. Stonechat

 

[markpie]

2/3/23 (River Stort):

73. Wigeon
74. Barn Owl

 

[Owene]

I'd trade quite a few of the ones i've seen for a barn owl. hopefully will get one sometime

 

[markpie]

Was just a fleeting glimpse from the train but they generally seem to be more active now

 

[Paul Chapman]

So many of my childhood stamping grounds in this thread - lived in Harlow and went to school in Bishop's Stortford in the 70s & 80s. A copy of the Birds of Hatfield Forest pamphlet on my shelf at home - Hawfinch, Willow Tit, Tree Sparrow, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, etc... Amwell was effectively my patch in the late 80s & early 90s but visited it irregularly. 👍

All the best

Paul

 

[markpie]

7/3/23 (brief seawatch on Suffolk coast):

75. Gannet

11/3/23 (Amwell & Rye Meads):

76. Great White Egret
77. Cetti's Warbler
78. Shelduck

A good view of a successful weasel at Amwell gave me my 7th mammal.

 

[markpie]

15/3/23 (Birchanger Wood):

79. Yellowhammer

Had a lovely weekend in Suffolk and Norfolk, with two lifers and a mammal lifer and saw the hundreds of grey seals at Horsey.

18/3/23 (Suffolk coast off Broadlands):

80. Turnstone
81. Purple Sandpiper, lifer - lone one among a flock of turnstone

Grey Seal, Roe Deer and Chinese Water Deer (lifer) at Horsey brings mammals to 10.

19/3/23 (Minsmere):

82. Marsh Harrier
83. Reed Bunting
84. Bearded Tit, lifer, pair showing briefly by Island Hide
85. Avocet
86. Pintail
87. Ringed Plover
88. Curlew
89. Oystercatcher