Marks 2024 green list (on foot and by bicycle) (1 Viewer)

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January 1st - An extended dog walk followed sometime with the garden feeders, then a quick cycle around the lanes to get over the 50.

1. Common Woodpigeon
2. Collared Dove
3. Common Magpie
4. Carrion Crow
5. Eurasian Blue Tit
6. Great Tit
7. Eurasian Blackbird
8. European Robin
9. Common Chaffinch
10. Eurasian Bullfinch
11. European Greenfinch
12. European Goldfinch
13. Eurasian Siskin
14. Greylag Goose
15. Pink-footed Goose
16. Canada Goose
17. Eurasian Wigeon
18. Mallard
19. Stock Dove
20. European Golden Plover
21. Northern Lapwing
22. Black-headed Gull
23. Common Gull
24. Herring Gull
25. Great Cormorant
26. Eurasian Sparrowhawk
27. Common Buzzard
28. Great Spotted Woodpecker
29. Eurasian Jackdaw
30. Rook
31. Coal Tit
32. Marsh Tit
33. Eurasian Skylark
34. Long-tailed Tit
35. Goldcrest
36. Eurasian Nuthatch
37. Eurasian Treecreeper
38. Eurasian Wren
39. Common Starling
40. Mistle Thrush
41. Song Thrush
42. Redwing
43. Fieldfare
44. Dunnock
45. Pied Wagtail
46. Common Linnet
47. Lesser Redpoll
48. House Sparrow
49. Grey Heron
50. Barn Owl
51. Corn Bunting
52. Merlin
53. Common Pheasant
54. Common Kestrel

2nd January - A washout with moderate/heavy rain all day

3rd January - A cycle down to the Lower Derwent Valley and North Duffield for the morning netted a few more, but missing Greater Scaup and Smew unfortunately.

55. Mute Swan
56. Whooper Swan
57. Common Shelduck
58. Northern Shoveler
59. Gadwall
60. Eurasian Teal
61. Tufted Duck
62. European Stonechat
63. Northern Pintail
64. Little Grebe
65. Ruff

 

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4th January - Whilst walking the dog this morning added another three species. Spent the rest of the day building a new bike (a late Christmas present to myself)

66. Eurasian Jay
67. Common Kingfisher
68. Common Reed Bunting

 

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5th January- today started with a Tawny Owl calling from the garden. A repeat visit Thorganby and North Duffield yielded another six species, the highlight being a male Smew.

69. Tawny Owl
70. Common Pochard
71. Common Moorhen
72. Common Redshank
73. Smew
74. Dunlin
75. Meadow Pipit

 

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8th January - After a quiet weekend with no birding and nothing new on the garden feeders I was pleased to add Yellowhammer to the list this morning.

76. Yellowhammer

 

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9th January - A trip up to Castle Howard this morning netted a couple of new species.

77. Common Goldeneye
78. Eurasian Coot

 

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A round trip to St. Aidan’s and Fairburn Ings RSPB reserves and Lemonroyd waste water treatment on the bike yielded a few new species for the year.

79. Eurasian Curlew
80. Grey Wagtail
81. Water Pipit
82. Goosander
83. Little Egret
84. Glossy Ibis
85. Red Kite
86. Cetti’s Warbler
87. Western Cattle Egret
88. Red-legged Partridge

 

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Whilst walking the dog this morning, finally added Tree Sparrow (they’ve been strangely absent from the garden this year)

89. Tree Sparrow

 

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19th January - a ride out to Yorkshire Wildlfe Trusts North Cave reserve today yielded three new species.

90. Eurasian Woodcock
91. Brambling
92. Common Snipe

 

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25th January - A return trip to the Yorkshire Wildlfe Trusts North Cave reserve today failed to produce the Black-throated Diver reported yesterday. Still lots of wildfowl on the pits, a singing Cetti’s Warbler and still good numbers of Brambling about.

93. Western Marsh Harrier