My 2006 list (1 Viewer)

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Just back from a fantastic 10 days in Catalonia (7 days with local bird tour company). Lots of new birds for the year (193 species altogether) and a few lifers thrown in!


Friday 28 April 2006 Barcelona city centre

202. Common Swift
203. Serin


Saturday 29 April 2006 Llobregat Delta (near Barcelona); Garraf Natural Park

204. Little Bittern
205. Squacco Heron
206. Great White Egret
207. White Stork
208. Glossy Ibis
209. Spoonbill
210. Flamingo
211. Red-crested Pochard
212. Purple Gallinule
213. Collared Pratincole
214. Black-winged Stilt
215. Yellow-legged Gull
216. Whiskered Tern
217. Hoopoe
218. Bee-eater
219. Monk Parakeet
220. Crested Lark
221. Tawny Pipit
222. Sardinian Warbler
223. Fan-tailed Warbler
224. Great Reed Warbler
225. Nightingale
226. Spotted Flycatcher


Sunday 30 April 2006 Eastern Pyrenees

227. Lammergeier*
228. Griffon Vulture
229. Short-toed Eagle
230. Black Woodpecker
231. Crag Martin
232. Rock Thrush
233. Ring Ouzel
234. Western Bonelli's Warbler
235. Firecrest
236. Crested Tit
237. Alpine Chough*
238. Common Crossbill
239. Cirl Bunting
240. Rock Bunting


Monday 1st May 2006 Lleida area, (steppes and farmland)

241. Cattle Egret
242. Black Kite
243. Montagu's Harrier
244. Lesser Kestrel
245. Hobby
246. Stone Curlew
247. Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
248. Turtle Dove
249. Great Spotted Cuckoo
250. Thekla Lark
251. Short-toed Lark
252. Calandra Lark
253. Red-rumped Swallow
254. Black-eared Wheatear
255. Black Wheatear
256. Melodious Warbler
257. Olivaceous Warbler
258. Southern Grey Shrike
259. Woodchat Shrike
260. Spotless Starling


Tuesday 2 May 2006 Aiguamolls d'Emporda

261. Night Heron
262. Purple Heron
263. Garganey
264. Kentish Plover
265. Curlew Sandpiper
266. Little Stint
267. Black Tern
268. Roller
269. Red-throated Pipit*
270. Ortolan Bunting*

also Spanish and Italian Yellow Wagtails.


Wednesday 3 May 2006 Garraf park and Llobregat Delta

271. Temminck's Stint
272. Audouin's Gull*
273. Caspian Tern*
274. White-winged Black Tern
275. Nightjar
276. Pallid Swift*
277. Blue Rock Thrush
278. Dartford Warbler


Thursday 4 May 2006 Ebro Delta

279. Slender-billed Gull*
280. Gull-billed Tern
281. Little Tern
282. Lesser Short-toed Lark*
283. Savi's Warbler
284. Spectacled Warbler


Friday 5 May 2006 Cap de Creus Park

285. Balearic Shearwater
286. Bonelli's Eagle
287. Woodlark
288. Orphean Warbler
289. Golden Oriole

Sunday 7 May 2006 Barcelona

290. Ring-necked Parakeet*

Phew!

 

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Back over in Ireland for a few days. New birds proving a bit harder to find as the year goes on but did manage to add...

Friday 19 May 2006 Giles Quay, Co. Louth

291. Arctic Skua

 

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Mon 22 May 2006 Carlingford Lough, Co. Down

292. Arctic Tern

 

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One more to add from last night...

Monday 22 may 2006 Cooley Peninsula, Co. Louth

293. Long-eared Owl

 

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24 May 2006 Neumanns Flash, Cheshire

294. Red-necked Phalarope - stunning bird!

 

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Sat 27 May 2006 Inner Marsh Farm RSPB, Cheshire

295. Pectoral Sandpiper* - been trying to catch up with this species for a long, long time, missed it many times. Success at last!

 

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by the way, British/Irish year list (i.e. excluding those seen only on spanish trip) is currently at 213.

 

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2 more added over the weekend

Saturday 3 June 2006 Blacktoft Sands RSPB Yorkshire

296. Bearded Tit



Sun 4 June 2006 Anderton Nature Park, Cheshire

297. Lesser Whitethroat

 

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Wednesday 14 June Anderton Nature Park/ Neumanns Flash, Cheshire

298. Green Sandpiper




British/Irish list: 218

 

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Sunday 18 June 2006 Cemlyn lagoon, Angelsey

299. Roseate Tern



British/ Irish list: 219

 

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2 more added over the weekend:

Friday 23 June 2006 New Brighton, Cheshire

300. Storm Petrel



Monday 26 June 2006 Carrington Moss, Gtr Manchester

301. Quail (heard only)