So Hows your 2006 Yearlist Going then ? (1 Viewer)

[Nightjar61]

Only four new birds today, bringing my Year List up to 74.

71. Golden-crowned Kinglet
72. Ruddy Duck
73. Bald Eagle
74. Bufflehead

Dave

 

[Dave B Smith]

A Northern Hawk Owl was a real good addition to my list and also brought me out of the teens.

 

[Jacana]

YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!

finally at number 72 the golden plover! This is also a lifer, it's always eluded me! seen on the Long Mynd Shropshire on Sunday.

i haven't posted my full list out yet. here it is in order of appearence:

1 wood pigeon
2 great tit
3 blue tit
4 greenfinch
5 hedge accentor
6 european nuthatch
7 european blackbird
8 european robin
9 common chaffinch
10 carrion crow
11 house sparrow
12 common jackdaw
13 greater spotted woodpeacker
14 eurasian collared dove
15 coal tit
16 fieldfare
17 eurasian starling
18 black headed gull
19 black billed magpie
20 rock dove
21 ring necked pheasant
22 moorhen
23 winter wren
24 common buzzard
25 pied wagtail
26 common coot
27 shelduck
28 northern pintail
29 eurasian teal
30 eurasian wigeon
31 northern shoveler
32 tufted duck
33 mallard
34 pochard
35 canada coose
36 greylag goose
37 marsh tit
38 lesser redpoll
39 linnet
40 reed bunting
41 european goldfinch
42 herring gull
43 common kestrel
44 rook
45 eurasian oystercatcher
46 mute swan
47 gooseander
48 grey heron
49 eurasian curlew
50 common raven
51 song thrush
52 common snipe
53 redwing
54 greater scaup
55 common redshank
56 ruddy turnstone
57 brent goose
58 rock pipit
59 greater black backed gull
60 ringed plover
61 dunlin
62 northern lapwing
63 greater cormorant
64 long tailed duck
65 red brested merganser
66 common eider
67 stonechat
68 northern sparrowhawk
69 whooper swan
70 goldcrest
71 eurasian woodcock
72 golden plover

 

[Jacana]

45-69 were all seen in Dumfreis and Galloway the others in Shropshire

 

[Jacana]

Added a few more today....

75 - Hawfinch.
76 - Peregrine.
77 - Red-breasted Merganser.
78 - Red-throated Diver.
79 - Great Northern Diver.
80 - Common Scoter.
81 - Slavonian Grebe.
82 - Eider.
83 - Redshank.
84 - Curlew.
85 - Oystercatcher.
86 - Turnstone.
87 - Kittiwake.

Dipped Water Pipit & Black Scoter, which sucks big time!! Ah well, another visit to N.Wales required.

i'm guessing you didn't see these in Shropshire?? that really would be something!

i can't beef up my number because i'm stuck in school! i'd have given so much to see the Ross's gull!

 

[GiG]

I'd missed out Snipe and Grey plover... tut tut.

Now on 100 with a treecreeper in the local park yesterday.

101. Siskin on local patch at work.

Gi

 

[Chris in France]

Saturday and Sunday saw me driving out to two local lakes which were safe from the activities of hunters and, despite the lakes being partially frozen over, managed to see 12 new birds this year, including two lifers, to bring my year total to 48 and my life list total to 195.

My new birds are, with the lifers marked with an asterisk, the following:

Common Kestrel
Great Egret
Great Crested Grebe
Eurasian Wigeon
Coot
Greylag Goose
Goosander
Common Teal*
Gadwall*
Goldcrest
Fieldfare (two fields full of them en route home)
Rook (en route)

 

[Jacamar]

My year list is up to 103 now, after a trip to Georgetown.

Highlights:

Red-shouldered Macaw
Festive Parrot (Lifer, and best bird of the trip!)
Paradise Jacamar
Blue-crowned Motmot
Purple Honeycreeper
Blue Dacnis
Spotted Puffbird
Grey-breasted Sabrewing (Lifer)
Chestnut Woodpecker
Greyish Mourner
White-tailed Trogon
Buff-throated Saltator
Peregrine Falcon
Pearl Kite (Lifer)
Green-tailed Goldenthroat (Lifer)

 

[Andrew]

A few more common birds today. 110 Devon BOU.

 

[Chris in France]

A Brambling was seen in the garden today for the third time this winter and the first time this year, so that's another year tick. Then, later, on my local patch walk I came across a small number of Common Redpolls in some silver birch trees; never seen one before so that's both a life tick and a year tick. Life list is now 196 and year list has reached 50. Roll on tomorrow!

 

[Miedin]

37 American Tree Sparrow
38 Mute Swan
39 Dark-eyed Junco
40 Bald Eagle (lifer) I've actually seen one before but not since keeping a life list.
41 Snow Bunting

 

[Larry Lade]

I went up to Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge today to see "what was about". I got thirteen species of waterfowl and some nice woodland birds. The only new "year ticks" were:

68. Gadwall
69. Northern Shoveler
70. Redhead

*The twelve Trumpeter Swans were nice to see!

 

[Richard W]

another Herts bird,

82 Kingfisher.

 

[Hedgewitch]

After a frustrating ten days witout a proper day out, I nipped up to the local woods before work for ten minutes and got:
74. Marsh Tit
75. Treecreeper

Hmm, think I'll visit my old mum in Torbay this weekend... and then nip out with me scope for Divers and whatnot.
Hopefully the Laughing Gull is still hanging around Brixham harbour!

 

[postcardcv]

added gn diver and rn grebe at Titchwell yesterday...

then in the evening I finally got my first barn owl of the year - followed two minutes later by my second!

now on 115 - all BOU all in Norfolk.

 

[Larry Lade]

Had a good look at another Prairie Falcon again yesterday just south of Saint Joseph, Missouri. But the only new year bird was:

71. Eastern Meadowlark

 

[jtibbetts]

101: Tundra Bean Goose (Tixal, Staffs)
102: Great-crested Grebe (!)
103: Goosander
104: Scaup
105: Smew
106: Willow Tit

Apart from the Geese all the others were seen at Chasewater.

 

[Andrew]

Best of luck Hedgewitch. The Laugher and Med Gull were ont he pontoons just past the boats. Keep walking out to the end of the breakwater for Purple Sandpipers too.

Birding around the Exe brought six more Devon ticks including Peregrine, Green Sand and at last, Water Pipit.

 

[Hedgewitch]

Nice one Andrew, appreciate the info!

I'll probably do Dawlish Warren Saturday am. Where was the Green sand?

 

[Andrew]

Green Sand was at Riverside Valley Pools. View from the furthest blind up the canal path.