This years "stuff" - 2010 (1 Viewer)

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28 April

Leasowe, Wirral

304 Common Reed Warbler

 

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30 April

A44 - south slope of Pumlumon Fawr ( Plynlimon ), Dyfed

305 Wood Warbler

 

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Just back from Gabon and a shed load of birds to go on this years list. I'll start with the "lifers" and then, when my fingers have recovered, the rest!

03 May - 03 June

Gabon

306 Black Guineafowl
307 Plumed Guineafowl
308 White-crested Tiger Heron
309 Chestnut-flanked Sparrowhawk
310 Long-tailed Hawk
311 White-spotted Flufftail
312 Streaky-breasted Flufftail
313 Grey-throated Rail
314 Forbes' Plover
315 Grey Pratincole
316 Damara Tern
317 Western Bronze-naped Pigeon
318 Black-collared Lovebird
319 Yellow-billed Turaco
320 Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo
321 Gabon Coucal
322 Fraser's Eagle Owl
323 Akun Eagle Owl
324 Maned Owl
325 Red-chested Owlet
326 Sjostedt's Owlet
327 Rufous-cheeked Nightjar
328 Bates' Swift
329 Blue-throated Roller
330 Black-headed Bee-eater
331 Blue-headed Bee-eater
332 Rosy Bee-eater
333 Black Dwarf Hornbill
334 Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill
335 White-crested / Long-tailed Hornbill
336 Black-casqued Wattled Hornbill
337 Bristle-nosed Barbet
338 Naked-faced Barbet
339 Red-rumped Tinkerbird
340 Black-backed Barbet
341 Zenker's Honeyguide
342 Willcock's Honeyguide
343 Lyre-tailed Honeyguide
345 African Piculet
346 Buff-spotted Woodpecker
347 Gabon Woodpecker
348 Elliot's Woodpecker
349 Grey-headed Broadbill
350 White-spotted Wattle-eye
351 Black-necked / Reichenow's Wattle-eye
352 Angola Batis
353 Gabon / Verreaux's Batis
354 West African Batis
355 Gabon Helmetshrike
356 Fiery-breasted Helmetshrike
357 Sabine's Puffback
358 Swamp Boubou
359 Blue Cuckoo-shrike
360 Eastern Wattled Cuckoo-shrike
361 Souza's Shrike
362 Mackinnon's Shrike
363 Black-winged Oriole
364 Shining Drongo
365 Rufous-vented Paradise-flycatcher
356 Bates' Paradise-flycatcher
357 Grey-necked Picathartes
358 Forest Penduline-tit
359 African River Martin
360 Square-tailed Saw-wing
361 White-throated Swallow
362 Rufous-breasted Swallow
363 Angolan Cliff Swallow
364 Preuss' Cliff Swallow
365 Forest Swallow
366 Malbrandt's Lark
367 Chattering Cisticola
368 Black-backed Cisticola
369 Pale-crowned Cisticola
370 Ansorgue's Greenbul
371 Golden Greenbul
372 Sjostedt's Greenbull
373 Falkenstein's Greenbul
374 Swamp Palm Bulbul
375 Yellow-lored Bristlebill
376 White-bearded Greenbul
377 Black-collared Bulbul
378 Western Nicator
379 Dusky Crested-flycatcher / Elminia
380 Dja River Warbler
381 Yellow Longbill
382 Violet-backed Hyliota
383 Red-capped Crombec
384 Black-capped Illadosis
385 Forest White-eye
386 Chestnut-winged Starling
387 Narrow-tailed Starling
388 White-collared Starling
389 Grey Ground Thrush
390 Eastern Forest Robin
391 Gabon Forest Robin
392 Olive-backed Forest Robin
393 Red-tailed Palm Thrush
394 Congo Moorchat
395 Yellow-footed Flycatcher
396 Grey-throated Tit Flycatcher
397 Fraser's Sunbird
398 Brown Sunbird
399 Violet-tailed Sunbird
400 Green Sunbird
401 Riechenbach's Sunbird
402 Carmelite Sunbird
403 Johanna's Sunbird
404 Bates' Sunbird
405 Loango Weaver
406 Maxwell's Weaver
407 Yellow-capped Weaver
409 Red-crowned Malimbe
410 Rachel's Malimbe
411 Red-bellied Malimbe
412 Woodhouse's Antpecker Finch
413 Chestnut-breasted Nigrita
414 Pale-fronted Nigrita
415 Black-bellied Seedeater
416 Fawn-breasted Waxbill
417 Black-headed Waxbill ( s.s. )
418 Black-chinned Quailfinch
419 Long-legged Pipit
420 Short-tailed Pipit
421 Black-faced Canary
564 Black Spinetail

As there were four of us on the trip we only counted those birds that 3 out of the 4 were sure of so we probably "saw" a few more Cisticola's and Greenbul's than we counted.

04 June

Stodmarsh, Kent

422 Northern Hobby

 

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03 May - 03 June

Gabon ( part 2 )

423 Helmeted Guineafowl
424 Crested Guineafowl
425 (Latham's ) Forest Francolin
426 Coqui Francolin
427 Finsch's Francolin
428 Red-necked Francolin
429 Harlequin Quail
450 White-faced Whistling Duck
451 Spur-winged Goose
452 Egyptian Goose
453 Harlaub's Duck
454 African Pygmy-Goose
455 African Black Duck
456 Lesser Flamingo
457 Yellow-billed Stork
458 African Openbil ( Stork )
459 Abdim's Stork
460 Wooly-necked Stork
461 Marabou Stork
462 African Sacred Ibis
463 Hadada Ibis
464 Olive Ibis
465 Spot-breasted Ibis
466 African Spoonbill
467 Dwarf Bittern
468 White-backed Night Heron
469 Black-crowned Night Heron
470 Striated ( Little ) Heron ( s.l. )
471 Goliath Heron
472 Intermediate Egret
473 Western Reef Egret
474 Hamerkop
475 Great White Pelican
476 Long-tailed ( Reed ) Cormorant
477 African Darter
478 Grey Kestrel
479 African Hobby
480 African Cuckoo Hawk
481 Bat Hawk
482 Scissor-tailed Kite
483 Yellow-billed Kite
484 African Fish Eagle
485 Palm-nut Vulture
486 African White-backed Vulture
487 Bateleur
488 Congo Serpent Eagle
489 African Harrier Hawk
490 Shikra ( Sparrowhawk )
491 Red-thighed Sparrowhawk
492 Black Sparrowhawk
493 Lizard Buzzard
494 Red-necked Buzzard
495 wahlberg's Eagle
496 Ayre's Hawk Eagle
497 Martial Eagle
498 Long-crested Eagle
499 Cassin's Hawk Eagle
500 White-bellied Bustard
501 Red-chested Flufftail
502 Nkulengu Rail
503 African Rail
504 African Crake
505 Black Crake
506 Allen's Gallinule
507 Lesser Moorhen
508 African Finfoot
509 Black-rumped Buttonquail
510 Water Thick-knee
511 Spotted Thick-knee
512 White-crowned Lapwing
513 Senegal Lapwing
514 African Wattled Lapwing
515 Brown-chested Lapwing
516 Kittlitz's Plover
517 White-fronted Plover
518 African Jacana
519 Egyptian Courser ( Plover )
520 Rock Pratincole
521 Grey-headed Gull
522 Kelp Gull
523 Caspian Tern
524 Royal Tern
525 Little Tern ( Least Tern? West African Little Terns occasionally sound very like Least Tern )
526 Sooty Tern
527 African Skimmer
528 Afep Pigeon
529 Lemon Dove
530 Red-eyed Dove
531 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
532 Blue-spotted Wood Dove
533 Tambourine Dove
534 African Green Pigeon
535 Red-headed Lovebird
536 African Grey Parrot
537 Red-fronted Parrot
538 Great Blue Turaco
539 Guinea Turaco
540 Ross' Turaco
541 Western Grey Plantain-eater
542 Levaillant's Cuckoo
543 Thick-billed Cuckoo
544 Red-chested Cuckoo
545 Black Cuckoo - gabonensis. ( Very different from East African birds. )
546 Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo
547 Yellow-throated Cuckoo
548 Klaas' Cuckoo
549 African Emerald Cuckoo
550 Dideric Cuckoo
551 Blue Malkoha ( Yellowbill )
552 Black-throated Coucal
553 Blue-headed Coucal
554 Senegal Coucal
555 African Grass Owl
556 Spotted Eagle Owl
557 Verreaux's Eagle Owl
558 Pel's Fishing Owl
559 Brown Nightjar
560 Swamp Nightjar
561 Long-tailed Nightjar
562 Pennant-winged Nightjar
563 Mottled Spinetail

565 African Palm Swift
566 Little Swift
567 Horus Swift
568 Speckled Mousebird
569 Broad-billed Roller
570 Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
571 Grey-headed Kingfisher
572 Striped Kingfisher
573 Woodland Kingfisher
574 African Dwarf Kingfisher
575 White-bellied Kingfisher
576 Malachite Kingfisher
577 Shining-blue Kingfisher
578 Giant Kingfisher
579 Black Bee-eater
580 Blue-breasted Bee-eater
581 White-fronted Bee-eater
582 White-throated Bee-eater
583 Forest Wood Hoopoe
584 Black Scimitarbill
585 African Pied Hornbill
586 Piping Hornbill
587 Grey-throated Barbet
589 Speckled Tinkerbird
590 Yellow-throated Tinkerbird
591 Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
592 Yellow-spotted Barbet
593 Yellow-billed Barbet
594 Least Honeyguide
595 Thick-billed Honeyguide
596 Spotted Honeyguide
597 Brown-eared Woodpecker
598 Yellow-crested Woodpecker
599 Grey Woodpecker

Passerines tomorrow!

Chris

 

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03 May - 03 June

Gabon

600 African Broadbill
601 Rufous-sided Broadbill
602 African Pitta
603 Green-breasted Pitta
604 Red-eyed Shrike-Flycatcher
605 Black + White Shrike-Flycatcher
606 Chestnut Wattle-eye
607 Chinspot Batis
608 Black-headed Batis
609 Brown-throated Wattle-eye
610 Grey-green Bushshrike
611 Gorgeous Bushshrike
612 Black-crowned Tchagra
613 Northern Puffback
614 Lowland Sooty Boubou
615 Luhder's Bushshrike
616 Petit's Cuckoo-Shrike
617 Purple-throated Cuckoo-Shrike
618 Common Fiscal
619 Western Black-headed Oriole
620 Square-tailed Drongo
621 Velvet-mantled Drongo
622 Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher
623 African Paradise-flycatcher
624 Pied Crow
625 White-winged Tit
626 Tit-Hylia
627 Black Sawwing ( s.l.)
628 Grey-rumped Swallow
629 Banded Martin
630 Red-chested Swallow
631 Angolan Swallow
632 Rock Martin
633 Lesser Striped Swallow
634 Whistling Cisticola
635 Short-winged Cisticola
636 Pectoral-patch Cisticola
637 Tawny-flanked Prinia
638 Banded Prinia
639 White-chinned Prinia
640 Yellow-breasted Apalis
641 Lowland Masked Apalis
642 Buff-throated Apalis
643 ( W ) Grey-backed Cameroptera
644 Common Bulbul
645 Little Greenbul
646 Grey Greenbul
647 Plain Greenbul
648 Slender-billed Greenbul
649 Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
650 Simple Greenbul
651 Yellow-throated Greenbul
652 Red-tailed Leaflove
653 Icterine Greenbul
654 Xavier's Greenbul
655 Red-tailed Bristlebill
656 Blue Crested-flycatcher / Elminia
657 Fan-tailed Grassbird
658 Black-faced Rufous Warbler
659 Grey Longbill
660 Green Hylia
661 Rufous-crowned Eremomela
662 Green Crombec
663 Lemon-bellied Crombec
664 Brown Illadopsis
665 African Yellow White-eye
666 Splendid Glossy Starling
667 Purple-headed Glossy Starling
668 Amethyst Starling
669 Yellow-billed Oxpecker
670 White-tailed Ant/Rufous Thrush
671 Rufous Flycatcher ( Fraser's Rufous )Thrush
672 African Thrush ( s.s )
673 Fire-crested Alethe
674 Brown-chested Alethe
675 Lowland Akalat
676 Blue-shouldered Robin Chat
677 Snowy-crowned Robin Chat
678 White-browed Scrub Robin
679 Sooty Chat
680 Fraser's Forest Flycatcher
681 White-browed Forest Flycatcher
682 Ashy Flycatcher
683 Cassin's Flycatcher
684 Dusky-blue Flycatcher
685 Grey Tit Flycatcher
686 Little Green Sunbird
687 Blue-throated Brown Sunbird
688 Olive Sunbird
689 Green-throated Sunbird
690 Olive-bellied Sunbird
691 Superb Sunbird
692 Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
693 Slender-billed Weaver
694 Black-necked Weaver
695 Orange Weaver
696 Village Weaver
697 Viellot's Black Weaver
698 Dark-backed Weaver
699 Blue-billed Malimbe
700 Red-headed Malimbe
701 Crested Malimbe
702 Red-headed Quelea
703 Yellow-crowned Bishop
704 Black-winged Bishop
705 Yellow-mantled Widowbird
706 White-breasted Nigrita
707 Grey-headed Nigrita
708 Green-backed Twinspot
709 Western Bluebill
710 African Firefinch
711 Orange-cheeked Waxbill
712 Common Waxbill
713 Black-crowned Waxbill
714 Bronze Munia
715 Black + White Munia
716 Magpie Munia
717 Indigobird ? sp.
718 Pin-tailed Whydah
719 Mountain Wagtail
720 African Pied Wagtail
721 Yellow-throated Longclaw
722 Yellow-fronted Canary
723 Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
724 Cabani's Bunting
745 Chestnut-capped Flycatcher

Adding the 16 species that I'd already seen this year the final total for Gabon was 427! Not bad for a month - and a big lump of this years total ( probably )
Chris

 

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15th June

Red Rocks, Wirral

746 Manx Shearwater

16th June

Newton, Wirral

747 Spotted Flycatcher

 

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02 July

Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.

748 Eur Turtle Dove

After "dipping" on the one just down the road from my house last weekend it was great to see quite a few still around, in an area that used to hold "lots", when I lived there.
Chris

 

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10 July

Puffin Island, Anglesey.

749 Atlantic Puffin

 

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01 August

IMF, Burton, Cheshire

750 Lesser Yellowlegs

02 August

Lang Lane, West Kirby

751 Common Cuckoo ( Finally. I thought I was going to go the whole year without one ! )
Chris

 

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03 August

Kuala Lumpur Airport

752 House Crow
753 Common Myna
754 Pacific Swallow
755 House Swift

Kuala Lumpur ( city and Hibiscus Gardens )

In Malaya for a wedding so, while Annette and the other women went off shopping, Ian and I had a look around K.L. As my 'bins were still packed - annd Jane wouldn't allow Ian to bring his when they came to meet us - the birds below were just picked out by eye.

756 Milky Stork ( on the way in from the airport )
757 Black-eared Kite
758 Brahminy Kite
759 Black-thighed Falconet
760 White-breasted Waterhen
761 Little Green Pigeon
762 Spotted Dove
763 Peaceful Dove
764 Common Koel
765 Edible-nest Swiftlet
766 White-throated Kingfisher
767 Coppersmith Barbet
768 Pied Triller
769 Grey-chinned Minivet
770 Scarlet Minivet
771 Stripe-throated Bulbul
772 Yellow-vented Bulbul
773 Ashy Drongo
774 Large-billed Crow
775 Asian Magpie Robin
776 Olive-backed Sunbird

Travelling to Selangor

Mainly from the car, but most of the smaller stuff was behind a filling station on the way to Ian and Janes house.

777 Great-billed Heron
778 Thick-billed Pigeon
779 Pink-necked Pigeon
780 Asian Palm Swift
781 Collared ( Mangrove ) Kingfisher
782 Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
783 Lineated Barbet
784 Paddyfield Pipit
785 Green Iora
786 Black-headed Bulbul
787 Black Drongo
788 Common Tailorbird
789 Pied Fantail
790 Crimson Sunbird
791 Little Spiderhunter
792 Oriental White-eye
793 Chestnut Munia


Chris

 

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05 August

Selangor

After the wedding, yesterday, Ian and I had a general look around the area, getting as far as the mangroves on the coast. Birds below include species picked up in the garden, this morning, and last night.

794 Asian Darter
795 Pacific Reef Egret
796 Cinnamon Bittern
797 Black Bittern
798 White-bellied Sea-Eagle
799 Crested Serpent Eagle
800 Slaty-breasted Rail
801 Watercock
802 Malaysian Plover
803 Greater Sand Plover
804 Black-naped Tern
805 Cinnamon-headed Pigeon
806 Green Impeerial Pigeon
807 Pied Imperial Pigeon
808 Violet Cuckoo
809 Green-billed Malkoha
810 Raffles' Malkoha
811 Greater Coucal
812 Collared Scops Owl
813 Large-tailed Nightjar
814 Malaysian Eared Nightjar
815 Black-nest Swiftlet
816 White-vented Needletail
817 Grey-rumped Tree Swift
818 Blue-eared Kingfisher
819 Stork-billed Kingfisher
820 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
821 Blue-throated Bee-eater
822 Dollarbird
823 Wrinkled Hornbill
824 Southern Pied Hornbill
825 Helmeted Hornbill
826 Red-throated Barbet
827 Brown Barbet
828 Laced Woodpecker
829 Streak-backed Woodpecker
830 Crimson-winged Woodpecker
831 Common Flameback
832 Black and Red Broadbill
833 Bar-winged Cuckooshrike
834 Large Woodshrike
835 Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike
836 Fiery Minivet
837 Common Iora
838 Little Green Leafbird
839 Greater Green Leafbird
840 Blue-winged Leafbird
841 Black-crested Bulbul
842 Olive-winged Bulbul
843 Ochraceous Bulbul
845 Grey-chinned Bulbul
846 Crow-billed Drongo
847 Greater Raquet-tailed Drongo
848 Asian Fairy-bluebird
849 Black-naped Oriole
850 Large-billed Crow
851 Short-tailed Babbler
852 White-chested Babbler
853 Ferruginous Babbler
854 Abbot's Babbler
855 Moustached Babbler
856 Striped Wren Babbler
857 Chestnut-winged Babbler
858 Brown Fulvetta
859 White-bellied Yuhina
860 White-rumped Shama
861 Yellow-bellied Prinia
862 Yellow-backed Warbler
863 Ashy Tailorbird
864 Brown-streaked Flycatcher
865 Verditer Flycatcher
866 Little Pied Flycatcher
867 Mangrove Blue Flycatcher
868 Golden-bellied Gerygone
869 Asian Paradise-flycatcher
870 Black-naped Monarch
871 Black-collared Starling
872 Jungle Myna
873 Brown-headed Sunbird
874 Red-throated Sunbird
875 Purple-throated Sunbird
876 Grey-breasted Spiderhunter
877 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
878 Thick-billed Flowerpecker
879 Plain Flowerpecker
880 Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
881 Baja Weaver
882 White-rumped Munia
883 Scaly-breasted Munia

Not a bad haul, particularly as it wasn't supposed to be a birding trip!
Chris

 

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24 August

North Wirral

884 Arctic Skua

Very poor month, even for August. Dipped on Black Tern at Birdfair, perhaps I should have started a "Dipped List"
Chris

 

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28 August

New Brighton

885 Great Skua

Chris

 

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16 September

Red Rocks, Hoylake

886 Leach's Storm-Petrel

Chris

 

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19 September

West Kirby saltmarsh

887 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Chris

 

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03 October

IMF

888 Black Tern

I thought I'd better nip down for the tern, as there seems little chance of me picking up one otherwise this year!

Chris

 

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17 October
IMF

889 White-winged Tern

Poorest Autumn I've had for years, because of work!!!!!!

Chris

 

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24 - 29 October

Vancouver Area, B.C., Canada
Mainly in family garden, but with trips to Lighthouse Park, Stanley Park, Reifel Island and a bit of sailing off the north of Vancouver Island and up towards the Queen Charlottes.

890 Pacific Diver ( Loon )
891 Yellow-billed Diver ( Loon )
892 Pied-billed Grebe
893 Western Grebe
894 Sooty Shearwater
895 Short-tailed Shearwater. Shearwaters were a surprise at this time of year.
896 Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel
897 Double-crested Cormorant
898 Brandt's Cormorant
899 Pelagic Cormorant
900 American Bittern
901 Great Blue Heron
902 Little Heron
903 Snow Goose
904 Cackling Goose
905 Trumpeter Swan
906 Wood Duck
907 American Wigeon
908 Blue-winged Teal
909 Cinnamon Teal
910 Green-winged Teal
911 Canvasback
912 Redhead
913 Ring-necked Duck
914 Lesser Scaup
915 King Eider
916 Pacific Eider
917 Harlequin Duck
918 Black Scoter
919 Surf Scoter
920 White-winged Scoter
921 Bufflehead
922 Barrow's Goldeneye
923 Hooded Merganser
924 Bald Eagle
925 Sharp-shinned Hawk
926 Cooper's Hawk
927 Red-tailed Hawk
928 Golden Eagle
929 American Kestrel
929 Ruffed Grouse
930 Blue Grouse
931 Virginia Rail
932 American Coot
933 Sandhill Crane
934 Killdeer Plover
935 Black Oystercatcher
936 Greater Yellowlegs
937 Willet
938 Spotted Sandpiper
939 Marbled Godwit
940 Black Turnstone
941 Surfbird
942 Least Sandpiper
943 Western Sandpiper
944 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
945 Rock Sandpiper
946 Short-billed Dowitcher
947 Wilson's Snipe
948 Franklin's Gull
949 Bonaparte's Gull
950 Ring-billed Gull
951 California Gull
952 American Herring Gull
953 Thayer's Gull
954 Western Gull
955 Glaucous-winged Gull
956 Pigeon Guillemot
957 Marbled Murrelet
958 Ancient Murrelet
959 Cassin's Auklet
960 Rhinoceros Auklet
961 Tufted Puffin
962 Band-tailed Pigeon
963 Am. Mourning Dove
964 Western Screech Owl
965 Great Horned Owl
966 Northern Pygmy Owl
967 Barred Owl
968 Anna's Hummingbird
969 Belted Kingfisher
970 Lewis' Woodpecker
971 Red-breasted Sapsucker
972 Downy Woodpecker
973 Hairy Woodpecker
974 Am. Three-toed Woodpecker 1st since split
975 Northern Flicker
976 Pileated Woodpecker
977 Northern Shrike
978 Hutton's Vireo
979 Grey Jay
980 Steller's Jay
981 Western Scrub Jay
982 Northwestern Crow
983 Black-capped Chickadee
984 Mountain Chickadee
985 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
986 Bushtit
987 Red-breasted Nuthatch
988 Brown Creeper ( Am. Treecreeper )
989 Bewick's Wren
990 Pacific Winter Wren 1st since split
991 Marsh Wren
992 American Dipper
993 Townsend's Solitaire
994 Hermit Thrush
995 American Robin
996 Varied Thrush
997 Northern Mockingbird
998 American ( Buff-bellied ) Pipit
999 Cedar Waxwing
1000 Orange-crowned Warbler
1001 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1002 Spotted Towhee
1003 Am. Tree Sparrow
1004 Savannah Sparrow
1005 Fox Sparrow
1006 Lincoln's Sparrow
1007 Swamp Sparrow
1008 White-throated Sparrow
1009 White-crowned Sparrow
1010 Golden-crowned Sparrow
1011 Harris Sparrow
1012 Dark-eyed Junco
1013 Red-winged Blackbird
1014 Western Meadowlark
1015 Brewer's Blackbird
1016 Brown-headed Cowbird
1017 Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
1018 Purple Finch
1019 House Finch
1020 White-winged Crossbill
1021 Pine Siskin
1022 American Goldfinch
1023 Evening Grosbeak

I had a horrible feeling that I wasn't going to have a "Grand" year this year.

Chris

 

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25 November
Foremark Res. Derbys.

1024 Laughing Gull

I had to make a slight detour - but a tick is a tick ( particularly after the way this end of the year has been going )

Chris

 

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25 November
Foremark Res. Derbys.

1024 Laughing Gull

I had to make a slight detour - but a tick is a tick ( particularly after the way this end of the year has been going )

Chris

25th November to the end of the year without a new species :eek!: :eek!: :eek!:. There was a time when I would have been ripping my hair out - but as I'm older and wiser nowadays - I'm happy with 1024 for the year :t: :t: :t:

Chris