This was meant to be where I kept my lists! but I cant find a way to do tabs within the site and having asked one friend that seemed to have been forgotten. I will try again later.

Year List UK 237(BOU) struggled up to that over the last month...some easy birds missing!

631 species seen this year including non BOU and World Birds thats not so bad!!!

Lifers well 262 (Costa Rica) (will do a list later!)
Espana 8(WP) Wallcreeper, Lammergeir, Citril Finch, Alpine Accenter, Dupont's Lark, Orphean Warbler, Caspian Tern and Alpine Chough (Yellow bills!)
UK 7 BOU + 4 Non BOU
White-billed Diver, Gyr Falcon, Isabelline Shrike,Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Dusky Warbler Red breasted Goose and Buff-bellied Pipit being lifers
Brown Flycatcher, Pacific Diver and Black-eared Kite(non bou) lifers
Asian Lesser Whitethroat (sub species?)

Patch watching

1st of May...lovely sunny day so had to go birding.Added to the year list (not sure if I had said that I had seen both Swallows and Swifts now.
To Staines Reservoir....Common Terns (elegant birds)
Staines Moor ---- Sedge Warblers

The next day I went to Barnes and first year bird a Black Tern!
To the Wader Scrape hide and there amidst the LRPs, Redshanks and Lapwings were two Wood Sandpipers and I thought I didn't know these were here. They arrived today!
Later I saw a Greenshank..well two and on the Lake a Common Sandpiper was found by another birder who kindly pointed it out!

Lots of migrants still to see. I am not chasing around this year just seeing what I see where I go.

Forgot to say I went to Stanwell Moor and saw as expected my first Swallows...they nest at a farm there...and as I hadn't seen any I went deliberately to see them! (Thursday April 19th)

great...but I still haven't seen any Swifts ...or any Swallows apart from those!

This Friday I am going to Barnes (Wetland Centre) for 6am opening...usually it opens at 9.30.
I have often said I would have to volunteer so I could go in early and what do they do....answer my
dream!!
There have been some interesting sights there recently.

Wonder what will be there?

Added some new year birds as the migrants are arriving.

Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Sand Martins and House Martins.

Still awaiting my first Swallow s and Swifts!

Slip slip sliding away!!

Its Easter Sunday...Happy Easter to all my readers!!

Where does the time go?

It just whizzes away!
Been very busy with my voluntary work. Now this w/e I am helping to look after a few folks cats and dogs which means I can only bird on the walks or from the car....
My Eagles won 3-0 altho its too late for the play-offs at least they aren't going out for the usual end of season slide.
Today England play Oz in the World Cup and I'm very fearful, whatever favours Bangladesh may have done by beating SA - I still cant see us making the final 4. Will we be beaten out of sight or will Freddie find his batting class again...form is temp and class forever but when oh when will he rediscover class?(Talons crossed for the boys)

For the Canadians (and yes you Oceans and Forest) I will try to post a couple of photos of some local birds....to go with your Tufted Duck visitor.Ring nec Parakeets. These are birds that originally were escapes...they come from India...but now are accepted as self surviving and we have lots in the SW of London!! Richmond Park, Esher and around where I live in Isleworth!

Have to go coffee needs making!

Added
Heard first Chiffchaff yesterday at Rainham marshes....seemed like several around but could we spot the little sweetie...nope!!
But did see one of the Penduline Tits! However the object of the exercise was somewhat thwarted when the person with me was so far away by the time I had found it and was in my scope(they were looking at a Little Egret!!! Now lovely as they are.....!)...she got back looked in the scope it got moved somehow and bird flew deeper into the reed bed....not to be seen again. At least not by us.


Lovely day and we also saw a Water Vole....very nice too.

So will add to the year list.

2007 Year List uk

Birds seen this year

1. Red-throated diver
2. Great Northern Diver
3. (Pacific Diver x2 West Wales and Cornwall)
4. White Billed Diver (Cornwall)
5. Little Grebe
6. Great Crested Grebe
7. Red-necked Grebe
8. Black-necked grebe
9. Cormorant
10. Bittern
11. Little Egret
12. Grey heron
13. Mute Swan
14. Bewick's Swan
15. Whooper Swan
16. Bean Goose
17. Pinkfooted Geese
18. Greylag
19. Canada
20. Barnacle
21. Brent Geese (Dark and Pale Bellied)
22. Egyptian
23. (Tundra bean Goose)
24. Shelduck
25. Mandarin
26. Wigeon
27. American Wigeon
28. Gadwall
29. Teal
30. Mallard
31. Pintail
32. Shoveler
33. Pochard
34. Ring-necked Duck (Kent)
35. Fudge Duck (Kent)
36. Tufted
37. Eider
38. Long tailed
39. Common Scoter
40. Velvet Scoter
41. Goldeneye
42. Smew
43. Red breasted Merganser
44. Goosander
45. Ruddy Duck
46. Red Kite
47. Marsh harrier
48. Hen Harrier
49. Goshawk
50. Sparrowhawk
51. Buzzard
52. Rough legged Buzzard
53. Gry Falcon
54. Kestrel
55. Merlin
56. Peregrine
57. Black-eared Kite
58. Red legged Partridge
59. Grey partridge
60. Pheasant
61. Golden Pheasant
62. Water Rail
63. Moorhen
64. Coot
65. Oystercatcher
66. Avocet
67. Ringed Plover
68. Golden Plover
69. Grey Plover
70. Lapwing
71. Knot
72. Sanderling
73. Little Stint
74. Temminck's Stint
75. Long Billed Dowitcher
76. Spotted Sandpiper
77. Dunlin
78. Black tailed Godwit
79. Bar tailed Godwit
80. Curlew
81. Spotted redshank
82. Redshank
83. Greenshank
84. Turnstone
85. Great Skua
86. Med Gull
87. Black headed
88. Ring-billed
89. Common
90. Lesser black backed
91. Herring
92. Iceland
93. Glaucous
94. Great black backed
95. Yellow legs
96. Franklin's
97. (Feral Pig)
98. Stock Dove
99. Woodpigeon
100. Collared Dove
101. Ring-necked Parakeet
102. Greater Spotted Cuckoo
103. Little Owl
104. Short eared Owl
105. Green Woodie
106. Greater Spot Woodie
107. Skylark
108. Meadow Pipit
109. Grey Wagtail
110. Pied Wagtail
111. Wren
112. Dunnock
113. Robin
114. Stonechat
115. Blackbird
116. Song Thrush
117. Redwing
118. Mistle Thrush
119. Lesser Whitethroat (possible almost impossible to say...Central Asian (halimodendri)
120. Blackcap
121. Yellow browed Warbler
122. Longtailed tit
123. Marsh tit
124. Coal tit
125. Blue tit
126. Great tit
127. Nuthatch
128. Treecreeper
129. Great grey Shrike
130. Jay
131. Magpie
132. Chough
133. Jackdaw
134. Rook
135. Carrion crow
136. Hooded Crow
137. Raven
138. Starling
139. House Sparrow
140. Tree Sparrow
141. Chafinch
142. Brambling
143. Greenfinch
144. Goldfinch
145. Siskin
146. Linnent
147. Lesser Redpoll
148. Mealy Redpoll
149. Bullfinch
150. Hawfinch
151. Yellowhammer
152. Little Bunting
153. Reed Bunting
154. Corn Bunting
155. Penduline Tit
     

BOU 154 (updated 16/03)

Some dips - Scaup and Lesser Scaup, Lesser Spot Woody, Tawny Owl ,LBDowitcher (finally sorted last week!!)Smew until Dunge,
Looking forward to the migrants arriving and a trip to Scotland for the specialities.......
To be sorted -BOU Life List and UK Life List
Must sort out my Western P list and my Espana List
The World list is currently 1148 wonder what will be the 1150?

UK Bird List 2007