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Sunday, 1 April 2012

Year list update

New month begins and time to add my latest year list: these were birds previously recorded:
Red throated diver, little grebe, great crested grebe, gannet, cormorant, bittern, grey heron, little egret, great egret, mute swan, greylag goose, canada goose, barnacle goose, brent goose, shelduck, mallard, gadwall, pintail, shoveler, wigeon, teal, pochard, tufted duck, long tailed duck, goldeneye, smew, marsh harrier, common buzzard, sparrow hawk, kestrel, merlin, red legged partridge, grey partridge, pheasant, moorhen, coot, oystercatcher, golden plover, lapwing, turnstone, dunlin, redshank, curlew, snipe, black headed gull, herring gull, caspian gull, common gull, lbbg, gbbg, kittiwake, guillemot, razorbill, stock dove, wood pigeon, collared dove, tawny owl, little owl, barn owl, green woodpecker, gsw, skylark, meadow pipit, pied wagtail, grey wagtail, wren, dunnock, robin, stonechat, mistle thrush, redwing, songthrush, fieldfare, blackbird, goldcrest, great tit, blue tit, long tailed tit, bearded reedling, nuthatch, treecreeper, magpie, jay, jackdaw, rook, carrion crow, starling, house sparrow, tree sparrow, chaffinch, linnet, goldfinch, greenfinch, bullfinch, reed bunting, yellowhammer, bewicks swan, whooper swan, red kite, pink footed goose, ringed plover, grey plover, black tailed godwit, bar tailed godwit, snow bunting, cettis warbler, siskin, lesser redpoll, kingfisher, coal tit, water rail, green sandpiper

To these I have added:
knot (Snettisham), peregrine (Allens Green) ring necked parakeet (Hounslow) mandarin (Little Hadham) red kite (M25 Watford) chiffchaff (Little Hadham) ruff (Dungeness) sandwich tern (Dungeness) med gull (Dungeness) red breasted merganser (Dungeness) reed warbler (Oare Marshes) water pipit (Dungeness) white wagtail (Dungeness) sand martin (Dungeness) raven (Dungeness) blackcap (Amwell) garden warbler (Little Hadham)
Running total 127 species up to April 1st

Archive photo: Birding on the Polish Baltic coast April 2006. Note old Nikon 990 camera from my digiscoping days  but still the same jacket. Over 100 birds for a three day visit, staying at Szceczin.
Hat RIP, fell apart in the Algarve, April 2011

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