year list update

 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, knot, peregrine, ring necked parakeet, mandarin,red kite, chiffchaff, ruff, sandwich tern, med gull, red breasted merganser, reed warbler, water pipit, white wagtail, sand martin, raven, blackcap, garden warbler

To these 127 species I have added:
goldcrest (Little Hadham) willow warbler (Little Hadham) swallow (Little Hadham) wheatear (Little Hadham) house martin (Little Hadham) whitethroat (Little Hadham) cuckoo (Little Hadham) sedge warbler (Amwell) swift (Amwell) common tern (Rye Meads) lesser whitethroat (Little Hadham) little ringed plover (Amwell) common sandpiper (Minsmere)  nightingale (Minsmere) nightjar (Minsmere) hobby (Puckeridge) yellow wagtail (Hadham Hall) stone curlew (Weeting Heath) spotted flycatcher (Hadham Hall)

146 species is pretty poor for July, but with several trips coming up, I hope to bump this up before Autumn visits to Norfolk propel the total towards 200+
Archive photo: February 2008 and 3 days at a science show in Poznan, Polnad. Spent time in Wielopolska National Park, wandering along the frozen river Warta. Saw middle spotted and black woodpecker, short toed tree creeper, great grey shrike, hen harrier, beaver dams, wild boar, row deer, hawfinch, crested larks etc.