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, goldcrest, willow warbler, swallow,wheatear, house martin, whitethroat, cuckoo, sedge warbler, swift, common tern, lesser whitethroat, little ringed plover, common sandpiper, nightingale, nightjar, hobby, yellow wagtail, stone curlew, spotted flycatcher.
To this I have since added:
grey wagtail (Little Hadham) little stint (Dungeness) garganey (Dungeness) greenshank (Dungeness) little tern (Dungeness) black tern (Dungeness) redstart (Amwell) crossbill (Broxbourne Woods) spoonbill (Titchwell)eider (Titchwell) arctic skua (Titchwell) manx shearwater (Titchwell) common scoter (Titchwell) spotted redshank (Titchwell) curlew sandpiper (Cley) Pectoral sandpiper (Cley) whimbrel (Cley) arctic skua (Sheringham) fulmar (Portland Bill) balearic shearwater (Portland Bill) shag (Portland Bill) rock pipit (Portland Bill) short billed dowitcher (Lodmoor and my 3rd lifer of the decade) tree pipit (Portland) wood warbler (Culverwell) firecrest (The Grove, Portland)
This makes my running total 173 for the year. Trips to Flamborough Head and several Norfolk visits to come may well see 200 broken this year, but no where near my 226 from many years ago and no twitching!!
Archive photo from Autumn 2008 showing a leucistic jackdaw that arrived on the chapel roof at the bottom of the garden. Seen for about 3 months after, but not again. Jackdaws were tolerant of its presence, but magpies and jays attacked it incessantly.
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