Updated year list 31.08.14

Trips to North Norfolk, Amwell and a couple of days in Dungeness have boosted my year list as follows:
169: arctic skua
170: wood sandpiper
171: spotted crake
172: little stint
173: yellow wagtail
174: red necked phalarope
175: manx shearwater
176: balearic shearwater
177: fulmar
178: little gull
179: great skua
180: melodious warbler
181: redstart
182: whinchat
183: tree sparrow
184: ruddy duck
185: raven
186: curlew sandpiper
187: roseate tern
188: black tern
189: honey buzzard
190: white rumped sandpiper

Archive photo: Brown shrike, Rosyth, Kergalle Sri Lanka Jan 2014

A two day stay at Portland should help towards 200, but last year's total of 212 is looking a little distant at present. Need a good autumn fall and some numbers of winter geese on the Essex coast.