Bird year list 2017: updated 05.05.17

With 2 weeks away in Sri Lanka and too much work, I have not been as active in birding as usual. Only last Friday was my 1st away day, to Rainham Marshes whilst yesterday was my first 2017 trip to North Norfolk. Consequently, many overwintering species are going to not be seen until the end of the year.
For what it is worth, my first list of the year is as follows. If no site recorded then local, i.e. Little Hadham parish, East Herts.

Little Hadham mandarin

1. little grebe
2. great crested grebe (Titchwell)
3. fulmar (Dungeness)
4. gannet (Dungeness)
5. cormorant
6. little egret (Rainham Marsh)
7. grey heron
8. spoonbill (Titchwell)
9. mute swan (Kelling water meadows)
10. greylag goose (Rainham)
11. canada goose (Rainham)
12. brent goose (Warham Greens)
13. shelduck (Rainham)
14. egyptian goose (Cley)
15. mandarin
16. mallard
17. gadwall (Rainham)
18. pintail (Rainham)
19. shoveler (Rainham)
20. wigeon (Rainham)
21. teal (Rainham)
22. pochard (Cley)
23. redcrested pochard (Titchwell)
24. tufted duck (Rainham)
25. Ring necked duck (Dungeness)
26. common scoter (Titchwell)
27. Velvet scoter (Titchwell)
28. long tailed duck (Titchwell)
29. goldeneye (Dungeness)
30. red breasted merganser (Titchwell)
31. red kite
32. marsh harrier (Cley)
33. common buzzard
34. sparrowhawk
35. kestrel
36. hobby (Wiveton)
37. red legged partridge
38. grey partridge
39. pheasant
40. moorhen
41. coot
42. oystercatcher (Cley)
43. avocet (Kelling Water Meadows)
44. little ringed plover (Titchwell)
45. ringed plover (Rainham)
46. grey plover (Titchwell)
47. lapwing
48. knot (Cley)
49. turnstone (Burnham Overy Staithe)
50. dunlin (Cley)
51. common sandpiper (Kelling WM)
52. redshank (Rainham)
53. black tailed godwit (Cley)
54. Bar tailed godwit (Titchwell)
55. curlew (Warham Greens)
56. whimbrel (Burnham Overy Staithe)
57. woodcock
58. snipe (Titchwell)
59. jack snipe (Rainham)
60. ruff (Cley)
61. black headed gull
62. common gull
63. mediterranean gull (Titchwell)
64. herring gull
65. lesser black backed gull
66. Great black backed gull (Kelling WM)
67. Caspian gull (Dungeness)
68. sandwich tern (Dungeness)
69. Common tern (Dungeness)
70. stock dove (Warham Greens)
71. wood pigeon
72. collared dove
73. swift (Titchwell)
74. tawny owl
75. barn owl
76. short eared owl (Cley)
77. little owl
78. green woodpecker
79. great spotted woodpecker
80. lesser spotted woodpecker
81. skylark
82. woodlark (Kelling Heath)
83. sand martin (Rainham)
84. house martin (Cley)
85. swallow (Titchwell)
86. meadow pipit (Cley)
87. pied wagtail
88. grey wagtail
89. yellow wagtail (Rainham)
90. wren
91. dunnock
92. robin
93. Black redstart (Dungeness)
94. wheatear (Kelling WM)
95. stonechat (Kelling WM)
96. song thrush
97. redwing
98. fieldfare
99. mistle thrush
100. blackbird
101. blackcap 
102. Lesser whitethroat (Kelling Water Meadows)
103. whitethroat (Dungeness)
104. sedge warbler (Rainham)
105. cettis warbler (Rainham)
106. reed warbler (Dungeness)
107. willow warbler (Kelling Heath)
108. chiffchaff
109. goldcrest
110. great tit
111. blue tit
112. coal tit
113. long tailed tit
114. bearded tit (Cley)
115. nuthatch
116. tree creeper
117. magpie
118. jay
119. jackdaw
120. rook
121. carrion crow
122. starling
123. house sparrow
124. chaffinch
125. linnet
126. goldfinch
127. greenfinch
128. siskin
129. bullfinch
130. reed bunting
131. yellowhammer
132. Corn Bunting (Choseley)

Norfolk turnstone