2019 Bird Year List updated 19.03.19

Following several local walks for my Bishop's Stortford Independent fortnightly column and a trip to a very cold North Norfolk I thought it was time to kickstart my 2019 year list of all the birds I have seen this year.

Bullfinch: Wells Next The Sea harbour, feeding on sea buckthorn

Black headed gull: Brancaster harbour

1. Red throated diver: Holkham beach
2. Black throated diver: Titchwell
3. Great Northern Diver: Holkham beach
4. Black necked grebe: Holkham beach
5. Little Grebe: Bishop's Stortford
6. Great crested grebe: Cambridge/Waterbeach
7. Gannet: Cley beach
8. Cormorant: Cley beach
9. Little egret: Cley NWT
10. Grey heron: Holkham
11. Mute swan: River Stort
12. Whooper swan: near Ely in fields
13. Pink footed goose: Holkham
14. Greylag goose: Trimms Green
15. Canada goose: Holkham
16. Brent goose: Warham Greens
17. Shelduck: Titchwell
18. Egyptian goose: Holkham
19. Mallard: River Stort
20. Gadwall: Titchwell
21. Pintail: Titchwell
22. Shoveler: Titchwell
23. Wigeon: Holkham
24. Teal: Titchwell
25. Pochard: Titchwell
26. Tufted duck: Fuller's End
27. Eider: Titchwell
28. Common scoter: Titchwell
29. Velvet scoter: Cley beach
30. Red kite: Little Hadham 
31. Marsh harrier: Cley

    

    Red kite: Holkham

32. Common buzzard: Little Hadham
33. Sparrowhawk: Thorley Wash
34. Kestrel: Little Hadham
35. Red legged partridge: Little Hadham
36. Grey partridge: Little Hadham
37. pheasant: garden
38. Water rail: Titchwell
39. Moorhen: River Stort
40. Coot: Titchwell
41. Oystercatcher: Titchwell
42. Avocet: Titchwell
43. Ringed plover: Titchwell
44. Grey plover: Titchwell
45. Golden plover: Titchwell
46. Lapwing: Amwell
47. Sanderling: Titchwell
48. Turnstone: Titchwell
49. Dunlin: Cley NWT
50. Redshank: Titchwell
51. Black tailed godwit: Titchwell
52. Bar tailed godwit: Titchwell
53. Curlew: Titchwell
54. Woodcock: Millennium Wood
55. Black headed gull: Little Hadham
56. Common gull: Sheringham
57. Herring gull: Little Hadham
58. Lesser black backed gull: Little Hadham
59. Great black backed gull: Cley
60. Guillemot: Cley beach 

    

    Curlew: Thornham harbour

61. Wood pigeon: Little Hadham
62. Collared dove: Little Hadham
63. Tawny owl: Much Hadham
64. Barn Owl: Little Hadham
65. Little Owl: Green Tye
66. Kingfisher: River Stort
67. Green woodpecker: Little Hadham
68. Great spotted woodpecker: Little Hadham
69. Skylark: Tye Green
70. Shore lark: Holkham beach

    

    Shore lark: Holkham beach 

71. Water pipit: Titchwell
72. Meadow pipit: Cley
73. Pied Wagtail: Bishop's Storford
74. Grey wagtail: Little Hadham
75. Wren: Garden
76. Dunnock: garden
77. Robin: garden
78. Song Thrush: Bishop's Stortford
79. Mistle Thrush: Bishop's Storford
80. Redwing: Little Hadham
81. Fieldfare: Little Hadham
82. Blackbird: Garden
83. Chiffchaff: River Stort
84. Goldcrest: Hadham Hall
85. Great tit: Garden
86. Blue Tit: Garden
87. Coal Tit: Garden
88. Marsh Tit: Fuller's End
89. Long tailed tit: Garden
90. Nuthatch: Turner's Spring EWT Reserve
91. Treecreeper: Little Hadham
92. Magpie: Garden
93. Jay: Little Hadham
94. Jackdaw: Garden
95. Rook: Little Hadham
96. Carrion Crow: Little Hadham
97. Starling: garden
98. House sparrow: Little Hadham
99. Chaffinch: garden
100. Brambling: Titchwell
101. Linnet: Thornham harbour
102. Twite: Thornham Harbour
103. Goldfinch: Garden
104. Greenfinch: Fuller's End
105. Siskin: River Stort
106. Bullfinch: Wells Next the Sea
107. Reed bunting: Thorley Wash HMWT
108. Snow bunting: Holkham beach
109. Raven: Little Hadham
110. Peregrine falcon: Bishop's Stortford
111. Smew: Amwell
112. Siskin: Bishop's Stortford
113. Goldeneye: Amwell
114. Mediterranean Gull (Titchwell)
115. Wheatear (Cley, Eye Field)
116. Rock pipit (Cley, East Bank)

Snow bunting: Salthouse beach/Gramborough Hill 2018

Teal: Titchwell RSPB Reserve

Barn owl at Holkham

Water rail: Titchwell

117. Sand martin (Amwell)
118. Little ringed plover (Amwell)
119. Willow warbler (Amwell)
120. Blackcap (Sawbridgeworth Marsh)
121. House martin (Amwell)
122. Swallow (Rushy Mead)

Blackcap singing at Amwell

Willow warbler (Amwell)

123. Common tern (Oare Marshes)
124. Whitethroat (Dungeness)
125. Sedge warbler (Dungeness)
126. Common crane (Denge Marsh)
127. Great skua (Dungeness)
128. Arctic skua (Dungeness)
129. Whimbrel (Dungeness)
130. Lesser whitethroat (AVGC)
131. Spotted flycatcher (Westland Green)
132 Garden Warbler (Cradle End)
133. Sandwich tern (Titchwell)
134. Stone curlew (Weeting Heath)
135. Swift (Little Hadham)
136 Cuckoo (Holme NWT Reserve)
137. Red crested pochard (Titchwell)
138. Hobby (Titchwell)

Little Ringed plover

Juvenile Marsh tit

pair of Stone curlew