2020 Bird Year list

I don't often keep a year list of birds but thought this year has been so different I thought it would be worth recording for posterity. This is a list, as far as I can recall up until 17th December.

Goldcrest

Song thrush

1. Red throated diver
2.  Little grebe
3.  Great crested grebe
4.  Fulmar (Weybourne beach, Norfolk)
5.  Gannet
6.  Cormorant
7.  Cattle egret (Burnham Overy Staithe)
8.  Little egret
9. Great egret (Titchwell)
10.  Grey heron
11.  Spoonbill (Stiffkey, Norfolk)
12.  Mute swan
13.  Pink footed goose
14.  Greylag goose
15.  Canada goose
16.  Barnacle goose
17.  Brent goose
18.  Shelduck
19.  Egyptian goose
20.  Mallard
21.  Gadwall
22.  Shoveler
23.  Teal
24.  Pochard
25.  Tufted duck
26.  Common scoter
27.  Goldeneye
28.  Red kite
29.  Marsh harrier
30.  Hen harrier (Wighton, Norfolk)
31.  Common buzzard
32.  Sparrowhawk
33.  Kestrel
34.  Hobby
35.  Peregrine
36.  Red legged partridge
37.  Grey partridge
38. Pheasant
39.  Water rail
40.  Coot
41.  Moorhen
42.  Oystercatcher
43.  Avocet
44.  Little ringed plover
45.  Ringed plover
46.  Grey plover
47.  Golden plover
48.  Lapwing
49.  Knot
50.  Sanderling
51.  Turnstone
52.  Dunlin
53.  Green sandpiper
54.  Redshank
55.  Greenshank
56.  Black tailed godwit
57.  Bar tailed godwit
58.  Curlew
59.  Snipe
60.  Red necked phalarope (Salthouse, Norfolk)
61.  Ruff
62.  Great skua (Titchwell)
63.  Black headed gull
64.  Herring gull
65.  Lesser black backed gull
66.  Greater black backed gull
67.  Common gull
68.  Mediterranean gull (Titchwell)
69.  Sandwich tern
70.  Common tern
71.  Wood pigeon
72.  Collared dove
73.  Cuckoo (heard)
74.  Tawny owl
75.  Little owl
76.  Short eared owl (Wallington nr Baldock)
77.  Barn owl
78.  Swift
79.  House martin
80.  Sand martin
81.  Swallow
82.  Hoopoe (Wighton, Norfolk)
83.  Kingfisher
84.  Rose ringed parakeet
85.  Green woodpecker
86.  Great spotted woodpecker
87.  Skylark
88.  Rock pipit
89.  Meadow pipit
90.  Pied wagtail
91.  Yellow wagtail
92.  Grey wagtail
93.  Wren
94.  Dunnock
95.  Robin
96.  Redstart
97.  Wheatear 
98.  Song thrush
99.  Mistle thrush
100.  Fieldfare
101.  Redwing
102.  Blackbird
103.  Ring ouzel (Garden Drove, Warham Greens, Norfolk)
104.  Barred warbler (Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk)
105.  Garden warbler
106.  Blackcap
107.  Lesser whitethroat
108.  Whitethroat
109.  Sedge warbler
110.  Cetti's warbler
111.  Reed warbler
112.  Willow warbler
113.  Chiffchaff
114.  Radde's warbler (Wells Woods, Norfolk. Only the 3rd I have ever seen in UK)
115.  Yellow browed warbler (Wells Woods, Norfolk)
116.  Pallas's warbler (Holkham Pines, Norfolk)
117.  Goldcrest
118.  Spotted flycatcher
119.  Pied flycatcher (Wells Woods, Norfolk)
120.  Red breasted flycatcher (Wells Woods, Norfolk)
121.  Great tit
122.  Coal tit
123.  Marsh tit
124.  Blue tit
125. Long tailed tit
126.  Bearded reedling
127.  Nuthatch
128.  Tree creeper
129.  Brown shrike (Warham Greens, Norfolk)
130.  Magpie
131.  Jay
132.  Carrion crow
133.  Raven (Garden!)
134.  Jackdaw
135.  Rook
136.  Starling
137.  House sparrow
138.  Chaffinch
139.  Brambling (Burnham Overy Staithe)
140.  Linnet
141.  Lesser redpoll
142.  Goldfinch
143.  Greenfinch
144.  Siskin
145.  Bullfinch
146.  Reed bunting
147.  Yellowhammer
148.  Snow bunting
149.  Siskin
150.  Woodcock
151.  Goosander
152.  Corn bunting
153.  Merlin
154.  Stonechat
155.  Iceland gull (Weybourne beach, Norfolk)
156.  Red breasted merganser
157.  Eider
158.  Wigeon
159.  Great northern diver

Redstart

Knot

Stonechat

Iceland gull

Short eared owl