Wednesday, 23 January 2008

January 23rd 2008.Pacific Diver.

Got over to Llys-y-ffan resr - saw the Pacific Diver in the pouring rain, also Great Grey Shrike there.

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

January 22nd 2008. White-crowned Sparrow.





Got down to Cley in Norfolk - managed to get the White-crowned Sparrow. Also 2 Black Brants at Holkham with lots of Brent and Pink-footed Geese.

Saturday, 19 January 2008

January 19th 2008

Good views of Peregrine flying N over the house.

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

January 16th 2008. White-wingers.







A couple of hours spent around the Shetland Catch in Lerwick - photographing white-wingers - 2 1st winter Iceland Gulls and a 1st winter Glauc.

Tuesday, 1 January 2008

House List

Birds Seen From the House or Garden

1. Mute Swan
2. Whooper Swan
3. Bewick’s Swan
4. Pink-footed Goose
5. White-fronted Goose
6. Greylag Goose
7.Canada Goose
8. Brent Goose
9. Barnacle Goose
10. Shelduck
11. Wigeon
12. American Wigeon.
13 Gadwall
14. Teal
15. Mallard
16. Pintail
17. Shoveler
18. Tufted Duck
19. Common Eider
20. King Eider
21. Long-tailed Duck
22. Common Scoter
23. Goldeneye
24. Red-breasted Merganser
25. Red-throated Diver
26. Black-throated Diver
27. Great Northern Diver
28. Fulmar
29. Sooty Shearwater
30. Manx Shearwater
31. Storm Petrel
32. Gannet
33. Cormorant
34. Shag
35. Grey Heron
36. Spoonbill
37. Sparrowhawk
38. Buzzard
39. Kestrel
40. Merlin
41. Hobby
42. Peregrine
43. Common Crane
44. Oystercatcher
45. Ringed Plover
46. Golden Plover
47. Grey Plover
48. Lapwing
49. Knot
50. Sanderling
51. Little Stint
52. Curlew Sandpiper
53. Purple Sandpiper
54. Dunlin
55. Ruff
56. Jack Snipe
57. Snipe
58. Woodcock
59. Bar-tailed Godwit
60. Black-tailed Godwit
61. Curlew
62. Whimbrel
63. Redshank
64. Greenshank
65. Green Sandpiper
66. Turnstone
67. Grey Phalarope
68. Arctic Skua
69. Pomarine Skua
70. Great Skua
71. Little Gull
72. Black-headed Gull
73. Common Gull
74. Lesser Black-backed Gull
75. Herring Gull
76. Iceland Gull
77. Glaucous Gull
78. Greater Black-backed Gull
79. Kittiwake
80. Sandwich Tern
81. Common Tern
82. Arctic Tern
83. Black Tern
84. Guillemot
85. Razorbill
86. Black Guillemot
87. Little Auk
88. Puffin
89. Collared Dove
90. Rock Dove
91. Woodpigeon
92. Turtle Dove.
93. Cuckoo
94. Short-eared Owl
95. Long-eared Owl
96. Common Swift
97. Bee-eater
98. Great Spotted Woodpecker
99. Skylark
100. Sand Martin
101. Swallow
102. House Martin
103. Richard’s Pipit
104. Tree Pipit
105. Meadow Pipit
106. Rock Pipit
107. Yellow Wagtail
108. Pied/White Wagtail
109. Grey Wagtail
110. Waxwing
111. Wren
112. Dunnock
113. Robin
114. Black Redstart
115. Redstart
116. Whinchat
117. Stonechat
118. Wheatear
119. Ring Ouzel
120. Blackbird
121. Fieldfare
122. Song Thrush
123. Redwing
124. Marsh Warbler
125. Reed Warbler
126. Icterine Warbler
127. Subalpine Warbler
128. Barred Warbler
129. Lesser Whitethroat
130. Common Whitethroat
131. Garden Warbler
132. Blackcap
133. Yellow-browed Warbler
134. Chiffchaff
135. Willow Warbler
136. Goldcrest
137. Spotted Flycatcher
138. Pied Flycatcher
139. Long-tailed Tit
140. Great Tit
141. Red-backed Shrike
142. Jackdaw
143. Rook
144. Carrion Crow
145. Hooded Crow
146. Raven
147. Starling
148. House Sparrow
149. Tree Sparrow
150. Chaffinch
151. Brambling
152. Greenfinch
153. Goldfinch
154. Siskin
155. Linnet
156. Twite
157. Common Redpoll
158. Common Crossbill
159. Common Rosefinch
160. Bullfinch
161. Yellow Warbler
162. Snow Bunting
163. Yellowhammer

164. Mistle Thrush
165. Black Duck
166. Goosander
167. Wood Warbler
168. Laughing Gull
169. White-tailed Eagle
170. Common Sandpiper
171. Marsh Harrier