Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.

[oxycera]

Storm Petrel
Great Shearwater
Ring-necked Parakeet
Olive-backed Pipit
Caspian Gull
Lady Amherst's Pheasant
Gyr Falcon
Little Crake
Lanceolated Warbler
Pechora Pipit

[aeshna5]

Snowy Qwl
Gyr Falcon
Red-flanked Bluetail
Siberian Rubythroat
Pallas's Sandgrouse
Pine Grosbeak (in UK)
Ivory Gull
Black-browed Albatross (in UK)
Pechora Pipit
Lanceolated Warbler

I've been lucky enough to see all the regular UK species so have picked occasional visitors/rarities to these shores. 2 of the species I've seen elsewhere but would love to see them here. A September visit to Fair Isle could allow me to get the last 2. As I don't usually twitch, most of them will remain a dream!

[John]

That's a bit unreal Neil as your list is very close to mine.

Take out Gyr Falcon (seen one last year) and Ivory Gull and put in Eagle Owl and Alpine Swift (both for the UK) and you have the same list as me.

I have seen Black-browed Albatross but obviously not in this country.

John

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Snowy Qwl
Gyr Falcon
Red-flanked Bluetail
Siberian Rubythroat
Pallas's Sandgrouse
Pine Grosbeak (in UK)
Ivory Gull
Black-browed Albatross (in UK)
Pechora Pipit
Lanceolated Warbler

I've been lucky enough to see all the regular UK species so have picked occasional visitors/rarities to these shores. 2 of the species I've seen elsewhere but would love to see them here. A September visit to Fair Isle could allow me to get the last 2. As I don't usually twitch, most of them will remain a dream!

[Rob_D]

Bee-eater
Roller
Gyr Falcon
King Eider
Penduline Tit
White Stork
Wryneck
Magnificent Frigatebird
Leach's Storm Petrel
Ross's Gull

[sunnydale]

Thanks for the responses! Some interesting selections here and it seems a few of us have yet to see Waxwings.

A friend of mine who lives in Perthshire (Scotland), has been lucky enough to observe a flock of over 50 in her local park over the last few days!

We'll just have to hope they move down country soon!

[tufftie]

This is in no order and quite a few of them are ones I dipped out on a while back

1. Capercaillie
2. Ptarmigan
3. Crested tit (even though I went to spot where you are guaranteed to see them and they had been seen in the garden of the RSPB volunteer hut where I was staying!!)
4. Eagle owl
5. Penduline tit (kept dipping out on them in Cornwall)
6. Bee eater
7. Ring neck parakeet
8. male harlequin
9. wallcreeper
10 roller

I was tempted to put albatross and snowy owl down - having walked miles to see them both and dipping out...Mr Albert Ross having flown off for the last time the day before I went but since it is so unrealistic I'll see them in the UK...

[PMG]

I suppose I'm lucky (or organised?!) over the years taking hols in Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorset, Cornwall, Cairngorms, Outer Hebrides has meant that I've seen most things steadily over the past (aghem)(goodness!) 39 years .......

I've never been abroad so haven't picked stuff up that way but I'm begining to think that going into Europe might be the only way to have an abundance of certain things - trouble is I don't really want to go ..........

Anyway I'm rambling again:

A real wild Capercaille at close quarters remains an objective! Saw my first one last year on the dawn watch at Loch Garton on the opening morning....

I've never seen a Montague's or Pallid Harrier - well not knowingly.....

I've not seen a Ring Ouzel for more than a decade - tho I know where to go if I could manage the walk/climb...........

Would like to find a woodcock on the floor and have a 'proper' view.........

Pom and Long-tailed skuas remain elusive cos I don't go to the right place at the right time.........

Never seen a Little Auk.........

As with woodcock I'd like to find a nightjar on the floor...........

Never seen red-backed or woodchat shrikes (or Steppe either!!)

Never seen serin or cirl bunting .............

When I'm retired I might make a more determined effort to 'bag' these but at the min I'm happy to think that I might just chance across them! All except the capper - which I live in hope of every sping!!!

Pauline

[Rob_D]

Originally Posted by tufftie

I was tempted to put albatross and snowy owl down - having walked miles to see them both and dipping out...Mr Albert Ross having flown off for the last time the day before I went but since it is so unrealistic I'll see them in the UK...

Is Albert alive? He seemed to have disappeared for a while recently, but there was a sighting in Argyll last week.

I certainly recommend trips to N or NW Scotland for birding. As a Southerner, it was great to see so many different birds and especially ones I'd never see down here.

[Adam Cheeseman]

Originally Posted by oxycera

Ring-necked Parakeet

There'll be plenty along soon enough.

Cheers,

Adam

[oxycera]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

There'll be plenty along soon enough.

Cheers,

Adam

Yes, I believe that they on the increase. And I just can't be bothered to pin-down Caspian Gull (there's one at Potteric Carr at the moment). I hope to just drop on one sometime even nearer home; Old Moor, for example.