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29-11-2008, 07:33 PM
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| | | Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Sorry if this has been asked before but I haven't yet had time to read through all the threads on here. Think I'd be here until next year if I tried! 
Anyway, I have a list....a fairly long list.....of birds that I would love to see in the wild. I don't know why I've chosen these particular birds - but here are my 'Top Ten'.....(in no partic order)
Waxwing
Crested Tit
Nightjar
Bearded Tit
Cuckoo (getting fed up with hearing them every year but never actually spotting one!  )
Puffin
Long Tailed Duck
Spoonbill
Crossbill
Hoopoe
What are your 'Top Ten' ? 
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29-11-2008, 07:45 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Not sure of my top ten Sunny, but living in the Peak District, you should see a Cuckoo eventually. Last May I was forced to screech the car to a halt driving over Leash Fen, just north of Beeley Moor, as a Cuckoo was perched in a birch tree, not twenty yards from the car. It didn't bat an eyelid. I do hear them reasonably often in the Peak District in spring.
Number one on my list would have to be Corncrake by the way.
Regards, Chris
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29-11-2008, 07:53 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
waxwing
nightjar
corncrake
great grey shrike
pied flycatcher
hawfinch
ring ouzel
crested tit
goshawk
montagu's harrier 
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29-11-2008, 08:06 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
What a nice idea Sunnydale
Now i don't get out much  
So this is what i would like to see in my GARDEN that i havn't seen already 
So got to be realistic here
Siskin
Spotted Woodpecker
Blackcap
Linnet
Waxwing
Grey Heron
Sparrowhawk?? may have seen one two years back but it might have been a Kestrel?
Mistletrush
Tree Sparrow SOME HOPE? lol
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29-11-2008, 08:14 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mid Glamorgan South Wales
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Top ten of ones I haven't seen in the wild before would be
Waxwing
avocet
lesser spotted woodpecker
hawfinch
great grey shrike
ring ouzel
crossbill
smew
golden eagle
Crested tit
ps this morning I would have put bearded tit ;O)
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29-11-2008, 08:42 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
i know what you mean about the cuckoo sunny, i've never seen one either.
My top ten would be
no 1 is golden eagle
also
white tailed eagle
spoonbill
puffin
tawny owl
dartford warbler ( i'd have to have a holiday to see one)
er, i only have 6
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29-11-2008, 08:43 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Only 8 on my list.
Merlin
Bittern
Little Owl
Turtle Dove
Firecrest
Shrike (any of them)
Waxwing
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29-11-2008, 08:47 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Not been birding in Scotland yet, so I guess the specials up there would make up the majority of mine.
1 Golden Eagle
2 Scottish Crossbill
3 Crested Tit
4 Capercaillie
5 Ptarmigan
6 Black Grouse
7 Parrot Crossbill
8 King Eider
9 Black Kite
10 Kentish Plover
Cheers,
Adam
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29-11-2008, 11:44 PM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Such a lovely thread ...For me in no particular order
Great Northern Diver (breeding plumage)
White Tailed Eagle
Snowy Owl
Dotterel
Great Skua
Marsh Harrier
Wryneck
Nightjar
Hoopoe
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30-11-2008, 06:37 AM
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| | | Re: Your Top Ten 'Would love to see' birds.
Any of these would be wonderful.
Golden Eagle
Chough
Raven ( not a captive one -seen those)
Nightjar ( only heard them)
Stone Curlew
Pied Flycatcher
Hoopoe
Bee-eater
Eagle Owl (not a captive one - seen those)
Cattle Egret
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