Birding 2012 Year List!

[david156]

Originally Posted by thewoose

Crumbs. I log on again after a couple of days away (including a few hours in the garden, which was about as much birding as I could get away with - although I did have a Red Kite overhead, first time ever from the garden - does anyone else keep garden lists?), and I'm up to 36.

Still waaayyy off you guys, but two little kids and a full-time job doesn't half get in the way.

Anyway. I'm running a course in a stately home for the next couple of days, with lots of parkland and an ornamental lake - I've brought my scope and am hoping for some bird action! Already frightened a Buzzard just ten feet away - they're bloody big close up - sadly it was already on my list

Actually, there's a pair of Egyptian Goose here - does that count? Would take me to 37!

Its not the quantity or what you see, its the getting out and enjoying it. Some of us are more fanatical than others.
As for Egyptian Geese, your now on 37, there are loads up here in the Norfolk Broads, how many do you want

[RoyW]

Originally Posted by thewoose

Actually, there's a pair of Egyptian Goose here - does that count? Would take me to 37!

They are an increasingly widespread introduced species. The chances are that the ones that you saw have several generations of "wild" bred ancestors - so yes they count (unless you want a completely pure list which includes no introduced species!).

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by RoyW

Since this isn't really meant to be a serious competition I don't think that it really matters too much - but perhaps we should ask for an "official ruling" from the judges (which I guess would be the person who started the thread, and the person who regularly updates the score table...
...Umm, Cordaline and Adam then - so perhaps a decision has already been made!

Does that mean if adam wins we can compare him to You know who?

-runs and hides-

[david156]

Originally Posted by RoyW

(unless you want a completely pure list which includes no introduced species!).

Don't even go there Roy!!! I think that would produce a 'heated' thread

[Ukwildlifeo]

Woops forgot to mention my list update:

49= Pied wagtail (a whole roost yesterday evening while returning from shopping!)
50= Rook
51= Jay

[Cordaline]

Originally Posted by RoyW

Since this isn't really meant to be a serious competition I don't think that it really matters too much - but perhaps we should ask for an "official ruling" from the judges (which I guess would be the person who started the thread, and the person who regularly updates the score table...
...Umm, Cordaline and Adam then - so perhaps a decision has already been made!

Hi Roy,
There were other Birders 'ticking' the Hooded Merganser at Radipole Lake, Weymouth, where we saw said bird!
So, as they were, so did we!
Keeeeeeep birding!

[Cordaline]

Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo

Does that mean if adam wins we can compare him to You know who?

-runs and hides-

Hahaha Neil!
Made me laugh you did!

[Cordaline]

Originally Posted by david156

Don't even go there Roy!!! I think that would produce a 'heated' thread

Yep ,most probably, lets not have one of those, eh chaps & chapesses!

[Cordaline]

A nice stroll round Bushy Park at lunchtime added:-

101. Mandarin Duck
102. Red-crested Pochard

Psst, this puts me 1 ahead of Adam & he's not best pleased!

[Tursiops2]

First visit of the year to Trimley Marshes and the Orwell this afternoon, added another 36 species. Nothing particularly unusual for the area, but included "tundra" Bean Goose.

My first 67 species of 2012 (roughly in order of appearance):

Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Starling
Carrion Crow
Turnstone
Purple Sandpiper
Red-throated Diver
Kittiwake
Mediterranean Gull
Magpie
House Sparrow
Blackbird
Goldfinch
Blue Tit
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Coot
Canada Goose
Mallard
Long-tailed Tit
Moorhen
Robin
Mistle thrush
Song thrush
Redwing
Jay
Dunnock
Wren
Stock dove
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Green Woodpecker
Bullfinch
Chaffinch
Lapwing
Marsh Harrier
Little Egret
Teal
Shelduck
Redshank
Curlew
Wigeon
Shoveler
Pintail
"Tundra" Bean Goose
Dunlin
Oystercatcher
Pied Wagtail
Skylark
Brent Goose
Grey Heron
Meadow Pipit
Buzzard
Black-tailed Godwit
Reed Bunting
Mute Swan
Barnacle Goose
Kestrel
Grey Plover
Knot
Great Crested Grebe
Cormorant
Pochard
Tufted Duck
Little Grebe

A few winter regulars still to get, and then it's Spring!
T2