Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Back to Birds

Grim day today, weather wise . RAW!!!

Must have tweaked the hip in all the weekend excitement, so I decided to rest up and update my year lists. It also gave me the opportunity to review what I still might/will see during the Winter period.

Winter 16
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
Goosander (Mergus merganser)
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata)
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)
European Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)
Coot (Fulica atra)
Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus)
Lesser Black-backed_ Gull (Larus fuscus)
Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
Common Guillemot (Uria aalge)
Razorbill (Alca torda)
Little Owl (Athene noctua)
Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus [spinoletta])
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Coal Tit (Parus ater)
Common Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)
Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
Linnet (Carduelis cannabina)
Lesser Redpoll (Carduelis flammea cabaret)
Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus)
Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Corn Bunting (Miliaria calandra)

Plenty to go at!

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