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Sunday, 20 January 2008

Recent Additions To My BOU UK List & (NONE BOU/UK 400 CLUB)

RED FLANKED BLUETAIL 22/10/06 Suffolk

WHITE STORK 28/10/06 N.Yorks

ISABELLINE SHRIKE & BONAPARTE'S GULL 29/10/06 Northumberland

RED BREASTED GOOSE x2 04/11/06 Lincs

(BLACK EARED KITE) 12/11/06 Linc's

LTTLE AUK 12/11/06 Norfolk

AMERICAN ROBIN 27/01/07 West York's

PACIFIC DIVER 30/01/07 North Yorks

GLOSSY IBIS 18/02/07 Lancs

(MARBLED DUCK) 15/04/07 Gloustershire

IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF 30/04/07 Norfolk

BROAD BILLED SANDPIPER 28/05/07 Cleveland

(EAGLE OWL) 02/06/07 Lancs

WHITE TAILED LAPWING 17/06/07 Lancs

DARK EYED JUNCO! 14/07/07 Norfolk

BLACK KITE 22/07/07 Lincs

BLACK STORK 04/08/07 North Wales

SHARP TAILED SANDPIPER 11/08/07 Kent & SQUACCO HERON 11/08/07 Cambs

MELODIOUS WARBLER 25/-8/07 East York's

BROWN FLYCATCHER 04/10/07 East Yorks

BLYTH'S REED WARBLER 06/10/07 East Yorks

(SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF) 27/11/07 South Wales

SPOTTED SANDPIPER 27/11/07 South Wales

SHORT TOED LARK 15/12/07 Northumberland

WHITE CROWNED SPARROW 07/01/08 Norfolk

(ROSS’S GOOSE) 12/01/08 Norfolk

FRANKLIN'S GULL 21/03/08 Somerset

ROSS'S GULL 19/04/08 Lancs

KING EIDER! At last! 26/04/08 Yorkshire

RED FOOTED FALCON 11/05/08 Yorkshire

MARSH WARBLER 31/05/08 Yorkshire

LITTLE SWIFT 02/06/08 Yorkshire

BALEARIC SHEARWATER 08/09/08 Norfolk

BROWN SHRIKE! 25/09/08 Yorkshire

(AMUR FALCON) 11/10/08 (Not added to List yet pending additon to UK list)

GREEN HERON 01//11/08 Kent

STEEPE GREY SHRIKE 08/11/08 Lincs

PIED WHEATEAR 09/11/08 Yorkshire

ROUGH LEGGED BUZZARD 22/11/08 Yorkshire

PENDULINE TIT 29/11/08 Notts

(BLUE HEADED WAGTAIL) 11/04/09 Norfolk

WHISKERED TERN 25/04/09 Derbyshire

COLLARED FLYCATCHER 01/05/09 Dorset


PALLID SWIFT 09/05/09 Merseyside

BLACK WINGED PRATINCOLE 07/06/09 Norfolk

LITTLE BITTERN 13/06/09 Somerset

PACIFIC DIVER,BROWN FLYCATCHER & GLAUCOUS WINGED GULL All added to CAT A British list July 2009, three very nice armchair ticks!

PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER 01/08/09 Norfolk



UK BOU List 348
UK 400 List 361
Yorkshire BOU List 288 (UK400) list 292
Recent Additions

Pacific Diver 03/01/07 (ADDED CAT A JULY 09)
Hobby 08/07/07
Ferruginous Duck & Melodious Warbler 25/08/07
Garden Warbler 29/09/07
Isabelline Shrike 30/09/07
Brown Flycatcher 04/10/07 (ADDED CAT A JULY09)
Blyth's Reed Warbler 06/10/07
Red Breasted Merganser 12/10/07
Hooded Crow 27/10/07
Long Tailed Duckx4 17/11/07
Black Throated Diver 17/11/07
Desert Wheatear & Water Pipit 01/12/07
Marsh Tit 22/12/07
Eurasian White-Fronted Goose 24/12/07
Goshawk & Tundra Bean Goose & Dipper (Black-Bellied Race) 24/03/08
King Eider & Hoopoe & Lesser Yellowlegs 26/04/08
Red Footed Falcon 11/05/08
Broad Billed Sandpiper & Golden Oriole 26/05/08
Marsh Warbler & Montagu's Harrier 31/05/08
Crossbill &; Woodlark 15/06/08
Little Swift 02/07/08
Glossy Ibis 17/08/08
Black Stork 26/08/08
Shorelark 20/09/08
Brown Shrike! 25/09/08
Amur Falcon 11/10/08 (Not counted on any totals pending addition to BOU/UK400 Lists)
Two Barred Crossbill 08/11/08
Pied Wheatear 09/11/08
Rough Legged Buzzard 22/11/08
Raven! 25/04/09
Collared Praticole 23/05/09
Whiskered Tern @ Woodchat Shrike 24/05/09 (What a weekend)
Short Toed Lark 19/09/09

Sunday, 13 January 2008

American Bird List

Never been on any organised tours of the USA (Only the excellent organised walks run by Cape May Audubon Society) All birding has been done with my parents help, taking me to several excellent and memorable birding reserves/area's and its thanks to them, and that magical birding hotspot Cape May that I have, what I consider is an impressive birding list of 182 Species

1 Common Loon
2 Northern Gannet
3 Double-Crested Cormorant
4 Black-Crowned Night Heron
5 Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
6 Tricolored Heron
7 Little Blue Heron
8 Green Heron
9 Snowy Egret
10 Great Egret
11 Great Blue Heron
12 Glossy Ibis
13 Mute Swan (Introduced Species)
14 Snow Goose
15 Canada Goose
16 Brant
17 Wood Duck
18 Mallard
19 American Black Duck
20 Gadwall
21 Green-Winged Teal
22 Blue-Winged Teal
23 Northern Pintail
24 Northern Shoveler
25 Canvasback
26 Redhead
27 Black Scoter
28 White-winged Scoter
29 Surf Scoter
30 Common Goldeneye
31 Bufflehead
32 Turkey Vulture
33 Black Vulture
34 Osprey
35 Northern Harrier
36 Bald Eagle
37 Sharp-shinned Hawk
38 Cooper's Hawk
39 Broad-winged Hawk
40 Red-shouldered Hawk
41 Red-tailed Hawk
42 American Kestrel
43 Ring-necked Pheasant
44 American Coot
45 Black-bellied Plover
46 Piping Plover
47 Semipamated Plover
48 Killdeer
49 American Oystercatcher
50 American Avocet
51 Black-necked Stilt
52 Willet
53 Greater Yellowlegs
54 Lesser Yellowlegs
55 Spotted Sandpiper
56 Whimbrel (American race.hudsonicus)
57 Hudsonian Godwit
58 Marbled Godwit
59 Ruddy Turnstone
60 Red Knot
61 Sanderling
62 Dunlin
63 Seminpalmated Sandpiper
64 Western Sandpiper
65 Least Sandpiper
66 Pectoral Sandpiper
67 Short-billed Sandpiper
68 Long-billed Sandpiper
69 Stilt Sandpiper
70 Wilson's Snipe
71 Laughing Gull
72 Black-headed Gull
73 Ring-billed Gull
74 Herring Gull
75 Lesser BB Gull
76 Great BB Gull
77 Royal Tern
78 Caspian Tern
79 Forster's Tern
80 Least Tern
81 Black Skimmer
82 Rock Dove
83 Mourning Dove
84 Yellow Billed Cuckoo
85 Barred Owl
86 Whip-poor-will
87 Chimney Swift
88 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
89 Belted Kingfisher
90 Red Headed Woodpcker
91 Red Bellied Woodpecker
92 Northern Flicker
93 Downy Woodpecker
94 Hairy Woodpecker
95 Pileated Woodpecker
96 Eastern Wood-Pewee
97 Alder Flycather
98 Eastern Phoebe
99 Great Creasted Flycatcher
100 Eastern Kingbrd
101 White Eyed Vireo
102 Red Eyed Vireo
103 Blue Jay
104 American Crow
105 Fish Crow
106 Horned Lark
107 Tree Swallow
108 Purple Martin
109 Bank Swallow
110 Northern Rough Winged Swallow
111 Barn Swallow
112 Cliff Swallow
113 Tufted Titmouse
114 Black-capped Chickadee
115 Carolina Chickadee
116 White-breasted Nuthatch
117 House Wren
118 Winter Wren
119 Carolina Wren
120 Golden-crowned Kinglet
121 Ruby-croned Kinglet
122 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
123 Eastern Bluebird
124 Wood Thrush
125 Veery
126 Bicknell's Thrush
127 Swainson's Thrush
128 Hermit Thrush
129 American Robin (Just about every lawn has one!)
130 Gray Catbird
131 Northern Mockingbird
132 Brown Thrasher
133 European Starling (Introduched to New York 1890)
134 Buff Bellied Pipit (American Pipit)
135 Cedar Waxwing
136 Prothonotary Warbler (Wow what a bird we had cracking views of male and female
bird entering nest hole at Cape May)
137 Blue-winged Warbler
138 Nasville Warbler
139 Northern Parula
140 Magnolia Warbler
141 Yellow-rumped Warbler
142 Black-and-white Warbler
143 Black-throated Blue Warbler (Had cracking male bird down to a few feet
at Cape May 2007)

144 Cerulean Warbler (Cape May only has on average five records in fall, less in
spring so this stunning male male caused some interest!)

145 Black-throated Green Warbler
146 Yellow-throated Warbler
147 Praririe Warbler
148 Blackpoll Warbler
149 Palm Warbler
150 Yellow Warbler
151 Ovenbird
152 Louisiana Waterthrush (Had cracking views of this bird at Cape May)
153 Northern Waterthrush (Only seen the one, which was self found)
154 Common Yellowthroat
155 Yellow-breasted Chat (Dispite its name this is member of Wood-Warbler family
only seen two, both at Cape May,both in full song)

156 American Redstart
157 Scarlet Tanager
158 Eastern Towhee
159 Chipping Sparrow
160 Field Sparrow
161 House Sparrow (Old World Sparrow introduched to USA)
162 Lincoln's Sparrow
163 Savannah Sparrow
164 Seaside Sparrow
165 Song Sparrow
166 White-crowned Sparrow
167 White-Throated Sparrow (Both tan-stripped & White-striped morph seen)
168 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate colored form)
169 Northern Cardinal
170 Blue Grosbeck
171 Indigo Bunting
172 Bobolink
173 Eastern Meadowlark (Found a cracking male on last visit)
174 Red-winged Blackbird
175 Common Grackle
176 Boat-tailed Grackle
177 Brown-headed Cowbird
178 Orchard Oriole
179 Baltimore Oriole (Nothing better than sat in the sun watching singing male
Oriole's)
180 Purple Finch
181 House Finch
182 American Goldfinch
183 Peregrine
184 American Black Tern
185 Brown Pelican
186 White Ibis
187 Pine Warbler
188 Brown Headed Nuthatch
189 Mississippi Kite