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  1. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    23rd January - Yorkshire Falling behind with posting so early in the year is not a good sign! I will do some short(er) posts to catch up. Another early morning beckoned as this time I headed east towards the coast, with Filey being the first destination. First up though was my first Fox of the...
  2. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    22nd January - Durham and Yorkshire As it turns out, a full ten-days of isolating with covid is not particularly conducive to yearlisting in the first few weeks of January, but still I am very thankful that the extent of my illness was limited to 3-4 days of very mild symptoms only, I didn't...
  3. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    10th January - Cambridgeshire A wintering bird survey on one of my regular sites near Cambourne to kick off the week. Fairly quiet as to be expected on this site, a Red Kite and 20 Yellowhammer the highlights along with my first Treecreeper of the year calling from one of the woodland areas. A...
  4. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    9th January - Cambridgeshire An upcoming wintering bird survey near Cambridge on Monday morning presented me with two options - either a long early-morning drive to site on Monday, or a night in a hotel near to the site on Sunday. I happily chose the latter, not only as this would allow me more...
  5. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    8th January - Farnley Reservoir A wet day for the mostpart, but a clear spell in the afternoon gave me the opportunity to visit my local patch of Farnley Reservoir for the first time this year. This small body of water acts as a balancing reservoir during periods of heavy rain for the brook...
  6. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    5th-7th January - Leeds Office Back to work with a thud on the morning of the 5th. As an ecological consultant most of my time is spent out in the field, undertaking protected species surveys in all four corners of the country. During the winter months however things are a little quieter, thus...
  7. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    4th January - South Scotland A much brighter and altogether colder day dawned for the last day of my mini-trip, and it was time to start heading back south. First port of call was Stathclyde Loch for my first attempt at seeing the adult Ring-billed Gull that has wintered at the site for the...
  8. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    3rd January - South-east Scotland When I had been planning this trip on the evening of the 1st, the weather outlook was promising, the occasional shower yes but on the whole mostly dry. Well by the time I had awoken on the morning of the 3rd that had shifted somewhat, as a glance out the hotel...
  9. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    2nd January - Northumberland I always like to try and kick off the new year with a mini-trip somewhere in the UK, ideally to see a bird lifer that has hung on from December, c.f. the Sociable Plover in Cornwall on the 2nd January 2021. By the 2nd January 2022 however there were no bird lifers...
  10. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    1st January - Fylde Coast 2022 kicked off in traditional fashion for myself and my friend Ash, a birdrace around the Fylde Bird Club recording area to see how close to 100 species we could get. Only once out of four previous attempts had we hit this mark, setting a Fylde record of 106 species in...
  11. Jonny721

    Jonny721's 400 UK Yearlist Challenge

    400 Birds in the UK in a year? Is that even possible? Perhaps with a ridiculous amount of miles travelled and money spent it could be, but that is not what this 'challenge' is about... My aim this year is to focus not only on birds, as I have done so during many yearlists to date, but to...
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