Gayle's 2008 List (1 Viewer)

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In order of sightings:

The first list all seen on New Year's Day in North Ayrshire:

1. Dunnock
2. Chaffinch
3. Song Thrush
4. Blue Tit
5. Jackdaw
6. Starling
7. Magpie
8. Carrion Crow
9. Whooper Swan
10. Blackbird
11. Mute Swan
12. Tufted Duck
13. Goldeneye
14. Cormorant
15. Moorhen
16. Mallard
17. Great Tit
18. Robin
19. Black Headed Gull
20. Common Gull
21. Buzzard
22. Kestrel
23. Pheasant
24. Oystercatcher
25. Lesser Black Backed Gull
26. Redshank
27. House Sparrow
28. Shag
29. Great Black Back Gull
30. Herring Gull
31. Eider
32. Dipper
33. Curlew
34. Wigeon
35. Greenfinch
36. Goldcrest
37. Collared Dove
38. Wren
39. Greenshank
40. Red Breasted Merganser
41. Bullfinch
42. Woodpigeon
43. Rook
44. Golden Plover
45. Turnstone
46. Rock Pipit
47. Pied Wagtail
48. Stonechat
49. Coot
50. Ringed Plover
51. Reed Bunting
52. Lapwing
53. Greylag Geese
54. Shelduck
55. Dunlin
56. Grey Heron
Seen around Lochwinnoch area 6/1
57. Goldfinch
58. Mistle Thrush
59. Redwing
60. Great Crested Grebe
61. Long Tailed Tit
Culzean / Maidens 12/1
62. Little Grebe
63. Siskin
64. Knot
65. Pochard
66. Coal Tit
67. (Pale Bellied) Brent Geese
68. Twite
Kinneil Kerse / Grangemouth 19/1
69. Spotted Sandpiper
70. Teal
71. Firecrest
Still missing some easy ones esp grey wagtail which has been a regular to our "garden" (really an old closed off churchyard outside the bedroom window which in a flat is the closest thing we get to a garden!) for the last 6/7 months.

 

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Seamill 20/1
72. grey wagtail (at last!)
73. Purple Sandpiper
74. Meadow pipit
Also saw either snipe or jack snipe but couldn't be sure on ID (have seen both there before) - I always get such a fright when they're flushed and they're off before i get the bins onto them! better luck next time!

 

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Gosford Bay 26/1
75. Bar-Tailed Godwit
Musselburgh 26/1
76. Velvet Scoter
77. Red Throated Diver
78. Goosander

 

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Greenan 2/2
79. Grey Partridge
Progressing slowly - hoping for better weather this weekend!

 

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Great day today. Bright & sunny for a change and heard the first song-thrush of the year singing in the evening.
Stevenston Point 9/2
80. Sanderling
Troon Harbour 9/2
81. Long-tailed Duck
Rozelle Park 9/2
82. Nuthatch
Greenan Shore 9/2
83. Stock Dove

 

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all on 16/2
Rozelle Park
84. Great Spotted Woodpecker
Culzean CP
85. Raven
86. gadwall
Maidens
87. Gannet
88. Guillemot
89. Mediterranean Gull

 

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Vane Farm RSPB / Loch Leven 23/2
90. Slavonian Grebe
91. Pink-footed Geese
92. Smew
Also forgot this one from earlier in the year at Seamill
93. Jack Snipe

 

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1/3 Seamill
94. Black-throated diver
95. Black redstart

 

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15/3 Mugdock Country Park
96. Jay
97. Great Grey Shrike

 

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16/3 Fairlie Moor
98. Skylark

 

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18/3 Culzean CP
99. Mandarin Duck
Rozelle Park, Ayr
100. Pintail

 

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19/3 Largs
101: Black Guillemot

 

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18/3 Doonfoot
102. Water Pipit
22/3 Erskine Newshot Island
103. Iceland Gull
22/3 Glen Fruin
104. Hen Harrier
105. Canada Geese
106. Mistle Thrush
22/3 Gartocharn area
107. Barnacle Geese

 

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29/3 Musselburgh Lagoons
108. Grey Plover
109. Northern Wheatear

 

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5/4 Girvan
110. King Eider
Heard a lot of chiffchaffs but they were proving remarkably elusive to actually see! So not quite on the list yet!

 

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12/4 Irvine
111. Willow Warbler
112. Sand Martin
12/4 Troon
113. Chiff Chaff
114. Swallow

 

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13/4 Meigle Bay, Largs
115. Razorbill
13/4 near Beith
116. Linnet

 

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16/4 Lochwinnoch
117. House Martins

 

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First of all, deduct the house martin listing as they were sand martins! Oops!
So ...
18/4 Troon
117. Sandwich Tern
118. Blackcap

 

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22/4 Loch of the Lowes
119. Osprey
120. Tree Pipit
121. Yellowhammer
nr Amulree
122. Black Grouse