Trystan
Well-known member
No definite plans yet this year so no particular targets yet either but with a Yorkshire tick available at South Gare and a good supporting cast in the area it was easy to get the years birding off to a good start:
1.1.19
En route
1. Carrion crow
2. Magpie
3. Herring gull
4. Jackdaw
5. Feral pigeon
6. Mute swan
South Gare
7. Curlew
8. Cormorant
9. Guillemot
10. Shag
11. Eider
12. Black guillemot
13. Common scoter
14. Velvet scoter
15. Black headed gull
16. Starling
17. Reed bunting
18. Goldfinch
19. Bar tailed godwit
20. Oystercatcher
21. Red breasted merganser
22. Redshank
23. Linnet
24. Lapland bunting
25. Snow bunting
26. Pied wagtail
27. Skylark
28. Great black backed gull
29. Twite
30. Red throated diver
31. Pheasant
32. Gannet
Middlesbrough
Disappointing stop as the reported waxwing seem to have departed.
33. Dunnock
34. Great tit
35. Woodpigeon
36. Blue tit
37. Robin
38. Blackbird
39. Mistle thrush
40. Song thrush
Hartlepool headland
No sign of the divers seen earlier in the day here.
41. House sparrow
42. Great crested grebe
43. Turnstone
44. Purple sandpiper
45. Sparrowhawk
Seaton Carew
46. Mediterranean gull
47. Sanderling
48. Ringed plover
49. Rook
50. Tundra bean goose
51. Taiga bean goose
52. Wigeon
53. Moorhen
54. Kestrel
Saltholme
55. Coot
56. Gadwall
57. Common gull
58. Tufted duck
59. Pochard
60. Teal
61. Wren
62. Green winged teal
63. Fieldfare
64. Shoveler
65. Goldeneye
66. Grey heron
67. Pintail
68. Canada goose
69. Greylag goose
70. Shelduck
71. Lapwing
72. Golden plover
73. Barnacle goose
74. Pink footed goose
75. Mallard
76. Greenfinch
77. Tree sparrow
78. Stock dove
79. Goosander
80. Long eared owl
81. Meadow pipit
82. Stonechat
83. Peregrine
84. Little egret
Possibly my highest new year total despite a couple of glaring omissions such as chaffinch and collared dove
1.1.19
En route
1. Carrion crow
2. Magpie
3. Herring gull
4. Jackdaw
5. Feral pigeon
6. Mute swan
South Gare
7. Curlew
8. Cormorant
9. Guillemot
10. Shag
11. Eider
12. Black guillemot
13. Common scoter
14. Velvet scoter
15. Black headed gull
16. Starling
17. Reed bunting
18. Goldfinch
19. Bar tailed godwit
20. Oystercatcher
21. Red breasted merganser
22. Redshank
23. Linnet
24. Lapland bunting
25. Snow bunting
26. Pied wagtail
27. Skylark
28. Great black backed gull
29. Twite
30. Red throated diver
31. Pheasant
32. Gannet
Middlesbrough
Disappointing stop as the reported waxwing seem to have departed.
33. Dunnock
34. Great tit
35. Woodpigeon
36. Blue tit
37. Robin
38. Blackbird
39. Mistle thrush
40. Song thrush
Hartlepool headland
No sign of the divers seen earlier in the day here.
41. House sparrow
42. Great crested grebe
43. Turnstone
44. Purple sandpiper
45. Sparrowhawk
Seaton Carew
46. Mediterranean gull
47. Sanderling
48. Ringed plover
49. Rook
50. Tundra bean goose
51. Taiga bean goose
52. Wigeon
53. Moorhen
54. Kestrel
Saltholme
55. Coot
56. Gadwall
57. Common gull
58. Tufted duck
59. Pochard
60. Teal
61. Wren
62. Green winged teal
63. Fieldfare
64. Shoveler
65. Goldeneye
66. Grey heron
67. Pintail
68. Canada goose
69. Greylag goose
70. Shelduck
71. Lapwing
72. Golden plover
73. Barnacle goose
74. Pink footed goose
75. Mallard
76. Greenfinch
77. Tree sparrow
78. Stock dove
79. Goosander
80. Long eared owl
81. Meadow pipit
82. Stonechat
83. Peregrine
84. Little egret
Possibly my highest new year total despite a couple of glaring omissions such as chaffinch and collared dove
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