Eastside Urchin 2011 year list

[Beeswax]

Black necked grebe

Gannet

Bittern

Smew

Guillemot

Razorbill

Raven

Tree sparrow

 

148 species

 

Also had northern long tailed tits but don't think I can tick it lol

 

Denis (one of the boozybirders ;-)) told me about your blog report on the Norfolk trip so I had a gander. You obviously all had a splendid day especially the Northern Harrier. I hope that I see half the birds when I go on a trip to NW Norfolk on Sunday.

I couldn't beleive it when Den said that you dipped the Urchins to go birdwatching!

[Eastside Urchin]

Yeah,glad I did as well,did the same tonight as I went dunge and am glad I went as Hornchurch lost

[Eastside Urchin]

Ps you should see most of those birds Sunday unless you spend alot of time at snettisham

[sjj2112]

One moment while I don my pedants hat.

 

Surely Northern Harrier is merely the North American form of Hen Harrier and as such can't be added to your year list as you'd already seen Hen Harrier. You'd have as much right adding the Northern Long-tailed Tits to your year list as the Northern Harrier.

 

Removes pedants hat.

[Eastside Urchin]

hmmmm will look into it,they look like completely different birds,the northern harrier had a reddish underside,and i would say although obviously very closely related due to appearance that they should probably be classed as a different subspecies,a bit like repdolls lol

As for the Northern Long Tailed tits,the same applies to be honest lol

Edited January 26, 2011 by Eastside Urchin

[sjj2112]

I've only seen the pictures of the Norfolk bird so far, although I have seen them in the States, and it is certainly a striking looking bird. I know some people are proposing a split, although I do not know how far that will get as the Wikipedia article on the species seems to suggest that the degree of genetic difference between the two races is insufficient to support a split.

 

Having said that I wouldn't be at all surprised if a number of British listers don't start clamouring for the split so that they can claim an armchair tick!

 

I'll hopefully get up to Norfolk in the next couple of weeks for a look - always good to have seen it for insurance purposes!

[Eastside Urchin]

for me they are two seperate birds,maybe not genetically but there is definatelty a difference in appearance.

Personally,if they can split redpolls they can split this bird and the hen harrier

[Eastside Urchin]

Tawny owl

 

 

149 species

[Eastside Urchin]

Chiffchaff

 

 

150 species so far

[Beeswax]

Chiffchaff

 

 

150 species so far

 

good number so far, you'd be well up the Bubo UK list for 2011!!

[Eastside Urchin]

Yeah my best total for this time of the year,dissapointed not to have a few more to be honest but I haven't been out much the last 3 weeks due to a gammy tooth

[Eastside Urchin]

Kingfisher

Yellow legged gull

Short eared gull

Little gull

Iceland gull

Mandarin duck(hannjngfield)

Whimbrel

Greenshank

 

158 so far

[Eastside Urchin]

Red kite

 

159 so far

Seen from the Hornchurch coach on the m25 to Harrow

Also 13 buzzards seen

[Eastside Urchin]

Willow warbler

 

160 for the year

[Eastside Urchin]

Swallow

Sand Martin

House Martin

 

163 birds for the year so far

[Eastside Urchin]

Whitethroat

 

 

164 birds for the year

[Eastside Urchin]

Reed warbler

Nightingale

Lesser whitethroat

 

167 birds so far

[Eastside Urchin]

Sedge warbler

Whiskered tern

Yellow wagtail

Dartford warbler

Woodlark

Sandwich term

 

 

173 birds so far

Edited April 10, 2011 by Eastside Urchin

[Eastside Urchin]

Grasshopper warbler

Common tern

 

175 birds so far

[Eastside Urchin]

Cuckoo

 

176 birds so far