Young Birders' British Life List

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Squacco Heron little bittern all different Egrets found in Britain ruff godwit all divers and grebes found in Britain and my best a self found breeding snowy owl

2011: White-throated Robin in June. Terek & Least Sandpipers, 'real' Lady Amherst's Pheasant in May. Found Stejneger's Scoter in Ireland in March plus American Coot and Forster's Tern. Oriental Turtle Dove in February.

Birding since I was 7; reached 400 (UK400) at age 12; British list only, don't twitch Ireland, Includes: Common Yellowthroat, Blue Rock Thrush, Short-toed Eagle, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Fan-tailed Warbler, Spectacled Warbler, Desert Lesser Whitethroat, Mamora's Warbler, Slender-billed Gull, Semi-palmated Plover, Ovenbird, Swainson's Thrush, American Robin, White's Thrush, Pine Bunting, Lanceolated Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Alder Flycatcher, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Bobolink, Baltimore Oriole, Cream-coloured Courser, Short-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Kestrel, Green Heron, Snowy Egret, Booted Eagle, Black Lark, Crag Martin, Chimney Swift, Pallid Swift, Spanish Sparrow, Trumpeter Finch, Baikal Teal , Redhead, Barrow's Goldeneye, Sooty Tern, Lesser Sandplover, White-tailed Plover, Canvasback, Hudsonian Whimbrel, Western Sandpiper, Wilson's Snipe, Harlequin Duck, Sora Rail, American Herring Gull, North American Black Tern, Long-billed Murrelet, Isabelline Wheatear, Masked Shrike (after 48hr twitch by coach!), Pacific Diver, Black-browed Albatross, Sandhill Crane.

GREAT WHITE EGRET SELF FOUND AT RSPB MINISMERE!!!!! RED THROATED DIVER GREAT NORTHERN DIVER LITTLE GREBE CATTLE EGRET CURLEW SANDPIPER SPOTTED REDSHANK AND A UNIDENTIFIED SPECIES OF CRANE!

Finally on 400! I'm a 12 years old norfolk birder that lives in Cley, Norfolk. Highlights: Yellow-Browwed Warbler, Great Grey Shrike, Pectoral Sandpiper, American Coot, BLACK SCOTER, SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT, OVENBIRD, SCARLET TANAGER, Great White Egret, Squacco Heron, Night Heron, Cattle Egret, Hoopoe, Osprey, Goshawk, Merlin and SHORT TOED EAGLE!

28 - Young(ish)?. Rufous-tailed Robin, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Masked Shrike, Long-billed Murrelet, Brown Flycatcher, White-tailed Plover, Baltimore Oriole, Canada Warbler, Black Lark. Latest: Spec Warbler, Trumpeter Finch, Sprosser. Overtaken, but still got a few nice blockers...

Includes pending Slaty-backed Gull, Alder Fly, White-winged Scoter and Lesser Canada Goose. Ticks in 2013: HARLEQUIN, PINE GROSBEAK, LESSER CANADA GOOSE, Snow Goose. Best species: SCARLET TANAGER, SLATY-BACKED GULL, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, WHITE-THROATED ROBIN, SANDHILL CRANE, HARLEQUIN, PINE GROSBEAK, BALTIMORE ORIOLE, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, UPLAND SAND, CREAM-COLOURED COURSER, BAILLON'S CRAKE, PACIFIC DIVER, LESSER WHITE-FRONT, MARMORA'S WARBLER etc etc

Latest: Eastern crowned Warbler

2010 highlights: Pied-billed Grebe, American Robin, American Bittern, Solitary Sandpiper, Black-eared Wheatear, Green Heron, Alder Flycatcher, Isabelline Shrike, River Warbler, White-tailed Plover, Gull-billed Tern, Marmora's Warbler, Trumpeter Finch, Red-footed Falcon, Squacco Heron, Oriental Pratincole, Great Reed Warbler, Hoopoe, Black-winged Stilt, Alpine Swift, Bufflehead, Little Bunting, Dusky Warbler, Black-throated Thrush, Black Kite.

2016:Desert Wheatear, Siberian Accentor, Purple Swamphen,Isabelline Wheatear, Black-throated Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Greenish Warbler, Rose-coloured Starling, Lesser Yellowlegs, Savi's Warbler, Spotted Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole, Little Bittern, Bee-eater, White Stork, Ferruginous Duck, Dusky Warbler2015: Little Bunting, Penduline Tit, Great Bustard, Hoopoe, Black-winged Stilt, Western Subalpine Warbler, Hudsonian Godwit, Red-backed Shrike, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Paddyfield Warbler, Barred Warbler, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Wryneck, American Golden Plover, Caspian Gull, Balearic Shearwater2014: Great spotted Cuckoo, American Wigeon, Lesser Scaup, Red-crested Pochard, Golden Oriole, Little Bunting, Arctic Redpoll, Cattle Egret, Temminick's, Stint Turtle Dove, Little Owl, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Cory's Shearwater, Wilson's Storm petrel, Scarlet Rosefinch, Wryneck, Hawfinch, Green-winged Teal, Red-rumped Swallow, Brunnick's Guillemot, Channel Wagtail, Golden Pheasant 2013:Glossy Ibis, Long-tailed Skua, Red-footed Falcon, Shore Lark, Purple Heron, Dotterel, Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Azorean Yellow-legged Gull, Kumlien’s Gull, Ross’s Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull, Tawny Pipit, White-billed Diver, Black Kite, Fea’s Petrel, Short-toed Eagle, Great White Egret, Isabelline Wheatear, Spotted Crake, Ballion’s Crake, Gull-billed Tern, Surf Scoter, Firecrest, Siberian Chiffchaff, Siberian Stonechat, Red-breasted Goose, Black-necked Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, White-winged Black Tern, Western Orphean Warbler, Little-ringed Plover, Richard’s Pipit, Yellow-browed Warbler, Lapland Bunting, Sabine’s Gull, Rough-legged Buzzard

Highlights: American Wigeon, Ring-Necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Golden Pheasant, Squacco Heron, Cattle Egret, Glossy Ibis, Corncrake, Broad-Billed Sandpiper, Baird's Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, Marsh Sandpiper, Long-Billed Dowitcher, Bonaparte's Gull, Bee-Eater, Greenish Warbler (Self-Found), Arctic Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Dusky Warbler, EASTERN OLIVACEOUS WARBLER, ORPHEAN WARBLER, Red-Flanked Bluetail, Desert Wheatear, Tawny Pipit, Bee-Eater, Green-Winged Teal, Cattle Egret, Caspian Gull, Hawfinch (4), Snow Goose (4), Surf Scoter, King Eider, COLLARED FLYCATCHER, Dotterel, Great Reed Warbler, Long-Tailed Skua, Red-Backed Shrike, Marsh Warbler, Crane BRIDLED TERN, Quail, Spotted Sandpiper, Night Heron, Two-Barred Crossbill, Spotted Crake, White-Rumped Sandpiper, American Golden Plover, Bluethroat, Richard's Pipit (3), Firecrest (2), Subalpine Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Pallid Swift, Siberian Stonechat (2), Western Bonelli's Warbler, Rose-Coloured Starling, Parrot Crossbill (6), Serin, IVORY GULL (2), Ring-Billed Gull, AMERICAN COOT, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, Red-Breasted Goose, BAIKAL TEAL, Ferruginous Duck, CRAG MARTIN, Short-Toed Lark, Lesser Yellowlegs, Little Bittern, BLACK SCOTER, SHORT-TOED EAGLE, Stilt Sandpiper, Great Shearwater, Citrine Wagtail, Blue-winged Teal, MASKED SHRIKE, Pallas's Warbler, Olive-Backed Pipit, Rough-Legged Buzzard, Hume's Leaf Warbler, ISABELLINE WHEATEAR, BLYTH'S PIPIT, HARLEQUIN DUCK, Laughing Gull, Black-Winged Stilt

Latest: Lesser Kestrel @ Westleton Heath and Pallid Swift at Kessingland; Eastern Crowned Warbler @ Trow Quarry, County Durham, Short-toed Lark @ West Runton and Rose-coloured Starling @ Choseley Drying Barns. Also this year: Baird's Sandpiper, Pacific Golden Plover, Great-spotted Cuckoo, Black-winged Pratincole, Purple Heron. Best previous White-crowned Sparrow, Audouin's Gull, Trumpeter Finch, Greater Sandplover, Stilt Sandpiper, Pallid Harrier (2) and American Robin See my site www.connorsbirdingsite.blogspot.com

Latest desert Wheatear, newbiggin

29.03.13 - 322 species Latest; Glaucous Gull.

Latest ticks: Olive-backed Pipit, FEA'S PETREL. Other BB rarities: Lesser Scaup (x2), King Eider, BLACK SCOTER, Squacco Heron, Black-winged Stilt, Collared Pratincole, BLACK-WINGED PRATINCOLE, Semipalmated Sandpiper (x3), Terek Sandpiper (x2), GREATER YELLOWLEGS, Lesser Yellowlegs (x2), Stilt Sandpiper (x2), Long-billed Dowitcher (x3), Wilson's Phalarope, Bonaparte's Gull (x2), GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, IVORY GULL, BRIDLED TERN, Whiskered Tern, Pallid Swift, Siberian Stonechat (x2), Lesser Grey Shrike (x3), EASTERN CROWNED WARBLER, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Hume's Leaf Warbler, Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Great Reed Warbler (x2), SYKE'S WARBLER, COLLARED FLYCATCHER, WHITE-THROATED ROBIN, Red-flanked Bluetail, Thrush Nightingale (Self-found at Holy Island in Sep 2013), Desert Wheatear (x2), Citrine Wagtail, Two-barred Crossbill (11), YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER + EASTERN BLACK REDSTART (not counted). My blog: http://jonnysbirdingblog.blogspot.co.uk/

2013 Highlights:Savi's Warbler, Red-footed Falcon2012 Highlights: (American) Buff-bellied Pipit, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Booted Warbler, Baillon's Crake, Baird's Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Caspian Tern ,Pacific Golden Plover, Western Orphean Warbler, Cream-coloured Courser, Bee-eater, Lesser Scaup, Common Yellowthroat, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Dark-eyed Junco and Spanish Sparrow. 2011 Highlights: Arctic Redpoll (form exilipes), Western Sandpiper, Desert Wheatear, Glossy Ibis, Little Bittern, Collared Flycatcher and Blue-winged Teal. 2010 Highlights: Red-flanked Bluetail, Pallid Harrier, Arctic Warbler, Wilson’s Phalarope, pos. Alder Flycatcher (not included on BOU list but is on UK400)), River Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Marmora’s Warbler, Black-winged Stilt, Oriental Pratincole, Pallid Swift, Bufflehead and Black-throated Thrush. 2009 Highlights: : Collared Pratincole and Citrine Wagtail. UK400 notables; Highlight 2011: North American Black Tern, Ross’s Snow Goose and North American Hen Harrier (form hudsonius).

Recent highlights: Greater Yellowlegs, Western Sandpiper, Ferruginous & Ring-necked Duck, Lesser White-fronted Goose and Spotted Sandpiper. General highlights: White-winged Scoter, Black Scoter, Sandhill Crane, Greater Sand Plover, Stilt Sandpiper (all locally) + others

278 UK400 Full list on Bubo. Most notable birds are Oriental Turtle Dove, Northern Harrier (hudsonius), Empidonax sp. (Not counted), Western Bonelli's Warbler, White-tailed Plover, Marmora's Warbler, Oriental Pratincole, 2xIberian Chiffchaff, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Sandhill Crane, Green Heron, Brown Shrike, Crested Lark, Black-winged Pratincole, Pacific and American Golden Plovers, Black Kite, Alpine Swift, Wilson's Phalarope, Red-flanked Bluetail, Subalpine Warbler, Little Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Bluethroat

Cory's Shearwater, Citrine Wagtail, Sabine's Gull, Icterine Warbler, Capercaillie, Ptarmigan, Black Grouse, Velvet Scoter, Crested Tit, Golden and White-tailed Eagle.

Latest:Garden Warbler (Park Wood) Highlights:R B Goose (Scaling Dam) Lesser Scaup (Marden Quarry) Glossy Ibis X3 (Saltholme) Pallid Harrier (Dormans Poole) Semipalmated Sandpiper X2 (Saltholme) SHARP TAILED SANDPIPER (Greatham Creek) GREATER YELLOWLEGS (East Chevington) Whiskered Tern (Saltholme) WHITE THROATED ROBIN (Hartlepool) Desert Wheatear X3 (Boulby) Humes Warbler (South Gare)

Ross's Gull, Glaucos Gull, Great Grey Shrike, Little Auk, Black Grouse, Blyth's Reed, Barred Warbler, Wilson's Phal, Great White Egret, RB Shrike, Woody Shrike, ST Lark, Laughing Gull, YB Warb, Glossy Ibis, long billed dowitcher, lesser scaup, black scoter, alpine swift, laughing gull, black winged stilts(5), American Wigeon, GW Teal, American Robin, Firecrest, Shore Lark, Lesser Snow Goose ,Pomarine Skua, White Tailed Plover, Montagu's Harrier, Temminks Stint, Common Rosefinch, Crossbill, Sabines Gull(OCT 2001 - only rarity/scarcity before about 2005 when I started Twitching) started birding in february 1998 - latest - Target life list 381(hopefully over 400 however)

Been twitching for 2 years, highlights being: Glossy Ibis, Ross's Goose, Surf Scoter, Black Winged Stilt, Long Billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Phalarope, Laughing Gull, Ross's Gull, Pallid Swift, Greater Reed Warbler,

Recent additions: Hoopoe, Chough, Barred Warbler, Yellow Browed Warbler

Red Eyed Vireo, Red Flanked Bluetail, Subalpine Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Richard's Pipit, Whiskered Tern

Highlights...Least Sandpiper (May) Stone Curlew, Self Found Glossy Ibis, American Wigeon, 4 Skuas, Cory's Shearwater, Marsh Sandpiper, Rose Coloured Starling. Latest...Velvet Scoter, Caspian Gull, Black Redstart, Water Pipit, A.B Tern, Barnacle Goose, Ring Necked Duck. My Blog: http://danielsbirdingblog.blogspot.co.uk/

Latest: Spotted Redshank, White-fronted Goose, Long-tailed Duck (!), CITRINE WAGTAIL, Radde's Warbler, Little Bunting, Hobby (!), Red-rumped Swallow, Surf Scoter, Iceland Gull Highlights:Sooty+Mediterranean Shearwaters, Leach's Petrels, Glossy Ibis, Spoonbill, Dotterel, Grey Phalarope, Long-tailed Skuas, Yellow-legged Gull, Sabine's Gulls, Little Auk, Hoopoe (x2), Bee-eater, Wryneck (x9), Short-toed Lark, Woodlarks, Richard's Pipits, Barred Warbler (x4), Subalpine Warbler (eastern,x3 western,x5), PADDYFIELD WARBLER (x2), Icterine+Melodious Warblers (x6 and x10), WESTERN BONELLIS WARBLER, Greenish Warbler (x2), Pallas's Warbler (x4), Woodchat+Red-backed Shrikes, Golden Oriole (x5), WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, Red-breasted Flycatcher (x2), Common Rosefinch (x4), Ortolan Bunting (x2), BLACK-HEADED BUNTING

Latest: 23.11.13- Scaup, Abbotsbury Swannery, Dorset. Lifers in 2013: Whooper swan, pink-footed goose, ruff, great grey shrike, ring ouzel, Kentish plover, pied-billed grebe, bluethroat, stone-curlew, osprey, tree pipit, woodlark, goshawk, honey-buzzard, white-rumped sandpiper, spotted redshank, little stint, wood sandpiper, roseate tern, nightingale, Balearic shearwater, ortolan bunting, red-breasted goose, red-necked grebe, surf scoter, Scaup, Common Crane, Black Guillemot and Brünnich's Guillemot .

Best Birds Include; Ferruginous Duck, Little Bittern, Glossy Ibis, Long Billed Dowitcher, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Buff Breasted Sandpiper

Latest: self found Firecrest 31/10/2008, GREEN HERON 26/10/2008

Best Birds: Olive Backed pipit at Spurn oct 2007 Glossy Ibis Marshide lancs Black Stork Alaw est Anglesey Marsh Sandpiper minsmere Cattle Egret poynton Most recent Gargeny, Little Gull Gret Northern Diver Cattle Egret Snow Bunting Whiskered Tern and Grasshopper Warbler 11/05/08 Inner Marsh Farm 4 new birds on july trip to norfolk White Rumped Sandpiper, Yellow Legged Gull, Arctic Skua and Common Crossbill

202 UK400. Aged 14. Lifers in 2008=Crane, Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, Nightjar, Woodlark, Red-backed Shrike, Kentish Plover, Lesser Whitethroat, Iceland Gull, Woodcock, Long-tailed Duck, Water Pipit

BOU Highlights: Long-Billed Dowitcher, Ring-Necked Duck & Black-Crowned Night Heron all at Gibraltar Point. Pectoral Sandpiper-Titchwell, Lesser Scaup-Rutland Water, Ring-Billed Gull-Carsington Water, Ferruginous Duck-Shipley Lake, White-Crowned Sparrow-Cley, Hen+Montys Harrier, Bearded Tit, Cetti's Warbler, Spoonbill, Waxwing & Wood Warbler Latest:Whinchat 27/09/2008

Squacco Heron, Rough Legged Buzzard, Glossy Ibis, Great White Egret, Bittern, Spoonbill, Waxwing, Night Heron, Little Gull, Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Cettis Warbler, Water Rail, Red Kite, Hawfinch, Black Tern, Ruff, Smew.

Gannet, Shag, Razorbill, Chough, Arctic Skua, Sandwich Tern, Oystercatcher, Avocet, Water Rail, Ringed Plover, Knot, Sanderling, Turnstone, Little Stint, Redshank, Snipe, Common Gull, Great Black Backed Gull eating huge crab with carrion crows attending, Arctic Tern, Guillemot, Eider, Barn Owl, Red Kite, Skylark, Little Egret, Ring Ousel, Fieldfare and Redwing, Waxwing, Dipper, Grey Wagtail,Yellow Wagtail, Latest: Black Swan and Little Ringed Plover at Hanningfield Resovoir

Highlights: Common Scot, Pied Fly, Bittern, Marsh H, Med Gull, Great Skua, Yellow wag, garganey, Merlin, Hobby, Peregrine

Mohammed, what are you doing watching birds and not praying to Allah, the one true God? I have also seen 1 wood pigeon, 1 blue tit, 1 robin and 1 azurian atlantic type yellow legged gull

A Dead (Cut in half) Wood Pigeon.

I saw the same pidgeon that Mohammed Raji Yusif Smith saw, but he had taken half of the remander of the pidgeon and ate it with his bare hands, raw.