Up to 24/12 Smew, Willow Tit, LSW, 25/11 Desert Wheatear, Iceland Gull, 10/11 Puffin, Little Auk 28/10 5.5hrs of walking in circles for one 2 second sighting of OBP, 14/10 RN Grebe, 7/10 GW Egret, Com Rosefinch, Shag, Slav Grebe, Dick's Pipit 4/10 Tem's Stint, 2/10 Lesser Grey Shrike 30/9 Blyth's Reed Wblr, Subalpine Wblr, Yellow-Br Wblr, Red-br Fly, 27/9 Grey Phal, 26/9 Leach's Petrel, Sabine's Gull, 25/9 Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, 22/9 LB Dowitcher, 16/9 Lap Bunt, Barred Warb, Greenish Warb,17/8 WR Sand, 14/7 Dark-eyed Junco, 26/6 WW Black Tern 24/6 Little Bittern, 6/6 Booty Warb 29/5 RB Shrike & Iccy Warb, 15/5 Bon's Gull, Alp Swift, 25/3 RB Goose highlights - Black-eared Kite, Visit My Site All Updated http:\\www.freewebs.com\garybirder

Latest sightings: visit my website.As of 28/12. Latest: Caspian Gull, Waxwing & Green-winged Teal. Also Manadaring Duck on my local patch preceded by a bit of twitching to break the monotony: Desert Wheatear & Iceland Gull 25/11. Long hours and no flowers, trying to find stuff myself. Only recent additions are Little Auk (found) and Puffin (found). Less recently: GW Egret (refound), Richard's pipit (found), subalp (twitched), lg shrike (twitched), YB Warbler (4 found), Pec sand (found), Buff-breast (twitched), GN Diver (found), LT Skua (found), Snow Bunting (found), LB dowitcher (twitched), pom skua (found), Sab gull (found 3), Leach's Petrel (found), Bal Shear (found). Full list available at Bubo Listings

15/12 Ice Gull 8/12 Des Wheatear 4/11 Pur Sand 24/10 GWEgret 02/10 LGShrike 30/9 What a weekend! RFBluetail (see my web site for photos) Blyth's Reed Sub-A Warbler Yellow-br, Pied Fly, Sabs, G + RN Phal, Wryneck 22/9 Snow Goose 21/9 LB Dowitcher 27/8 Barred Warbler Greenish Warbler 14/7 D-e Junco 18/6 Little Bittern 3/6 R. Kite 1/6 RBShrike 29/5 Quail 27/5 M.S and B Shearwaters 19/5 Bonaparte's Gull 14/5 P Heron 22/4 Ib Chiffy G-w Teal 11/3 RB Goose 24/2 Norfolk Birders

Brown Flycatcher, Blyth's Reed, Yellow-browed Wrb, Greenish Wrb, Red breasted Fly, Isabelline Shrike, Melodious Wrb, Ferruginous Duck, Slav Grebe, Red-necked Phal, Great Shearwater, Sabs Gull, Sooty Shear,Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, Pom Skua, Roseate Tern, Bonxie, Caspian Gull, Spoonbill, Honey Buzzard, Roller, Pacific Diver, Red-flanked Bluetail, American Robin, Black-throated Thrush, Osprey(2), American Wigeon (2), Bee-eater, Woodlark, Spotted Sandpiper, Great White Egret, Whiskered Tern

Year Highlights:White Stork,Ring Necked Duck,Long Billed Dowitcher,Purple Heron,Marsh Warbler.Recent Highlights: Wryneck 21/8, White Winged Black Tern & Little Stint 23/8, Leach's Storm Petrel 21/9,Pied Fly & Barred Warbler 27/7,Merlin & Pom Skua 30/9, R B Fly 2/10, Y B Warbler 3/10, Red Crested Pochard 6/10,Caspian Gull 19/3, Sabines Gull 29/10,Lesser Yellowlegs 30/10, Little Auk 3/11, Velvet Scoter 11/11, Penduline Tit 14/11,Glaucous Gull & Whooper Swan 17/11,Willow Tit 18/11,Rough Legged Buzzard 25/11, Black Guillemot 4/12, Bean Goose 29/12.

LATEST HIGHLIGHTS - GG Shrike, Eider, Manx Shearwater, RB Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher

up to 18/12 Pomarine Skua, Glaucous Gull, Velvet Scoter, Penduline Tit, Twite, Little Auk, B t Diver, Pallas's Warbler, Sabine's, Rough-legged Buzzard, Y B Warbler, Gossander, G G Shrike, Bonxie, Barred Warbler, Snow Bunting, Razorbill,Rb Fly, Manx Shear,Lesser spot, Whinchat, WW Tern, Pied fly, Squacco Heron, Cattle Egret, Golden Plover, Highlight Include: Long billed Dow, R.N. Duck, Serin, Tem Stint

Best to date (31/12) are White-tailed Eagle, Red-breasted Goose, Iceland Gull, Great White and Cattle Egrets, Ring-billed Gull, Pomarine & Long-tailed Skuas, Yellow-browed, Barred, Marsh & Aquatic Warblers, American Golden Plover, Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted Crake, Red-backed Shrike, Rosy Starling and Hoopoe. Latest: Leach's Petrel

Highlights: B (E) Kite, Les Yellowlegs, Am Wigeon, GG+LG Shrike, Iberian Chiffchaff , Alpine Swift (2?), Purple Heron, Bonaparte's Gull, LBDowitcher, WR Sand, Snow Goose, Hume's. LATEST- RN + Grey Phals/Lap bunt 1/10, Jack Snipe/Firecrest 2/10, Redstart/L G Shrike/YBrow Warblers 7/10, Hume's W 11/10, Pom/Purple Sand 4/11, L.Auk 12/11, Mealy Redpoll (in garden last week of December!)

Highlights: Black-eared Kite, Lesser Yellowlegs, Iberian Chiffchaff, Bonaparte's Gull, Alpine Swift, Temminck's Stint, Pectoral Sandpiper, Booted Warbler, Spotted Crake, DARK-EYED JUNCO, BLYTH'S REED WARBLER, SUB-ALPINE WARBLER, Great White Egret, Barred Warbler, ROSS'S GOOSE, Rough-legged Buzzard, Desert Wheatear
Latest: 25th Nov: Rough-leg at Gapton, Desert Wheatear & Little Auks at Horsey.

Red Kite, Am Wigeon, Yellowlegs, Red-b Geese, Lesser spott, Black Kite, Monties. Red b Shrike, Quail, Little Bittern, Junco, Greenish, Camberwell Beauty, Sabinesx2. Lesser Grey, Subalpine, sev Yellow-browed, Dartford, Barred and Hume's.......Latest...Desert Wheatear, Cranes, Iceland Gull and Black-throated Diver.

Non BOU 216. Latest:Long-tailed Duck, Ring-billed Gull (Cheshire lifer) Yank Wigeon, Cetti's Warbler, Snow Bunt, Mealy Redpoll. Little Auk (Cheshire lifer), Great-grey Shrike. RADDE'S WARBLER (1st for Cheshire). BLYTH'S REED. Not included: Ruddy Shelduck, Sibe Chiffie, Wood Duck, White Wagtail, dodgy Snow & Ross's Geese. Even dodgier Wood Duck.

29/11 Desert Wheatear 7/11 Little Auk 22/10 RF Bluetail 16/10 GWE 8/10 Dusky Warbler 4/10 Brown Flycatcher 3/10 YB Warbler 1/10 Isabelline Shrike 28/9 Greenish Warbler, GG Shrike 26/9 Grey Phal 23/9 Buff-breasted Sand 9/9 Great Shear 28/8 Barred Warbler, RB Shrike 24/8 Melodious Warbler 22/7 Night Heron 26/5 Spotted Sandpiper 30/4 Crane 12/4 Ring Ouzel 20/3 White Stork, American Wigeon, Glaucous Gull, Iceland Gull, Little Egret, American Robin, Pacific Diver, Great Northern Diver

Desert Wheatear, Hume's Leaf Warbler, Richard's pipit, Yellow browed Warbler, Black Scoter, Spoonbill, Avocet, Iceland Gull, Dotterel, Osprey, Smew, Little Auk and cleared up on seawatching - http://www.birdingconwy.co.uk/diary_20071.htm

31/12. 208 in old county. The last weekend of the year prodiced Ring-billed Gull and Long-tailed Duck and finally saw the elusive Whooper Swans. Highlights: Glossy Ibis, GW Egret, Purple Heron, L-t Skua, Honey Buzzard (over my office), Lesser Scaup, Chough, Sooty Shear, Red-necked Grebe. Lowlights: lots of untwitchables, missing 5 Grey Phals in the autumn, and of course the albatross incident.

Latest: Blyth's Reed, Subalpine, Grey Phal, Red-necked Phal. Pec, Temminck's, Reed Warbler, LRP, Common Tern, Whinchat, Spoonbill, Montagu's Harrier, Garganey, Cuckoo. Woodchat Shrike. Alpine Swift found on my local patch. Red-rumped Swallow, Purple Heron, Bee-eater, Iberian Chiff.

Sqaucco Heron, Honey Buzzard, Purple Heron & Ring-necked Duck, Marsh Warbler, Long-billed Dowitcher.

Cattle Egret a nice Christmas present.

Hehehe - sorry Roger!

Sharpie, R.B Shrike, Hoopoe and Redstat at last!!

Self-found WHISKERED & Little Terns. Other Highlights include Lesser Scaup, Sabine's Gull, Bonxie, Grey Phalarope, G-W Teal, Purple Sand, Pec Sand, Temminck's Stint, Sandwich Tern, Avocet, Redstart, Cetti's Warbler, RT Diver, Ring Ouzels. Latest : L-T Duck & Brent Goose (04/11), Arctic Skua (05/11), Slav Grebe (25/11), Bewick's Swan (15/12), Water Pipit (30/12)

156/171. Latest Water Pipit 29/12. Highlights 7 GNDivers together, wintering Little Stint, Green-winged Teal, 15 Ring Ouzels, Black Redstart, Lesser Scaup, 29 Sanderling (flock of 16!), 2 spring Curlew Sandpipers, FULMAR, Little Tern, Kittiwake, 19 Crossbills, WHISKERED TERN, 3 Sabine's Gulls, 2 Arctic Skuas, 9 Sandwich Terns, Red-throated Diver, Grey Phalarope, GWEgret. LTDuck. 209 species have been reported in the county: my relatively low total is down to too many foreign trips (see my 2007 World List) and not bothering dashing across the county every time something turns up.

- Could have had several more if I had a car but all the miles on foot kept me fit. Highlight American Buff-Bellied Pipit, Marsh Sand, Purple Heron, Franklins Gull, White Winged Black Tern, Lesser Scaup, Scops Owl, Bonapartes Gull, Pec Sand, Artic Skua, Pink footed Goose,Crane ,Scaup, Waxwing, Iceland Gull(3), Glaucous Gull ,Kittiwake (2), Black Necked Grebe (2), Nightingale(2), Ring Ouzel (6) ,Water Pipit. Updated 31/12/07

Latest - American Buff-bellied Pipit (Lands End, 05/11/07) Highlights - 5 Diver Sp., Gyr, Am.B.B.Pipit, Dusky Warb, Spot Crake, Grey Phal, Wood Sand, 3 races of Lesser Whitethroat.

Reed Warbler, Temminck's, Pec Sand, LRP, Spoonbill, Whinchat, Bee-eater, Red-rumped Swallow, Alpine Swift, Purple Heron, Woodchat Shrike, Garganey, Cuckoo, Montagu's Harrier IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF .

Highlights - WHISKERED TERN, Lesser Scaup, Sabine's Gull, Bonxie, Grey Phalarope, Temminck's Stint, G-W Teal, R-T Diver, Sandwich Tern, Pec Sand, B-N Grebe, Cetti's, Little Stint, Whoopers, Scaup, P-F Goose, Ring Ouzel. Latest : L-T Duck & Brent Goose (4/11), Arctic Skua (05/11), Slav Grebe (25/11), Water Pipit (30/12)

Highlights: Little Bunting, Penduline Tit, Marsh Harrier, Marsh Warbler, Squacco, Cattle Egret,

That's Sefton, Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens & Wirral... Latest: 15/04 willow warbler, sedge warbler, swallow, tree sparrow, cuckoo, ring ouzel, sandwich tern, common tern,24/04 woodcock, kittiwake, tree pipit, Grasshopper warbler.30/04 BLACK KITE, Hobby, Swift, House martin.12/05 Arctic skua ,Whinchat,13/05 Gadwall, Curlew sand, 20/05 WOODCHAT SHRIKE ,16/06 roseate tern, 17/6 fulmar, manx shearwater, 6/7 storm petrel 10/07 GLOSSY IBIS,greenshank,common sandpiper,13/07 COMMON ROSEFINCH, lesser whitethroat,15/07 little-ringed plover, 22/07 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 24/07 PEC SAND green sandpiper, 02/09 GREAT-WHITE EGRET, spotted redshank, yellow wagtail,29/09 short eared owl 30/09 firecrest , eider , lesser spotted woodpecker

7th Oct - been a slow year so far, but highlights include seeing Caspian Tern (3rd county record) and Red-rumped Swallow (also 3rd county record.) Self-found is currently on 152 for the year inc Fulmar, Grey Phal, 2 Pied Fly's, Firecrest, 3 Curlew Sands, Cetti's Warbler, Bearded Tit, Rock Pipits etc

That's Sefton, Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens & Wirral...
Latest: 12/12 - Black Redstart, 12/11 - Snow Bunting. 16/10 Radde's Warbler. 7/10 - Blyth's Reed Warber, Water Rail. 10/9 - Leach's Petrel, Fulmar & Arctic Tern.

169/9 Recent sightings:Water Pipit: 29/12/07 Cossington Meadows LRWT, Bewick's Swan: 25/10/07 Lockington GPs,Caspian Gull: 21/10/07 Eyebrook Resv, Garganey: 2/10/07 Eyebrook Resv.2007 Highlights: Whiskered Tern,Lesser Scaup, Bewick and 26 Whooper Swans, Cetti's Warbler,20+Ring Ouzels,Green winged Teal,Sandwich Tern, Marsh Harrier, etc, etc...

Highlights Sabine's Gulls[2]/Whiskered Tern/16 Sanderling @ Eyebrook Res/Temminck's Stint/Lesser Scaup /Ring Ouzel[3]l / Grasshopper W + G.W Teal/LSW/Whooper Swans[26]/Corn Buntings[18]/Avocet/Whimbrel/Sandwich Tern/Cetti's W/White Fronted Geese[2]

Spring Update 2/5 HIGHLIGHTS:- Ib Chiffchaff, Black Kite, Lesser Yellowlegs,Am Wigeon, RB Goose

STONE CURLEW!!! COUNTY TICK, LATEST:- Red Kite,Quail,Sandwich Tern,Arctic Skua,Greenshank,

Highlights: G-b Tern, Pallas's Warbler, GN Diver, Nightjar, Woodcock, Pec. Sand, Cattle Egret, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Paddyfield Warb., Greenish Warb. Latest: 29/09 Paddyfield Warb., Greenish Warb.

Stone Curlew, Glossy Ibis, Green Winged Teal - Recent - Dotterel (29/4 - Pendle Hill)

Latest: Ring Ouzel, Avocet, Yellow Wagtail. March highlights: Lesser Scaup, White-fronted Goose, self-found Richard's Pipit on Severnside and Kittiwake. Up to end of Feb, highlights include Green-winged Teal, Yellow-browed Warbler, Bonxie, Smew, RB Merg, Long-tailed Duck, RN Duck, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit, Little Gull, Spotshank, DB Brent, SEO, Woodcock.

LATEST HIGHLIGHT: Curlew sandpiper

All the Divers, RN Duck, RB Gull, Spot Sand, Hoopoe, Franklins Gull, Gyr Falcon,dartford warbler. YB Warbler, Hen Harrier, SE Owl, Wheatear and LITTLE BUNT.

Green-winged Teal, Black Brant-19/3, Great White Egret, Red-necked Phalarope, Yellow-browed Warbler, Snow Bunting-11 Oct

Black Redstart,Little Gull,Smew,Great Northern Diver.update.Honey Buzzard.(31/12/07)

Summer plumaged little stint

Ring necked Duck.What do you mean highlights-this is Bucks! Latest:-Mandarin