Year listed with my dad and mum, Chris and Helena Craig. Beat both my targets for the year - to get to 300 and to beat my mum! 155 lifers in the year. My full list is at www.bubo.org. Favourite bird of the year - puffin. Highlights of the year - black-browed albatross (best birding experience), eastern crowned warbler (rarest bird of the year), glaucous winged gull, sandhill crane (furthest twitch), brown shrike, crested lark, white-thoated sparrow, pallid swift, pacific diver, collared flycatcher, red-flanked bluetail, great spotted cuckoo, river warbler, black-winged pratincole, collared pratincole, pacific golden plover, barred warbler, rb fly, ortolan bunting, short-toed lark, citrine wagtail, azorean y.l. gull, sabine's gull, wilson's storm petrel, long-tailed skua, wilson's phal, subalpine warbler, penduline tit, snowy owl (cutest bird of the year), r.l. buzzard, american golden plover, long-billed dowitcher, baird sand, buff-breasted sand, lesser yellowlegs, blue-winged teal, black duck, lesser scaup, r.b. goose, glossy ibis, squacco heron, little bittern, white-winged black tern, whiskered tern and red rumped swallow.

HIGHLIGHTS: Slav + Black necked Grebes, Spoonbill, Grt white Egret, Blue winged Teal, Hooded merg, Red kite, Montagu's Harrier, Quail, Crane, Collared Pratincole, Temminck's Stint, Wilson's Phalarope, Pec Sand, Glaucous winged gull, Caspian gull, Nightjar, Pallid Swift, Hoopoe, Grey headed wagtail, Waxwing, Dartford warbler, Cetti's warbler, Greenish Warbler, Yellow browed warbler, Eastern crowned warbler, Golden oriole, UPDATED 2/11/09