It's all over now.Equalled the NON-MOTORISED YEAR LIST RECORD; now held jointly by me and Chris Mills. Long-eared owl, garganey, woodlark and Caspian gull, bean geese, Black Brants, 5 cranes, firecrest, golden pheasant, male hen harrier, 3 barn owls, grey phalarope, green-winged teal. Before these : waxwing, american wigeon, , little auk, little gull and sooty shearwater, 3 pectoral sand, sykes warbler arctic warbler rb flicker buff-bellied pipit, buff breasted sandpiper, bluethroat, subalpine, yellow-browed and pallas' grasshopper warblers, arctic and common redpolls, jack snipe and common rosefinches as year ticks on Fair Isle. So far the birdy highlights - 3 Golden eagle, 4 white-tailed sea eagle, 10 osprey, Dotterel, Great reed warbler, Bonaparte's gull, 3 lesser scaup, 3 ring-necked drakes, Red breasted goose, cirl buntings, 4 Great white egret, Great grey shrike, 3 water pipits, Green-winged teal and found a black redstart at Severn Bridge. Please go to my website www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com to get more details on my trip and how to sponsor the charities I am supporting, namely ASTHMA UK, WWT & the RSPB. Cycled to every RSPB & WWT nature reserve. Also look at my blog at www.bikingbirder2010.blogspot.com. Thanks.

178 OFFH includes 1 visit to coast on a 24hr, 42km walk. 161 OFFH on local patch.30DEC_ x2 _ ARCTIC REDPOLL _ (tick)_. 23/12 Long Tailed Duck & Marsh Tit; 9/12 Red Kite (escapee Snowy Owl), 7/12 Merlin at last ! 29/11 SANDERLING _(tick), Nov Scaup. Little Egret (after a patch first this summer), 18/10 Lapland Bunting (only my 2nd record). 16/10 GREAT GREY SHRIKE _(tick), Ring Ousel, Ruff, 24/8 Egyptian Goose_(2nd site record). 23/8_LITTLE STINT _(tick). 18/8Marsh Harrier: Spotshank, Whinchat, Redstart & Pied Fly (my 2nd) all on 15/8, Greenshank, Crossbill. mid June Hobby & Quail: 27/5 Blackwit. 20Apr=125: NYD saw 5 owl species, 1,200 Pinks over, 8WFgeese. Waxwing. male Leo in display flight. 11/1 5Dipper, Mandarin. 12/1 1st wint Iceland Gull. 13/1 Med Gull. 23/1 BITTERN, monsta Glaucous, drake Pintail, Gadwall. 25/1 BNG & Knot. 26/1 Shelduck. 29/1 Corn Bunt & YLGull. 1/2 Peregrine & Oystercatcher. 23/2BTThrush. Goshawk Brambling Golden Plover 2/3 Green Wpkr, Caspian Gull. 23/3Sand Martin, Shoveler, Chiffchaff. 29/3 Wheatears. 30/3GreenSand. 31/3Willow Warbler. 3/4Whimbrel. 4/4Ringed Plover. 6/4Blackcap. 7/4House Martin. (lrp,gcg & swallow - all march patch ticks, caught up by on foot recently ). 20th April Garganey, Tree Pipit, Lesser & Common Whitethroat. http://s-evans.blogspot.com/

January - Black Brant February - Water Pipit March - Alpine Swift April - Osprey May - Garganey June - Arctic Tern July - Hobby August - Semipalmated Sandpiper September - Pectoral Sandpiper October - Whooper Swan November - Long-billed Dowitcher December - Woodlark, Woodcock, Firecrest, Lapland Bunting, Waxwing, Red Kite, Great Bustard

Patch is Howick, near Craster, North Northumberland. Best so far (28/03/10) are - Raven, Shorelark, Water Rail, Snow Bunting, Twite, Crossbill, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Merlin, Mediterranean Gull, Purple Sand, Brambling, RT Diver, Whooper Swan, Kingfisher, Woodcock. For more details and full list please see www.boulmerbirder.blogspot.com