grey phalarope, hoopoe, shore lark, rough-legged buzzard, Balearic shearwater, little auk, long-billed dowitcher, bean goose, green-winged teal, chestnut bunting (not on the year list yet . . here's hoping it is accpeted), siberian rubythroat, ortolan bunting, red-breasted flycatcher, raddes, lanceolated and pallas' grasshopper warbler, red-flanked bluetail, pallid harrier, 111 yellow-browed warblers, common rosefinch, eastern subalpine, bluethroat, richards pipits, sooty shearwaters, arctic warbler, greenish warbler, barred warbler, american golden plover, olive-backed pipits, citrine wagtails, blyth's reed warbler, rose-coloured starling, capercaillie, ptarmigan, spotted crake, corncrake, white-tailed and golden eagle, honey buzzard, red-backed shrike, pomarine skua, little bittern, bee-eater, citril finch, moltoni's warbler, 6 temminck's stints, white rumped sandpiper, 3 red-necked phalaropes, wryneck, glossy ibis, dotterel, surf scoter, Laughing gull, black & red grouse, velvet scoter, lesser scaup. lesser spotted woodpecker, Goshawk, Ring-necked drake, Kumlein's and Iceland gull, 100+ long-tailed ducks, King eider, Little bunting, Pacific diver, american wigeon, ferruginous duck, penduline tits, 10 red-necked grebes, water pipit, cirl bunting, 3 ring-billed gull, lesser yellowlegs, night heron, cattle egret, rc pochard. My 100th bird was the great grey shrike at Chilham, Kent. (15/1) Now on the way to Middleton RSPB reserve. I am cycling to every RSPB and WWT nature reserve this year, as I did in 2010. Please have a look at my facebook page - Biking Birder 2015 Also the list is on Bubo. http://www.bubo.org/Listing/view-all-lists.html#listtop

On Foot From Home: www.dorsetwalks.com/blog
Jan: Greenland White-front Feb: Hooded Crow Mar: Bonaparte's Gull Apr: Red-rumped Swallow May: Golden Oriole Jun: Common Rosefinch Jul: Yellow-legged Gull Aug: Black Tern Sep: Wryneck Oct: Pallas' Warbler Nov: Yellow-browed Warbler Dec: Scaup

Cycled over 675miles to Rutland Water, preventing kilograms of CO2 entering the atmosphere (I’m doing my bit – are you doing yours) Best so far - 2 Great Northern Divers, 2 Stonechats, 3 Mediterranean Gulls (found 1), 2 Black-necked Grebes, 1 Red-necked Grebe, 1 Slavonian Grebe, 11+ Scaup (found 1), 11 Smew, 1 Red-crested Pochard, 1 Pink-footed Goose, 3 White-fronted Geese (1 Greenland), 1 Great White Egret, 1 Bittern, 1 Woodlark, 10 Whooper Swans, 5+ Kittiwakes, 1 Common Scoter, 6 Little Gulls (found 1), 2 Black Terns, 14 Whimbrels, 4 Greenshanks, 18 Grey Partridges (found), 4 Little Terns (found 1), 15 Sanderlings (found 6), 3 Wood Sandpipers (found 3), 12 Turnstones (found 1), 3 Bar-tailed Godwits (found them all), 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 487 Black-tailed Godwits (found 377 of them – including a flock of 340 with an individual that was older than me at the age of 20), 1 Grey Plover, 4 Temminck’s Stints (found 3), 1 Spotted Redshank, 3 Garganey, White-winged Black Tern, 1 Knot, 1 Caspian Gull, 3 Little Stints, 1 Whinchat, 2 Bearded Tits, 1 Great Grey Shrike Latest: Great Grey Shrike (19.10.2015) http://rutlandwaterbirdnews.blogspot.co.uk/

(Jan hopefulls - LBBGull, Pink foot√, Shoveller, Mealypol√, Mandarin, Kite, Whitefront, Brambling√.) 8/1 GoldPlover, GreenSand. 4/1. Corn Bunt x20, Waxwing, Kingfisher. 2/1. Bean Goose Redshank Geye Goosander Dabchick GCGrebe: 79 seen NYD.All 5 owls seen, Perg, WRail, Jack Snipe on ground, Woodcock, Whooper Swan RLPartridge Long-eared owl displaying