White-fronted Goose, Velvet Scoter, Scaup, Snow Bunting, Green-winged Teal, Water Pipit, Iceland Gull, Great Skua, Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Shorelark, Spotted Redshank, Avocet, Smew, Little Auk, Little Gull, Glaucous Gull, Mandarin, Greenshank, Long-eared Owl, Bittern, Merlin, Twite, Black Grouse, Rough-legged Buzzard, Barn Owl, Corn Bunting, Jack Snipe, Raven, Hen Harrier, Crossbill, Whimbrel, Penduline Tit, Cettis Warbler, Mealy Redpoll, Richards Pipit, Ferruginous Duck, Goshawk, Black Redstart, Little Ringed Plover, Ring Ouzel, Great White Egret, Garganey, Tree Pipit, Pied Flycatcher, Grasshopper Warbler, Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier, Whinchat, Wood Warbler, Wood Sandpiper, Little Tern, Spoonbill, Whiskered Tern, Black Tern, Citrine Wagtail, Bluethroat, Black-necked Grebe, Quail, Pectoral Sandpiper, Nightjar, Long-tailed Duck, Osprey, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Desert Wheatear, Siberian Accenter, Isabelline Shrike, Waxwing, Bean Goose.

Isabelline Wheatear, Baird's Sandpiper, White's Thrush, Yellow-browed Warbler, Spotted Sandpiper, Red Kite, Bonaparte's Gull, Glossy Ibis, Common Rosefinch, Icterine Warbler, Wood Sandpiper, Little Stint, Quail, Roseate Tern, Dotterel, Little Tern, Bluethroat, Western Subalpine Warbler, Wood Warbler, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, Hen Harrier, Tree Pipit, Redstart, Whinchat, Hooded Crow, Garganey, Green Woodpecker, Great White Egret, Waxwing, Willow Tit, Little Owl, Tawny Owl, Goshawk, Great Grey Shrike, Ring-necked Parakeet, Black Scoter, Mealy Redpoll, Bittern, Merlin, Long-eared Owl, Black Redstart, American Wigeon, Raven, Green Sandpiper, Tundra Bean Goose, Coues's Arctic Redpoll, Long-tailed Duck, Snow Bunting, Woodcock, Red-necked Grebe, Water Pipit, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Brent Goose, Black-throated Diver, Common Crossbill, Jack Snipe, Great Northern Diver, Peregrine Falcon, Whooper Swan, Velvet Scoter, Barn Owl, Ruff, Scaup, Smew, Iceland Gull, Slavonian Grebe, Little Auk, Long-billed Dowitcher, Black-necked Grebe, Green-winged Teal, Black Grouse, White-fronted Goose, Mandarin Duck, Short-eared Owl.

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May: Honey Buzzard, Black-winged Stilt, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Wood Warbler, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Great White Egret, Little Ringed Plover June Nightjar, Cattle Egret July Wood Sandpiper Aug Little Stint Sep Ortolan Bunting Oct Rosy Starling Nov: Eider, Goosander, Woodcock

5 GN Divers, RN Grebe, 7 BN Grebes, 3 Slav Grebes, Gannet, 3 Shags, 2 Bewicks Swans, 8 Whooper Swans, White-f Goose, Tundra Bean Goose, American Wigeon, 9 Garganey, 2 GW Teal, 10+ Scaup, 16 Common Scoter, SURF SCOTER, 2 Long-tailed Ducks, 18 Smew, RB Merg, Ruddy Duck, Bittern, 8 GW Egrets, Glossy Ibis, 8 Marsh Harriers, Hen Harrier, Merlin, 2 Cranes, 5 Knot, Long-billed Dowitcher, 4 Wood Sandpipers, Bonxie, 9 Little Gulls, 7 Med Gulls, 3 Iceland Gulls, Glaucous Gull, Sandwich Tern, 2 Little Terns, ROSEATE TERN, WWB Tern, Turtle Dove, 4 SE Owls, Black Redstart, 3 Ring Ouzels, GG Shrike, 3 Rock Pipits, Water Pipit, 3 Waxwings, Hooded Crow, Hawfinch. County split 151/173. A total of 219 species reported so far (Dec 28th)

Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan (17), American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Garganey (3), Ring-necked Duck, Scaup, Long-tailed Duck, Common Scoter (12), Velvet Scoter, Smew, Red-breasted Merganser, Quail (heard), Shag (2), Great White Egret, Black-throated Diver, Red-necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe (2), Black-necked Grebe (4), Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, Osprey, Avocet, Grey Plover (2), Temminck's Stint, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper (2), Grey Phalarope, Great Skua, Sandwich Tern (2), Black Tern (3), Kittiwake, Little Gull (4), Mediterranean Gull (5), Ring-necked Parakeet, Short-eared Owl (2), Hoopoe, Waxwing (6), Ring Ouzel (3), Black Redstart, Water Pipit, Crossbill (3), Hawfinch (6)

12/2 Mealy. 31/1 (149)Shorelark, Twite, RNPara. 27/1 144SthTyneside trip:- GWTeal, SnowBunt Puffin, Rock Pip. 23/1 Moors trip:- Black & Red Grouse, Red Kite, HEN HARRIER, Crossbill, Raven 21/1 (134) Merlin, Water Pipit, Pintail. 19/1 Green Woodpecker, Marsh Tit. 18/1 Brambling. Gr8 4hrs on marshes :-RNGrebe GNDiver Little Auk, Spotted Redshank, Whimbrel, Stonechat, Glauc, Med, Velvet Scoter: Corn Bunt 12/1. Smew, Casp 10/1. 5owls seen. Jack Snipe, 4-5Green Sand, 10Kingfisher, Greenshank, WFGoose, Mandarin. 94 inland on foot.