Holland Self-found List

Few highlights: Pallid Harrier, Black-shouldered Kite, Booted Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Terek sandpiper, Pacific Golden Plover, White-rumped sandpiper, Eagle Owl (the first of many), Middle Spotted Woodpecker (the first of many), Caspian Gull (the first of many), Thrush Nightingale, Greenland White-fronted Goose, Baillon’s Crake, Red-rumped Swallow and many more….

best birds so far: first Wilson's Petrel for NL, first White-throated Needletail for NL, Yellow-billed Diver, Stormpetrel, Med.shearwaters, Glossy Ibis, Ross Goose, Greenwinged Teal, Pallid Harrier, Stone Curlew, Sociable Plover, Pacific Golden Plover,American Golden Plover, Stone Curlew, Pectoral Sand, Terek Sand, Roseate Tern, Puffin (53), Black Guillemot, Alpine Swift (3x), Bee-eater (>10), Red Rumped Swallow (15), Red Throated Pipit (101) Hoopoe (8x), Short-toed Lark (5), Aquatic Warbler (7), Pallas Warbler (7), Barred Warbler (4), Rose Coloured Starlings, Arctic Redpoll, Cirl, Rustic and Little Bunting

King Eider (1989), Greater Shorttoed- Lark (1992), Greater Spotted Eagle (2001), Sharptailed Sandpiper (2002), White-rumped Sandpiper (2002), Hume's Warlber (1998), Pacific Golden Plover (1992, 2001). Two-barred Crossbills. Little Bunting, Pallas' Warbler, Barred Warbler. Pectoral Sandpiper (4). Broad-billed Sandpiper, Hoopoe, Red-breasted Flycatcher, American Wigeon, Red-spotted Bluethroat. Richardson's Canada Goose, Greenland White-fronted Goose(4), Ross' Goose, Rose-coloured Starling, Little Crake, Iceland Gull, Siberian Stonechat. Puffin, Dusky Warbler, Whiskered Tern, Aquatic Warbler, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Eurasian Treecreeper and Longtailed Skua

The Island of North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Recent finds getting fewer and farther between but still ticking over. New so far in 2003 Bittern, Barn Owl, Woodchat Shrike and a Lancey of the long overdue subspecies.

in 2007: Greater Sand Plover (new selfdiscovery), Barred Warbler (my 7th!) 2008: Marsh Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Subalpine Warbler (new selfdiscovery), Barred Warbler (my 8th!) 2009: Black Guillemot (new selfdiscovery), American Wigeon (new selfdiscovery), Rose-coloured Starling (new selfdiscovery), Balearic Shearwater (new selfdiscovery) 2010: Daurian Shrike (new selfdiscovery) 2011 Woodchat (new selfdiscovery) Pectoral Sandpiper, Common Loon (new selfdiscovery) 2012 Subalpine Warbler (my 2nd self found) 2013: Siberian Stonechat (new self found), Humes Warbler (new self found) 2014: White-tailed Lapwing (new self found), Iceland Gull (new self found), Terek Sandpiper (new self found), 2015: Iberian Chiffchaff (new self found), Broad-billed Sandpiper (new self found), Hoopoe (new self found), Bee-eater (new self found)

Last addition: Pacific Golden Plover (14-7-'01), furthermore: Northern Mockingbird ('88); Long-billed Dowitchers ('89, '96); Greater Short-toed Lark ('92); Humes Warbler ('99); Western Bonelli's Warlber ('91); Two-barred Crossbill ('97); Arctic Redpoll ('96); Pallas's Warbler (3); Pectoral Sandpipers (2); Broadbilled Sandpiper ('00); Siberian Stonechat (May '98: only Dutch spring record?); Storm Petrel; Hoopoe; Barred Warbler; Redbreasted Flycatcher; Ferruginous Duck ('89); Nutcracker. Best escapes: Longtailed Rosefinch; Bufflehead :)...

e.g. Glossy Ibis (3 in 1998), light fase Booted Eagle (2001) strange Laughing Gull (considered probably hybrid 1998), Snowy Owl (2000), Alpine Swift (2001), Pallas Warbler

On various business trips over 30 years. Savi's Warbler.