1) Red-throated Diver
2) Black-throated Diver
3) Great Northern Diver
4) Little Grebe
5) Great Crested Grebe
6) Red-necked Grebe – 1 Slapton,
7) Slavonian Grebe
8) Black-necked Grebe
9) Fulmar
10) presumed Fea’s Petrel – 1
11) Cory’s Shearwater – 2 Porthgwarra,
12) Great Shearwater – 21 Porthgwarra,
13) Sooty Shearwater
14) Manx Shearwater
15) Balearic Shearwater – 2 Porthgwarra, Cornwall 10/8 AH, 21 Porthgwarra 13/8 LE, 5 Porthgwarra, Cornwall 14/8, 2 Porthgwarra, Cornwall 15/8 CH, 1 Bridges of Ross, Co.Clare 22/8 AH, 1 Bridges of Ross, Co.Clare 24/8 AH, 3 Bridges of Ross, Co.Clare 25/8 AH, 1 Bridges of Ross, Co.Clare 26/8 AH, 1 Bridges of Ross, Co.Clare 27/8 AH
16)
17) Storm Petrel
18) Leach’s Petrel – 1 Leasowe, Wirral 28/10 nw
19) Gannet
20) Cormorant
21) Shag
22) Bittern – 2 Minsmere,
23) Little Bittern – Marsh Barton,
24) Night Heron – ad Tregeseal,
25) Squacco Heron – 1st sum
26) Cattle Egret – 3 Gweek,
27) Snowy Egret – Isle of
28) Little Egret
29) Great White Egret – Sandbach,
30) Grey Heron
31) Purple Heron – Minsmere,
32) White Stork –
33) Glossy Ibis – Budleigh Salterton, Devon 7/9 AH,
34) Spoonbill – ad Wacker Quay,
35) Mute Swan
36) Bewick’s Swan
37) Whooper Swan
38) Taiga Bean Goose – 161 Slamannan,
39) Pink-footed Goose
40) Eurasian White-fronted Goose
41)
42) Greylag Goose
43) Lesser Snow Goose – ad blue morph Preesall, Lancs 10/2 AH, (ad white morph
44) Ross’s Goose – 2 Wighton,
45) Greater Canada Goose
46) Small Canada Goose – 1(hutchinsii) Islay, Argyll 9/11 AH, 4(hutchinsii) Islay, Argyll 10/11 AH, 3(hutchinsii) Islay, Argyll 11/11 AH, 1(hutchinsii) Islay, Argyll 12/11, 1(minima-type)
47) Barnacle Goose
48) Pale-bellied Brent
49) Dark-bellied Brent
50) Black Brant – ad Keyhaven, Hants 13/2 JB, ad
51) Red-breasted Goose –
52) Egyptian Goose
53) Shelduck
54) Mandarin Duck
55) Eurasian Wigeon
56) American Wigeon – 1f Porthmadog, Gwynedd 3/9 RM
57) Gadwall
58) Teal
59) Green-winged Teal – drk Cresswell Pond, N’berland 16/2 AH, drk Inner Marsh Farm,
60) Mallard
61) Black Duck – drk Slapton Ley,
62) Pintail
63) Garganey
64) Shoveler
65) Red-crested Pochard – Cotswold WP, Wilts 15/4 nw
66) Pochard
67) Canvasback – drk Pennington Flash, Gtr Manchester 11/7 SY
68) Redhead – drk Kenfig, Glamorgan 22/9 AH
69) Ring-necked Duck – fem
70) Ferruginous Duck – drk
71) Tufted Duck
72) Scaup
73) Lesser Scaup – 1w drk Studland, Dorset 23/2 nw, drk Drift Res,
74) Eider
75) Long-tailed Duck
76) Common Scoter
77) Black Scoter – drk Llanfairfechan, Gwynedd 24/3 GBe
78) Surf Scoter – 1w Torbay, Devon 23/2 nw, 2drks Ruddon’s Point, Fife 27/3 AH, drk Gullane Point, Lothian 26/11 AH, 1w Mumbles, Glamorgan 2/12 KV
79) Velvet Scoter
80) Goldeneye
81) Smew – 3(drk, 1w drk+redhead) Wraysbury, Berks 1/12 nw
82) Red-breasted Merganser
83) Goosander
84) Ruddy Duck
85) White-headed Duck – drk Hardley, Norfolk 4/7 AH, drk Stanford Res, N’hants/Leics 11/9 AH
86) Honey Buzzard – 1 Nomansland, New Forest, Hants 31/5 nw
87) Red Kite – 6 M40 btwn Thame & High Wycombe, Oxon/Bucks 11/4 nw, 1 Dingwall, Highland 28/6 LE, 1 Land’s End, Cornwall 16/10 ACl
88) Marsh Harrier
89) Hen Harrier
90) Pallid Harrier – Elmley, Kent 11/8 AH
91) Montagu’s Harrier – 1 1st sum m Black Gutter, Hants 4/5 SH, 3(1m, 1 1st sum m, 1f) Gedney Drove End, Lincs 4/7 AH, 3juvs Gedney Drove End, Lincs 6/8 AH
92) Goshawk – 1juv Strines, South Yorks 2/9 nw
93) Sparrowhawk
94) Buzzard
95) Rough-legged Buzzard – 2juvs Sudbourne, Suffolk 25/10 nw
96) Golden Eagle – 2 Isle of Arran, Ayrshire 26/3 AH, 3(2ad&juv) Strathconon, Highland 29/6 LE
97) Osprey – 3 Loch of Lowes, Perthshire 26/3 AH, 1 Frodsham, Cheshire 3/4 nw, 1 Inverness, Highland 11/5 RK, 1 Boat of Garten, Highland 30/6 LE
98) Lesser Kestrel – Golf Course/Peninis, St.Mary’s 15/5 FM
99) Kestrel
100) Red-footed Falcon – 1 1st sum f Hickling, Norfolk 15/7 nw
101) Merlin
102) Hobby
103) Gyr Falcon – South Stack, Anglesey 9/3 AH
104) Peregrine
105) Red Grouse
106) Ptarmigan – 1m1f Cairngorm, Highland 30/6 LE
107) Black Grouse – 23(21m2f) Langdon Beck, Co.Durham 16/2 AH
108) Capercaillie – 1f Grantown Woods, Highland 30/6 LE
109) Red-legged Partridge
110) Grey Partridge
111) Quail – 1 heard Helvich, Highland 8/6 LE, 1 heard Shotwick, Cheshire/Clwyd 10/7 nw
112) Pheasant
113) Golden Pheasant – 9 Waylands Wood, Norfolk 3/2 AH
114) Lady Amherst’s Pheasant – 1m Woburn, Beds 21/2 LE
115) Water Rail
116) Spotted Crake – ad Belvide Res, Staffs 3/4 nw, 2ads Inner Marsh Farm, Cheshire 8/9 nw, 1w Parkgate, Cheshire 6/11 TE
117) Corncrake – 1 Uig, Isle of Skye 28/6 LE, 1 Airfield, St.Mary’s 10/10 AH
118) Moorhen
119) Coot
120) Common Crane – 6 Horsey, Norfolk 6/9 AH
121) Oystercatcher
122) Black-winged Stilt – 2 Titchfield Haven, Hants 17/4 RK, Titchwell, Norfolk 6/8 AH
123) Avocet
124) Stone Curlew – 1 Caesar’s Belt, Hants 4/5 SH, 1 Foxhole Heath, Suffolk 4/7 AH
125) Little Ringed Plover
126) Ringed Plover
127) Kentish Plover – 1m Oare Marshes, Kent 28/4 AC
128) Lesser Sand Plover – Rimac, Lincs 13/5 IP
129) Dotterel – ad Frodsham, Cheshire 3/4 BM, 6/4 nw, juv Weybourne, Norfolk 13/9 LG
130) Pacific Golden Plover – Horseshoe Point, Lincs 19/7 nw, Whitburn, Co.Durham 21/9 AH
131) Golden Plover
132) Grey Plover
133) Lapwing
134) Knot
135) Sanderling
136) Little Stint
137) Temminck’s Stint – ad Titchfield Haven, Hants 20/6 JB
138) Least Sandpiper – ad Drayton Bassett, Staffs 24/5 LE
139) White-rumped Sandpiper – Titchwell, Norfolk 2/9 nw
140) Pectoral Sandpiper – ad Farlington, Hants 16/5 nw, juv Eagland Hill, Lancs 16/9 AH, juv Inner Marsh Farm, Cheshire 18/9 nw
141) Curlew Sandpiper
142) Purple Sandpiper
143) Dunlin
144) Broad-billed Sandpiper – 2 juvs Cley, Norfolk 6/8 AH
145) Stilt Sandpiper – Pennington, Hants 22/7 nw
146) Buff-breasted Sandpiper – Wheldrake, North Yorks 26/9 GT
147) Ruff
148) Jack Snipe – Porthellick, St.Mary’s 30/3 PC, Castle Down, Tresco 9/10 AB, Lower Moors, St.Mary’s 11/10 AH
149) Snipe
150) Long-billed Dowitcher – 1w Saltfleet Haven, Lincs 5/11 MR
151) Woodcock
152) Black-tailed Godwit
153) Bar-tailed Godwit
154) Whimbrel
155) Curlew
156) Spotted Redshank
157) Redshank
158) Marsh Sandpiper – Leventhorpe Flash, West Yorks 8/6 LE, Inner Marsh Farm, Cheshire 26/7 TE
159) Greenshank
160) Lesser Yellowlegs – ad Frodsham, Cheshire 23/3 BM, 29/3 nw, 31/3 FD, juv Eagland Hill, Lancs 16/9 AH
161) Solitary Sandpiper – ad Rye Meads, Herts 14/9 GE
162) Green Sandpiper
163) Wood Sandpiper
164) Common Sandpiper
165) Spotted Sandpiper – Derwent Res, Co.Durham 26/6 nw
166) Turnstone
167) Red-necked Phalarope – 1f Welney, Norfolk 5/6 AH
168) Grey Phalarope – Frodsham, Cheshire 23/7 BM, 25/7 LE, Gailey Res, Staffs 31/10 AH
169) Pomarine Skua – 2 Bowness-on-Solway, Cumbria 29/4 LE, 1 Porthgwarra, Cornwall 13/8 LE, 2 Porthgwarra, Cornwall 14/8 AH, 1 Southwold, Suffolk 24/9 GB
170) Arctic Skua
171) Great Skua
172) Mediterranean Gull
173) Franklin’s Gull – ad Farmoor Res, Oxon 19/8 LE
174) Little Gull
175) Bonaparte’s Gull – ad Millbrook, Cornwall 29/1 GB, ad Pagham, West Sussex 21/3 MM
176) Black-headed Gull
177) Ring-billed Gull – ad Langstone Hbr, Hants 9/2 nw, ad Corfe Mullen Tip, Dorset 8/3 LE, ad Stromness, Orkney 6/12 AH
178) Common Gull
179) Lesser Black-backed Gull
180) American Herring Gull – 1w Corfe Mullen Tip, Dorset 8/3 LE
181) Herring Gull
182) Western Yellow-legged Gull
183) Iceland Gull – 3w Weston Shore, Hants 13/1 nw, ad West Denton, N’berland 16/2 AH, 2w Weston Shore, Hants 17/2 nw, 24/2 nw, 25/2 nw, 26/2 nw, 1/3 nw, 4/3 nw, 7/3 nw, 12/3 nw, 15/3 nw, 1w Corfe Mullen Tip, Dorset 6/3 JL, 8/3 LE, ad Chasewater, Staffs 9/3 AH, ad Stromness, Orkney 6/12 LE
184) Glaucous Gull – 2w Fishmoor Res, Lancs 2/1 AH, 1w Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd 10/2 AH, ad North Shields, N’berland 16/2 AH
185) Great Black-backed Gull
186) Ross’s Gull – ad Plym Estuary, Devon 29/1 GB
187) Kittiwake
188) Ivory Gull – ad Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd 10/2 AH, 1w Mumbles, Glamorgan 2/12 KV
189) Gull-billed Tern – Marazion, Cornwall 7/9 AH
190) Sandwich Tern
191) Elegant Tern – Dawlish, Devon 8/7 JT, Morfa Bychan, Gwynedd 24/7 GBe
192) Roseate Tern – 2 Titchfield Haven, Hants 5/5 AM, 1 Port Edgar, Lothian 30/6 LE
193) Common Tern
194) Arctic Tern
195) Forster’s Tern – 1w Hayle Estuary, Cornwall 2/12 nw
196) Little Tern
197) Whiskered Tern – Cotswold WP, Wilts 15/4 RK
198) Black Tern – 1 Titchfield Haven, Hants 8/5 NV, 1 Bridges of Ross, Co.Clare 22/8 AH
199) White-winged Black Tern – juv Stretham, Cambs 25/9 JO
200) Guillemot
201) Razorbill
202) Black Guillemot
203) Puffin
204) Rock Dove – 15 North Ronaldsay, Orkney 11/5 AH, 3 Isle of Skye 29/6 LE
205) Stock Dove
206) Woodpigeon
207) Collared Dove
208) Oriental Turtle Dove – juv Stromness, Orkney 6/12 AH
209) Turtle Dove
210) Ring-necked Parakeet
211) Cuckoo
212) Barn Owl
213) Scops Owl – Porthgwarra, Cornwall 25/3 AH
214) Little Owl
215) Tawny Owl
216) Long-eared Owl – 1 Elmley, Kent 11/8 AH
217) Short-eared Owl
218) Nightjar
219) Swift
220) Alpine Swift – Lodmoor, Dorset 21/4 SW, Peveril Point, Dorset 17/6 JB
221) Kingfisher
222) Bee-eater – 2 Bishop Middleham, Co.Durham 5/6 AH
223) Hoopoe – Porthgwarra, Cornwall 25/3 AH
224) Wryneck – South Gare, Cleveland 10/9 AH
225) Green Woodpecker
226) Great Spotted Woodpecker
227) Lesser Spotted Woodpecker – Rhinefield, New Forest, Hants 13/2 JB
228) Short-toed Lark – Castle Down, Tresco 9/10 AH
229) Woodlark – 1 Beaulieu Rd, Hants 22/3 nw, 4 Beaulieu Rd, Hants 4/5 SH
230) Skylark
231) Shorelark – 3 Donna Nook, Lincs 5/11 nw
232) Sand Martin
233) Swallow
234) Red-rumped Swallow – Shotwick, Cheshire/Clwyd 9/8 SWi, Old Town, St.Mary’s 29/10 AH, 30/10 MMu
235) House Martin
236) Richard’s Pipit – Black Bank, Staffs 6/10 CJ
237) Olive-backed Pipit – Lynford, Norfolk 3/2 AH
238) Tree Pipit
239) Meadow Pipit
240) Rock Pipit
241) Water Pipit – 2+ Lower Test Marshes, Hants 19/2 nw, 1 Neston, Cheshire 4/12 nw
242) Yellow Wagtail
243) Citrine Wagtail – Flamborough, East Yorks 30/9 MR, Cricket Pitch, St.Martin’s 8/10 AH
244) Grey Wagtail
245) White Wagtail
246) Pied Wagtail
247) Dipper
248) Wren
249) Dunnock
250) Alpine Accentor – Minsmere, Suffolk 17/3 GB
251) Robin
252) Nightingale
253) Bluethroat – 1f Portland, Dorset 4/6 JL
254) Black Redstart
255) Redstart
256) Whinchat
257) Stonechat
258) Wheatear
259) Black-eared Wheatear – Nanquidno, Cornwall 25/3 AH
260) Grey-cheeked Thrush – Covean, St.Agnes 29/10 AH
261) Veery – North Ronaldsay, Orkney 1/10 JM
262) Ring Ousel
263) Blackbird
264) Fieldfare
265) Song Thrush
266) Redwing
267) Mistle Thrush
268) Cetti’s Warbler
269) Grasshopper Warbler
270) Savi’s Warbler – Pagham, West Sussex 31/5 LE
271) Sedge Warbler
272) Blyth’s Reed Warbler – Filey, North Yorks 14/10 ACl, Old Town, St.Mary’s 30/10 MMu
273) Marsh Warbler – Barns Ness, Lothian 8/6 LE, heard South Gare, Cleveland 8/6 AH
274) Reed Warbler
275) Great Reed Warbler – Frensham, Surrey 18/5 SH
276) Booted Warbler – Portland, Dorset 15/8 LE
277) Icterine Warbler – South Gare, Cleveland 8/6 AH, Donna Nook, Lincs 5/11 nw
278) Melodious Warbler – 2 Portland, Dorset 15/8 LE, 1 Carn Gwarval, St.Mary’s 30/10 MMu
279) Dartford Warbler
280) Western Subalpine Warbler – 1m Blakeney Point, Norfolk 21/5 LE
281) Eastern Subalpine Warbler – 1m South Gare, Cleveland 8/6 AH
282) Sardinian Warbler – Old Hunstanton, Norfolk 28/9 LE
283) Barred Warbler – Redcar, Cleveland 10/9 AH, Skinningrove, Cleveland 10/9 nw, North Ronaldsay, Orkney 1/10 JM, Porthellick, St.Mary’s 10/10 AH
284) Lesser Whitethroat
285) Whitethroat
286) Garden Warbler
287) Blackcap
288) Greenish Warbler – Hartlepool Headland, Cleveland 10/9 AH
289) Arctic Warbler – Cot Valley, Cornwall 17/10 ACl
290) Pallas’s Warbler – Great Orme, Gwynedd 19/10 AD
291) Yellow-browed Warbler – Garrison, St.Mary’s 10/10 AH, Trenoweth, St.Mary’s 10/10 AH
292) Hume’s Warbler – Newbiggin, N’berland 16/2 AH
293) Western Bonelli’s Warbler – Land’s End, Cornwall 31/10 AH
294) Wood Warbler
295) Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 Newbiggin, N’berland 16/2 AH
296) Chiffchaff
297) Willow Warbler
298) Goldcrest
299) Firecrest – 1 St.Levan, Cornwall 25/3 AH, 1 Boldrewood, Hants 4/5 SH, 2 Great Pool, Tresco 9/10 AH, 1 Nanquidno, Cornwall 16/10 AC, 1 Carn Gwarval, St.Mary’s 29/10 AH, 2 Carn Gwarval, St.Mary’s 30/10 MMu
300) Spotted Flycatcher
301) Red-breasted Flycatcher – South Gare, Cleveland 10/9 AH, Holme, Norfolk 13/9 nw, Trenoweth, St.Mary’s 11/10 AH
302) Collared Flycatcher – Pagham, West Sussex 20/6 JL
303) Pied Flycatcher
304) Bearded Tit
305) Long-tailed Tit
306) Marsh Tit
307) Willow Tit
308) Crested Tit – 2 Grantown Woods, Highland 27/3 AH, 4 Grantown Woods, Highland 30/6 LE
309) Coal Tit
310) Blue Tit
311) Great Tit
312) Nuthatch
313) Treecreeper
314) Golden Oriole – 1m heard Lakenheath, Suffolk 5/6 AH, 1m1f Lakenheath, Suffolk 4/7 AH
315) Red-backed Shrike – juv Old Hunstanton, Norfolk 2/9 nw, 3(fem + 2juvs) South Gare, Cleveland 10/9 AH, juv Easington, East Yorks 20/10 PH
316) Great Grey Shrike – Thursley Common, Surrey 21/2 AR, Insh Marshes, Highland 27/3 AH
317) Woodchat – 1m St.Levan, Cornwall 25/3 AH
318) Jay
319) Magpie
320) Chough
321) Jackdaw
322) Rook
323) Carrion Crow
324) Hooded Crow
325) Raven
326) Starling
327) Rose-coloured Starling – ad South Gare, Cleveland 8/6 AH, ad Southwater, West Sussex 23/6 LE, ad Happisburgh, Norfolk 4/7 AH, ad Medbourne, Leics 19/8 nw, juv Land’s End, Cornwall 22/9 AH, juv Penzance, Cornwall 17/10 ACl, juv Islay, Argyll 9/11 AH
328) House Sparrow
329) Tree Sparrow
330) Chaffinch
331) Brambling
332) Serin – 1m Footscray, Gtr London 3/3, 2(ad+juv) Carn Friars, St.Mary’s 30/10 MMu
333) Greenfinch
334) Goldfinch
335) Siskin
336) Linnet
337) Twite
338) Lesser Redpoll
339) Mealy Redpoll – 6 Llanfairfechan, Gwynedd 24/3 GBe
340) Two-barred Crossbill – Strines, South Yorks 2/9 AH
341) Scottish Parrot Crossbill – 9 Grantown Woods, Highland 27/3 AH
342) Crossbill
343) Bullfinch
344) Hawfinch
345) White-throated Sparrow – Flamborough, East Yorks 22/10 GT
346) Lapland Bunting – 1 The Range, Anglesey 2/10 nw
347) Snow Bunting – 1 Hengistbury Head, Dorset 2/2 nw, 3 Spurn, East Yorks 20/10 PH, 25 Donna Nook, Lincs 5/11 nw, 3 New Brighton, Wirral 3/12 nw
348) Yellowhammer
349) Cirl Bunting – 1m1f Coombe Cellars, Devon 23/2 nw, 2m1f Prawle, Devon 28/3 AH, 1f(or hybrid) North Ronaldsay, Orkney 1/10 JM
350) Ortolan – 3 Sennen, Cornwall 7/9 AH, Peninis, St.Mary’s 9/10 AB
351) Rustic Bunting – West Hove, East Sussex 10/5 SH, Carn Friars, St.Mary’s 7/10 GE
352) Little Bunting – Spurn, East Yorks 21/9 AH
353) Reed Bunting
354) Black-headed Bunting – 1w Gunton, Suffolk 24/9 LE
355) Corn Bunting
356) Bobolink – Hengistbury Head, Dorset 4/11 SG
Other species
Whistling Swan – Kirkintilloch, Clyde 29/4 LE
Black Swan – Frodsham, Cheshire 19/10 FD
Cape Shelduck – Inner Marsh Farm, Cheshire 18/9 nw
Yellow-billed Teal – Normandy, Hants 3/6 nw
Wood Duck – Sutton Bingham Res, Somerset/Dorset 15/4 nw
Black-hooded Parakeet – Pennington Flash, Gtr Manchester 11/7 nw
Please note that initials after each occurrence indicate a person who was with me during my time of observation. However, there are several occurrences that I observed alone due to the fact that there were no other observers on-site or observers on-site remained anonymous in their identity to me - both of these instances fall under the category ‘no witnesses’ (abbreviated ‘nw’). Initials of those people used in the text include: -
AB – Antony Brydges, GB – Garry Bagnell, GBe – Gary Bellingham, JB – Jon Bills, AC – Alan Clewes, ACl – Andy Clifton, PC – Paul Chapman, AD – Alan Davies, FD – Frank Duff, LE – Lee Evans, TE – Ted Abraham, GE – Graham Etherington, LG – Lee Gregory, SG – Steve Gent, AH – Andrew Holden, CH – Chris Heard, PH – Paul Hackett, SH – Steve Hall, CJ – Chris Jackson, RK – Ron King, JL – James Lidster, AM – Alan Moody, BM – Bill Morton, FM – Franko Maroevic, JM – James McGill, MM – Mike McDonnell, MMu – Matt Mulvey, RM – Ralph Morris, SN – Steve Nuttall, JO – John Oates, IP – Ian Prophet, AR – Adrian Riley, MR – Mike Richardson, MRo – Mike Robinson, GT – Gary Taylor, JT – Julian Thomas, KV – Keith Vinicombe, NV – Nigel Voaden, SW – Steve Webb, SWi – Steve Williams, SY – Steve Young