Saturday 1 January 2011

First Days Birding

I had the first days birding of the new year today, I spent the day locally getting mainly the bread and butter stuff. The best birds of the had to be Arctic Redpoll, Bittern and 25 flyover Waxwings which were a really nice surprise, all at Rainton Meadow. Also a Long-eared Owl at an undisclosed site was another highlight.

Here is my list for the day, not completely in order but close!:

1 - Black-headed Gull
2 - Blackbird
3 - Collared Dove
4 - Magpie
5 - Long-tailed Tit
6 - Great black-backed Gull
7 - Herring Gull
8 - Common Gull
9 - Teal
10 - Mallard
11 - Moorhen
12 - Coot
13 - Lapwing
14 - Canada Goose
15 - Pheasant
16 - Jackdaw
17 - Reed Bunting
18 - Bullfinch
19 - Willow Tit
20 - Chaffinch
21 - Goldcrest
22 - Blue Tit
23 - Great Tit
24 - Robin
25 - Woodpigeon
26 - Greylag Goose
27 - Kestrel
28 - Goldfinch
29 - Siskin
30 - Lesser Redpoll
31 - Mealy Redpoll
32 - Mute Swan
33 - Whooper Swan
34 - Grey Heron
35 - Cormorant
36 - Bittern
37 - Redwing
38 - Starling
39 - Arctic Redpoll
40 - Long-eared Owl
41 - Waxwing (25)
42 - Fieldfare
43 - House Sparrow
44 - Carrion Crow
45 - Dunnock

Here are two videos, one of feeding Bullfinch and Chaffinch. The other video of a Long-eared Owl at an undisclosed site, the bird was not flushed and I left shortly after to avoid any disturbance.

Long-eared Owl at roost

Bullfinch and Chaffinch feeding

My parents got me an iPhone for Christmas and I will hopefully be getting videos as well as pictures from now on.

(Long-eared Owl - Andrew Kinghorn)

All in all a very successful day and a great start to what will hopefully be a great year for birding. Until next time, Foghorn out!

2 comments:

  1. Nice to see you had a good session on the Local Patch.

    Bet you cannot guess what i flushed this afternoon.....?

    & dont say The Toilet...

    bumped into the Bittern at the edge of the hoss field ditch - 4m away ! dont know who got the biggest shock !

    Steve.E

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