02 January 2011

35.

These are the birds I aim to see for the first time (in the wild) in 2011. Although other stuff will inevitably crop up, these will be the priority:

Bean Goose
Ruddy Shelduck
Eider
Velvet Scoter
Slavonian Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
White-tailed Eagle
Hen Harrier
Honey Buzzard
Rough-legged Buzzard
Stone Curlew
Dotterel
Jack Snipe
Arctic Skua
Caspian Gull
Glaucous Gull
Roseate Tern
Long-eared Owl
Tawny Owl
Hoopoe
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Wryneck
Woodlark
Shore Lark
Water Pipit
Nightingale
Ring Ouzel
Grasshopper Warbler
Crested Tit
Bearded Tit
Penduline Tit
Chough
Common/Mealy Redpoll
Snow Bunting
Cirl Bunting

2 comments:

Tim Jones said...

Penduline Tit seems a bit of a stand out bird, just fancy seeing one?

Chris Berry said...

Love to. They always seem so charismatic in photographs.

Any bird with a bandit mask!

Gonna have another crack at the Lesser Scaup tomorrow. Last chance before it's back to work!