Monday, 21 May 2018

Spring birds...

I totted up the birds I've seen this spring, in Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk: a total of 131.

Mute swan, greylag goose, canada goose, barnacle goose, brent goose, shelduck, egyptian goose, mallard, gadwall, pintail, shoveler, wigeon, teal, pochard, red-crested pochard, tufted duck, goldeneye, gooseander, red-legged partridge, pheasant, little grebe, great crested grebe, cormorant, bittern, little egret, great egret, heron, spoonbill, red kite, osprey, marsh harrier, hen harrier, buzzard, sparrowhawk, kestrel, hobby, moorhen, coot, crane, oystercatcher, avocet, stone curlew, little ringed plover, ringed plover, grey plover, lapwing, knot, turnstone, sanderling, dunlin, temminck’s stint, common sandpiper, redshank, spotted redshank, greenshank, black winged stilt, black-tailed godwit, bar-tailed godwit, curlew, whimbrel, snipe, ruff, pectoral sandpiper, black headed gull, common gull, mediterranean gull, herring gull, lesser black-backed gull, great black-backed gull, little gull, kittiwake, common tern, sandwich tern, little tern, black tern, wood pigeon, collared dove, turtle dove, cuckoo, swift, green woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, tawny owl, skylark, swallow, sand martin, house martin, meadow pipit, pied wagtail, yellow wagtail, grey wagtail, dunnock, robin, nightingale, wheatear, stonechat, whinchat, song thrush, mistle thrush, blackbird, garden warbler, blackcap, whitethroat, dartford warbler, sedge warbler, cetti’s warbler, reed warbler, willow warbler, chiffchaff, wren, great tit, coal tit, blue tit, long-tailed tit, bearded tit, nuthatch, treecreeper, magpie, jay, jackdaw, rook, carrion crow, starling, house sparrow, chaffinch, bullfinch, linnet, goldfinch, greenfinch, reed bunting, yellowhammer.

Every picture tells a story...

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