YvonneB
OH Bird Recorder
I'll be participating in Patchwork Challenge again this year with the aim of beating my 2019 number of species (90) and my 2019 score (116 points). The first time I did PWC was 2012. For more information about the challenge see the PWC website at www.patchworkchallenge.com
1st January 2020
A challenging day, battling the weather and set to be worse tomorrow... Birds are listed in the order they were seen
1. Blackbird - first bird of the New Year before it was even light
2. Starling
3. Rock Dove
4. Greylag Goose
5. Raven
6. Redwing
7. Reed Bunting
8. Herring Gull
9. Buzzard
10. Lapwing
11. Common Gull
12. Golden Plover
13. Curlew
14. Oystercatcher
15. Gannet
16. Cormorant
17. Red-breasted Merganser
18. Whooper Swan
19. Greenland White-fronted Goose
20. Tufted Duck
21. Mallard
22. Wigeon
23. White-tailed Eagle
24. Great Black-backed Gull
25. Shag
26. Goldfinch
27. Bar-tailed Godwit
28. Long-tailed Duck
29. Ringed Plover
30. Sanderling
31. Teal
32. Little Grebe
33. Mute Swan
White-tailed Eagle doing a flyby
A dreich and dreary day, Loch Hallan (a couple of distant Whooper Swans)
1st January 2020
A challenging day, battling the weather and set to be worse tomorrow... Birds are listed in the order they were seen
1. Blackbird - first bird of the New Year before it was even light
2. Starling
3. Rock Dove
4. Greylag Goose
5. Raven
6. Redwing
7. Reed Bunting
8. Herring Gull
9. Buzzard
10. Lapwing
11. Common Gull
12. Golden Plover
13. Curlew
14. Oystercatcher
15. Gannet
16. Cormorant
17. Red-breasted Merganser
18. Whooper Swan
19. Greenland White-fronted Goose
20. Tufted Duck
21. Mallard
22. Wigeon
23. White-tailed Eagle
24. Great Black-backed Gull
25. Shag
26. Goldfinch
27. Bar-tailed Godwit
28. Long-tailed Duck
29. Ringed Plover
30. Sanderling
31. Teal
32. Little Grebe
33. Mute Swan
White-tailed Eagle doing a flyby
A dreich and dreary day, Loch Hallan (a couple of distant Whooper Swans)