YvonneB
OH Bird Recorder
Ah well, here we go again, i'll very optimistically set myself the target of 100 on patch for the year, how that will work out I have no idea!
1st January 2023 - a much better day than this day last year when my notebook reads "weather rubbish, lashing rain and winds gusting to 70mph" Today was the complete opposite of that, a beautiful totally calm, sunny day though very cold and icy with all the water lying in the hollows and most of the lochs frozen, just small areas of open water.
1. Blackbird
2. Dunnock
3. Starling
4. Collared Dove
5. House Sparrow
6. Rock dove
7. Raven
8. Redwing
9. Common Gull
10. Buzzard
11. Skylark
12. Great Black-backed Gull
13. Oystercatcher
14. Shag
15. Black-headed Gull
16. Lapwing
17. Merlin
18. Herring Gull
19. Turnstone
20. Ringed Plover
21. Golden Plover
22. Bar-tailed Godwit
23. Sanderling
24. Curlew
25. Red-breasted Merganser
26. Great Northern Diver
27. Cormorant
28. Long-tailed Duck
29. Greylag Goose
30. Twite
31. Hen Harrier
32. Wigeon
33. Snipe
34. Shoveler
35. Whooper Swan
36. Goldeneye
37. Mallard
38. Mute Swan
39. Tufted Duck
40. Teal
41. Fieldfare
42. Greenfinch
43. Goldfinch
1st January 2023 - a much better day than this day last year when my notebook reads "weather rubbish, lashing rain and winds gusting to 70mph" Today was the complete opposite of that, a beautiful totally calm, sunny day though very cold and icy with all the water lying in the hollows and most of the lochs frozen, just small areas of open water.
1. Blackbird
2. Dunnock
3. Starling
4. Collared Dove
5. House Sparrow
6. Rock dove
7. Raven
8. Redwing
9. Common Gull
10. Buzzard
11. Skylark
12. Great Black-backed Gull
13. Oystercatcher
14. Shag
15. Black-headed Gull
16. Lapwing
17. Merlin
18. Herring Gull
19. Turnstone
20. Ringed Plover
21. Golden Plover
22. Bar-tailed Godwit
23. Sanderling
24. Curlew
25. Red-breasted Merganser
26. Great Northern Diver
27. Cormorant
28. Long-tailed Duck
29. Greylag Goose
30. Twite
31. Hen Harrier
32. Wigeon
33. Snipe
34. Shoveler
35. Whooper Swan
36. Goldeneye
37. Mallard
38. Mute Swan
39. Tufted Duck
40. Teal
41. Fieldfare
42. Greenfinch
43. Goldfinch