Saturday, January 1, 2011

Peregrine's Bird List 2011

1. Chaffinch
2. Coal Tit
3. Great Tit
4. Blue Tit
5. Siskin
6. Blackbird
7. Starling
8. Goldfinch
9. Greenfinch
10. Rook
11. Pied Wagtail
12. Greater Black Backed Gull
13. Common Gull
14. Black-headed gull
15. Mute Swan
16. Redshank
17. Hooded Crow
18. Cormorant
19. Wigeon
20. Mistle Thrush
21. Herring Gull
22. Greenshank
23. Heron
24. Curlew
25. Teal
26. Oystercatcher
27. Magpie
28. Jackdaw
29. Stock Dove
30. Red Breasted Merganser
31.Collared Dove
32. Little Grebe
33. Song Thrush
34. Fieldfare
35. Wood Pigeon
36. House Sparrow
37. Great Northern Diver
38. Guillemot
39. Robin
40. Whooper Swan
41. Raven
42 Canada Goose
43. Jay
44. Treecreeper    

2.1.2011

45. Lesser redpoll (A flock of at least 100 seen in the alders near Lough Fern)
46. Goldeneye
47. Pochard
48. Tufted Duck
49. Great Crested Grebe
50. Lapwing
51. Sparrowhawk
52. Bullfinch
53. Shelduck    (all the above seen in Co.Donegal)

54. Buzzard    (54 Onwards seen in Northern Ireland)
55. Knot
56. Dunlin
57. Black-tailed Godwit
58. Turnstone
59. Scaup
60. Peregrine

3.1.2011

61. Pheasant
62. Tree Sparrow
63. Dunnock
64. Moorhen (another garden tick)
65. Coot
66. Golden Plover
67. Linnet
68. Reed Bunting
69. Skylark
70. Rock pipit
71. Shag
72. Grey Plover
73. Bar-tailed Godwit
74. Meadow Pipit
75. Stonechat
76. Red Throated Diver  (Off Ardglass)
77. Wren
78. Ringed Plover
79. Kite
80. Goosander
81. Gadwall
82. Greylag Goose
83. Woodcock
84. Snipe

7.1.2011

85. Smew (Redhead) Quoile River

10.1.2011

86. Long-tailed Tit

11.1.2011

87. Sandwich Tern

12.1.2011

88. Kestrel (Killard)

13.1.2011

89. Shoveler (22 of them Quoile Pondage)

23.1.2011

90. Ring-necked Duck (Lifer) (Lough Money)
91. Pintail

6.2.2011

92. Purple Sandpiper
93. Eider

9.2.2011

94. Brambling

10.3.2011

95. Gannet

12.3.2011

96. Yellowhammer

19.3.2011

97. Chiffchaff

28.3.2011

98.  Grey Wagtail

30.3.2011

99. Swallow (in front of house)

2.4.2011

100.  Willow Warbler (Castleward alongside a very photographable Ring-necked Duck)

3.4.2011

101. Kittiwake
102. Manx Shearwater
103. Wheatear
104. Carrion Crow
105. Glaucous Gull
106. Red Grouse
107. Sand Martin
108. Red-legged Partridge

6.4.2011

109. Great Grey Shrike (Slievenacloy) LIFER

7.4.2011

110. House Martin back at the house.

21.4.2011

111. Grasshopper Warbler (Aughawoney Donegal)

22.4.2011

112. Whimbrel (8 in the field in front of the house)
113. Common Tern (Quoile pondage 6 of them)

25.4.2011

114. Little Gull
115. Whitethroat

6.6.2011

116.  Puffin
117.  Storm Petrel
118.  Chough
119.  Corncrake (heard 5-6 birds)
120. Great Snipe

6.8.2011

121. Stock Dove

13.6.2011

122. Short Eared Owl (Killard)

15.8.2011

123.  Wilson's Phalarope
124. Common Sandpiper

6.9.2011

125. Ruff    (Belfast Harbour)
126. Curlew Sandpiper (Belfast Harbour)

14.9.2011

127.  Baird's Sandpiper  (Carrigart/Downings) Self found and a Lifer to boot.

17.9.2011

128.  Kingfisher (Tullymurry)

23.10.2011

129. Whinchat

24.10.2011

130.  Lesser Whitethroat
131.  Arctic Skua
132.  Snow Bunting
133.  Water Rail