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Author:	John T Goy [ Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:08 pm ]
Post subject:	Full Lists
In the years I've been on the forum, I've often wondered why some of the more experienced birders when putting their sightings down, only put "the best of". In the last week quite a few have been out and said they had x-amount of species and then telling us only the best of. I try to always put all my sightings down, but before someone finds out I don't, of course I'm not perfect. This week I've read where people have seen 50+ up to 85+ species, but only mentioned the best birds. Of course it would take much longer to type out a full list, but it would also give the less experienced the chance to find out how they can increase their lists. I'd be interested to know others views. Regards Max

Author:	Russell Hayes [ Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:40 pm ]
Post subject:	Birds
Max This is the list of birds I have seen this year. They have been seen by visiting the following places and show what was missed that is normally present or has been seen recently. Also note that I have yet to see some common birds like Greenfinch, Song Thrush, Jackdaw, Redwing, Canada Goose & Meadow Pipit etc. If all of the common birds and rarer recent sightings from the places visited missed were seen then the list would be about 100 species. Alkborough Flats 1st Jan missed Green-winged Teal, Water Pipit, Spotted Redshank, Marsh Harrier Far Ings 1st Jan missed Bittern Barton Pits 1st Jan missed Red-throated Diver, Scaup Waters Edge 1st Jan New Holland 1st Jan North Killingholme Pits 1st Jan Cleethorpes 1st Jan missed Bar-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover, Brent Goose, Ringed Plover, Sanderling, Great-black Backed gull, Little Egret Chambers Wood 2nd Jan Nocton Fen 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Jan Boultham Mere 3rd Jan missed Bittern again Branston Booths 4th Jan 75 of the following have been seen within a few miles from my house at Bardney 11 have only been seen In North Lincs (NL) Barn Owl Black Headed Gull Black Tailed Godwit (NL) Blackbird Blue Tit Bullfinch Carrion Crow Chaffinch Coal Tit Collard Dove Common Buzzard Common Gull Coot Cormorant Curlew (NL) Dunlin (NL) Dunnock Fieldfare Gadwall Golden Plover Goldeneye (NL) Goldfinch Goosander Great Crested Grebe Great Spotted Woodpecker Great Tit Green Woodpecker Greylag Goose Hen Harrier Heron Herring Gull House Sparrow Jay Kestrel Kingfisher (NL) Knot Lapwing Lesser Black Backed gull Lesser-spotted Woodpecker Lesser Redpoll Linnett Little Grebe Little Owl Long Tailed Duck (NL) Long Tailed Tit Magpie Mallard Marsh Tit Merlin Mistle Thrush Moorhen Mute Swan Oystercatcher (NL) Peregrine Falcon Pheasant Pied Wagtail Pink Footed Goose Pochard Red Legged Partridge Redshank Reed Bunting Robin Rock Dove Rook Ruddy Duck Shelduck Short Eared Owl Shoveler Siskin (NL) Smew (NL) Snipe Sparrow Hawk Starling Stock Dove Stonechat Tawny Owl Teal Tree Sparrow Treecreeper Tufted Duck Turnstone (NL) Water Rail (NL) Whooper Swan Wigeon Wood Pigeon Wren My Best bird so far this year has to be the Lesser-spotted Woodpecker Russell

Author:	Paul French [ Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:16 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Full Lists
Max wrote: In the years I've been on the forum, I've often wondered why some of the more experienced birders when putting their sightings down, only put "the best of". In the last week quite a few have been out and said they had x-amount of species and then telling us only the best of. I try to always put all my sightings down, but before someone finds out I don't, of course I'm not perfect. This week I've read where people have seen 50+ up to 85+ species, but only mentioned the best birds. Of course it would take much longer to type out a full list, but it would also give the less experienced the chance to find out how they can increase their lists. I'd be interested to know others views. Regards Max Sorry Max, but it would take far too long to write out all of the species every time i input on to this forum. Just take it as read that i've seen robins, blue tits, dunnocks etc etc etc.

Author:	John T Goy [ Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:00 pm ]
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Russ, Now that is what I call a comprehensive list. But I don't expect you or others to do it everytime, unless we need typing practice Paul, I'm not sure if your reply is tongue-in-cheek or not, if it isn't I apologise. No I don't expect you to name every sighting every time, but it's not asking too much to do it sometimes. I do take it as read that almost all of us see the tits, Dunnock and the usual garden birds during our days out. But when someone has seen 50 -100 birds in one session and only mentions say five of the best species, then we have to try and work out what the other 45 - 95 birds are. Surely you get my drift. Maybe some of those birds not mentioned are on someone elses wanted list. Thanks to both of you for taking the time to reply. Max

Author:	Kev Wilson [ Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:17 pm ]
Post subject:	lists
An interesting question from Max on which I have two thoughts. Firstly the forum has been in part set up to encourage bird recording and submission of records across the county so regular contributions of full species lists from sites, annotated with counts would be very useful, however it would not necessarily make interesting reading unless those counts were unusual or involved unusual species. Whilst I only put birding highlights from Gib on the forum, I ensure that all records contribute to the county records at the end of the year. I could not possibly write a list of every species for every visit on the forum. If I had that kind of time, I would be able to do a few more atlas squares! Cheers Kev

Author:	John T Goy [ Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:52 pm ]
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After much thought I now realise that entering full lists on the forum is not practical. Regards Max

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