Recently having to be confined to home since the weekend of the 10th January because of contracting the Covid virus for the first time in the 6 years that various strains have been about. I say the first time as every time in the past when I've been ill and carried out a test they always resulted in a negative. Still feeling the effects of the virus as I write on the 15th January, my list as stalled on 65 birds seen since the 1st January and with some very good birds being reported around the county it is a bit annoying to have caught this nasty virus as I was hoping the I would of been on a minimum count of 80 to 100 birds by the end of the month!
Though I was given some good advice about doing a year list from a local birder via a forum.
That was "remember listing is a marathon and not a sprint race" and perhaps make a list of the hard and tricky species to see in the county by looking through past Dorset Bird Club Reports. This is exactly what I have down while stuck in the house going a bit barmy. Some on the following long list might not seem hard or tricky see for others, but for me I think they will be as I bet most will turn up while I will be stuck in a factory machining lumps of metal.
The list, those in bold will be lifers and I am sure there could be more add.
Whooper Swan
Ruddy Shelduck ?
Garganey
Green winged Teal ? But if I see teal is the already seen as now lumped together.
Red crested Pochard
Ring-necked Duck
Scaup, Lesser Scaup
Eider
Surf Scoter
Velvet Scoter
Long tailed Duck
Turtle Dove
Red necked Grebe
Jack Snipe
Woodcock
Grey Phalarope
Wood Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank; yes Lytchett bay/fields and Middlebere are good reliable sites for this species. This year I would like to see one in the breeding plumage or partial plumage as the d turn up at these places .
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck's stint
Purple Sandpiper
Little Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper
Black Tern
Forster's Tern; this bird as given me the run around in the past
White winged Black tern
Roseate Tern
Little Gull
Sabine's Gull
Caspian Gull
Skua - all types only seen 1 great skua
Puffin
Red throated Diver
Black throated Diver
Petrels ?
Shearwaters - all type other than Manx's and Balearic
Bittern
Purple Heron
Honey Buzzard
Goshawk
Owls - all five Long eared Owl
Hoopoe
Bee- Eater
Wryneck
Lesser spotted Woodpecker
Green Woodpecker; only because they are becoming hard to see at certain locations
Parakeet; only one left I think
Golden Oriole
Shrikes - all types
Waxwing
Wood Warbler
Yellow browed Warbler
Palla's Warbler
Raddie's Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler
Ring Ouzel
Nightingale
Fly Catchers - all types
Redstarts
Pipits other than Meadow Pipits
Brambling
Hawfinch
Redpoll
Crossbill
Lapland Bunting
Snow Bunting
Cirl Bunting
Ortolan Bunting
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