End of Year Reflections

I always enjoy settling down on the last day of the year to recollect and reflect on the experiences of the last year. This last year has been a huge birding year for me (not a "big year" but nevertheless big!) and it is a particular pleasure to recall the highs and lows during the last rotation round the sun. 


As far back as I can remember I have been passionate about the natural world, almost to the exclusion of anything else at times. As a young child I would reread my grandparents "book of british birds" every time I visited them. I read and dreamed about the wildlife out there for me to see, and I grew up exploring the natural history of the gorgeous Forest of Dean. In spite of this early grounding in observing natural history, followed by a degree in Zoology and Biochemistry, and a PhD in Computation Biology, to my horror last year I discovered I was at best an OK naturalist. I'd become lazy, complacent, and over the years I had not continued to develop my skills. It's natural enough, life happens and distractions can easily cause you to lose your focus, but as a result I was missing out on some of things I value most in life. Things needed to change, and change they did! A number of key things came together to make this year such a stellar one with regard to my development as a naturalist, and observer of avifauna in particular:

1. I was in a country where for the first time in my life I wasn't intimately familiar with the vast majority of the birds and wildlife surrounding me. This was enough to kick me out of my complacency and decide I needed to make the effort to get out, observe and learn about my new surroundings. 
2. I had the good fortune to meet Bruce Cohen, who became both a good friend and a spectacular mentor at a local Audubon meeting. Finding someone who is as OCD as me when they get excited about a project is rare, finding someone who also happens to be extremely expert on North American birds ... Priceless. If you are a frustrated birder wanting to improve your skills I can't recommend spending time with more experienced birders enough. In terms of the speed with which your competence will develop, I would liken it to being fired out of a cannon.
3. I started listing. For those not in the know, this is essentially a kind of game birders often play for shits and giggles. You simply keep track of the birds you've seen. Most listers will keep a list of birds they've seen in their life, many will also keep track of their totals for the year, for their yard, for their favourite patch, for certain countries, states or counties. Some people get more competitive and spice it up with (for the most part) friendly rivalries. The key thing, for me, is that it focuses your birdwatching, if I wanted to increase my lists I had to think about when and where I would see birds, in short I had to get to know them better. It also provided encouragement to take some mini-adventures and chase some sightings of rarer birds.

These three elements really came together in the fall of last year. By the time New Year's Eve came around I was firmly back in the grip of on old passion and eager to hit the new year birding. By this time I had a good idea of what my first goals needed to be:

1. I wanted to see as many of the native birds found in Michigan as possible. Actually, I wanted to know them intimately, but that takes time, and simply observing them seemed like the obvious first step. 
2. In order to do this I'd need to:
1. Recognise the birds visually
2. Learn their songs and calls
3. Become familiar with their behaviour and migratory patterns
3. I specifically wanted to find and observe owls; a bird that had always fascinated me but for the most part had always eluded me in the past. There are at least 10 species of owl that are frequently seen in Michigan, at least at some point during the year, some of which are relatively common, even if not commonly spotted. 
4. Also, somewhat arbitrarily, I decided I wanted to try and see a new bird species for every day of the year. 365 species for a year list, is not an unreasonable goal for a year, and it would give me some impetus to explore outside of Michigan from time to time.

When I started the year my life list was a measly 113. It excluded many birds I had seen previously, my rule was that if I didn't have photographic evidence of old sightings. That way I didn't have to worry about inaccuracies in my memory, or my ID skills in the past. I got my first life bird of the year on the 1st Jan, a Carolina wren, closely followed later in the day with my first horned lark.

Carolina Wren

Horned Larks

The year got off to a flying start, and looking back it is hard to believe all of the incredible experiences that have resulted can all have taken place in the last year. January 2nd, I made the excellent decision to travel to Douglas Beach, on Lake Michigan, to participate in the Allegan County Christmas Bird Count. It was a great way to renew acquaintances with some fantastic birders such as Rick Brigham and Mike Overway, as well as a gorgeous day of birding in thick falling Lake-effect snow. I decided to finally cave and buy a car in January, something I had resisted for the first 2 years of living in Michigan; it was the best decision I could have made. My Jeep Grand Cherokee and I were a match made in heaven, and weekend birding roadtrips were ON.

Strokey the Cherokee

The very first weekend after I bought my new wheels I walked out of work on the Friday, jumped in my car and headed north to look for Snowy Owls. Over the course of the year I saw many birds that I had desperately wanted to see all my life, in particular I finally saw: Golden Eagle, Snowy Owl, Osprey, Common Loon, Horned and Eared Grebe, all birds I had read about from childhood but never before seen.

Osprey

Snowy Owl

I had great success with owls over the course of the year. January gave me a boost of encouragement with my first Northern Hawk Owl and Snowy Owl.

Northern Hawk Owl

A roadtrip to Minnesota in Feb, to look for Great Gray Owls with the infamous @birdchick in the Sax-zim bog, was heaps of fun even though we dipped on the Great Grey Owl. Still a day which includes Boreal Chickadees, Bohemian Waxwings, Northern Hawk Owls, Grey Jays, Ruffed Grouse, Black-backed Woodpeckers and even my first Porcupine sighting is never a bad day. Hell, I might even write up a blog post and share some pics some time, it's not even been a year yet!


As the year rolled on, with a little patience and persistence, I was able to find and locate the more common, but inconveniently nocturnal, Barred Owl, and Great Horned Owl, in my local birding haunts.

Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl (chick)

After that I had to work a little harder to find the remaining owls I was looking for. Autumn provided my first views of Short-eared owls flying low of fields at dusk (thanks to the Northern Harrier that buzzed one hiding in the grass). Later, in November, I took my girlfriend to look for a Saw-whet owl that had been spotted down near Ann Arbor. Needless to say, having no experience birding whatsoever, she not only spotted the Saw-whet owl first, but also managed to find an unexpected Great Horned Owl! So much for my birding skills. 

Saw-Whet Owl

Six owl species during the year was fantastic, but one bird was vexing me. The Eastern Screech Owl is easily the most common owl in Michigan, there is probably one in every patch of wood I've walked through this year. Yet, in spite of hearing it call many times, I was never able to set eyes on one, no matter how hard I tried. As December neared to a close this situation was too ridiculous to continue and inspired by stumbling upon a Barred Owl earlier in the day, I headed out at dusk to look for one. Success was swift, and sweet, this tiny little owl responded quickly to my calls and flew to a nearby tree close enough for me to observe him closely. Perfect!


In May, I was invited by Mike Overway, to join him, his brother Jer Overway and Steve Hamberg, for the Berrien County Birdathon. This is a 24hr birding competition where teams compete to see as many species of bird as possible, within the county boundaries. It was a real privilege to join these talented birders, especially given my relative inexperience. Mike and Jer being tall, Steve being a Dr and myself being a Brit, our team was called "Two Stilts, a quack and a GNDI". We ended up recording 154 species during the course of a day, finishing a respectable 3rd place overall, and 2nd place for out-of-county teams. While scouting out for the big day and during the event itself, I saw an incredible 36 birds I'd never before seen (known as life-birds), highlighting both my inexperience, the generosity of my team members in sharing their experience and the rich diversity of birds found in Berrien County. All in all, an incredible experience I would do again in a heartbeat. 


As I become more connected with the local birding community I started to realised just how many rare birds and vagrants are spotted every year. Over the course of the year I was able to chase a few of these rarities, and I had a lot of fun doing so. Driving 6 or 7 hours at the arse-crack of dawn to freeze at the end of a Great Lake scanning the horizon for a rare vagrant, or sitting for hours on end in a humid swamp while mosquitos eat you alive, is not everybody's cup of tea, but the thrill of the chase, the challenge really appealed to me. I saw some fantastic wild areas and met some incredible birders along the way, not to mention the birds themselves. Some of the birds I chased I've already mentioned: Northern Hawk Owl, Snowy Owl, Saw-Whet Owl, Short-Eared Owl. Some birds I didn't find: a one-legged Piping Plover and an Ash-throated flycatcher. Some birds were spectacular, and the  Purple Gallinule and Yellow-headed Blackbird spring to mind.

Purple Gallinule

Others fun trips included a Long-billed Dowitcher, Common-ground Dove and most incredibly an Anna's Hummingbird, in the Northern UP, after a blizzard!

Anna's Hummingbird (Nov - Grand Marais, MI)

My efforts during the year yielded many side benefits. I've seen some cold, barren and stunningly beautiful landscapes.

Whitefish Point, MI, Feb 2010

Parasitic Jaeger, Whitefish point, MI, Sep 2010

Mackinaw Straits, MI, Feb 2010

Rudyard Flats, MI, Feb 2010

I've seen Majestic birds.

Bald Eagle

Impressive birds.

Sandhill Cranes

Big, fat noisy birds. 

Wild Turkey

Beautiful birds.

Baltimore Oriole

Cedar Waxwing

In short, it's been incredible, and I can't wait to start a new year a fresh. This year I get to refine my skills and start to "really" get to know the wildlife surrounding me, and that is exciting. Will I recall the warbler and sparrow songs and calls before the spring migration? Perhaps this year I'll achieve better mastery of the more tricky ID problems: shorebirds, gulls for example. I have a good idea where to go to find many of the birds, but there are still large swathes of Michigan, and the United States, left to explore, I don't anticipate getting bored any time soon.


I saw 304 species of bird seen over the course of the year, of which 213 were life birds. 249 of these birds were found within the ABA area (essentially North America). For those of you who have any interest at all, here is my year list, complete with the date of the first sighting for each bird. Birds coloured red were life birds for me, you can see that once the spring migration hit, almost every bird was a life bird for me. Happy New Year!

1	White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis	01/01/10
2	Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis	01/01/10
3	Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus	01/01/10
4	Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens	01/01/10
5	American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos	01/01/10
6	American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis	01/01/10
7	Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor	01/01/10
8	Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus	01/01/10
9	Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus	01/01/10
10	Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura	01/01/10
11	Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis	01/01/10
12	Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus	01/01/10
13	Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris	01/01/10
14	Rock Pigeon - Columba livia	01/01/10
15	Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis	01/01/10
16	Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii	01/01/10
17	House Sparrow - Passer domesticus	01/01/10
18	American Tree Sparrow - Spizella arborea	01/01/10
19	Canada Goose - Branta canadensis	01/01/10
20	European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris	01/01/10
21	Mute Swan - Cygnus olor	01/02/10
22	Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos	01/02/10
23	House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus	01/02/10
24	Herring Gull - Larus argentatus	01/02/10
25	Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus	01/02/10
26	Gadwall - Anas strepera	01/02/10
27	Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola	01/02/10
28	Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata	01/02/10
29	Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon	01/02/10
30	Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus	01/02/10
31	American Black Duck - Anas rubripes	01/02/10
32	American Coot - Fulica americana	01/02/10
33	Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis	01/02/10
34	Red-breasted Merganser - Mergus serrator	01/02/10
35	Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps	01/02/10
36	Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis	01/03/10
37	Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula	01/23/10
38	Common Raven - Corvus corax	01/23/10
39	Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo	01/23/10
40	Common Merganser - Mergus merganser	01/23/10
41	Northern Hawk Owl - Surnia ulula	01/23/10
42	Snow Bunting - Plectrophenax nivalis	01/24/10
43	Rough-legged Hawk - Buteo lagopus	01/24/10
44	Snowy Owl - Bubo scandiacus	01/30/10
45	Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos	01/30/10
46	Pine Grosbeak - Pinicola enucleator	01/31/10
47	Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus	02/06/10
48	Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos	02/06/10
49	Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus	02/07/10
50	American Robin - Turdus migratorius	02/08/10
51	Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum	02/08/10
52	American Kestrel - Falco sparverius	02/08/10
53	Lapland Longspur - Calcarius lapponicus	02/12/10
54	Brown Creeper - Certhia americana	02/20/10
55	Merlin - Falco columbarius	02/27/10
56	Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus	02/27/10
57	Fish Crow - Corvus ossifragus	02/27/10
58	Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus	02/27/10
59	Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus	02/27/10
60	Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula	02/27/10
61	Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater	02/27/10
62	Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax	02/27/10
63	American Wigeon - Anas americana	02/27/10
64	White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis	02/27/10
65	Yellow-rumped Warbler - Dendroica coronata	02/27/10
66	Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana	02/27/10
67	Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris	02/27/10
68	Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus	02/27/10
69	Carolina Chickadee - Poecile carolinensis	02/28/10
70	Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula	02/28/10
71	Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus	02/28/10
72	Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus	02/28/10
73	Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias	02/28/10
74	Sandhill Crane - Grus canadensis	03/06/10
75	Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus	03/06/10
76	Red-shouldered Hawk - Buteo lineatus	03/06/10
77	Canvasback - Aythya valisineria	03/07/10
78	Redhead - Aythya americana	03/07/10
79	Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus	03/07/10
80	Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus	03/07/10
81	Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura	03/11/10
82	Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia	03/13/10
83	Greater Scaup - Aythya marila	03/13/10
84	Gray Jay - Perisoreus canadensis	03/14/10
85	Boreal Chickadee - Poecile hudsonicus	03/14/10
86	Black-backed Woodpecker - Picoides arcticus	03/14/10
87	Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus	03/14/10
88	Ruffed Grouse - Bonasa umbellus	03/14/10
89	Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis	03/14/10
90	Pine Siskin - Spinus pinus	03/14/10
91	Northern Shrike - Lanius excubitor	03/21/10
92	Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca	03/21/10
93	Northern Pintail - Anas acuta	03/21/10
94	Tundra Swan - Cygnus columbianus	03/21/10
95	Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata	03/21/10
96	Eastern Meadowlark - Sturnella magna	03/21/10
97	Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis	03/21/10
98	Rusty Blackbird - Euphagus carolinus	03/22/10
99	Wood Duck - Aix sponsa	03/22/10
100	Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe	03/26/10
101	Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor	03/26/10
102	Barred Owl - Strix varia	03/28/10
103	Osprey - Pandion haliaetus	03/31/10
104	Blue-winged Teal - Anas discors	03/31/10
105	Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus	04/01/10
106	Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata	04/02/10
107	Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes	04/02/10
108	Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca	04/02/10
109	Fox Sparrow - Passerella iliaca	04/04/10
110	Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa	04/04/10
111	Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina	04/07/10
112	Winter Wren - Troglodytes troglodytes	04/10/10
113	Common Loon - Gavia immer	04/10/10
114	Horned Grebe - Podiceps auritus	04/10/10
115	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius	04/11/10
116	Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Stelgidopteryx serripennis	04/13/10
117	Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum	04/14/10
118	Field Sparrow - Spizella pusilla	04/14/10
119	Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis	04/20/10
120	Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica	04/21/10
121	Trumpeter Swan - Cygnus buccinator	04/21/10
122	Black Scoter - Melanitta nigra	04/21/10
123	Ruddy Duck - Oxyura jamaicensis	04/21/10
124	Vesper Sparrow - Pooecetes gramineus	04/23/10
125	Brewer's Blackbird - Euphagus cyanocephalus	04/24/10
126	American Woodcock - Scolopax minor	04/26/10
127	Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannus	04/27/10
128	Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos	04/29/10
129	Dunlin - Calidris alpina	04/29/10
130	Broad-winged Hawk - Buteo platypterus	04/30/10
131	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea	04/30/10
132	Yellow Warbler - Dendroica petechia	04/30/10
133	Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus	04/30/10
134	Cliff Swallow - Petrochelidon pyrrhonota	05/01/10
135	Willet - Tringa semipalmata	05/01/10
136	Bank Swallow - Riparia riparia	05/01/10
137	White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys	05/01/10
138	Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius	05/01/10
139	Eared Grebe - Podiceps nigricollis	05/01/10
140	Bonaparte's Gull - Chroicocephalus philadelphia	05/01/10
141	House Wren - Troglodytes aedon	05/01/10
142	Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons	05/01/10
143	Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis	05/01/10
144	Wilson's Phalarope - Phalaropus tricolor	05/01/10
145	Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus	05/01/10
146	Chimney Swift - Chaetura pelagica	05/02/10
147	Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbula	05/02/10
148	Warbling Vireo - Vireo gilvus	05/03/10
149	Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris	05/03/10
150	Nashville Warbler - Vermivora ruficapilla	05/03/10
151	Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens	05/03/10
152	Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas	05/03/10
153	Louisiana Waterthrush - Seiurus motacilla	05/04/10
154	Scarlet Tanager - Piranga olivacea	05/04/10
155	Least Flycatcher - Empidonax minimus	05/05/10
156	Blue-winged Warbler - Vermivora pinus	05/06/10
157	Chestnut-sided Warbler - Dendroica pensylvanica	05/06/10
158	Wood Thrush - Hylocichla mustelina	05/06/10
159	American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla	05/06/10
160	Purple Martin - Progne subis	05/08/10
161	Bobolink - Dolichonyx oryzivorus	05/08/10
162	Green Heron - Butorides virescens	05/08/10
163	Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria	05/08/10
164	Palm Warbler - Dendroica palmarum	05/08/10
165	Orchard Oriole - Icterus spurius	05/08/10
166	Magnolia Warbler - Dendroica magnolia	05/08/10
167	Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia	05/08/10
168	Lincoln's Sparrow - Melospiza lincolnii	05/08/10
169	Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea	05/08/10
170	Yellow-headed Blackbird - Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus	05/08/10
171	Great Egret - Ardea alba	05/08/10
172	Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Coccyzus americanus	05/09/10
173	Blackburnian Warbler - Dendroica fusca	05/09/10
174	Hooded Warbler - Wilsonia citrina	05/09/10
175	Cerulean Warbler - Dendroica cerulea	05/09/10
176	Great Crested Flycatcher - Myiarchus crinitus	05/09/10
177	American Pipit - Anthus rubescens	05/15/10
178	Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola	05/15/10
179	Black Tern - Chlidonias niger	05/15/10
180	Blue-headed Vireo - Vireo solitarius	05/15/10
181	Caspian Tern - Hydroprogne caspia	05/15/10
182	Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens	05/15/10
183	Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto	05/15/10
184	Forster's Tern - Sterna forsteri	05/15/10
185	Golden-winged Warbler - Vermivora chrysoptera	05/15/10
186	Gray-cheeked Thrush - Catharus minimus	05/15/10
187	Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla	05/15/10
188	Northern Parula - Parula americana	05/15/10
189	Orange-crowned Warbler - Vermivora celata	05/15/10
190	Prairie Warbler - Dendroica discolor	05/15/10
191	Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus	05/15/10
192	Red-headed Woodpecker - Melanerpes erythrocephalus	05/15/10
193	Ring-necked Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus	05/15/10
194	Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres	05/15/10
195	Sanderling - Calidris alba	05/15/10
196	Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus	05/15/10
197	Sora - Porzana carolina	05/15/10
198	Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus	05/15/10
199	Veery - Catharus fuscescens	05/15/10
200	Yellow-throated Vireo - Vireo flavifrons	05/15/10
201	Virginia Rail - Rallus limicola	05/18/10
202	White-eyed Vireo - Vireo griseus	05/18/10
203	Alder Flycatcher - Empidonax alnorum	05/20/10
204	Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla	05/20/10
205	Mourning Warbler - Oporornis philadelphia	05/22/10
206	Kirtland's Warbler - Dendroica kirtlandii	05/22/10
207	Common Tern - Sterna hirundo	05/22/10
208	Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor	05/22/10
209	Black-billed Cuckoo - Coccyzus erythropthalmus	05/22/10
210	Least Bittern - Ixobrychus exilis	05/22/10
211	Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus	05/22/10
212	Tennessee Warbler - Vermivora peregrina	05/22/10
213	Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinica	05/22/10
214	Clay-colored Sparrow - Spizella pallida	05/24/10
215	Willow Flycatcher - Empidonax traillii	05/24/10
216	Acadian Flycatcher - Empidonax virescens	05/25/10
217	Long-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus scolopaceus	07/17/10
218	Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla	07/17/10
219	Whip-poor-will - Caprimulgus vociferus	07/17/10
220	Short-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus	08/14/10
221	White-rumped Sandpiper - Calidris fuscicollis	08/14/10
222	Hudsonian Godwit - Limosa haemastica	08/14/10
223	Snowy Egret - Egretta thula	08/14/10
224	Marsh Wren - Cistothorus palustris	08/14/10
225	Marbled Godwit - Limosa fedoa	08/14/10
226	Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus	08/14/10
227	Stilt Sandpiper - Calidris himantopus	08/14/10
228	Baird's Sandpiper - Calidris bairdii	08/14/10
229	Eurasian Coot - Fulica atra	08/27/10
230	Eurasian Blackbird - Turdus merula	08/27/10
231	Common Wood-Pigeon - Columba palumbus	08/27/10
232	Common Swift - Apus apus	08/27/10
233	Common Chaffinch - Fringilla coelebs	08/27/10
234	Common House-Martin - Delichon urbicum	08/27/10
235	Eurasian Blue Tit - Cyanistes caeruleus	08/27/10
236	Black-headed Gull - Chroicocephalus ridibundus	08/27/10
237	Spotted Flycatcher - Muscicapa striata	08/27/10
238	Hooded Crow - Corvus cornix	08/27/10
239	Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps cristatus	08/27/10
240	Eurasian Nuthatch - Sitta europaea	08/27/10
241	Eurasian Magpie - Pica pica	08/27/10
242	European Greenfinch - Chloris chloris	08/27/10
243	Northern Goshawk - Accipiter gentilis	08/28/10
244	European Goldfinch - Carduelis carduelis	08/28/10
245	Great Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo	08/28/10
246	Common Buzzard - Buteo buteo	08/28/10
247	Eurasian Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus	08/28/10
248	Willow Warbler - Phylloscopus trochilus	08/28/10
249	Long-tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudatus	08/30/10
250	Great Tit - Parus major	08/30/10
251	Black Redstart - Phoenicurus ochruros	08/30/10
252	Eurasian Jay - Garrulus glandarius	08/30/10
253	Common Redstart - Phoenicurus phoenicurus	08/31/10
254	European Robin - Erithacus rubecula	08/31/10
255	European Pied Flycatcher - Ficedula hypoleuca	08/31/10
256	Carrion Crow - Corvus corone	08/31/10
257	White Wagtail - Motacilla alba	08/31/10
258	Gray Heron - Ardea cinerea	08/31/10
259	Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita	08/31/10
260	Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris	08/31/10
261	Barnacle Goose - Branta leucopsis	09/03/10
262	Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula	09/03/10
263	Red-crested Pochard - Netta rufina	09/03/10
264	Little Grebe - Tachybaptus ruficollis	09/03/10
265	Graylag Goose - Anser anser	09/03/10
266	Eurasian Treecreeper - Certhia familiaris	09/03/10
267	Common Pochard - Aythya ferina	09/03/10
268	Dunnock - Prunella modularis	09/06/10
269	Coal Tit - Periparus ater	09/06/10
270	Eurasian Jackdaw - Corvus monedula	09/10/10
271	Sky Lark - Alauda arvensis	09/11/10
272	Red Kite - Milvus milvus	09/12/10
273	Green Woodpecker - Picus viridis	09/12/10
274	Mew Gull - Larus canus	09/13/10
275	Lesser White-fronted Goose - Anser erythropus	09/13/10
276	Lesser Black-backed Gull - Larus fuscus	09/13/10
277	Eurasian Wigeon - Anas penelope	09/13/10
278	Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus	09/13/10
279	Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago	09/13/10
280	Rook - Corvus frugilegus	09/13/10
281	Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa	09/13/10
282	Common Eider - Somateria mollissima	09/13/10
283	Common Shelduck - Tadorna tadorna	09/13/10
284	Wilson's Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla	09/17/10
285	Bay-breasted Warbler - Dendroica castanea	09/17/10
286	Red-necked Grebe - Podiceps grisegena	09/25/10
287	Parasitic Jaeger - Stercorarius parasiticus	09/25/10
288	Blackpoll Warbler - Dendroica striata	10/16/10
289	Cackling Goose - Branta hutchinsii	10/21/10
290	Snow Goose - Chen caerulescens	10/21/10
291	Purple Sandpiper - Calidris maritima	10/25/10
292	Purple Finch - Carpodacus purpureus	10/25/10
293	Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus	10/25/10
294	Red-throated Loon - Gavia stellata	11/01/10
295	Ross's Goose - Chen rossii	11/08/10
296	Northern Saw-whet Owl - Aegolius acadicus	11/13/10
297	Whooping Crane - Grus americana	11/13/10
298	Franklin's Gull - Leucophaeus pipixcan	11/14/10
299	Common Ground-Dove - Columbina passerina	11/14/10
300	Long-tailed Duck - Clangula hyemalis	11/14/10
301	Surf Scoter - Melanitta perspicillata	11/16/10
302	Anna's Hummingbird - Calypte anna	11/20/10
303	Glaucous Gull - Larus hyperboreus	11/20/10
304	Eastern Screech-Owl - Megascops asio	12/27/10