Ordaal Bird List

  Just following on from yesterday when I mentioned the garden list here at Ordaal (birds seen or heard in, from or over the property) The list is below for anyone that may be interested. From 28th Jan to 22nd May 2011 its 62 species (I've included Hooded and Carrion Crow separately) For both of our previous houses here on Unst, the total was in the mid 60's in just over a year at each property. For my garden list in the Cotswolds it was 107 species in over 40 years. It'll be interesting to see how this list progresses, but I probably won't  be here in 40 years time!

Red-throated Diver
Great Northern Diver
Little Grebe
Slavonian Grebe
Fulmar
Northern Gannet
Shag
Grey Heron
Pink-footed Goose
Greylag Goose
Wigeon
Teal
Mallard
Shoveler
Common Eider
Long-tailed Duck
Red-breasted Merganser
Sparrowhawk
Peregrine
Oystercatcher
Ringed Plover
Golden Plover
Lapwing
Purple Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Dunlin
Common Snipe
Whimbrel
Curlew
Common Redshank
Turnstone
Arctic Skua
Great Skua
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Guillimot
Black Guillimot
Rock Dove
Woodpigeon
Skylark
Swallow
Meadow Pipit
Rock Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Wren
Common Redstart
Northern Wheatear
Blackbird
Common Whitethroat
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Carrion Crow
Hooded Crow
Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Brambling
Twite
Reed Bunting