I spent the first week of the holiday in the Lake District. I took the opportunity to go to St Bees Head to look at the seabird colony, spotting my first ever Puffins. I also saw two other auks, namely Guillemots and Razorbills.
It was lovely to see several species of breeding bird in the Lake District that I normally only see as passage migrants. These included Wheatear, Whinchat, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Redstart, Siskin and Ring Ouzel.
A fruitful trip to Dungeness yielded Golden Plover, Little Stint, Ruff, Garganey, Great White Egret and Black Tern which was my second lifetime first of the holiday.
My list includes four taxa of Wagtail; Pied and White Wagtails were present in the Brotherswater valley. It was nice to be able to compare the Mealy Redpoll found in Cumbria with the Lesser Redpoll found in Sussex.
Other notable birds included a Manx Shearwater from the beach at Cuckmere Haven, a juvenile Goshawk over Hill Road and a Merlin just inland from Birling Gap.
I expected, but did not manage, to see Red Kite or Avocet. In the end my list total was 139, beating my previous record of 123 from Summer 2015.
List in full:
| Mute Swan |
| Greylag Goose |
| Canada Goose |
| Barnacle Goose |
| Egyptian Goose |
| Shelduck |
| Mandarin Duck |
| Eurasian Wigeon |
| Gadwall |
| Eurasian Teal |
| Mallard |
| Garganey |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Common Pochard |
| Tufted Duck |
| Red-breasted Merganser |
| Goosander |
| Pheasant |
| Northern Fulmar |
| Manx Shearwater |
| Little Grebe |
| Great Crested Grebe |
| Grey Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Little Egret |
| Northern Gannet |
| Shag |
| Cormorant |
| Marsh Harrier |
| Goshawk |
| Sparrowhawk |
| Common Buzzard |
| Osprey |
| Kestrel |
| Merlin |
| Hobby |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Moorhen |
| Coot |
| Oystercatcher |
| Ringed Plover |
| Little Ringed Plover |
| European Golden Plover |
| Northern Lapwing |
| Knot |
| Little Stint |
| Curlew Sandpiper |
| Dunlin |
| Ruff |
| Common Snipe |
| Black-tailed Godwit |
| Eurasian Whimbrel |
| Eurasian Curlew |
| Common Sandpiper |
| Green Sandpiper |
| Greenshank |
| Common Redshank |
| Turnstone |
| Kittiwake |
| Mediterranean Gull |
| Black-headed Gull |
| Common Gull |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Yellow-legged Gull |
| Great Black-backed Gull |
| Black tern |
| Sandwich Tern |
| Common Tern |
| Common Guillemot |
| Puffin |
| Razorbill |
| Stock Dove |
| Woodpigeon |
| Feral Pigeon |
| Collared Dove |
| Common Swift |
| Kingfisher |
| Green Woodpecker |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker |
| Magpie |
| Jay |
| Jackdaw |
| Rook |
| Carrion Crow |
| Raven |
| Blue Tit |
| Great Tit |
| Coal Tit |
| Skylark |
| Sand Martin |
| Swallow |
| House Martin |
| Cetti’s Warbler |
| Long-tailed Tit |
| Wood Warbler |
| Common Chiffchaff |
| Willow Warbler |
| Reed Warbler |
| Blackcap |
| Lesser Whitethroat |
| Common Whitethroat |
| Goldcrest |
| Wren |
| Nuthatch |
| Treecreeper |
| Starling |
| Dipper |
| Ring Ouzel |
| Blackbird |
| Song Thrush |
| Mistle Thrush |
| Spotted Flycatcher |
| Robin |
| Nightingale |
| Pied Flycatcher |
| Common Redstart |
| Whinchat |
| European Stonechat |
| Northern Wheatear |
| Dunnock |
| House Sparrow |
| Yellow Wagtail |
| Grey Wagtail |
| White Wagtail |
| Pied Wagtail |
| Tree Pipit |
| Meadow Pipit |
| Rock Pipit |
| Chaffinch |
| Greenfinch |
| Goldfinch |
| Siskin |
| Linnet |
| Lesser Redpoll |
| Mealy Redpoll |
| Yellowhammer |
| Reed Bunting |
| Corn Bunting |
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