Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings
2004 Britain and Ireland Local Patch Year List
Showing Records 1 through 24 of 24 Total Records

Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights
1 Justin Zantboer Felixstowe Peninsular, Suffolk 221 (BOU) An incredible year for the scarcer species with two additions to the list - Great White Egret and White-rumped Sandpiper. I'm sure it will be difficult to repeat! Disappointly though, it would seem that we have now lost Barn Owl as a breeding species (2nd year running with no records!), while Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch and Marsh Tit may have suffered a similar fate as I spent many hours searching through various woods etc which used to hold all three species with no luck! Low lights: Red-necked Grebe, Bittern, Whooper Swan, Red-crested Pochard, Scaup, Goosander, Quail (the most frustrating miss of the year!), Roseate Tern and Lapland Bunting. Highlights: Black-necked Grebe, Leach's Petrel, Tundra Bean Goose, Eygptian Goose (pen tick), Goshawk (my 2nd Pen. record), GREAT WHITE EGRET (1st Pen record), Spoonbill, BLUE-WINGED TEAL (2nd Pen record - Iv'e seen both), Common Crane, Temminck's Stint, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER (1st Pen record), Long-tailed Skua, Glaucous Gull, Sabine's Gull (Pen tick), BEE-EATER (Pen tick), Wryneck, RED-RUMPED SWALLOW (3rd Pen record, my 2nd), Richard's Pipit, Bluethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Barred Warbler, Dartford Warbler (Pen tick), Yellow-browed Warbler, Pallas's Warbler, DUSKY WARBLER (3rd Pen record - Iv'e seen all of them), RADDES WARBLER (3rd Pen record - Iv'e had all of them), Red-breasted Fly., Red-backed Shrike, Great Grey Shrike, Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, Crossbill. Regards I would like to thank Will Brame in particular for his efforts and assistance as well as the Landguard members. Good luck to all the patch workers for 2005.
2 James Brown Lowestoft area, Suffolk 202 Latest-Dusky Warbler 2/12, Little Auk 14/11, Pallas` Warbler. Congratulations to Justin. It looks like he will easily beat my 218 in 2001 and must be commended for all the hours he puts in on the peninsular, proving it to be one of the most productive bird areas in the country. I shudder to think what total he would have got had they not changed the lighting at Fagbury Cliff!
3 Tim Hodge Reculver (Kent) 201 (BOU) Little Auk 14/11, Pallas's Warbler 13/11, Red-necked Grebe, Goldeneye 9/11, Bewick's Swan 7/11, Pallid Swift, Puffin 30/10, Slavonian Grebe 18/10, Great Grey Shrike 17/10, Whooper Swan 12/10, Dusky Warbler, Tawny Owl 9/10, Razorbill 8/10, Dartford Warbler 7/10, Lapland Bunting 29/9, Wryneck 26/9, Leach's Petrel, Pomarine Skua, Black-throated Diver 23/9, Pied Flycatcher 2/9, Honey Buzzard 31/8, Long-tailed Skua 21/8, Spoonbill 14/7, Quail 1/7, Red-backed Shrike 6/6, Squacco Heron 4/6, Temminck's Stint 19/5, Montagu's Harrier 13/5, Shorelark 7/5, Short-eared Owl 2/5, Manx Shearwater 28/4, Curlew Sandpiper 27/4, Woodchat Shrike 19/4 and 5/6
4 Matthew Berriman Rutland Water 179+2 An excellent year with four ticks: Fulmar, 3 Manxies, ROSEATE TERN (Bird-of-the-Century... after a few anxious hours), and the splendid Lesser Yellowlegs. I think the White-headed Duck and Lesser White-front may also be OK. Other goodies included Red-necked Phalarope dropping from the sky in front of me, Britain's first (?) 1st-summer White-winged Black Tern (found but strung for four days!), White-fronts, Velvet Scoter, Purple Sand, Merlin, Kittiwake (pretty rare recently), Sandwich and Little Terns, Bearded Tit, Black Redstart, Hen Harrier (bit of a mega, for me at least), record day-total of Med Gulls (4), my first ever Water Rail chicks, and last but not least, an adult Iceland Gull in near darkness on New Years Eve! All the best to everyone for 2005.
5 Steve Nuttall Belvide Reservoir Staffs 157 (BOU) A steady year for me but pleased with 2 Res ticks, Woodlark a res first and Great Grey Shrike first since 1978. My first Glaucous Gull for 4 years was welcome as was Bevide's second ever Cetti's Warbler. The 250 Redshank in august a site record was another highlight. Hope to find a few more national rareities in 2005. Good luck to all the local patch workers in 2005.
6 David Roche (16) Snettisham Costal Park and surrounding area [excludes RSPB] 154 80+ Yellow Wagtails together on Ken hill marsh in evening sunlight was a stunning sight with Buzzard, Whinchat, Whimbrel and Pochard (rare!) seen on the same day. 2 Pied flycatchers and several Lesser Whitethroats (10+) feeding on clouds of swarming insects was a great sight and finding a Rough-legged Buzzard flying over my head was a pleasant surprise, as was the unexpected Sand plover !!! We had conveniently gone to see the Icterene warbler at Bungay the day it dissapeared, when we heard the news !!!!!
7 Dave saunders (Mr Valley) West Mids/ Sandwell Valley 153 Not a bad year for Sandwell Valley no Valley Ticks but I had some fantastic birds the Valley year list was 155 I managed to connect with 153 of these many thanks to Matt Hadlington, Pete Hackett, Tim Hextell and all at the RSPB for all there Phone calls and text messages. Highlights of the year for my self where picking up a Osprey from the RSPB and getting a least a dozen people on to the bird, My first Little egret on the deck and the Med Gulls.
8 Andy Bond Exe Estuary 152 Glossy Ibis, Spoonbill, G Scaup, Spot Redshank Lesser Scaup, Latest. 28/08/04 Osprey
9 Dave Stone Exe Estuary 149 SONG SPARROW , Glossy Ibis , Lesser Scaup , Long Tailed Duck , Great White Egret , Red-rumped Swallow , Latest = Lesser Whitethroat , Arctic Tern , Little Tern , Arctic Skua , Manx Shearwater
10 Mickey McNaghten British. Hatfield Moors Yorkshire 144 Highlights: Bewick's Swan, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Red-crested Pochard, Crane, Grey Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Turnstone, Black Tern, Mealy Redpoll, found a Yello-browed Warbler on the 20th November a nice bird to finish up on.
11 Podster Marbury C.P,Cheshire 143 latest :- Well played Fred (147) get u next year!
12 Big M Tophill Low 143 Latest: 11/12 Ring Necked Duck 22/11 Bittern 23/10 Lesser Redpoll 20/10 Egyptian Goose 19/10 Waxwing 11/10 Jack Snipe 9/10 Tophill rare Bonxie!! 4/9 Knot, 3/9 Black wit 30/8 Whinchat 13/8 Spotted Crake, 10/8 Black Tern. Other good site birds - Spot Fly, Marsh Tit (less than 10 records ever), Black necked Grebe, Wood Sands, Red Kite
13 Andy Firth Sandbach Flashes Cheshire 138 A Magic year with Spotted Sand,Franklins Gull and Lesser Scaup and many scarce species.
14 Mark Langston Rotherham Area- South Yorkshire 137 (BOU) Highlights - Scaup, Mandarin, Pintail, Barn Owl, Firecrest, Pink-Footed Goose, Shelduck, Waxwing, Merlin, Glaucous Gull, Peregrine, Water Rail, Oystercatcher, Osprey, Woodlark,Green Sandpiper, Iceland Gull, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, RED RUMPED SWALLOW, Black-Tailed Godwit, Turnstone, Red Kite, Honey Buzzard, Turtle Dove, Yellow-Legged Gull, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Sandwich Tern - Latest Marsh Harrier (19/8)
15 John Malloy Cramlington, Northumberland 122 Latest: Whooper Swan (23 Oct 04). Highlights: Green-winged Teal (found), Pintail, Knot (5 - found), Bar-tailed Godwit (7 - found), Black-tailed Godwit, Greenland White-fronted Goose, Dunlin, Greenshank, Avocet (found), Wood Sandpiper (found), Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, Jack Snipe, Little Stint (found), Little Owl, Barn Owl
16 Paul Bowyer Brean Down, Somerset 115 Whooper Swan, Wryneck, Wood Sandpiper, Long Tailed Skua are all patch ticks.
17 Marek Walford Dinton Pastures C.P, Berks 114 Latest: Tawny Owl (11/11) Highlights: GANNET, Bittern, Peregrine, Garganey, Mandarin, Common Scoter, Smew, Ruddy Duck, Red Kite, Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Med. Gull, Caspian Gull, Barn Owl, R-N.Parakeet, Cetti's Warbler, Brambling
18 James Brown Lowestoft area, Suffolk 101 Red-crested Pochard, Shag, Firecrest, Merlin, Scaup, Purple Sandpiper, Chiffchaff, Little Egret, Cetttis Warbler, Waxwing, Red-breasted Merganser, Razorbill.
19 Richard Moores Whitlingham Lane CP, Norwich 101 Patch Ticks this year -Bewick's Swan, Hobby, Little Gull, Avocet, Mandarin, Barn Owl, Common Scoter, Nuthatch
20 ralph radford Mill Lakes,Bestwood,Notts 87 myself &norman hayes finding marsh warbler
21 Simon Pinder 70 Med Gull, Waxwing
22 Steve Botham Boultham mere Lincoln 65 Mealy Redpoll
23 Nick Smith Etruria area of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs 61 Late summer - Redstart in garden (nice tick) plus GSWood nearby
24 Phil Baker Forest Farm, Cardiff 55 Dipper, Goosander, Water Rail, Raven, Sedge Warbler and Treecreeper to round off the year.

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