Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

UK Mammals List Showing Records 1 through 25 of 25 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 John Dixon British 70 Latest sighting Striped Skunk (pix) not ticking yet. Now 60 species photographed (+ skunk), fantastic Harvest Mouse and mega Polecats in 2009. Last ticks Nathusius's Pipistrelle 5/9/08, Sperm Whale in Moray Firth 5/8/08, Bechstein's Bat and Brandt's Bat 26/07/08. Black Rat last outstanding terrestrial. 15 bats, 12 cetaceans. Male Orca with female and juv highlight of Scottish holiday last year. 70 excludes Red-necked Wallaby, Steller's Sealion, Reindeer, Lynx sp: includes Wild Boar, Feral Goat. Rares include Harp and Bearded Seals, Humpback and Northern Bottlenose Whales. 2 James Hanlon UK 68 includes all bats (assuming mouse-eared to be extinct) & 11 cetaceans. Rares include bearded seal, Northern bottle-nosed whale (on Skye, 1998) and humpback. Latest addition Orkney vole 08/07. No domestications/ ferals included except wild boar (welcome back to England guys). Still need wildcat, black rat, and a few of the scarcer cetaceans incl white-sided dolphin. I agree with Michael that we should count H sapiens but for now haven't included in my total! 3 Steve Riley UK 64 All regular bats except Bechsteins, Humpback +Bottle-nosed Whale, Orca, Harp+ Bearded Seal, still require Wild Cat +Edible Dormouse . Also seen Red-necked Wallaby, Coypu, Black Rat, Yellow-necked Mouse and Dormouse( in 2004, my latest addition) . Saw Silver-hared Bat (N.AM> native, found in Liverpool in Oct, very possibly a genuine vagrant or ship-assisted, now in quarantine) 4 Marion Dixon British 61 Wet feet and muddy backside for (I admit) a really cute Harvest Mouse (tick) and good views of shrews and Wood Mice, glad to see the latter not in our kitchen! Another new mammal experience, getting totally soaked for a Northern Bottlenose Whale. Polecat first tick this year, standing for hours in hot sweaty hide makes a change from being dragged around woods in pitch dark walking into branches and tripping over stuff! Wildcat again this year, gripped John off ha ha. Highlights: 3 Orcas off Ardnamurchan, Pine Martens and Otters this year. Not bad for someone who doesn't care about listing! 5 Ian Adam UK 59 9 cetaceans, 9 bats, coypu, black rat, polecat + 3 more Republic of Ireland 6 Dave Horton English 58 13 Bats, 7 Cetaceans, Polecats, Wild Cat, Pine Martin etc. Latest: Red-necked Wallaby!! July 09 7 Mick Watts English 58 8 S.G.Davis British 56 Latest addition - 'Scilly' Shrew ( June 08 ) Polecat ( May 09 ) 9 peter garbutt english 53 hazel dormouse seen october 2006 in cheshire.european beaver,martin mere,october 14th,2009 10 Chris Hamilton English 50 Number 50 was Lesser Horseshoe Bat in Devon in the rain last Saturday 11 Tony Conway British 45 Must get a bat detector, to add a few more, best include Humpack Whale in Clyde, Scilly Shrew, 8 Cetaceans, seen 2 dead Polecats, (not counted) and no humans they don't count for anything.! 12 Mike Richardson UK (Yorkshire) 44 Nov 09/ New to mammal listing. Latest: Harvest Mouse (Hertfordshire), Hazel Dormouse (Yorkshire) and Scottish Wildcat (Ardnamurchan). Highlights so far include Water Shrew, Polecat, several Pine Marten and a number of Otters. Only seen two species of cetacean in British waters (Harbour Porpoise and Bottle-nosed Dolphin). I have seen Feral Goat but don't include them. Hopefully see more species this year. 13 Danny Cooper Pirate 44 28.9 Harbour Porpoise at Dunge. 15.2.06 I do like me mammals, my highlights are Hazel Dormouse, Mountian Hare and the Northern Bottle-Nose Whale. Greater & lesser Horseshoe Bats plus 8 other bats. Can I count puma-type cat in Cornwall 2003? Hope to add more species this year! 14 Seth "The Gibster" Gibson British thru & thru 44 9/2. Scilly Shrew, Wild Cat, that poor old Northern Bottle-nose Whale in The Thames (London's largest ever twitch?), Chinese Water Deer, Mountain Hare & a Bank Vole apparently sleep-walking over my foot! Haven't counted silly stuff like wild goats, sheep, ponies etc. 15 Simon Pinder English 44 Latest: Whiskered Bat Dumfries-shire June 2007, Pine Marten Ardnamurchan June 2005, Wildcat Wester Ross October 2004, still to see live Harvest Mouse, Water Shrew, Polecat and most bats 16 Ilya Maclean Scottish 44 Latest sightings: visit my website. Never really attempted mammal listing (this is the first time I've drawn up a list), but realised I've seen a few good ones and might have to start doing it properly. Total includes a few non/questionable natives - e.g. Rabbit, House Mouse, Coypu (one of the last ones in Norfolk!), but not Homo sapiens - I'm with Richard on this one. Latest: Wallie the whale 17 Michael Frankis Northumberland 40 (approx) Harp Seal (finder, Northumberland first record). Would appreciate some guidelines on what can & can't be counted! (e.g. surely Wild Boar is a domestication gone wild, in UK?!) (10/06)Thanks James; another one to query, do you include Homo sapiens - I do, after all the species did reach Britain naturally! Precious few bats this far north (6 spp, of which I've got 5) Oh, and can I count the Chillingham Wild Cattle? I reckon they should be allowed, they're the closest Britain (or anyone!) has to Aurochs 18 Tony Wileman Hertfordshire 38 Latest was Pine Marten (Abernethy forest area 28/04/06) 19 P. J. Doyle Irish 37 Dormouse best . Pine Marten, Weasel, Orca & Risso's nice. Pay(!) for Water Shrew & Harvest Mouse but you'll all have to come to Ireland to see Irish Hare! 20 Lee Fairclough Brit 36 Got a full house on insectivores but only 3 cetaceans... porpoise, common dolphin and orca - all watched from the shore, guess I'm a bit of a land lubbar... 21 Danny Heptinstall Yorkshire 35 Latest - Field Vole 10/05/05 Highlights - Red Squirrel, 5 feet from an Otter on Skye, Humpback Whale from Stornanway ferry in Aug '04, 3 Minkes in the Ross of Mull, Greater Horseshoe Bat + 5 other bats, Pygmy, Water and Common Shrew - Not bad going for a 16 year old!!!!! Hopefully some more bats and small mammals in 2006, Some more cetaceans would be nice as well 22 Tony Sheridan English 35 It was me who suggested the mammals list, wish I hadn't now, I'm at the bottom! Never thought of adding myself though! Before 'me', dog otter was my 30th and then brown hare. Got most commoner bats and deer. I've been into spiders for so long I've only just got into birds aswell, so only low on all other lists! I really want to see wildcat and then pine marten. Got mink now! Finally, back in July. Muntjac and Chinese water deer in Norfolk. 23 Chris Shortall UK 30 Still missing most of the bats & cetaceans (of the former I have brown long eared, pip & noctule, & just harbour porpoise & common dolphin in the latter) 24 Robert Williamson (16) English 20 All in Norfolk: Bank Vole; Water Vole; Brow Rat; Grey Squirrel; European Hare; European Rabbit; West European Hedgehog; Common Pipistrelle; Brown Long-eared Bat; Red Deer; Fallow Deer; Roe Deer; Reeve's Muntjac; Red Fox; Grey Seal; Common Seal; Stoat; American Mink; Bottlenose Dolphin; Harbour Porpoise 25 Calvin MacKinnon Scottish 10 Red Fox, West European Hedgehog, Eastern Grey Squirrel, European Rabbit, European Roe Deer, Grey Seal, Eurasian Red Squirrel, Mountain Hare, Common Pipistrelle, Bottlenose Dolphin Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home