Best Britain and Ireland Bird of 2007

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What was your best bird of the year?
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[Stephen R]

because i saw it, it has got to be the cambs adult female wilsons.:ohdear:

[Lfuller]

Mourning Dove because I saw it but the Paddyfield Warbler was incredible so was the Glossy Ibises, WB Diver and Pacific Diver. Didn't manage to see the Brown Fly nor the Pechora. :mad:

[pabs]

What was your best bird of the year?

Mine isn't in the above list. The black-browed albatross had to be my bird of the year. Not only was it my first ever albatross but the adventure to get to sula sgeir was unforgettable.

regards,
Paul
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[Bobolink44]

Brown Fly was a long overdue bird. If you made the albatross trip and saw it (I think one trip missed it?) I can understand that being the bird of the year. The photos look like it was an unforgettable mission.

[Josh Jones]

The photos look like it was an unforgettable mission.

Certainly unforgettable for those who went on the trip that missed it (like myself).

For me the Inishbofin Mourning Dove wins - although the White-tailed Plover was a superb bird, the twitch itself was stressful and tedious, and the smells in the hide eminating from other birders were at times unpleasant. Compare that to six people watching a third for Britain and Ireland at ten metres range (with a Black Redstart sharing the same yard), plus a wonderful island in a wonderful country, then this gets my vote!

[Ben Miller]

What no Glaucous-winged Gull? A mega Pacific first for Britain! And well worth the wait :-)

OK, not actually my best of '07 - the Brown Fly took that one, I just love rare Sibes - but surely the gull is in with a shout. And about to get accepted if the rumours are true...

For near-miss of the year got to go for Eastern Crowned-Warbler. One of those in '08 would be mighty fine, if you please...

[hughharrop]

Shetland's first-ever Siberian Thrush on Foula - rapid plane charter, even more rapid walk to south of island, nobody knew where it was and then a pair of bins-full of blue and white as it hopped out in front of me. Awesome. A big thank you to the finder, Pete Gordon.

[andy22]

my best bird of 2007 has to be the white tailed lapwing. New to me and a fantastic bird!!! Following not far behind has to be the wilsons phalarope.

[Joe Ray]

One of the Desert Wheatears, maybe not incredibly rare but cracking little birds. I caught up with the bird in Yorks, it was showing down to about 7 feet, at one point when I was the only birder present I watched it walk through my tripod legs!

The Wilson's Snipe(s) was nice in terms of rarity value, although not paticularly striking in appearance, and at one point I was practically trampled in the Lower Moors hide!
Some stunning images of the Pechora. No vote, as I turned up the day it b*ggered off.

Here's to an even better 2008 (White-crowned Sparrow and Pacific Diver already).
Joe

[Connor D. Rand]

The cambs Wilson's Phal for me, although the Desert Wheatear is a close second.

C.D.R

[chris butterworth]

Had to vote for White tailed Plover even though I did manage to catch up with the first! Would have been the Petchora but, after dipping, on last years bird and every other bl**dy one, both here and in SE Asia, I've come to believe there is a world wide plot against me, and they don't really exist. Pacific Diver was good but only for the rarity value.

[Sean Cole]

It would have to be the Yellow-nosed albatross for me - I was in Gloucestershire looking at Orchids when the news broke and managed to get down there and blag my way into the "hospital" to see it being fed with some fish.

Then I woke up.

White-tailed lapwing - the bird I had waited longest for.