I was updating my year list this morning after seeing Grey Wagtail over near the BSL sailing club sluice, it never got to the beach, turning back towards Lavell's footbridge from the car park, had it not been calling I would not have picked it up. I am on 76 of 81 species.
When I came to the January totals of the last 10 years, I then checked what species were seen in 2008 to reach 88, I suddenly realised I had messed up, it was February 2008, not January that had 88 species, January 2008 had by recent standards, a pitiful 75 species.
Now corrected January's look like this;
87 in 2011
86 in 2012
84 in 2015
83 in 2005, 2006 & 2013
81 in 2004, 2014 and 2016
79 in 2007
76 in 2009
75 in 2003 & 2008
So we only have to find Meadow Pipit, Skylark & Tawny Owl and we hit = 3rd place.
The following are likely;
Raven, Linnet, Skylark, Meadow Pipit and Green Sandpiper
The following are possible too;
Lesser Redpoll, Blackcap, Firecrest, Med or Yellow-legged Gulls, Jack Snipe, Dunlin, Ruff, Curlew, Goosander, Smew, or unusual wildfowl pushed thru by cold weather.
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