2013 a birding year sum up.

Hi readers, as promised I am doing a post on the birding experienced throughout 2013 as a whole. I have a lot of new species on my list and got up to a life list with 180 birds on it, the amount of new species I have had beat last years which can only be considered as a great achievement. Here's a list of all the new species I have had over 2013,


Mandarin- Dunstall (Staffs) 5/1/13
Glaucous Gull- ARC overnight building near Kingswood pool. (Staffs) 5/01/13
Black Swan- Essington Quarry Pool (Poss escaped) (Staffs). 6/013
European White fronted Goose- Gailey Reservoir (Staffs) 10/02/13
Lesser Redpoll- Chasewater 2012 only realised 2013.
Little Gull- Gailey reservoir 1st winter and adult birds. 31/03/13
Brambling- Belvide 12/04/13
CASPIAN TERN- Rudyard Reservoir 26/07/13
Sandwich tern- Caister Beach
Artic Skua- Caister Beach
Great white Egret- RSPB Middleton Lake 18/08/13
Gannet- Barmouth 30/08/13
STILT SANDPIPER- Sandbach Flashes 07/09/13
Curlew Sandpiper- Blithfield Reservoir 07/09/13
Velvet Scoter- Aqualate Mere 1/11/13
Glossy Ibis- Donna Cooper Memorial Garden 22/12/13

Not a bad year with those species I think, I've been to a whole lot of new places all across the country and seen a hell of a lot of new stuff for my list and every moment has been great. Overall the birding year has been a success and I am really excited for the birding in 2014 what could pop up next I wonder. I've  moved ahead with my photography this year I have tried to photograph everything I see and have more or less succeeded in doing this, take a look at some of my pic's from 2013,

Glossy Ibis (Pelsall)

 

Water Rail, Upton Warren

Waxwing, my garden

Glaucous Gull Chasewater

Little Gull, Gailey Res

Caspian Tern, Rudyard Reservoir

GWE, Middleton Lakes



Sandwich Tern, Caister Beach

Med Gull, Grt Yarmouth Beach

So its been a great year with so many memorable birding experiences and I hope 2013 was the same for you to. I also want to say a big thank you to everyone who has been viewing my blog for the past year, I am a young birder and a relatively new blogger so any support really helps so thank you for reading the blog throughout 2013 and I hope you stick with me into 2014 lets see what species turn up this year. I hope you all get off to a great start with your 2014 year lists I wont be starting to later in the week.

Thanks for reading the blog and there should be a post later in the week and again thank you for sticking with me and the blog throughout 2013 and happy birding to you all in 2014.

Thanks for reading and happy birding- WMBB