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I am new to bird watching march 2011 and also bought my first "real" camera a canon 500D with a 300mm lense. I have been increasing my list of birds on the channel island of Guernsey and I ended my first year with 129 in 2011 and 160 in my second year and have been trying to get some photos to capture these lovely birds. I would like to welcome you to my web site and would also like to welcome and comments.
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I have been a bird watcher for one year now and i am enjoying trying to get better photos as well so i have purchased a sigma 170mm-500mm Camera lense and I am seeing a lot of improvements in the photos I am able to take.
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Snow Bunting
2013
I hoping this year to improve my knowledge of birds, to help my friends to grow there knowledge of birds, I have sent myself a target of 170 different birds in Guernsey for 2013, try to take better and better photographs and keep my daughter interested in birdwatching and hope to start interesting my son in birdwathing.
We are very lucky in Guernsey because we have a lot of different habitats which you can visit all in the same day making it quite easy to see 60 different birds in a morning.
Some of the best places in Guernsey are the Clarie Mare reserve which is has a good size pond with a nice size reed bed. The colin Best reserve which is a marshy headland area with a nice little bramble lined walk.
Vale pond which is a larger pond with marsh bed, Silbe nature reserve which is a lovery little wooded walk. the cliffs and headland at pleinmont point which are great all year round and are allways the first point of call for a lots of migrants. Lots of are beaches are also very good.
Guernsey is just a great place to live and to do birding.
Update as of 20/11/2013, I will not make 170 but the island list will be lower then recent years as well. I have just passed last year and seen 13 lifers this year
We are very lucky in Guernsey because we have a lot of different habitats which you can visit all in the same day making it quite easy to see 60 different birds in a morning.
Some of the best places in Guernsey are the Clarie Mare reserve which is has a good size pond with a nice size reed bed. The colin Best reserve which is a marshy headland area with a nice little bramble lined walk.
Vale pond which is a larger pond with marsh bed, Silbe nature reserve which is a lovery little wooded walk. the cliffs and headland at pleinmont point which are great all year round and are allways the first point of call for a lots of migrants. Lots of are beaches are also very good.
Guernsey is just a great place to live and to do birding.
Update as of 20/11/2013, I will not make 170 but the island list will be lower then recent years as well. I have just passed last year and seen 13 lifers this year
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This years Guernsey list is now 162
160 in 2012 129 in 2011 Divers and Grebes great northern Diver little grebe Great Crested Grebe Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe Black-Throated Diver Red-Throated Diver* Shearwaters, cormorant and gannets Cormorant shag Gannet Storm Petrel Sooty Shearwater Balearic Shearwater Manx Shearwater* Herons little Egret grey Heron Spoonbill Purple Heron Wildfowl Brent goose Shelduck Mallard duck Shoveler duck Teal Duck Tufted duck Gadwall Pochard white fronted goose Gargarney Common Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Pink Footed Goose Wigeon Pintail Duck Wrens and Allies Wren Dunnock Chats and Thrushes Blackbird Robin Song Thrush Mistle Thrush Redwing Stonechat Black Redstart Wheatear Redstart Ring ouzel* Fieldfare Whinchat Desert Wheatear Sparrows, Finches and Buntings Goldfinch greenfinch Bullfinch Chaffinch House Sparrow Linnet Snow Bunting Brambling Siskin Reed Bunting |
Birds of prey kestrel Marsh Harrier Sparrowhawk Peregrine Buzzard Merlin* Hobby Hen Harrier Gamebirds, Crakes and Rails Moorhen Coot Pheasant Water Rail Waders Turnstone Oyster catcher Redshank Curlew Snipe Ringed Plover Grey Plover Sanderling Dunlin Whimbrel Lapwing Common Sandpiper Golden Plover Purple Sandpiper Bar-tailed Godwit Avocet Woodcock* Little Ringed Plover Black-tailed godwit Greenshank Green Sandpiper Little Stilt Jack Snipe Warblers and Flycatchers Chiffchaff Goldcrest Firecrest Blackcap Pied Flycatcher Whitethroat Willow Warbler Sedge Warbler Reed Warbler Garden Warbler* Spotted Flycatcher Yellow-Browed Warbler Wood Warbler* Melodious Warbler* Lesser Whitethroat Tits, Nuthatchers and treecreepers Great Tit Blue Tit Long-Tailed Tit Short Toed Treecreeper Shrikes and Crows Magpie Starling Carrion Crow Jackdaw Rook* Raven Rose colored Starling |
Gulls, Terns and Auks Herring Gull Greater black backed Gull Lesser black backed Gull Black headed Gull Razorbill Guillemot Sandwich Tern Common Gull Little Gull* Fulmar Kittiwake Mediterranean Gull Puffin Common Tern Great Skua Pormarine Skua* Arctic Skua Yellow legged Gull Pigeons and Cuckoos Woodpigeon Collared Dove Feral pigeon stock Dove Turtle Dove Owls Barn Owl Short Eared Owl Long Eared Owl Woodpeckers and allies Kingfisher greater spotted woodpecker Swift Wryneck Larks, Swallows and Pipits Pied Wagtail Grey Wagtail Meadow Pipit Rock Pipit Sky Lark Wood Lark Water Pipit Tree Pipit* Yellow Wagtail House Martin Sand Martin Swallow Short toed Lark* |
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