0100 : One Hundred.

 
Arctic Skua

Arctic Tern

Black Grouse

Blackbird

Blackcap

Blue Tit

Blue Winged Teal (Lifer)

Brent Goose

Buzzard

Carrion Crow
Chaffinch

Coal Tit

Collared Dove

Common Sandpiper

Common Scoter

Coot

Cormorant

Corn Bunting

Crested Tit

Eider

Firecrest

Gadwall

Gannet

Garden Warbler

Glossy Ibis (Lifer)

Goldeneye

Goldfinch

Goosander

Goshawk

Great Crested Grebe

Greenfinch

Greenshank

Grey Heron

Grey Wagtail

Hawfinch

Herring Gull

House Sparrow

Iceland Gull

Jay

Kestrel

King Eider

Kingfisher

Lapwing

Lesser Black Backed Gull  (Herring Gull behind)

Lesser Whitethroat

Little Grebe

Little Ringed Plover

LittleTern

Magpie

Mallard

Meadow Pipit

Mistle Thrush

Moorhen

Mute Swan

Osprey

Oystercatcher

Peregrine

Pied Wagtail

Red Backed Shrike

Red Grouse

Red Kite

Red Legged Partridge

Red Throated Diver

Reed Bunting

Ring Billed Gull

Ring Ouzel

Ringed Plover

Robin

Rock Pipit

Sandwich Tern

Sedge Warbler

Shelduck

Shoveler

Siskin

Skylark

Snipe

Snow Bunting

Song Thrush

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Redshank (and two Redshanks)

Stock Dove

Swallow

Tawny Owl

Teal

Tufted Duck

Velvet Scoter

Water Rail

Waxwing

Whimbrel

White Billed Diver (?) (Lifer)

Whitethroat

Whooper Swan

Wigeon

Willow Warbler
Wood Sandpiper

Woodcock

Woodpigeon

Wren

Yellow Wagtail

Yellowhammer

Since I started this blog on Hogmany last year I have documented my bird sightings and outings around mostly the local area, with one or two trips slightly further afield, in words and pictures. In that time I've managed to see 186 species of birds. I've also managed to take photos (of variable quality) of most, but not all, of them. So to mark my 100th blog post, here's 100 of those 186 species in pictures.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say many thanks to my (relatively few but very welcome) regular readers and also those who have may have dropped in and out. Without readers this blog would exist solely to keep me occupied of an evening and to provide an online record of my birding this year for me to refer to in future. I am grateful that my words and pictures are of any sort of interest to others. According to the stats for the site, I've had just under 5000 views for 99 posts with the majority of those being from the UK, but with around 500 or so from the USA, and most of the rest from Europe, though with one or two from further afield.

Also many thanks also to those who have allowed me to travel further afield in their company. Without you this blog would probably be even more repetitive than it must sometimes appear.

It has sometimes been a challenge to keep this blog going from time to time (especially throughout the independence referendum run-up when I was otherwise occupied for large periods of time in the evenings), but now that it has finally reached the 100 posts mark, I hope that it will go from strength to strength and the audience will perhaps widen over time. I hope that you enjoy what you read here, and it would be great to hear from more of you, so I know what I'm doing right (or wrong).

Thanks again, folks.

Barry