A little Stanwick bird quiz – and there’s a prize.

Mark 30 Comments
Stanwick Lakes visitor centre at the end of my walk (c1015). If I had taken a photo at the beginning too (c0745) the grass and roof would both have been frosted. Home of an excellent bacon sandwich - but not for me today.
Stanwick Lakes visitor centre

 

I’ve seen 154 species at my local patch of Stanwick Lakes since  I started using Birdtrack in 2004. Here are 149 of them.

Which are the missing five?

 

Mute Swan
Whooper Swan
Pink-footed Goose
White-fronted Goose
Greylag Goose
Canada Goose
Shelduck
Wigeon
Gadwall
Teal
Mallard
Pintail
Garganey
Shoveler
Red-crested Pochard
Pochard
Tufted Duck
Scaup
Common Scoter
Goldeneye
Smew
Red-breasted Merganser
Goosander
Red-legged Partridge
Pheasant
Cormorant
Bittern
Little Egret
Great White Egret
Grey Heron
Sacred Ibis
Little Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Black-necked Grebe
Black Kite
Red Kite
Marsh Harrier
Hen Harrier
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Water Rail
Moorhen
Coot
Oystercatcher
Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Lapwing
Little Ringed Plover
Ringed Plover
Whimbrel
Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Turnstone
Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Little Stint
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Greenshank
Wood Sandpiper
Redshank
Woodcock
Snipe
Black Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Common Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Iceland Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Stock Dove
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Turtle Dove
Cuckoo
Barn Owl
Little Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Swift
Kingfisher
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Kestrel
Merlin
Hobby
Peregrine
Magpie
Jay
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Goldcrest
Blue Tit
Great Tit
Skylark
Sand Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Cetti’s Warbler
Long-tailed Tit
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Lesser Whitethroat
Whitethroat
Grasshopper Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Reed Warbler
Treecreeper
Wren
Starling
Blackbird
Fieldfare
Song Thrush
Redwing
Mistle Thrush
Spotted Flycatcher
Robin
Nightingale
Redstart
Whinchat
Stonechat
Dunnock
Yellow Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
Pied Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
Brambling
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet (yuk!)
Redpoll (Common/Lesser)
Common Crossbill
Goldfinch
Siskin
Yellowhammer
Reed Bunting

 

It’s mostly for fun, but the first correct answer, to be posted as a comment on this blog, will get a signed copy of either Fighting for Birds or A Message from Martha sent to them, or a lucky friend perhaps, in the post (UK addresses only).

Regular habituees of Stanwick Lakes are excluded from this competition (that’s Steve and Bob). One entry per person.  Entries close 10pm 4 December.

So, you are looking for five species of birds that I’ve seen at Stanwick Lakes since 2004, they are all very familiar or reasonably familiar species. If you have been a birder over the last decade you will probably have seen all of them.

Answers next Friday morning, 5 December.

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30 Replies to “A little Stanwick bird quiz – and there’s a prize.”

  4. Too easy Mark.

    Crested serpent eagle.
    Swinhoe’s snipe.
    Red-faced malkoha.
    Zitting cisticola
    and…
    Lesser noddy (of course!)

    Please send my prize to my winter address.
    There’s a good chap.

  6. Yay quiz time again!! I’m going for Raven, Tawny Owl, Bearded Tit, Coal Tit and House Sparrow.

  13. Based on my very comparable 156 species at the Nunnery Lakes 2009-present, I’d say the most likely ‘gaps’ are
    Feral Pigeon (I hope you’re logging ’em!)
    Tawny Owl
    Coal Tit
    Marsh Tit
    Wheatear

  17. Some dodgy birds on that list Mark (Sacred Ibis, Black Kite, Merlin, etc)!!

    However, comparing your Stanwick GP list with my own, I suspect your 5 are -:

    1) Feral Pigeon/Feral Rock Dove
    2) Tawny Owl
    3) Glaucous Gull
    4) Common Raven
    5) Coal Tit

  20. Feral Pigeon, Grey Partridge, Coal Tit, Tawny Owl, Osprey.

    (decided not to opt for wheatear or barnacle goose (feral – yuk) but that was a tough decision.)

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  24. Oops, I posted on the wrong blog. My guess: Tawny Owl, House Sparrow, Ruddy Duck, Raven and Osprey.

  26. It feels a little wrong to make my first comment on the blog a competition entry, but here goes;
    Tawny owl, house sparrow, tree sparrow, coal tit and … mandarin duck?

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