January 2018 Summary
UK Species Year List to January: 68
Total UK Species in January: 68
New “Year Ticks” in January: 68
New “Life Ticks” in January: 0
January was pretty cold and wet so we didn’t get out that much. We went out looking for Hawfinches at Marbury on the 9th but most of the birding we did in January was with the birding group with visits to Burton Mere Wetlands on the 16th, Marbury Park on the 23rd where we eventually got our Hawfinchesand Pennington Flash on the 30th where we got good views of Siskin and Lesser Redpoll and a Kingfisher
In the garden, we have plenty of birds and have even seen a single Mistle Thrush – we do dnot know what happened to its partner. We did do the Big Garden Watch but there wasn’t a lot apart from the usual suspects.
This January was not quite as good numerically as last January where we got 85 species but I feel that February will see us catch up.
Bird Sightings : January 2018
| No | Species |
| 1 | Blackbird |
| 2 | Black-headed Gull |
| 3 | Black-tailed Godwit |
| 4 | Blue Tit |
| 5 | Bullfinch |
| 6 | Buzzard |
| 7 | Canada Goose |
| 8 | Carrion Crow |
| 9 | Chaffinch |
| 10 | Coal Tit |
| 11 | Collared Dove |
| 12 | Common Gull |
| 13 | Coot |
| 14 | Cormorant |
| 15 | Curlew |
| 16 | Dunnock |
| 17 | Fieldfare |
| 18 | Gadwall |
| 19 | Goldeneye |
| 20 | Goldfinch |
| 21 | Goosander |
| 22 | Great Black-backed Gull |
| 23 | Great Crested Grebe |
| 24 | Great Spotted Woodpecker |
| 25 | Great Tit |
| 26 | Greenfinch |
| 27 | Grey Heron |
| 28 | Greylag Goose |
| 29 | Hawfinch |
| 30 | House Sparrow |
| 31 | Jay |
| 32 | Kestrel |
| 33 | Kingfisher |
| 34 | Lapwing |
| 35 | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| 36 | Lesser Redpoll |
| 37 | Little Grebe |
| 38 | Long-tailed Tit |
| 39 | Magpie |
| 40 | Mallard |
| 41 | Marsh Harrier |
| 42 | Mistle Thrush |
| 43 | Moorhen |
| 44 | Mute Swan |
| 45 | Nuthatch |
| 46 | Peregrine |
| 47 | Pied Wagtail |
| 48 | Pintail |
| 49 | Redshank |
| 50 | Redwing |
| 51 | Reed Bunting |
| 52 | Robin |
| 53 | Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon |
| 54 | Rook |
| 55 | Shelduck |
| 56 | Shoveler |
| 57 | Siskin |
| 58 | Snipe |
| 59 | Song Thrush |
| 60 | Starling |
| 61 | Teal |
| 62 | Treecreeper |
| 63 | Tufted Duck |
| 64 | Whooper Swan |
| 65 | Wigeon |
| 66 | Willow Tit |
| 67 | Woodpigeon |
| 68 | Wren |