Like many birders, I preserve a number of chook lists: UK life record, Norfolk record, birds I’ve photographed and yr lists. I’ve seen over 300 birds in a calendar yr on three events (all of which included a Scillonian Pelagic) photographed 342 species and recorded 358 in Norfolk.
Once in a while the BBRC carries out a number of lumps or splits, each of which have an effect on the totals: this yr it is mentioned we’ll ‘lose’ some Redpolls, Inexperienced-winged Teal, Hooded Crow and different species that at present happen on my record!
With this in thoughts I dug out my previous ‘pre-electronic’ chook logs and had a rely up: it appears my ‘revised record’ is now 434 species. I type of stopped twitching at 400, so the extras have been birds similar to Lammergeier that I made a particular effort to see. Whereas trying by means of the log for 1987, I got here throughout the one actually mega species I discovered all on my own. The important thing phrase is ‘on my own’: regardless of phoning each birder I knew from the paybox at Horsey, no-one managed to reach earlier than darkish…
The portray is of what was presumably the very best day I ever loved in Norfolk. Will we ever see one other prefer it?
