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Wot I saw on my holidays:
(New ones in italics)
Fowl
Mute swan - warning picture may not contain real swan
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Barnacle goose
Shelduck
Egyptian goose
Mandarin
Wigeon
Teal
Mallard (contains wuff)
Gadwell
Shoveler
Red-crested pochard
Pochard
Tufted duck
Ruddy duck
Peacock - at a City farm I visited with my mum
Pheasant
Lady Amherst's Pheasant - a crazy looking bird
Bords wot are not fowls
Little Grebe
Great crested grebe
Rock/feral Pigeon
Stock Pigeon
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Swift
Eurasian crane - from the Pensthorpe conservation programme, but I'm counting them cos they were flying
Moorhen (also with wuff)
Coot
Bittern - no, I didn't get a photo, but I did see three, one very well as it flew into my field of view
Little Egret
Grey Heron - is it possible that I have too many heron pictures? Nah.
Cormorant
Dunlin
Black-tailed godwit - this one is in an aviary at Pensthorpe, but we did see one in summer plumage at Minsmere
Curlew
Green sandpiper - not noticably green
Redshank - David saw these wild, I'm not sure that I did, but this is a lovely picture from inside the aviary at Pensthorpe
Common Sandpiper
Black-headed Gull
Common gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Little tern
Pied avocet - again with the aviary disclaimer, saw lots at Minsmere but they were small and far away
Oystercatcher
Ringed plover
Lapwing
Buzzard
Marsh Harrier
Kestrel
Hobby
Barn owl - a lovely daylight view as we were driving through Suffolk
Green Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Ring-necked Parakeet
Sand Martin
Swallow
House Martin
Pied Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
Meadow Pipit
Wren
Dunnock
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Robin
Jay
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Rook
Sedge Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
White throat
Reed warbler
Bearded reedling - a weird bird that's not a tit and probably forms a group of its own
Long-tailed Tit
Marsh tit
Coal Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Treecreeper
Reed Bunting
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Common Starling
Animoos
Rabbit (oh so many rabbits)
Fox
Roe deer (in Richmond park, from the car of course so I couldn't get a good photo)
Grey squirrel
and sheeps and cows and a bull and horaces and alpaca and pigs and a goat that scared me by using a tool
Common frog
Smooth newt

Creepy crawlies
Red tailed bumble bee
White tailed bumble bee
Common carder bumble bee
Buff tailed bumble bee
An amber snail
Pond snails
Another unidentified snail
Peacock butterflies - which are goth underneath
Gatekeeper
Meadow brown
Painted lady
Six spot burnet moth
Cinnabar moth caterpillar
Two spot ladybird
Harlequin ladybird - boo! hiss!

This included 66 bird species on the day we went to Minsmere, which is a personal best by a long way.