Well, after getting 172 bird species recorded last year (following a recount!), let's see how we get on in 2016!
For starters, and in no particular order:
1. mute swan
2. whooper swan
3. goldeneye
4. mallard
5. wigeon
6. American wigeon (from Fen Hide)
7. tufted duck
8. shelduck
9. shoveler
10. teal
11. buzzard
12. hen harrier
13. blue tit
14. chaffinch
15. great tit
16. greenfinch
17. robin
18. dunnock
19. wren
20. blackbird
21. tree sparrow
22. great spotted woodpecker
23. rook
24. jackdaw
25. herring gull
26. great black-backed gull
27. common gull
28. pheasant
29. lapwing
30. woodpigeon
31. collared dove
32. goldcrest
33. grey heron
34. golden plover
35. cormorant
36. gannet
37. oystercatcher
38. shag
39. pied wagtail
40. curlew
41. sanderling
42. redshank
43. carrion crow
44. black-headed gull
45. pink-footed goose (all as at 6 January)
46. linnet
47. reed bunting
48. yellowhammer
49. greylag goose
50. feral pigeon
51. kestrel
52. peregrine
53. sparrowhawk
54. snipe
55. woodcock
56. corn bunting
57. goldfinch
58. grey plover
59. turnstone
60. red-breasted merganser
61. red necked grebe (lagoon, 10 Jan)
62. eider
63. long-tailed duck
64. purple sandpiper
65. starling
66. meadow pipit
67. bullfinch
68. great crested grebe
69. Slavonian grebe (south end)
70. smew
71. barn owl (12 Jan)
72. stonechat (13 Jan)
73. bearded tit (Fen Hide)
74. pintail (17 Jan)
75. fieldfare
76. coot
77. magpie
78. twite (18 Jan)
79. scaup (9 Jan)
80. common scoter
81. chiffchaff
82. redwing (19 Jan)
83. Canada goose
84. bittern (23 Jan)
85. great Northern diver (31 Jan)
86. red-throated diver
87. bar-tailed godwit
88. coal tit (4 Feb)
89. little grebe (11 Feb)
90. white-fronted goose (12 Feb)
91. Bewick's swan (18 Feb)