Lorna's post on the Blog reminds me - Time to start a new year list!
1. lapwing (1 Jan)
2. curlew
3. pink-footed goose
4 buzzard
5. yellowhammer
6. common gull
7. herring gull
8. teal
9. mute swan
10. little egret
11. carrion crow
12. wigeon
13. jackdaw
14. rook
15. shelduck
16. grey heron
17. robin
18. starling
19. whooper swan
20. black-headed gull
21. mallard
22. goldeneye
23. great black-backed gull
24. stonechat
25. wren
26. reed bunting
27. tree sparrow
28. graylag goose
29. water rail
30. blackbird
31. chaffinch
32. blue tit
33. dunnock
34. great tit
35. greenfinch
36. pintail
37. red-breasted merganser
38. shoveler
39. moorhen (2 Jan)
40. pheasant
41. great spotted woodpecker
42. woodpigeon
43. meadow pipit
44. coot
45. tufted duck
46. snipe
47. coal tit
48. house sparrow
49. linnet
50. cormorant
51. oystercatcher (3 Jan)
52. sanderling
53. shag
54. eider
55. long-tailed duck
56. gannet
57. great Northern diver
58. redshank
59. grey plover
60. American wigeon
61. dunlin
62. kestrel
63. bearded tit
64. barnacle goose
65. goosander
66. goldcrest
67. goldfinch (4 Jan)
68. song thrush
69. fieldfare
70. rock pipit (6 Jan)
71. redwing (8 Jan)
72. golden plover
73. collared dove (11 Jan)
74. skylark
75. bullfinch (13 Jan)
76. magpie (15 Jan)
77. ruff (17 Jan)
78. glaucous gull (18 Jan - juv, from Fen Hide)
79. green-winged teal (18 Jan)
80. brambling
81. barn owl (24 Jan)
82. snow goose (2 Feb)
83. bittern (from Fen Hide, 17 Feb)
Apologies for lack of updates - it's been quiet, and I've been away!
84. grey partridge (21 Feb)
85. hen harrier (24 Feb)
86. osprey (12 Mar)
87. black-tailed godwit (14 Mar)
88. ringed plover
89. bar-tailed godwit (15 Mar)
90. gadwall (15 Mar)
91. lesser black-backed gull (20 Mar)
92. pied wagtail
93. whimbrel (heard in lagoon, 22 Mar)
94. treecreeper
95. great white egret (22 Mar)
96. dipper (Dunbar Hide, 1 April, and no, not an April Fool!)
97. peregrine (2 Apr)
98. little gull (7 Apr)
99. siskin (8 Apr)
100. common crane (12 Apr)
101. spoonbill (13 Apr)
102. house martin (14 Apr)
103. avocet (15 Apr)
104. merlin (16 Apr)
105. little grebe
106. swallow
107. little ringed plover
108. sand martin (17 Apr)
109. yellow wagtail (17 Apr, briefly on Starnafin pools)
110. garganey (17 Apr, Tower Pool)
111. marsh harrier
112. greenshank (18 Apr)
113. willow warbler (18 Apr)
114. common tern (20 Apr)
115. sedge warbler (26 Apr)
116. lesser redpoll (2 May)
117. whitethroat (6 May)
118. grasshopper warbler
119. common sandpiper (7 May)
120. pied flycatcher
121. sparrowhawk
122. swift (9 May)
123. wood sandpiper (12 May)
124. cuckoo (13 May)
125. wheatear
126. great crested grebe
127. Canada goose (14 May)
128. Temminck's stint (16 May)
129. glossy ibis (28 May - south end of lagoon)
130. pectoral sandpiper
(catching up following holidays, checking lists, 'ABZ Rare Birds' on Facebook and log entries, and internet downtime)
131. feral pigeon
132. garden warbler (19 Jun)
133. knot
134. Arctic tern
135. raven
136. green sandpiper (28 Jul)
137. sooty tern (1 Aug - the Ythan bird, a quick fly-by!0
138. American golden plover (4 Aug)
139. black-throated diver (on the loch, 5 Aug)
140. white-tailed sea eagle (juv bird, south end, 6 Aug)
141. red kite (same time as above eagle)
and including a few more late entries, from hide log sheets - shows it's important to write things down!!
142. Sandwich tern
143. spotted redshank (12 Aug)
144. black tern (juv) 5 Aug)
145. stock dove
146. snow bunting (18 Sep)
147. bean goose (2 Oct)
148. tawny owl (18 Oct)
149. Bewick's swan (19 Oct)
150. Slavonian grebe
151. Mediterranean gull (1st winter)
152. jack snipe (22 Oct)
153. white-fronted goose (late addition)