The Best of 2016

Part One: January to June

Not necessarily the best pictures photographically but those that gave me the most satisfaction...

...no words but looking back through the year's blog will provide more info if you need/want it!

This is just meant to be a picture album to round off my birding year.

January

Glaucous Gull

Black-necked Grebe

Wigeon Twite

Red-necked Grebe

Kumlien's Gull

February Slavonian Grebe Dipper

Pintail

Bewick's Swan

Red Grouse

March

Longhorn Cattle Firecrest

Ring-necked Parakeet Black-headed Gulls Eider Black Redstart Penduline Tit Shore Lark Red Deer Hooded Crow Crested Tit Hen Harrier

Golden Eagle Osprey

April Iceland Gull Grey Seal Sedge Warbler

Long-billed Dowitcher Black-winged Stilt

May Pied Flycatcher Spotted Flycatcher Mandarin Sanderling Sand Martin Little Tern Black-necked Grebe

Whiskered Tern Sand Martin Green Hairstreak

Early Purples Duke of Burgundy Grizzled Skipper Jackdaw

Gannet Small Blue Swallow Swallow Burnt-tip Lady's Slipper Glossy Ibis

June

Bonaparte's Gull

Iceland Gull Painted Lady Pearl-bordered Fritillary Redstart Buzzard Turtle Dove Great Crested Grebe Little Bittern Caspian Tern Whinchat

Silver-studded blue Reed Warbler Large Heath

End of Part One

The second part will appear at 7a.m. on 26.12.16