Geoff, I'll have to venture into the loft to find my browning notebooks from the sixties and seventies to work it out. I doubt I'll be anywhere near the top of the leader board because I'm more of a patcher than a lister. Quite happy to go to the same spot week after week and year after year, more often than not, seeing next to nowt.

alan ,having gifted a good few listers a serious blocker with your tree pipet,it,s high time you popped your gm list over to ian,as for the age thing it,s deceptive i,m slowly building my gm list,others are going 'all out'the year listers have alreay left us in the slow lane already,it,s all about having the time and energy to go get em e. g. i need twite i know where they are but just havn,t been yet,i,m sure mr woosey has a who,s found what first list hidden away to roll out in the winter months

cheers geoff

It all depends on how you look at life Alan,

You could say Judith is the top female lister in Manchester thereby giving her a higher staus already.

The good thing is and I do believe it is known all over GM you dont cross Judith and your life is easier.

young and old keep birding.

I think there should be an age weighting to these county life lists. That'll bring you lot down a peg or two and give young Judith a chance of hitting the top of the leader board of course.

Can't see an emoticon here for CREEP so I'll have to end with a

What a month may is becoming Peter Berry claims another county tick and heads for the hall of fame and the holy grail of the 250 spot.

Judith Smith our very own county recorder draws level with the Audenshaw master Mr Robert Adderley.

And I draw level with that whipper-snapper warfy.

Mr Fielding is only 2 away from membership of the 200 club.

It madness but fun!

keep birding

Geoff time does indeed march on. And so does my list -added Cattle Egret (nicked on your patch) and Garden Warbler on Monday. I always got the Gyppo in Etherow in previous years but now there's one near my house in Platt Fields park too. I'll be keeping an eye out for Muscovy Ducks - apparently they used to be in Fog Lane Park - and Black Swans which I've always ignored in the past (though I've not seen one in Mcr). I think they have to be part of a 'self-sustaining' population so I have not yet counted the released Golden Pheasant which strolled past me in Platt Fields park a few years back. It got killed by a dog a few days later.

tim,time marches on and i,ve added a few this weekend 2 on my favourite horrocks flash,(wigan flashes rock worship)so keep your eye out when ian updates,i,ve considered the plastics,dubious problem and decided not to ask because the answers are all contained within the web site you,ll have to suss em out but you don,t have to go far to find a gyppo,but if anyones got posh pheastants can i have a gander.

cheers geoff

Aha! See my e-mail. I too am on 152 but have you included the 'Eastern Olivaceous Warbler' because sadly that remains an unspecified Hippolias and don't count.

I have 3 bikes - hybrid, road and fixie so no problem there!

new thread just to keep us novices out way of the year listers,first a quick thanks to all contributors to the sightings section for helping us build up our gm list. tim i,ve had a flat spot lamenting the demise of my smew spotter,but i,m back on the trail now, 2 days= two gm lifers ,the whimbrel were almost self found,they,d moved 500 yards out of the sssi as found my dave thacker,the little gulls had evaded me once but i,ve nailed em now,152 and onwards,you,ll have to get a bike if your going to keep up. cheers geoff