New Year's Day Birds

Today I spent the day birding around Hartlepool and the North Tees Marshes. The day wasn't cold although there was a sharpness to the sea breeze at Hartlepool.

Here is my bird list start to 2016.

Jackdaw
Sparrowhawk
Goldfinch
Blackbird
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Carrion Crow
Black-headed Gull
Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Starling
Magpie
Mallard
Coot
Moorhen
Goosander
Scaup
Great-crested Grebe
Herring Gull
Canada Goose
Tufted Duck
Chaffinch
Bullfinch
Yellowhammer
Tree Sparrow
Dunnock
Robin
Greylag Goose
Lapwing
Pheasant
Little Egret
Wigeon
Redshank
Golden Plover
Teal
Shoveler
Velvet Scoter
Common Scoter
Eider
Turnstone
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Knot
Wren
Sanderling
Red-throated Diver
Red-breasted Merganser
Oystercatcher
Shag
Great Black-backed Gull
Purple Sandpiper
Curlew
Pintail
Mute Swan
Pochard
Barnacle Goose
Gadwall
Stonechat
Stock Dove
Shelduck
Greenfinch
Kestrel
Mediterranean Gull

Total for the day = 63 species

Bullfinch

Bullfinch

 

Mediterranean Gull

Shoveler

Shoveler 

(two birds - not a mirror image)

I also saw two Harbour Porpoises swimming past the Heugh at Hartlepool.