In no particular order here is a selection of my favourite birds seen in 2020. It has been quite a year, possibly my best and most enjoyable ever for birding but as for the rest well..........................
Birding and being out in the natural world has been my personal salvation in these trying times and I know the same goes for many others too.
I wish everyone the best for this coming year as we are going to need it but I remain optimistic.
I hope that eventually some semblance of normal life will return to all of us and for those who have lost loved ones that you will find a measure of peace and reconciliation.
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| Garganey Bedford Bedfordshire |
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| Wilson's Phalarope Pennington Marshes Hampshire |
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| Knot Titchwell Norfolk |
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| Brambling Sarsgrove Oxfordshire |
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| Osprey Farmoor Oxfordshire |
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| Black throated Thrush Whipsnade Bedfordshire |
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| Lammergeier Crowland Lincolnshire |
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| Eyebrowed Thrush North Ronaldsay Orkney |
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| Tennessee Warbler Yell Shetland |
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| Bittern Calvert Buckinghamshire |
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| Black Redstart Seaford East Sussex |
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| Velvet Scoter Eastbourne East Sussex |
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| Ring necked Duck Radley Oxfordshire |
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| Greenshank Slimbridge Gloucestershire |
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| Yellow bellied Flycatcher Tiree Inner Hebrides Scotland |
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| Great Bustard Letcombe Regis Oxfordshire |
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| Slavonian Grebe Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Eastern Yellow Wagtail Sedgeford Norfolk |
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| Garganey Stowe Buckinghamshire |
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| Tundra Bean Goose Burnham on Sea Somerset |
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| Rufous Tailed Bush Robin Stiffkey Norfolk |
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| Water Rail Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Turtle Doves Otmoor Oxfordshire |
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| Goosander Stowe Buckinghamshire |
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| Rose coloured Starling Weymouth Dorset |
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| Blyth's Reed Warbler Far Ings NNR Lincolnshire |
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| Sedge Warbler Pinkhill Oxfordshire |
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| Bearded Tit Weymouth Dorset |
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| Greater Scaup Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Mediterranean Gull Hayling Island Hampshire |
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| Sanderling Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Common Redstart Thursley Common Surrey |
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| Common Kestrel Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Pine Grosbeak Oslo Norway |
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| Great Grey Owl Maridalen Norway |
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| Red footed Falcon Cothelstone Hill Somerset |
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| Ferruginous Duck Wolverhampton West Midlands |
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| Asian Desert Warbler Lindisfarne Northumberland |
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| Great Northern Diver Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Kingfisher Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Razorbill Bempton Yorkshire |
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| Black tailed Godwit Slimbridge Gloucestershire |
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| Barn Owl Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Black bellied Dipper Sywell Northamptonshire |
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| Woodcock Titchwell Norfolk |
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| Gannet Bempton Yorkshire |
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| Red throated Diver Pagham West Sussex |
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| Reed Warbler Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Turnstone Farmoor Reservoir Oxfordshire |
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| Greater White-fronted Goose Otmoor Oxfordshire |
This beamed onto the White Cliffs of Dover at midnight on 31st December courtesy of @ByDonkeys
I can but hope that someday this country will come to its senses and will rejoin the EC.
Whatever transpires I am European and refuse to relinquish that right.