Quality and quantity

Well, the BTO boys and girls are certainly getting some quality birds. There must be a scarce bird superhighway running above the Brecks. In fact, I'm starting to get a little concerned. These are the species on the Nunnery list and not on The Lodge list:

1. Bewick's Swan
2. Egyptian Goose
3. Mandarin
4. Pintail
5. Goosander
6. Grey Partridge
7. Bittern 
8. Marsh Harrier
9. Goshawk
10. Water Rail
11.Stone-curlew
12.Yellow-legged Gull
13. Barn Owl
14. Long-eared Owl
15. Stonechat
16. Marsh Tit
17. Hawfinch

Of these, we should quite easily grip-back Grey Partridge and Yellow-legged Gull. I would consider our chances 'fair' for Marsh Harrier, Barn Owl and Stonechat and the outlook is rather poor (at best!) for the rest.

Birds on The Lodge list, but not The Nunnery list are not quite as impressive. I wonder how Nick considers the White Nuns' chances with these?

1. Barnacle Goose
2. Osprey
3. Merlin
4. Oystercatcher
5. Ringed Plover
6. Golden Plover
7. Dunlin
8. Green Sandpiper
9. Woodlark (STA)
10. Waxwing
11. Wheatear
12. [Coué's] Arctic Redpoll