Most Scottish birders keep local, Scottish and UK lists, which for me would be Lothian, Scottish and UK. I guess that Welsh birders probably do something similar but I have never heard an English birder talk about his English list.
I guess Crested Tit would be one of the biggest blockers for anyone who kept an English list!
David
[QUOTE=david kelly;926125]Most Scottish birders keep local, Scottish and UK lists, which for me would be Lothian, Scottish and UK. I guess that Welsh birders probably do something similar but I have never heard an English birder talk about his English list.
I guess Crested Tit would be one of the biggest blockers for anyone who kept an English list!
David[/QUOTE]
Possibly because English birders are more committed to the idea of Britishness? After all we have kept assorted French, Germans and Spanish off your backs for centuries! But seriously... most English birders keep a county list but I rather think above that level they (we) mostly jump straight to British, meaning either UK or British Isles depending who you talk to. After all the BOU maintains a British list, so why would we feel the need to cut out a different one?
On the other matter, I knew a non-birder who had what was unquestionably a Crested Tit on the feeders in his back garden in Farnborough several times, just after the October 1987 hurricane. Unfortunately I was on Scilly and by the time I returned and he remembered to mention it, the bird had moved on. That's the only "recent" one I know of.
John