Andrew Self

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A London Birder since 1984. My local patch is Brent Reservoir and I’m fortunate enough to live adjacent to it. My best finds at Brent include: Great White Egret (a joint find and a first for London), Lesser Scaup (2nd for London but also seen elsewhere), Blue-winged Teal (3rd for London), Ring-billed Gull (10th), White-winged Black Tern (28th), two Yellow-browed Warblers and a Spoonbill (seen from my flat). I also co-found a Black Stork at Cheshunt on a bird race which was a first for London (this proves how luck plays its part in finding rarities as we wouldn't even have been there if we didn't still need Lesser Whitethroat!).

I’m also the London Bird Recorder and Editor of the London Bird Report and run the Londons Birding Website: [1] When I’m not at Brent I’m probably birding overseas. I have visited every continent and have seen 3667 species.

The best bird I've ever seen is Great Grey Owl - a female on a nest with three well grown young and a male nearby on lookout - stunning!

Apart from birds I'm also interested in butterflies (UK List 48 including Large Tortoiseshell), moths (I run a trap) and mammals (I saw 11 Tigers last year and Mountain Gorilla this year). And rock music (in the last few years I've been to see UFO, Rush & Magnum).

Patchlist Competition 2006 - Species Lists

Species Brent Res Rainham St James’s Park
Little Grebe 1 1 1
Great Crested Grebe 1 1
Black-necked Grebe
Cormorant 1 1 1
Shag
Little Egret 1 1
Grey Heron 1 1 1
Mute Swan 1 1 1
Greylag Goose 1 1 1
Canada Goose 1 1 1
Brent Goose 1
Egyptian Goose 1
Shelduck 1 1 1
Mandarin 1
Wigeon 1 1
Gadwall 1 1 1
Teal 1 1
Mallard 1 1 1
Pintail 1
Garganey 1
Shoveler 1 1 1
Pochard 1 1
Tufted Duck 1 1 1
Scaup
Common Scoter
Goldeneye
Smew
Red-breasted Merganser
Goosander
Ruddy Duck 1 1
Honey Buzzard 1
Sparrowhawk 1 1
Buzzard
Red Kite 1
Kestrel 1 1 1
Hobby 1 1
Peregrine 1
Water Rail 1
Moorhen 1 1 1
Coot 1 1 1
Oystercatcher 1
Avocet 1
Little Ringed Plover 1
Ringed Plover 1
Golden Plover
Grey Plover 1
Lapwing 1 1
Dunlin 1
Knot 1
Sanderling 1
Jack Snipe
Snipe 1 1
Woodcock
Black-tailed Godwit 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Whimbrel 1
Curlew 1
Redshank 1
Greenshank 1 1
Green Sandpiper 1
Wood Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper 1 1
Turnstone 1
Mediterranean Gull
Little Gull 1
Black-headed Gull 1 1 1
Common Gull 1 1 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 1 1
Yellow-legged Gull 1 1
Caspian Gull 1 1
Herring Gull 1 1 1
Great Black-backed Gull 1 1 1
Kittiwake
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern 1 1
Arctic Tern 1
Little Tern
Black Tern
Feral Dove 1 1 1
Stock Dove 1 1 1
Woodpigeon 1 1 1
Collared Dove 1 1
Turtle Dove
Ring-necked Parakeet 1 1
Cuckoo 1 1
Tawny Owl 1
Short-eared Owl
Swift 1 1 1
Kingfisher 1 1
Green Woodpecker 1 1 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 1
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Skylark 1
Sand Martin 1 1
Swallow 1 1 1
House Martin 1 1
Tree Pipit
Meadow Pipit 1 1
Rock Pipit
Water Pipit 1
Yellow Wagtail 1
Grey Wagtail 1 1
Pied Wagtail 1 1
Wren 1 1 1
Dunnock 1 1 1
Robin 1 1 1
Nightingale
Black Redstart
Redstart 1
Whinchat
Stonechat 1
Wheatear 1 1
Ring Ouzel
Blackbird 1 1 1
Fieldfare 1 1
Song Thrush 1 1 1
Redwing 1 1 1
Mistle Thrush 1 1 1
Cetti's Warbler 1
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Sedge Warbler 1 1
Reed Warbler 1 1 1
Lesser Whitethroat 1 1
Common Whitethroat 1 1
Garden Warbler 1
Blackcap 1 1 1
Wood Warbler 1
Chiffchaff 1 1
Willow Warbler 1 1 1
Goldcrest 1 1
Firecrest
Spotted Flycatcher
Pied Flycatcher
Bearded Tit
Long-tailed Tit 1 1
Coal Tit 1 1
Blue Tit 1 1
Great Tit 1 1 1
Nuthatch
Treecreeper 1
Jay 1 1 1
Magpie 1 1 1
Jackdaw 1 1
Rook 1 1
Carrion Crow 1 1 1
Starling 1 1 1
House Sparrow 1 1
Chaffinch 1 1 1
Brambling 1
Greenfinch 1 1 1
Goldfinch 1 1 1
Siskin 1
Linnet 1 1
Lesser Redpoll 1
Bullfinch 1
Yellowhammer 1
Reed Bunting 1 1
TOTALS: 99 93 59
Visits: 46 3 168


I can be contacted by email at: andrewself@lineone.net

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