My BirdTrack year

I use the BTO's BirdTrack app and website to record nearly all my bird sightings. I've just received the summary of my activities for 2024. In many ways it was a slightly quieter version of 2023.

My 2024 BirdTrack year

I managed to record fifty or more species on sixty-three days, which came as a surprise. If I were to guess the number of days it would have been in the thirties. On Wednesday 24th April when I visited Martin Mere I managed 71 species on what I would have told you was a fairly quiet Spring day. Martin Mere's also where I saw the most species of birds in 2024, 103 in total. Checking back my records, Pennington Flash came second with 85, Marshside with 83 and Leighton Moss with 80 (the top four so far this year are: Leighton Moss with 55, Martin Mere 54, Pennington Flash 48 and Crossens Marsh 47).

21% of the records I submitted during the breeding season included breeding data. I've no idea when the season officially begins and ends, I just record was I see and hear and they were evidently a bit busy last year. These included ten species covered by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel. I don't know which they were, it's a beggar to dig that data out. Going through the list of species covered by the panel my guesses came to nine or eleven. To be honest it doesn't really matter to me so long as the data's useful to somebody.

It's good to see I'm no longer the only person submitting records for that little bit of Cumbria.