Group account for pan-species listing, used for base site lists
Birder for 38 years from 1975 to 2013, becoming a Pan Species Lister from 2013 till 2022.
From 11, birdwatching was local woods & gravel pits save for trips to the Outer Hebrides 1983, Tiree 1984 & Gibraltar Point 1985. I started twitching in summer 1987 at the end of my first year of University & on passing my driving test in January 1988, my horizons broadened. I made my first twitch to Scotland that year & first visited & twitched Shetland and Scilly in 1990 & Ireland in 1995. My main list is now a British Isles list comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland & the Isle of Man & there are a limited number of species that I have not chased in Britain that I have seen in Ireland or the Isle of Man. I now reside in Clevedon with a local patch list over 200. My obsessions are beginning to broaden to other "easy" wildlife such as macro moths & will hopefully broaden further. I also now keep a WP List but not yet added the few additional species for a World List.
My birdwatching began in c1985 (aged 8) until c1992 (aged 15) and included a 12-year hiatus until recommencing in around 2004 (aged 27).
To create BUBO lists I have only been able to be 100% certain of species seen since 2014, which is when I began uploading sightings data to Bird-Track. Prior to 2014 I kept no permanent records.
There are species that I have seen between ’85-92 and from 2004 up to 2014 and where possible and confident to do so I have added them to the list with as much information as I can recall. If I cannot be sure I have seen a certain species or sighting details are sketchy, then they have been omitted from the list until seen again with 100% reliability.
I have created BUBO lists for some sites that are important to me. Mainly sites/reserves that I have birded most often due to locality or others sites that I like very much.
My local patch sites are RSPB Fairburn Ings and Swillington Ings (RSPB St. Aidan's) and lists have also been created for RSPB Blacktoft Sand (visited regular since '85), RSPB Frampton Marsh (fave site) and Spurn Point.
All lists are of visual sightings.
Wildlife-spotter from Sheffield getting back into the wildlife bug in 2024. Particularly fond of moths these days.
Coleoptera Recorder for East and West Sussex.
Enjoy seeking out birds in UK, Europe and Western Pal.
Also interested in Mammals (esp Bats), Moths, & Butterflies.
Relatively late arrival to birding in the late 90s, now more constrained by parental responsibility - but still manage the odd new bird. Have also managed to see all UK breeding butterfly species plus a few rarities, including (self-found) Long-tailed Blue on the Isles of Scilly in 2006.
This listing for Beacon Hill includes records/photographs from David Harris, Heather Ball, Peter Varnham and volunteers who work the butterfly transect.
Member of Swillington Ings Bird Group - avid patch birder.
Been birding all my life, but got a bit more serious about it in the mid 80's.
Missed a load of good birds over the years due to health problems, but I'm not really bothered by it. Nice to see new birds and travel round the country, and as long as I have a bit of fun while doing it I'm happy.
Mostly local birding, try to maintain a year list - time permitting. As long as UK life list is gradually increasing am more than happy
19 from stoke - on- trent
birding since 2003
travels alot but not twitching much but sometimes ;)
Cumbria based ecologist with a particular passion for moths, bees, bryophytes, beetles and botany.
Very casual birder until 2019, since then patch birding regularly at Dagenham Chase, UK twitching since 2020. With the exception of a period in Malawi in 2016 I never took notes abroad, so my world list could have been double what it is...
I've been a naturalist and biological recorder since childhood. I grew up in North Wales and started, predictably, with birds before focusing on botany. Then came an obsessive moth phase. More recently I've focused on Diptera. I also dabble in Auchenorrhyncha and Symphyta and anything else that turns up in my net and looks interesting. I started PSL around 2015 based on previous lists and notes. Currently nearing completion on a mission to see all the UK Sorbus taxa.
Any species level biological record counts, dead or alive, plant hybrids are included but only where they are clearly persistent and occur away from one or other parent. Nearly all of my PSL is self-found and identified.
Most wanted species Centrophlebomyia furcata, any of the Solidago feeding Tephritidae, Stenogrammitis myosuroides
Bit of a mad naturalist and a keen 'organism lister' since well before the phrase 'pan-species listing' was coined. Birds were my first passion, then moths, orthoptera, plants...you name it and I've probably got an interest in it! I've found a small handful of species new to Britain. 2006 was a Big Bird Year when I managed 314 in UK, nowadays I'm lucky to hit about half of that. My current areas of interest are plants, birds and diptera, but I'm perpetually into other stuff. I alternate between shaggy hair and scruffy beard/ crewcut and clean-shaven, but any nutter halfway up a mountain with a handlens around his neck, demon tattoo on his left arm and chugging on a Red Bull is likely to be me.
Most wanted species Norwegian Mugwort, Orca, Mediterranean Moray Eel, Timberman and Great Black-headed Gull. Mole should have fallen a while back.
I am an amateur naturalist and volunteer at RSPB Pagham Harbour. I try to promote engagement with nature in Sussex and its surrounding counties, and promote the use of public transport to travel to nature sites. My particular interests are birds, lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants but when I am on nature trips I try to record all species I notice
My website gives information about the the species I have seen at nature sites in Sussex, including details of public transport links to those sites
Individual species that I have seen are listed chronologically on my iNaturalist public page ay @sim_elliott. I also use iRecord to record significant species. You can see my tweets on species and conservation on Twitter at @sim_nature
Growing up in rural, coastal Scotland, as a kid I was surrounded by nature, which led to a lifelong love of wildlife. However, I only seriously started birding (and listing!) in 1994 during a period of post-graduation unemployment when I needed something better to do than watch TV and read job rejection letters!
I still consider myself to be primarily a birder. However, during the lockdown in 2020, I started trying to identify everything I could find in my garden, and so fell into pan-fauna listing (I don't really "do" plants and fungi, only taking note of ones that catch my eye), with spiders and leafmines now being particular newfound loves.
Initially, my birding efforts were centred around Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. Now living in Merseyside, my routine wildlife-hunting is mostly in Lancashire and Cheshire. It can be quite casual in nature, many species being found by chance, rather than by design.
I enjoy travel, both within the UK and abroad, and have always tried to find opportunities to look for wildlife when travelling, even on family holidays and business trips. My ambition is to visit Costa Rica, New Zealand and Antarctica.
Most wanted species Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor)
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major)
Purseweb Spider (Atypus affinis)
North-west London based. Birding in Southern England within 3hrs max of M25 predominantly apart from May 2005 on Mull. Lists are from 2004 Summer to present since starting up.
Keen in particular on Dungeness and Kent in general. Year lists summarised since 2014 in detail. Highest number so far in one year is Britain BOU : 201. Time, inclination and cost of petrol may see this figure go up or down !
With a lifelong passion for all kinds of wildlife I love the encouragement that PSL and its community give me to keep learning and exploring, but grounded in local recording, particularly my role as a voluntary wildlife surveyor for the Greensand Trust. I also value the continuing opportunities to engage with both young and old, inspiring others to experience and value the wildlife in their local countryside. For me the most fulfilling wildlife encounters take place within the context of community, whether that be friends from near and far, the Bucks Fungus Group, the Wildflower Society or the Bedfordshire Natural History Society. PSL is the icing on the cake!
Most wanted species Red & White Cage Fungus; Pepperpot Fungus; Barometer Earthstar; Phantom Hoverfly (Doros profuges); Pine Hoverfly (Blera fallax); Hornet Robberfly; Ghost Orchid; Orca & Humpback; Orkney Vole; Black Rat; Greater Mouse-eared Bat.
