January 2015 Birdwatching reports for Madeira

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! May your 2015 be a BIG Year!

30th January 2015 at Lugar de Baixo - observed by Peter & Jacky Truelove (UK)
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
Great White Egret Ardea alba

28th January 2015 at Lugar de Baixo - reported by Peter & Jacky Truelove (UK)
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna - female
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea

22nd January 2015 at Machico
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
2 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
2 Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
7 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

At Caniçal
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
5 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

15th January 2015 at Machico
White Wagtail Motacilla alba alba
2 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
9 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri

10th January 2015 at Machico
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
17 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus

8th January 2015 at Funchal Harbour
2 Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis - 1st & 2nd cy.
9 Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Off Calheta
Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus - might be one of the first to arrive to Madeira for the breeding season, normally they arrive by end of January/early February

7th January 2015 at Ponta do Pargo
Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis

At Lugar de Baixo
2 Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula - female
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna - female

6th January 2015 at Faial
2 Grey Heron Ardea cinerea

4th January 2015 at Machico
7 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
2 Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus

3rd January 2015 at São Vicente
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
3 Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus phaeopus

At Lugar de Baixo
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula - female
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna - female

- Reported by Chris & Pam Stratford (UK)
Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax - juvenile

- Reported by Ilya Maclean (UK)
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos

2nd January 2015 at Machico
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
Little Egret Egretta garzetta
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea
16 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
2 Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus

At Monte Palace Tropical Garden - Sighting by Ilya Maclean (UK)
Yellow-browed warbler Phylloscopus inornatus

1st January 2015 at Caniçal
Dunlin Calidris alpina alpina
6 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres