CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS-13TH JAN 2017

WIRRAL
Hoylake Shore-4,000 Knot,2,000 Dunlin,200 Grey Plover,2,000 Oystercatcher.


West Kirby Marine Lake-1 Goosander.


Parkgate-3 Marsh Harrier (1 fem and 2 juvs),Hen Harrier (ringtail),Merlin and a Peregrine.


Heswall-Riverbank Road-2 Peregrine and 1 Water Rail.

Ellesmere Port-Great Sutton-12 still on Alder Drive.

CHESHIRE
Warrington-Waxwing-50+ on Milner Street.

Astbury Mere Country Park-Long Tailed Duck.

Newchurch Common-Redhead Smew still on lake north of track.

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
BLUE ROCK THRUSH Male in garden at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-male-still on rocks below Rockpool Café-Mousehole-Cornwall.

PACIFIC DIVER-Still offshore-Marazion-Cornwall.

DUSKY THRUSH-Back in Orchard, Beeley, 5mls NNW of Matlock, Derbyshire.