Latest Cheshire & Wirral bird sightings & British Megas!
4 February 2017
CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 3RD FEB 2017
WIRRAL
Burton Marsh-2 Great White Egret.
Hilbre-5 Scaup and 173 Brent Geese.
CHESHIRE
Astbury Mere Country Park-Female Long Tailed duck.
Newchurch Common-redhead Smew again on lake north of track; also 1st-winter drake Red Crested Pochard.
Sandbach Flashes-Juvenile Glaucous gull-on Elton Hall Flash.
MEGAS IN BRITAIN
PINE BUNTING-male-still from Intake Lane-Dunnington-North Yorkshire.
PACIFIC DIVER-1st-winter-on North pool-Druridge Bay-Northumberland.
EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-Male-on rocks below Rockpool Café-Mousehole-Cornwall.
DUSKY THRUSH Still,Pig Lane, Beeley, 5mls NNW of Matlock, Derbyshire.
EASTERN BLACK REDSTART-1st Winter Male still on the rocks north side of the jetty-Skinningrove-Cleveland.
BLUE ROCK THRUSH-adult male-at Fisher Close.Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.
PACIFIC DIVER-adult still off Roskilly this afternoon-Cornwall.
KILLDEER-1st-winter still near The Wart junction this morning-Sandwick-Shetland.