CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL BIRD NEWS AND UK MEGAS 8TH FEBRUARY 2018

WIRRAL
Burton RSPB
Great Egret x2 Burton Marsh From Point
Raven Burton Point (Photo)
Pintail 6 IMF
Fieldfare x25 Field Far End Boardwalk On Right
Bullfinch x13 Far End Boardwalk
Kingfisher Willow Mere
Curlew x27 Right Of Main Scrape
Peregrine Fence Back Of Wet Grassland
Dunlin x3 Main Scrape
Ruff x2 Main Scrape
Pintail x2 Main Scrape
Whooper Swan x4 Field Behind D Barn
Reed Bunting Feeder By Barn
Marsh Harrier Over Wet Grassland
Chiffchaff IMF

Hilbre
2 Jack Snipe flushed from north end,8 Eider (3 flying NE),3 Rock Pipit,4 Purple Sandpiper and 290 Brent Geese

CHESHIRE
Marbury Country Park
2 Bittern-TA Coward reedbed and 9 Hawfinch at old hall site.

Sandbach Flashes
(Juv) Glaucous gull.

Knutsford
Hawfinch-By footpath just north of Plumley Lime Beds. 

MEGAS IN BRITAIN
NORTH AMERICAN HORNED LARK-Probable nominate form alpestrisor hoyti on south side of causeway on bank; view from causeway between A3044 and Town Lane (TQ051731, TW19 7PU)-Staines reservoir-Surrey.

THAYER'S GULL-Juvenile-Isbley water-Blashford lakes-Hampshire.

PIED BILLED GREBE-Setter Marsh-Loch Of Spiggie-Mainland-Shetland.

HOLBOELL'S RED NECKED GREBE-Probable 200m from ferry terminal this afternoon(20th day)-Aird Mhor-Barra-Western isles-Scotland.